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Dear Folks: November 18, 1990
Dear Folks, The big news of the month is that DON GOT HIS DEER. It was an ELEVEN POINT BUCK! He got it on the first day of muzzle-loader season, with a single shot through the heart.
To understand the import of that news, you have to understand more about Don than I have probably told you. The shooting of an eleven [...]
Dear Folks: October 21, 1990
Dear Folks, Only local, palpable, and undeniable climate change will make the world believe in the greenhouse effect — and this farm believes. We got our first killing frost of the season just two nights ago, October 19, eleven days later than the latest record in the 18 years I’ve lived here!
I carry in my head the general rule that the [...]
Dear Folks: September 7, 1990
Dear Folks, It’s Friday morning, two days after my return from Hungary. On Sunday I leave again for a week in Arizona. I’m already so full of news that I’d better start this letter now, before the discoveries from the next trip cram themselves into my already overloaded brain and heart.
I’ll try to make this more full than my usual description [...]
Dear Folks: August 24, 1990
Dear Folks, Sylvia and Heather have written a new story. They have a whole series, repeated with further embellishments at every bedtime. One is about Caesar and Cleopatra and their goslings. Another is about Faith the sheep who thought she was a person. The latest is titled “EEEEEEEEEUUWWWW Zucchini!” That was an actual comment, made by one of Heather’s small friends [...]
Dear Folks: July 22, 1990
Dear Folks, Well, I was too optimistic when I wrote last month. The slaughter isn’t over at all.
Don has shot three raccoons now, and we’re still losing chickens. The loss rate has gone down, because most of the tree-sitting hens have been wiped out. So far the clever masked bandits haven’t figured out how to get into the cages of the [...]
