Bl2—Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, lune 18,1983
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a farm
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Joyce B
Summertime.
And the livin’ is easy.
Want to wager that the composer
of that American classic song that
opens with those lines wrote them
sitting on a long, airy, columned
veranda, a breeze wafting through
the shade of the magnolias
towering overhead, sipping a cool
drink, his feet propped up?
Try singing that ditty with any
amount of feeling while bouncing
through a dusty hay field on a roaring
tractor, tugging a rake behind,
rolling swaths into bouffant win
dows ready for baling, under
pressure from the towering clouds
gathering on a distant horizon and
the freight-train rumble of thunder
echoes from afar.
Or chugging down stale,
lukewarm water, tasting of an
ancient plastic thermos that has
lingered too long under the seat of
a tractor, while pausing between
giant loads of hay that you still
have to heave up in the mow of a
tin-roofed shed on a 90-degree June
afternoon.
Summertime.
And the livin’ is easy.
Overnight, the barley has
metamorphosed from immature
green to the dull gold of readiness,
bearded heads bending under the
weight of a bountiful crop of fat
kernels.
Up in the machine shed, the
dusty combine looks at you with a
scowl of accusation across its wide
countenance. Yes, you know its
time to grease bearings and zirks,
chains and gears, and tighten down
belts.
Summertime.
And the livin’ is easy.
“Mom, I have basketball camp.
You have to have me there at 8 in
the morning and pick me up at 2
every day this week. Oh, it’s just at
school.” (Eight miles or so away).
“Mom I need some new clothes
for camp. Can we go shopping?”
“Dad, I can’t start the lawn
mower. The battery’s dead."
“Mom, can we go pick
strawberries now? ”
“Dad, can you fix my bike?”
“Why are we out of iced tea?”
“Mom, can I have a friend over
to sleep out tonight? ’ ’
“Can you help milk tonight
we have two big fields of hay to
finish?”
“Mom, the broccoli has those
ugly green worms on it again.”
Summertime.
And the livin’ is easy.
Easy? Not necessarily
Boring? Never.
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