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\u201cNo, I don\u2019t ever remember seeing a better April week than this\u201d James commented today at dinner\u2026 An ordinary dinner it was: roast beef, potato, turnip, a relish and for dessert (thawed) strawberries. Ordinary, it  came to mind but eaten in that peace and quiet of surroundings that older folks appreciate. Though at the time James\u2019 mind was not as serene as ours, because of an event of some moment already shaping up in a piggery across the yard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGood beef\u201d he offered, sampling a slice. \u201cPlenty fat\u201d he nodded. \u201cTender too, and of nice flavor. It\u2019s a cut the butcher said from an animal raised by a farmer over at the shore. From a good stable you can tell.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A Breath of Spring<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNo \u2018yellow weeds\u2019\u2019 through it!\u201d we chuckled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd I\u2019d say from a good beef breed. Though\u201d he considered the matter \u201cwhen it\u2019s crossed with some of the dairy breeds, it gives not a bad animal for beef. We have some fair- good crosses ourselves \u2014yes, not bad ones\u201d he offered. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe potato won\u2019t taste quite so good today\u201d we said passing him the quaint vegetable dish of ironware -china\u201d, the market\u2019s slipping.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBut\u201d he smiled, \u201cturnip with the price they are, should taste delicious. Expensive feed, ours were, for the stock \u2014 but good\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll soon have chives\u201d we remembered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd before long there should be cress up the creek.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd dandelion greens. M-m!\u201d we said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fields dried today – dreamed. The light happy wind whispered \u201cTake your time now. There\u2019s no great hurry!\u201d to the little clovers in the new and older meadows about. For had not James said only this morning \u201cIf we get to the land in April, we\u2019ll be mowing hay come june? And not too many years back there was some June-haying and no great harvest of it either. No it\u2019s against Island farming to get too early to the cropping. It will come in good time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our road \u201cthe best byroad of the Island\u201d at present, a traveller commented today with it may have been more or less exaggeration, allows now nice passage for the children who cycle to school though our lane, deepened by years of traffic makes Granddaughter and Mack follow still the shortcut of field to get to lane\u2019s end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m afraid Ellen\u201d James says coming in now at peace with the day which so graciously kept us, and incidentally brought younglings of calves and potential bacon to the place \u201cyou\u2019re apt to hear frogs piping in April. A few more days like we\u2019ve had and a few mild nights \u2014 that will bring them to it. And it won\u2019t be too good\u2026 When\u2019s new moon?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTomorrow\u201d we say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-Ellen’s Diary, April 24th, 1958<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source: Islandnewspapers.ca<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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