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By: Jim Fitzpatrick |
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Email: jim@nunica.com |
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Local Farmer in Polkton Township writes for the Coopersville Observer. |
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Along Brandy Creek By Jim Fitzpatrick
The Coopersville Observer October 30, 2006- - No. 78 |
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The kids are home from school with the flu and the wife is a bit on the grumpy side. The rains continue to come down day after day as if they'll never end. The crops in the fields are ready for harvest; but, the equipment only gets stuck in the mud and wet. Winter's firewood supply looks to be a little shy of what is needed to last til spring. The driveway washed out in the last big storm. And the mother-in-law has arrived to stay for a week. Lightning fried the telephone wires two weeks ago, destroyed the new computer on the hallway desk. On Monday a raccoon got in the hen house, the egg suppliers were reduced by half. Gotta get new tires on the van this fall, before the winter snows blow in. Never got fourth cutting off the alfalfa field up there by the church either, before the rains came on!
Oh, if only the sun would shine on this place for a day or two - take the edge off for a time. But, then again, there are so many pleasant things to think about; why fuss over all those ridicules loose ends. Just to hop out of bed in the early morn, to see the sun come up; should be plenty good enough. Smell the coffee brewing on the stove, stoke up the wood fire down in the cellar, sit with the family around the breakfast table; those are the things that'll get us along just fine. The rains will pass, and the black clouds overhead too! Sunshine days and moonlit nights are just around the bend. The crops will be taken in before it is all over. We'll finally settle in for a just fine winter. |
