Am I the only farmers wife who is sick to death of hoovering up straw, hay, silage and other varieties of animal fodder?

[Disgruntledfarmerswife]

Kind of light hearted and I know that bringing the outdoors indoors comes with the territory of being a farmer's wife but fucking seriously!?

I hoovered this morning, tidied round, lit the fire, got DD up dressed and fed etc. DH walks in, shitty wellies chucked off just inside the front door caking my best boots in cow shite, hay and straw. Walks into living room does the Macarena to rid himself of any excess hay & straw he may have collected whilst he was worzel gummaging it, tramples his way up the stairs. Takes his shitty clothes off and leaves them on the landing in a nice heap (next to the empty laundry basket ) jumps into a nice warm bath. Shaves his 2 week old stubble off whilst in the bath, gets out of the bath, pulls the plug, doesn't bother to rinse any of his grotty face pubes or tide mark away.

Dries himself and then puts the wet towel that he has used to dry his arse with on MY pillow on my side of the bed. My day off is sorted! Didn't want to do anything nice anyway

OP can you get some quotes for getting a porch built, and present them to him as something that IS getting done unless he can stop traipsing muck through the house and make use of the current set up.
I don't know a farmer that won't sit up and pay attention when the other option is a big bill

My friend got so fed up with it all that she now makes her husband and sons change into clean clothes in the garage before they come indoors! Dirty clothes then come into the house in bin bags to be put in the washer. Wellies get hosed down outside. They grumble in the Winter, but she is adamant and sticks to her guns .

I remember going into Mothercare for my first maternity clothes and as I got changed, loads of shavings (clean!) fell out of my turn-ups, from mucking out stables...

Not a farmers wife but three kids one grandchild two cats two filthy water loving labrador and a builder never ending vacuuming an wall wiping.

I love the farm! I love the animals but I make an effort to decontaminate my self as much as possible before entering the house!

Look wife of a farmer, farmers wife, whatever, this is LIGHT HEARTED I don't want the thread over analysed and ripping to pieces thank you - that is a polite request.

It's the kitchen that gets my down. The floor is just so grubby and we pile logs in there as if we have them next to the fire DH reckons that they interfere with his asthma.

I suppose having dark brown carpets throughout doesn't help regarding straw and hay etc but do I really want cream with a toddler in the house?!
I try my best and am well aware that a bit of muck is probably good for kids, I'm all for building up that immunity!! My mum has been round today and has told me she's worried about my state of mind as the downstairs of my house is a mess. She thinks I've got depression which is entirely untrue!! I've never been so happy! The kitchen is a mess because DH has made it that way and we don't have the finances to sort it out right now.
There are kids toys in the lounge but that's not unheard of. Upstairs is pretty much spotless now.

DH has just gone for a bath so we'll see how spotless it is when he's finished

Sorry but I agree. Lazy arse and inconsiderate too.

I grew up on a farm and we had a rule. Dirty clothes off in outhouse. No boots indoors and never go past the kitchen during the day at all and only in the evening with clean clothes on.

It really is essential to having a reasonably tidy house.

I stopped farming and ran a fleet of oil tankers (ships) for a while. they have the same rules on those - stops the crude oil getting in the living quarters from the deck hands clothing/boots.

HAHAHAHA You'd get on with my DW! I am a farmer and I have learned there a certain things I don't do unless I want to bed down with the sheep (actually in the middle of lambing at the moment so I have been spending quite a few of my nights in the lambing shed!)

We have a boot room with a wet room off it and a front outer porch, those are the only rooms where dirty work wear is allowed.

I have a separate washing machine for DH work clothes and my shitty horse clothes in a utility room which has a shower and loo. That's where we normally get changed and DH has a shower if especially mucky. Off the utility room is a small kitchen (where DH and the staff eat with their shitty clothes on during the day) and another door into my "good" kitchen. They never dare enter my "good" kitchen unless changed and showered. No boots are allowed past the boundary of the shitty kitchen and NO lambs are allowed in my good kitchen either. I got up this morning and poked my head in the shitty kitchen to say I was off to work to see numerous lambs in various states of consciousness and the oven doors open with other lambs being warmed in them. Thank fuck I don't use those for cooking. DH and various others were wolfing bacon butties in the middle of the chaos.

DH would never come past the boundary of the shitty kitchen without taking his manky clothes off otherwise I'd be throwing a sleeping bag in there

Jennifer wouldn't tolerate this from Brian, OP.

You need to channel your inner Jenny Darling.

Looks like I need to be laying the law down on this one!! Channeling Jenny as we speak

maninawomensworld how's lambing going with this shitty weather?? We don't start until the end of the month with half bred and then moor sheep start around the middle of April. Hoping for some grass and sunshine e before then :)

Hard going Disgruntledfarmerswife!!

I'm keeping them inside for longer than usual, my first batch of lambs went out yesterday at 10 days old so the barns are all pretty full and I've had to move a load of feed outdoors under tarpaulins to make more room as more are born.
Happily the earlier arrivals are getting stronger and slowly are being released into the more sheltered fields so it's getting easier.

A long way to go yet though....