Re: [RC] [RC-Digest] Vol: 03.1100 - Barbara McCrary
No matter what the drawbacks to living any given
place, there is something compelling about being a fifth generation person in
the same state, or even more compelling, being a fifth generation person on the
same homestead. It has it privileges and it's responsibilities, and if one
is really committed, one doesn't really have the freedom to leave and try
somewhere else. One just has to be satisfied with traveling now and then
to see what else there is in the world.
Our grandkids are 6th generation in the same
valley and I live on the original 1869 family homestead. I wouldn't leave
it for anything, but I surely would love to sample living one year somewhere
else, just to witness the seasons turn around the
calendar.
Why do I live in Minnesota? Well, there are those two weeks in
October when it's 55 degrees, no bugs, the hardwoods are exploding with color
and your horse is bursting with fitness from the competing and conditioning
you've done all season. The other 50 weeks I put up with the snow,
freezing rain and mud in the spring, going from 40 to 80 degrees in a
day, deerflies that fly faster than your horse can run (I call it
"get-fit-or-die season"), swarms of disease-carrying mosquitos...but there ARE
those two weeks in October. Plus I'm a fifth generation Minnesotan and
we have great public radio here!
Chip (only 1/8 Norwegian but can say "yah shoor yu betcha" with the best
of them)
