A young farm girl learns the fine art of lining up a wagon tongue with a tractor’s towing hitch, dropping in a bolt, securing it with a cotter key. She learns to watch gates while the tractor chugs through, hauling the wagon to drop off hog troughs, she keeps porkers away from the gate and escaping. She learns to wear a shower cap while painting her inventor-father's winter projects, a pig feeder, a gravity wagon, lest she ride to school with barn-red paint in her hair. To scrape mud from cultivator shovels while Dad is in for noon dinner, which she had stirred the gravy for and made from scratch his favorite spice cake.
