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我的“双重生活” 　　农场工人和乐队歌手，乍一听这两个身份怎么也扯不到一块吧？但如果一个人同时身兼此两职，那会是怎样的一种生活？想必很有趣。如果可以兼顾的话，过一下“双重”甚至“多重”的生活，让自己的人生更丰富多彩，这也未尝不是一件好事。 　　I have an interesting 1）dichotomy with my two lifestyles that， you know， complement or become a problem with each other， depending on how you look at it. 　　The farm was 2）homesteaded in 1854. My brother and I are the fifth generation. We started out with 340 acres， and now we’re up to around 1，500 acres. The house is still here， was built in 1920， so my older brother and two older sisters， we all were raised here. We milk roughly 200 dairy cattle twice a day. 　　My job is an interesting one. I guess I’m kind of the know-everything-not-good-at-anything， kind of a mechanic and fill in the spots， but mostly do a lot of field work， trying to keep everything running as best as we can. 　　I am also the band leader of The Jimmies. 　　“How are you out there？ We are The Jimmies.” 　　We brilliantly named the band The Jimmies. We thought long and hard on that one. 　　“We’re just gonna do this. We’re screwin’ around here. We hope you like it.” 　　I play the piano and the 3）Hammond B-3， and do a lot of the singing and song-writing. Music has been in our family forever. My parents met at one of my dad’s 4）gigs. My mom still sings. We often call ourselves the 5）von Voegling Trapp Singers， you know， and practically want to put on 6）lederhosen sometimes. Ah， that’s awkward. 　　When you’re out on a tractor， I always have paper and pen， constantly writing stuff down. Yeah，it is a great place. You can just shut the...shut this everything off in terms of music and kind of put your mind into a different 7）trance. 　　As expected， they are very much two different worlds. They’re similar in the pay structure. I am not buying new cars， being a blues musician and a dairy farmer， but， I think both take an enormous amount of dedication and both take an enormous amount of flexibility. Anything could happen on any given day on the farm， and things change by the minute all t