About
this time in the New Year, I often go to the current year’s almanac for
inspiration and direction, and a hint of what the year’s weather will be like.
I’m
paging through the 2016 “Almanac for Farmers and City Folk.” Apparently the publishers figured out that
less than two percent of the population are farmers these days, so they added “and
City Folk” to the title.
As the
editors of this esteemed publication proclaim, “Included are calendars and tide
tables (always useful in Wisconsin), stories and articles, and a grand
assortment of nostalgia, trivia, and anecdotes, plus enough cookery, puzzles,
and helpful information to provide edification and entertainment for the whole
family for the entire year.” I don’t
know about you, but the older I get the more edification I require.
There
are three pages on how to grow cauliflower. The wind chill table lets you know when you
shouldn’t stick your nose outside and risk it freezing off. For instance, when the wind is speeding by at
25 mph, and the temperature is minus ten, the wind chill is minus 59. But as my dad always said about wind chill
temperatures, “Get out of the wind.”
There’s
a list of the worst jobs. Lumberjack
comes in first; Author is also close to the top. Hmm.
Best
jobs are biomedical engineers, data scientists, audiologists (can you hear me
now), mathematicians, and a handful of others.
Weather
forecasts for the entire year are here, arranged in 19 different zones. Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota are clumped
into Zone 9. If I read these predictions correctly, I conclude that yes, we will have weather in 2016.
THE OLD
TIMER SAYS: If it’s a little edification
that you need, check out the 2016 “Almanac for Farmers and City Folk.”
UPCOMING
EVENTS
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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