On Being a
Farm Wife
(and other hazards
Joyce Bupp
Gray colors our world each
morning, as dawn begins to me
ander up through the meadow.
Night’s blackness eases away
to the coming first hints of day
light and faint shapes begin to
emerge from the paleness. A
thick cluster of dark marks the
woodlot’s cluster of oak and lo
cust trees, while shadowy silhou
ettes appear on our neighbor’s
houses on the hills. Far in the dis
tance, poking through a gap in
the hills, the picturesque spire of
a community church points heav
enward.
Distinctive notes telltale the
early birds scratching through
the seeds scattered around the
snow remaining in the backyard.
Over the quiet twittering of tit
mice and chickadees, a cardinal’s
clear chirps punctuate the morn
ing’s somber stillness.
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A salmon hue eases over the
gray in the eastern sky, gradually
brightening to a stunning yellow.
Suddenly,—bingo!—up pops the
sun over the horizon. In the in
stant of that flooding with a gold
en glow, the day becomes warm
er, happier, more friendly one.
If you happen to be the person
milking the cows on the south
east-side row of the dairy barn,
you suddenly find a need for sun
glasses as the morning’s bril
liance shines directly in your
eyes. But it can turn a mood in a
moment.
How appropriate that the uni
versal symbol of the “happy
face,” with black oval eyes and
upturned curving grin, sports a
face color of bright, sunshiny yel
low. Because, any day the sun
shines—and certainly no more
than during these bleak, gray
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snow, and you get mobs of people
fleeing to the mall or the marts
the moment a plow goes past to
- escape confinement.
Tied to the lack of light during
the short days of the season,
maybe the affliction could just as
easily be dubbed TOG, or Tired
Of Gray.
With water levels at their crit
ical lows just six months ago, it
was obvious that our region’s ex
treme droughty condition could
only be corrected by lengthy and
extensive injection of mois
ture. And we don’t generally
get moisture when the sun
shines. We do get rainbows,
those colorful upside-down
smiles from heaven, but we
don’t usually get the sort of
soaking water recharge that
our ground so desperately
needed.
So, it was a given that
moisture correction would
entail lengthy stretches of
gray, dark, damp, dismal
weather. Or, as the case
may be, mounds and moun-
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days of winter —is a happier,
more upbeat-feeling day.
Our daughter and I pondered
recently if there’s an epidemic
this year of SAD, the Seasonal
Affective Disorder that leaves
one feeling somewhat down,
somewhat tired, somewhat de
pressed. Add to that, being
cooped up in the house from bit
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tains of icy, blowing flakes of
white.
Last week’s deluge of rain into
the mountains of snow sent cas
cades of water everywhere, cre
ating for us our scenic Whitewa
ter stream pouring down the
road, through the road culvert
and on down the field road to
swell our tiny stream many times
its usual flow. But, for lots of
folks, it meant collapsed roofs, in
jured and/or dead animals, bams
and basements full of water, and
accidents as retiming arctic air
transformed the runoff to treach
erous black ice.
Done! Enough! The water lev
els are recharged!
Now we long for sunshine to
temper the harsh grayness, to
texture the wintry landscape with
its warming glow and changing
patterns of shadow. Sunshine to
sparkle on the unfrozen corners
Auction Raises $2,525 For
Pennsylvania’s Holstein Youth
Attendees at the Pennsylvania Holstein Association’s Annu
al Awards Breakfast had the opportunity to support the Penn
sylvania Junior Holstein Association by bidding on various
items donated for a fun auction. Topping the sale at $1,300
was the winning bid from Paul and Ellen Hartle, center, from
Bellefonte for the “Moon Glow” quilt donated by Dave, left,
and Phoebe Bitler, right, from Vista Grande Farm. Phoebe
pieced the quilt and commissioned her neighbor Alma Snyder
to do the hand-quilting. A “to-date” set of Penn State Dairy
man’s Club milk bottles was donated by Donald Harwood and
was purchased by Bob and Jane Pepple for $225. Milk bottles
from Keystone and Penn Gate Farms were also up for the
highest bid. Several pieces of redware, a clock, several paint
ings, a coverlet and a wallhanging all helped to bring in a total
of $2,520 for Pennsylvania’s Holstein Youth.
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of the ponds and toss diamonds
across stretches of icy, hardened
snow cover. Sunshine to flood
through our windows and bright
en our homes and our psyches.
No need yet for excessive heat,
just a little sunshine. Fruit trees
need to remain dormant, and
bulbs and perennials to remain
safely tucked underground. Ani
mals fare better if not exposed to
extremes in temperature swings,
just gentle moderation. And we
certainly don’t want any more
winter—extending groundhogs to
stay put.
There is an antidote to SAD
and TOG and the cabin fever
that sends folks out onto unsafe
highways just to get out, go
somewhere, go anywhere, flee the
walls of confinement.
So we’re sending out an SOS
for the cure.
Send Our Sunshine.