Summer's Dying: Time to Check Your Fences! 🍂
In E. B. White’s delightful book, Charlotte’s Web, “the crickets felt it was their duty to warn everyone that summertime cannot last forever.”
“‘Summer is over and gone, over and gone. Summer is dying, dying.’”
It’s been a glorious September in New Hampshire, with warm golden days and crisp nights dipping into the 40s. The leaves are beginning to show gold and red. The sound of crickets makes us all think our ears are ringing, but no, it’s the cricket’s song of “sadness and change.” Yes, summer is dying. It always evokes a degree of sadness for me. I love summertime immensely and never get enough warm days in New Hampshire.
“‘How many nights till frost?’ sang the crickets. ‘Good-bye, summer, good-bye, good-bye.’”
The sheep heard the crickets, and they felt so uneasy they broke a hole in the pasture fence and wandered up into the field across the road. The gander discovered the hole and led his family through, and they walked to the orchard and ate the apples that were lying on the ground. A little maple tree in the swamp heard the cricket song and turned bright red with anxiety.”
It’s the swamp maples that bear their anxiety first around here. I noticed today that so many more are bright with color.
Time to Check Your Fences
Take heed from E. B. White’s farm animals and check your fences for damage. You don’t want those sheep and geese wandering around, eating your apples!
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Have a salubrious day!
Debbie Page
CEO, Louis E. Page Inc – Woman-owned business and Family-owned since 1893. (It adds up to over 131 years owned and run by our family. Think about it: Nobody stays around in business that long without really supporting customers so they want to come back!)
P.S. Prepare for fall by ensuring your fences are secure!
