Sunday, April 24.
Garden planting day at Roshara.
Cloudy. 50 degrees. Good day for
working. Great day for planting the
early crops at our Waushara County farm.
First came the row marking, using a wooden, hand-pulled
marker that my father made some 35 years ago.
Thirty-inch rows. Lots of room
for the rototiller to maneuver.
The crew was of two minds—one the optimist: the sun will
come out and the temp will climb into the 70s.
The other a realist: no sun, and by 10:00 a.m. it will rain and keep
raining.
Ready to plant—a big pail of Kennebec seed potatoes, enough
for a dozen long rows. A small pail of
Red Norland red potatoes—a row and a half.
Red onion sets, white onion sets: enough for a row of each. Snap peas—a couple of long rows. Spinach, carrots, radishes, Swiss chard,
lettuce. Short rows of each.
First row of potatoes planted. All going well. Second row—first rain drops. Third row—a steady rain. Not a pouring down, cat and dog down pour,
but a cold, ornery, wet spring rain.
Sometimes heavier, sometimes lighter—but never stopping. And we didn’t stop either, but continuing
planting until the work was done. One of
the advantages of sandy soil—no mud.
Just inconvenience.
The realist doesn’t let up on the poor optimist who
continues to believe that the sun will eventually shine. And it will of course. But not likely on this day.
THE OLD TIMER SAYS: When it’s time to plant the garden,
plant the garden.
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Writing Workshops for 2016
Telling Your Story Workshop at Wild Rose Library, Saturday
June 11, 9-4. Call 920-622-3835 to get your name on the list as enrollment is
limited. (Class is filled)
Telling Your Story Workshop at The Clearing in Door
County. Friday, August 12, 9-4. Call 920-854-4088 to get your name on the
list. (Still Room)
UPCOMING EVENTS.
May
14, 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Booksigning, Dregne’s, Westby.
May
26, 7:00 p.m. Richfield Historical Society, 4128 Hubertus Road, Richfield, WI Whispers and Shadows.
June
7, 7:00 p.m. Cambria Library. Cambria Fire Dept. Community Center, Cambria.
June
11, 9-4 Writing Workshop, Wild Rose Library.
Telling Your Story
June
14, 9:00 a.m. Keynote speech. Country Heritage Day, St. John the Baptist
Church, Montello. Barns of Wisconsin.
July
19, 11:00 a.m., Farm Technology Days, Snudden Farms, Lake Geneva, Walworth
County. History of Wisconsin Agriculture.
August
9, 6:30 p.m.. Evening. Winnebago County Historical Society. Oshkosh Library. History of Wisconsin Agriculture.
August
12 9-4, Writing Workshop, The Clearing, Door County.
August
20, 10:30-11:30 am. Waupaca Annual Arts
on the Square.
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 (based on The Quiet Season book.)
Jerry Apps a Farm
Story (based on Rural Wit and
Wisdom and Old Farm books.)
The Land with Jerry Apps, (based on the book Whispers and Shadows.)
Also available are several of Jerry’s signed books including:
Jerry’s newest novel, The
Great Sand Fracas of Ames County. and Wisconsin
Agriculture: A History.
Contact
the library for prices and special package deals.
Patterson
Memorial Library
500 Division Street
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