Hot Times

I wrote this little poem years ago when we were having some hot days… maybe you’ll get happier about summer after reading it.

The heat we’ve been a havin’ ain’t necessarily pleasin’, but there ain’t no snow in the tomato patch, and there ain’t nobody freezin’.

It’s only in the 90’s, and the fishin’s fairly good, so I figure summer’s goin’, pretty much the way it should.

The squirrels are in’ the hick’ries, and somewhere’s it’s a rainin’, so I’ll wait ‘til we get our share, and you won’t hear me complainin’.

Life is great here in the country, and I ain’t a gonna whine, cause as long as I can catch some fish, then things is goin’ fine.

Ma’s cannin’ is nigh over, ‘til the apples come to ripe’nin, I can’t figure why that woman’s always sittin’ ‘round and gripin’.

I’d take her out a fishin’, if she’d promise to be quite, but when she’s rantin’ and a rarin’ I can’t get the fish to bite.

There’s a sunset that’s worth seein’ and the sky is full of stars, there’s the sound of water flowin’ over river gravel bars.

There’s fireflies o’er the meadows, summer flowers here and there, and I can hear a bullfrog beller, and a hoot owl off somewhere.

When tomorrow comes a dawnin’ its likely to be hot, but I say that even if it is, I druther see it… than not.

There’s cooler days a comin’, us old-timers can recall, but let’s waste no days of summer whilst we’re waitin’ on the fall.

If your pinin’ for a better time, just listen when I say, it may be all we got, so let’s just enjoy today.

God sends us autumn’s beauty, He sends the springtime dew, He made the birds, He made the bugs, and He made summer too.

So if your lookin’ for some good advice, I’m just the man to give it… I say summer won’t be wasted, ‘less’n you just forget to live it.

On Sunday afternoon July 16, we will have a meeting in Buffalo, Mo to try to revive an old group called “Common Sense Conservationists”. It will be held at a restaurant called “Jem’s” at 1 p.m.

The purpose of the meeting is to establish a group of conservation-minded citizens to oppose and stop much of what the Missouri Department of Conservation is doing in our state, which is corrupt, wasteful, and illegal. Actual conservation issues, like our degraded rivers, and the decline of wild turkeys, is ignored, while they have enriched the Bass Pro Shop owners and many of our states judges.

If we can sign up 250 members this year, we can make a change. That number will grow. Call 417 777 5227 for info.