It was a week to remember. A week to celebrate. A week to say goodbye to winter and hello to
spring. A week ago we were in Wisconsin
Rapids where I was speaking at the beautiful McMillan Library—and the
temperature on Friday morning was below zero.
We stopped at the farm later that day—and it was clearly winter. Although the sun was high and the sky was
clear, the wind was cold. A January
wind. A winter wind.
And now, a week later, a mere seven days later. The sun is high the sky is clear—and the temperature
yesterday, but a week from when we were in Wisconsin Rapids—was 68 degrees.
Last week we moped around, stared at the calendar and
hoped for a change. And our hoping paid
off. Change was here. Spring was here—at
least it was for a week. Kids are
running around in shorts and laughing and riding their bikes. People are smiling.
Those of us living in the Upper Midwest, with its snow
and cold appreciate spring and warm weather.
But we are also realists. We
enjoy the warmth, but we also know that spring is a fickle season, and old man
winter is a mean bugger with surely some surprises left
THE OLD TIMER SAYS: The seasons come and the seasons
go—enjoy each one.
UPCOMING EVENTS:
Sunday, March 22, 3:00-5:30 p.m. Schumacher
Farm Volunteers Recognition. Waunakee Village Center. Stories from the land.
Wednesday, March 25. Noon. Banquet speaker for
Wisconsin Agriculturist Magazine Farmer of the Year Award Program.
Oshkosh. Farm Stories.
Tuesday, April 7, 6:30. Heritage Hill
Museum, Green Bay. Garden Wisdom
Tuesday, April 14, 7:00 p.m. Friends of
Eau Claire Library. Eau Claire, WI. Stories from the land.
Sunday, April 19, 7:00 p.m. Lebanon
Historical Society, Lebanon Community center. Stories from the land.
Monday,
April 20, Noon. Fox Valley Book Festival, UW-Fox Valley. Whispers and Shadows
Wednesday, April 22, 6:30 Patterson Memorial
Library, Wild Rose. Mid-Wisconsin Launch of Whispers and Shadows. Fundraiser
for the library.
Friday, April 24, 8:00 p.m. Ice Age Trail Org.
Wis. Dells, Winter Green Resort. Old Farm
Tuesday, April 28, 6:30 Black River Falls
Library, Sky Line Golf Course. Stories from the land
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
2 comments:
Jerry,
In the inexperienced days of my youth there was a warm, southwest breeze blowing as my father and I walked from the barn to the house after milking. I said, matter-of-factly, "Spring is here." My Dad retorted, "Let me tell you something-and don't forget it, just because the calendar says Spring doesn't make it so!"
Lesson remembered.
If there is no more winter, no more snow or freezing temperature, that will be a surprise. Stay tuned!
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