On Being a
Farm Wife
(and other hazard
Joyce Bupp
Ousting winds.
Trees bending low, cowering
from angry gray clouds thunder
ing overhead. Rain beating down,
blowing almost parallel at times.
A mad dash to yellow school
buses, creaking to a stop inside
the inner playground area of our
elementary school. Teachers,
strained looks on their faces, bid
ding students farewell at the in
terruption of a fall season school
day.
Hurricane.
Hazel was her name, a destruc
tively-nasty storm which plas
tered damage across the area in
the 19505. This was in pre-politi
cally-correct times, when hurri
canes were matter-of-factly and
stereotypically dubbed with fe
male names. Didn’t matter what „
her name-was, Hazel battered us
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rather memorably as I recall, in
cluding some excused school
days.
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life and limb as readily as they
understand days off from school.
So my brothers and I thought
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diversionary entertainment and
unexpected vacation from school
than they were economically de
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through that era of time over a
couple of years, though Hazel
sticks with me more than the
rest, for some reason.
Maybe it was the big trees she
knocked down in the woods be
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After I contracted a major red,
rashy, and terribly itchy case of
poison from playing in one of
them. Hazel’s aftermath held less
appeal, at least until all the resid
ual poison leaves dried up.
Our early parenting years
brought the way-more destruc
tive Agnes, which parked over
Pennsylvania for some three
days, crying the blues 15-plus
inches worth the whole time
she hung around. With a three
year-old and a three-month-old
baby, Agnes pretty much con
fined this mom to the house for
her duration.
Power remained on for us
through Agnes’ stay, though The
Farmer’s grandparents, who
lived just a short distance away,
Were plunged into darkness dur
ing that stretch of mid-June
storminess. One pleasant memory
of Agnes’ stay was sharing a hot
lunch with them one day, three
generations of us, snug in our
cozy kitchen, while the rain and
wind beat against the windows.
When Agnes finally lumbered
off, we had springs and streams
running from the backyard,
where no streams have gurgled
before or since. Still, we were
lucky to have known Agnes and
been left with no more than a lit
tered and soggy back yard.
Towns, farms, businesses across
the region lay flooded, damaged,
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destroyed, and, even worse, lives
were lost.
Now, like birdwatchers record
ing sighted species, we can add
Isabel to our “life list” of signifi
cant weather events. Downgrad
ed to a tropical storm one by the
time she hit the Mason-Dixon
line, Isabel mustered enough of a
parting punch to leave us power
less, thankful for Uncle Earl the
master electrician and his ways
with cranky milking system
generators, and added fodder for
our downed-tree firewood stack
and kindling collection.
While we were spared any
major destruction, Isabel did
manage to pick up one of the calf
condos about a foot into the air
and sit it back down on cement
blocks parked there to help
anchor down a tarp strung across
the front as a calf rain-guard. She
also peeled away a single piece of
barn roofing, which we have as of
last weekend’s writing, still been
unable to locate. And, a piece of
maple tree limb Isabel plunked
onto the hood of the battered old
farm pickup added yet another
“character line” to its crinkled
countenance.
Given the goofy weather of the
last 10 months early, early
winter, plentiful snow, cold, late
spring, wet summer, soggy hay,
fungus-laden wheat crop, etc.,
etc. we had long speculated
that this would be the year.
This would be the year, with a
tall, beautiful corn crop nearly
ready for harvest, orchard trees
laden with fruit, soybean fields
thick with podded stalks, we
would also have a significant
hurricane.
Some things, you’d be just as
happy not being right about.
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Composting
Workshops
SPRINGFIELD (Delaware
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Gardeners of the Penn State Co
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Composting Workshops in Sep
tember and October.
Composting is an important
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materials, such as vegetable peel
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creates rich, organic nutrients
that will greatly enrich the gar
den soil.
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about an hour.
Preregistration and a fee of $5
are required for attendance.
Space is limited so register early.
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20 Paper Mill Rd., Springfield,
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