The Minnesota Farm Woman

Listen my children, I’ll tell what I know; they say it is winter, but we have no snow!

We’ve barely a smidgen, a bit or an inch; you could say all in all this winter’s been a cinch.

But Minnesotans, as you know, are a crazy bunch; our winters have always packed quite a punch.

We like snowmobiling and skiing and skating on ice; we scoff at the cold, we think snow is nice!

Without all the snow, some would think its a breeze; but when it gets cold, our septic tanks freeze!

I never dreamed that when I when I moved “up north”, that I would  hang the wash out on January fourth!

But in old Mother Nature, I just don’t have the trust; the snow is coming, I know that it must.

She will send snow, you know we will pay; for those temps above freezing, day after day.

Watch over your shoulders, check out the skies; the snow will be coming, I tell you no lies.

Mother Nature has a strange sense of humor, they say; so watch out for snow on Memorial Day.

Or perhaps it will come around Father’s Day; our gardens will be growing, I told you we’d pay.

So here’s my prediction, just a guess, I can’t lie; that we’ll have a blizzard on the Fourth of July!