Late Night Radio: Lineman for the County

Howdy, folks, and welcome back to the show! Those poor pine trees. Last week, we talked about 'em right here, how they keep the winter woods green. This week, limbs came crashing down, splintering, filling the air with that piney fresh, the remaining branches drooping dejectedly. They sure were having a Monday in every sense of the word. Winter storm Blair dealt the ice, and dealt it hard.

It caught, coated, suffocated. I crunched through the grass to check on the beehives, freeing their entrances from the glaze. The trees looked titanium when the sun hit right, and when it went down too early, the ground seemed as hard as that silvery metal. And the power went out.

“Should have got that generator hooked up,” I muttered, winterizing my house, then heading over to the folks'. They have a wood stove. (I plan to.) It got colder.

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