84-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 1,1992
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Maybe it’s age.
But lately I seem to get side
tracked with increasing frequency.
You’ve probably never done
this.
Say, you’re making lunch. And
you need some ingredient from
the freezer in the basement, like a
spare loaf of bread stashed away
there.
So you trot down the stairs.
There you note that the heat
from the woodstove seems to be
fading. So you open the stove door
to stuff in a couple of chunks from
the wood stack.
But before you throw in the
wood, you note that an abundance
of ashes has accumulated. So you
trot out to the porch for the ash
bucket
But the ash bucket is full. Very
full. So you throw on a jacket,
dash back outside, grab the
running-over bucket of ashes.
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scatter them over the garden, go
back inside, remove the ash from
the firebox, restuff the stove with
wood and return the ash bucket to
the porch.
But now you’ve noticed, that
the inside supply of wood is dwin
dling and an arctic cold front is on
its way. So you prop open the door
and lug in several armloads of
ammunition against tomorrow’s
icy chills.
In the process, you drop bits of
bark, woodchips, sawdust and a
scattering of dry leaves that
swirled in through the open door
with a prelude gust of cold. Fetch
ing the broom and dustpan, you
remove that mess before it spreads
any farther.
Now, back to your original pur
pose for having trotted down the
stairs.
But before you reach the freez
er, you realize that the load of
laundry in the dryer is finished
tumbling. So you dump the arm
load of dried things into the laun
dry basket, transfer another load
of wet items from the washer to
the dryer, and start yet another
load through the cleaning process.
You remove a couple of hand
and bath towels from the basket
full of dry items and begin folding
them on your way back up the
stairs.
Back in the kitchen, you stand
there momentarily and ponder
why you originally went to the
basement in the first place.
Then, you remember that you
needed a loaf of bread for lunch.
And you trot back down the
stairs to fetch what you set out to
get a quarter-hour earlier. Hoping
you don’t forget by the time you
get to the bottom of the steps what
you went for.
Now, you don’t do that, do you?
I plead guilty. And this problem
isn’t isolated to the house.
Quickie trips to the garden dur
ing summertime get sidetracked
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with similar ease. Perhaps it’s just
to pick a green pepper for a supper
salad.
But Solomon will want to play
ball on the way, so I’ll toss him his
rubber ball a couple of times.
Remember that I needed to pull a
few onions. Decide to check the
tomatoes while they’re handy.
Spy a ripe cantaloupe that would
be tasty for dessert. Pull a couple
of weeds in passing. Take the long
way back around the lower back
yard roses to check the latest
blooms; and while I’m that close,
sneak up to the bank of the little
pond to see if I can spot any fish
poking around near the upper
edge.
And inevitably end up back in
the kitchen with a little of every
thing from the garden except - you
got it - that green pepper.
This is not just an issue of
female forgetfulness, either, folks.
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increase yonr dry weather yield
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More than once. The Farmer
has made a quick dash to the bam
office to retrieve for me some
piece of cattle record information,
like the registry number for a bull
we had never before used.
Before he returns three hours
later he will have helped chase in
an ornery heifer that slipped
through a gate, bred a couple of
cows, helped start some reluctant
piece of equipment, been called
off to repair a wagon tire, fielded
three phone calls and two sales
men - and eventually show up just
in time for lunch.
By then I will have long forgot
ten what bit of information I origi
nally needed.
Things do have a way of ulti
mately getting done - they just
don’t always get done in the order
originally intended.
We like to think of it, not as
forgetfulness, but as flexibility.
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