Goodbye

Goodbye country weekend. Goodbye horns on the cattle we were too scared to pat.Goodbye electrical fence. Goodbye little boy offering Kung Fu moves against them all.Goodbye brooks and country air, goodbye sunshine everywhere.Goodbye house. All summer we drive to you,then sneak back again and again as long as the good weather holds. But the other night the temperature dipped below 30 with far colder nights ahead.And yesterday just before we left, a big machine knocked over our friend the birch tree and carried it off like they spoils of war.We knew it had to go, It was in a bad place and it was getting weaker every year. But have a look at this video and tell me you can’t feel it yourself: the jaws of that Big Beast that pulls Summer up by the roots and drags her off to God knows where.[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03UN3aAxUvw]