On Being a
Farm Wife
(and other hazard:
Joyce Bupp
Tis the perfect season for pro
crastination.
But soon there will be no more
putting off ‘til tomorrow what
should have been done yesterday.
It will be too late.
No, this year’s procrastinating
hasn’t been over holiday prepara
tions.
Holiday chores sort or, more
or less, as best we can just get
wiggled in between the daily
chores and all those surprise jobs
that crop up and need prompt at
tention. Herd checks and bill
paying. Freshening cows and
tending new baby calves. Spend
ing a whole afternoon upgrading
The Farmer’s cell phone service
when his obsolete pocket-side
kick finally died. Implementation
of a long-delayed conservation
improvement in a pasture.
Wedged between the routine
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and the not-so-routine are those
fun holiday opportunities that
pop up: picking up special things
for the grandchildren, finding a
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dropping off a surprise for a spe
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This year’s procrastination is
the doing of Mother Nature, re
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splashed balmy days and gentle,
comfy evenings. Which means
outside yardwork keeps going on.
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day countdown time until the
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And I find myself bopping
around the lawn on the mower,
cutting lush green grass, laying
low the scruffy weeds and chop
ping into infinite bits the maple
leaves which finally departed the
trees.
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Leaves around the house rarely
fail much before Thanksgiving,
meaning that an early snow or a
sudden freeze often leaves us
with a littery-looking lawn for
winter’s duration. At least until it
gets covered with snow. But,
thanks to the extended period of
weather procrastination, we now
have a tidy lawn for the holidays
and a neater landscape to look
out upon until spring.
On another September-like re
cent afternoon, my guilt and I
lugged a spade to the garden to
dig up the gladioli bulbs. The
chore had been postponed earlier,
when the soil was brick hard.
And then, simply forgotten. Until
one of those soggy, sodden days
of welcome moisture, when the
thought of the bulbs still
undug popped into my mind.
No worse for their extended
underground storage, the bulbs
were like little treasures turning
up in spadefuls of soil perfect for
digging. The ground was a plea
sure to work in, moist, crumbly,
and smelled absolutely wonder
fill. Most of the bulbs had at least
doubled, each reproducing two
fat clones of themselves. Every
couple of years, they multiply
right out of our available space,
until I pester friends to take the
excess. What other kind of trea
sure can you bury that doubles it
self in a couple of months time?
A day later, another planting
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procrastination jogged my mem
ory. Lugging the spade to a dif
ferent comer of buried treasure
yielded up dahlia roots. One was
apparently growing or confused
over procrastinating weather and
was already pushing out little
green sprouts.
Roses planted in the fall, and
pruned back weeks ago in antici
pation of winter, have since
thumbed their thorny noses at
the calendar and pushed out lush
fresh foliage. Another, missed in
that early round of pruning,
poked up a five-foot shoot, after
languishing in the summer
drought. Dandelions have been
happily blooming around the
yard for the past few weeks, some
of them even going to seed.
And, back under the big old
Norway spruce, where some well
aged tomatoes apparently were
pitched, at least a half-dozen
stocky, sturdy tomato plants
have sprouted into foot-high
wannabees. Would a few potted
and held over until spring give us
the earliest ripe tomatoes in the
On Nov. 17, Roberta Shepherdson, Landisville, was hostess to Lan
caster Farm Women Society 18. Refreshments and social time were
enjoyed as members arrived.
Mary Lou Shelton led in devotions. Members answered roll call by
telling who was the inspiration for their first and middle names. Some
reported they were called nicknames, others were given a family name
for the first or second name or named after a relative.
After a business meeting led by Ruth Landis, president, committees
presented reports.
The interesting “show and tell” program involved all members.
Each showed photographs of parents and grandparents and an item
received from them.
The birthday song was sung for Ella Mae Hershey who had a No
vember birthday.
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neighborhood next June? Or
maybe just become straggly,
stemmy, buggy plants? We may
find out, if I get a few potted up,
without procrastinating too long
about it.
While Mother Nature has been
procrastinating around about the
seasons, the mail-order seed folks
haven’t. In the past, the spate of
colorful, enticing seed catalogs
usually began arriving just as the
Christmas card deliveries
stopped. This year, we already
have at least three of them
stacked and waiting on the to
read pile.
With a little more procrastina
tion on Mother’s part, despite a
few frosty-white morning set
backs, we may just get caught up
enough on the outside chores to
start getting serious over study
ing those garden wishbooks.
In the meantime, its been great
weather for putting up outside
holiday decorations.
And...l just remembered an
other batch of dahlia roots still
buried in the ground.