Words of the Week

Old Man Winter arrives today. He's not always a welcome guest at the Hetzler household.

Now commences the long winter evening around the farmer's hearth, when the thoughts of the indwellers travel far abroad, and men are by nature and necessity charitable and liberal to all creatures. Now is the happy resistance to cold, when the farmer reaps his reward, and thinks of his preparedness for winter…

- Henry David Thoreau