It is ten
below zero at Roshara this morning. The snow is talking to me as I make
my early morning walk from the cabin to the country road that trails by our
place. The snow is speaking of days past when I made my way on frosty
mornings like this to the warm barn where our small herd of Holsteins waited to
be milked.
The
crunching snow reminds me of the days when I walked to the woodpile to carry
wood to our ever-hungry wood stoves in our drafty old farmhouse. And to
carry wood from the woodpile to the stove in the pump house that kept our pump
functioning, and from the woodpile to the stove in the potato cellar, which
kept the potatoes from freezing.
The
crunching snow reminds me of the mile-long walk to our country school, which
remained open every day of the winter because everyone walked, including our
teacher.
The
talking snow also reminds me of the fun times we had in winter, sledding,
skiing, ice skating, ice fishing with its story telling, walking to the
neighbors on frigid winter nights to play cards, and gathering around the
wood stove at the grist mill while Pa waited for the cow feed to be ground.
The talking snow has many messages for me these days, taking me back to the days of my youth when people mostly didn't complain about the cold, but made the most of it for cold was a part of winter, and talking snow was something to be enjoyed.
THE OLD TIMER SAYS: Listen to the snow.
COMING EVENTS:
Thursday, January 29, 2015
7:00 p.m. Stoughton Opera House. A Farm
Winter.
Go to: http://stoughtonoperahouse.ticketforce.com/orderticketsarea.asp?p=86&a=1
for further information.
Purchase Jerry’s
DVDS and his Books from the Patterson Memorial Library in Wild Rose, Wisconsin
(a fund raiser for them):
The
library now has available signed copies of Jerry’s DVDs, Emmy Winner, A Farm Winter with Jerry Apps and Jerry Apps A Farm Story.
Also
available are several of Jerry’s signed books including The Quiet Season (on which the DVD A Farm Winter is based), as well as Rural Wit and Wisdom and Old
Farm, (which are related to the DVD Jerry
Apps a Farm Story). Also available is Jerry’s new novel, The Great Sand Fracas of Ames County.
Contact
the library for prices and special package deals.
Patterson
Memorial Library
500 Division Street
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