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Dear Folks: December 24, 1995
Dear Folks,
Merry Christmas! Or, by the time you get this, Happy New Year!
It’s about 5 PM on Christmas Eve. A very light snow is in the air, the flakes so insubstantial that they get wafted up a few times before they finally settle down. We’ve had three big snowstorms, and there’s more than a foot of white stuff piled up [...]
Dear Folks: November 26, 1995
Dear Folks,
Nearly always when I sit down to write this monthly letter to you, it’s a Sunday. I have been immersed in farm activities, and I am suffused with happiness — my normal state when I’ve spent a day or two putzing around outside. So I usually start off with farm stuff, descriptions of nature and animals and gardens and [...]
Dear Folks: October 22, 1995
Dear Folks, It’s Sunday morning, amazingly mild (in the 60s), with the clouds of a departing storm sweeping over, letting in beams of sun. All day yesterday the valley was lashed by a nor’easter, the rare storm that slams at us backward, from the east, from the ocean, bringing enormous amounts of water. An east wind is a sign of trouble [...]
Dear Folks: September 23, 1995
Dear Folks, Wow! So much to tell you!
It’s Saturday morning, the day of the fall equinox. I’m alone in the house. Chrissie, Scot, and Marcia have gone off to sewing-machine school. As a wedding present Chrissie got a professional-model, turbo-charged Bernina, which, she tells us, can almost pick out the pattern, cut out the dress, and iron it when it’s [...]
Dear Folks: August 19, 1995
Dear Folks,
It feels as if Foundation Farm is holding its breath in anticipation of great events just around the corner. The main one is The Wedding, which will take place September 9. Chrissie has found the fine white cotton she wanted but she hasn’t yet made her dress. She and Scot (who has returned from field work in the forests [...]
