Slim Randles' Home Country
“All is safely gathered in, ere the winter
storms begin …”
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[November 06, 2016]
"All
is safely gathered in, ere the winter storms begin …” so goes the
famous hymn we once learned in Sunday school and didn’t figure out
what it meant for another 20 years or so. |
But now is the time of harvest. Now is the gathering in. The
crops are gathered in. Firewood for winter storms is gathered in.
Fruit from the orchards is gathered in. This year’s crop of spring
calves is gathered in.
We look around us on the farm or the ranch, or even in an apartment
in the city, and we ask ourselves … are we ready for the winter
storms? Even in places that don’t have winter storms, we still ask
the same questions. Because we’re human. We know, inside, through
eons of gathering in for winter, that we must be prepared for the
bad things. And winter is usually the season we associate with the
bad things.
Human beings are not as naturally suited to fend off cold and wind
and snow and hunger as well as our forest neighbors. Our “coats”
don’t get a furry undercoat that is waterproof and weatherproof. If
we gain extra weight before winter, it’s usually not because we fear
a famine, but because we just like eating pizza while watching
football.
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So we have to be smarter than the deer and the
coyote and even the packrat. They don’t know why they do these
things to survive until spring. We do. We know and we plan and work
hard. It isn’t natural for us, the way it is for our coyote
brothers. They just do it. We plan.
But we do plan, and that means when the darkness descends and the
hushing of snow covers our homes, we can sit in the recliner by the
fire and have another bite of pizza.
We won … once again.
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