just a thought

from OFN March 13, 2023

ozarks’ auction block

Across the Fence

Continued from Previous Page the aroma from the Hyacinth would fill the house. It’s a memory that floods over me every spring.

Spring in the Ozarks is one of my favorite seasons. It’s not too hot or cold, and there is more daylight each day. Since I’m outside before dawn and after dark most days, I like to see the sun. I sit on the back porch steps to soak in as many rays as possible in the spring. Spring makes me feel better and helps to shake the winter blahs.

Many folks consider the “new year” to be Jan. 1, but for me, the new year kicks off when I see Mother Nature waking from a long winter slumber. The storms are her way of shaking off the cobwebs, and quick cold snaps are her hitting the snooze button. I’m a little grumpy when I wake up, so I can relate.

This time of year, livestock producers are crossing their fingers they have enough hay left to get to fresh grass. It’s also when all farmers and ranchers hope the rains continue falling in the summer and fall. It’s muddy now, but hopefully the rain will come when we really need it. We don’t need another dry year here in the Ozarks; I think last year was enough for a few years.

Canadian novelist L.M. Montgomery (Lucy Maud Montgomery) once wrote, “Nothing ever seems impossible in spring, you know.”

It’s like the whole world is a fresh, clean slate in spring. Spring is a time of optimism. When spring comes, many people start thinking about what a great year lies ahead. Things have to go just right the rest of the year, but spring makes it all seem possible.

As we go into the spring, think of the things that can go right this year; don’t think about what can go wrong. Spring is the time to be optimistic, so sit on the porch steps and soak in the sun. Let the rays of the season remind you that you have the best and most important job in the world and that rain or shine, the world depends on you.

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One evening, I guess I went a little beyond dark, and Dad came down to the field to make sure I was OK. As I quit for the day, my father proceeded to drive the tractor back to the barn, while I rode with my feet on the running board, with my butt against the rear-wheel fender so that I could be the one to get off and on to open and close the gates. As the little tractor bounced across the rougher corners of the plowing land, I, too, bounced off, and my left foot went under the tractor wheel in the freshly turned soil. Dad, in more of a panic than I had ever seen, stopped immediately and jumped off to inspect my foot and leg. After he unlaced the boot and looked up and down my leg by the illumination of his pipe lighter, there wasn’t even the slightest scratch.

“Does it hurt?” he asked nervously. “Can you wiggle your toes?”

Because of the fluffiness of freshly-plowed silt loam and the relatively light weight of an 8N tractor, I answered, “No and Yes.”

As we got back to the house, and before we went in for supper, Dad quietly instructed, “There’s no need to tell your mother about the tractor.” I nodded, in complete understanding, because, again, I still wanted to be a plowboy the next day.

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