BOOK: Bootstrapper

Just finished listening to an audiobook called Bootstrapper. It is about a mother of three who divorces after 19 years of marriage. She has to learn to cope on one income, and try to hold onto her farm and still raise three sons, two of them teenagers. Farming is very hard. Many things can and do go wrong. And some investments do not pay. This is why farming is hard. If you treat it like a hobby, your results will cost, not pay. Every professional farmer knows this. They see hobby farmers as a distraction. As romantic fools. And often bad press. This is one of those kinds of stories. It is still interesting, but for humor its tone is more wry comments from the sons than thoughtful preventative wisdom. It is about things that go wrong that should have been prevented, but weren't thanks to typical non-farmer ignorance. Sigh. Still entertaining.