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It helps

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This new year has so much angst associated with it that I can’t help but feel sorry for US.

If you hadn’t heard, it’s a presidential election year. If you haven’t heard, then you’re probably not a real good reader, or you probably have your head hunched over one of those mobile devices and you’ll probably never ever be reading this. I’m just sayin’.

Anyway, with this being the year that it is, you’ll probably be insane by the beginning of May after the deluge of TV campaign ads that is about to rain down upon us. Don’t worry, by Labor Day you’ll wish for those good ol’ spring days.

Since we’re in the midst of a strange winter, you’re probably not thinking about planting stuff this spring. But this is the time when the idea of planning might take up just a little bit of your time and while you might be pondering that, you might also consider Ohio farmers. These gems stand out in the mud and slop like like a green emerald sitting on top of a frozen crest of snow.

A farmer by his very nature, has a good head on his shoulder. I’m not saying he has all the answers to the world, but he knows what works on his little block of it. That in itself is worthy of emulation whether you care not a whit about growing stuff or even where it comes from.

Sometimes it can be very beneficial if we all made a visit to a farm where this group of people are the ultimate optimists. Where else would someone get up before dawn, crawl up into a cold tractor and spend the next 14 hours slogging through the dirt in hopes that grain prices next fall will be enough to do it all again next spring?

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We’re going to pay for this

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Being as I have always lived in Ohio, I’m a little awestruck at this winter or lack of winter to date. I once spent Christmas in Orlando and my God that was wonderful compared to what the weather reports I read for back home. Now this year up till now has been pretty good. But I grew up here and I when I talk to others that grew up here, we all know what this warm weather means: God is about ready to bring the hammer down like back in the late 70s.
That was the year that it was real warm, lots of rain, and then POW! The blizzard of 78 hit us with a vengeance. Snow blowin’ sideways, icicles hanging horizontal from traffic lights that weren’t working, electricity that didn’t electrify. Roads with snow banks on both sides that were as high as a mobile home.

Yep, thank you God for what we’re about to receive, and for remindin’ me what it means to be a Buckeye.

 

Filed Under: Around Ohio, Weather

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