I’m looking out my cabin window on this dark, foggy
morning. Through the haze and drizzle I
am able to make out the shapes of three spruce trees growing along the trail
that leads to the pond. The trees are
tall, maybe 60 feet, two tall ones and one a little shorter.
I planted
these trees in 1966 when they were just seedlings, only six inches tall. I named the trees after our three children,
who were four, three and two at the time.
So there is a Steve tree, a Jeff tree, and a Susie tree.
Ruth and I
have watched these three trees grow, as we watched our children grow. We smiled when the kids were little and they
ran out to see how their trees were doing.
They still look at the trees, which once were so much shorter than they
were and now are many times taller.
These tall
spruce trees have become a part of our family.
And they surely are embedded in the history of our farm.
THE OLD TIMER SAYS: Plant a tree and name it after each of
your kids or grandkids. And watch the
trees and the kids grow and develop.
UPCOMING
EVENTS:
January
12, Noon, Wisconsin Certified Crops Advisory Board, Coliseum, Madison.
January
15, 6:45 p.m. Wisconsin Grazing Conference, Wisconsin Dells. Stories from the
land.
January
25, 6:30 p.m. Mt. Horeb Library—History of Cheese making in Wisconsin.
February
2 and 3, Great Wisconsin Farm Expo 11:00 a.m. (Farm Memories). and 1:00 p.m.
(History of Wis. Agriculture). Central
Wisconsin Convention and Expo Center, 10101 Market Street, Rothschild, WI.
February
13-14. Garden Expo. Alliant Center, Madison.
February 13, 2:15:Wild Flowers, Butterflies, and Other Stories From the
Land. February 14, 1:00 p.m. Film: The
Land With Jerry Apps plus discussion.
February
23, 7:00 p.m. Phillips Center for the Arts, 109 Locust Street, Hudson, WI. Part
of Wisconsin Historical Society Tour program.
Stories From the Land.
Purchase Jerry’s DVDS and his Books from the Patterson Memorial
Library in Wild Rose, Wisconsin (a fundraiser 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 as well as Whispers and Shadows and his newest nonfiction book, Wisconsin Agriculture: A History.
Contact the library for prices and special package deals.
Patterson Memorial Library
500 Division Street
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