David Heiller
Bring in the firewood
from the
woods, split stack it, and cover it. Α good job to do with your son, although the son might not agree.
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| All right, so maybe we weren't always ready for winter. |
No time to rake up the debris around the woodpile. Maybe later.
Close up the greenhouse. It’s been open at both ends since last spring.
Make a note to fix the broken pane. No time to do it now.
Extract the honey from the 19 frames of honey comb that have been sitting in the sauna
for a month. They contain 3-3/4 gallons of honey. Put the empty frames by the
bee hives, for the bees to clean up. Nothing goes to waste with bees. But I get most of their honey. It’s good in a cup of tea
every morning.
Disconnect the hose from the house. Put all the hoses in the
basement. How did I ever get this many hoses? Four of them. I’m a man who’s rich
in hoses.
Put the canoe paddle away, and the frog net too. They are lying by
the pond. Mollie and I caught lots of frogs with the net this fall. It used to
catch butterflies,
then lay for several years in a box in the entryway. I taped a stick to the
handle with duct tape to make it longer, and with the right technique, the net
catches frogs. My
touch isn’t quite so good at catching bass.
Take the garbage can that holds approximately 15 frogs out of the basement, dump them in the pond,
give them a chance to survive the winter, however it is they do that. Sometimes
I’d like to bury myself in the mud for six months. It’s too late for any more
bass fishing. Nobody is bass fishing at this point, except for Bob Dutcher.
Throw the rotten squash and pumpkin in the compost pile.
Put the lawn chairs and table, Gene Lοurey originals, in the pole barn.
Hang the bikes from hooks in a rafter in the pole barn.
Put Styrofoam in the
basement window. Fill the woodbox.
Get out the boots.
Put the blade on the tractor. Chains too.
I didn’t get the picnic table put away. The trampoline is still up,
and the hammock too.
But that’s O.K. I’m ready enough. Now it can snow.
