Fall/Winter
I’m really excited about fall and winter. For some reason it just hit me yesterday, but I’m already started to prepare for colder weather and the holidays. My dad has bundles of cornstalks already decorating the front porch as well as two witches brooms I bought. We have pumpkins lying around everywhere, we even lit the woodstove for the first time last night, and boy did it feel warm and cozy.
Usually by the end of winter I’m dreading it, but right now I just can’t wait. I like gathering and cutting wood for storage. I like wearing long johns and flannel shirts and not worrying about being ’stylish.’ I like walking through the woods after a big snow and everything seeming still and quiet. I love going hunting with my dad. Of course I also like the food and hot cider afterwards too.
When I was little I used to love it when we would kill turkeys for the holidays. All of the family would come down from the hills to help, and each would take home their own turkey. We used to have this big black cauldron that we’d place over a fire for boiling. The men would catch, bound, and kill the turkeys and place them in the cauldron so that the women could pluck, gut, and cut up the turkeys. The kids, of course, would watch the dogs run off with the heads or various other pieces they could get their paws on 
I used to love hunting season too, all of my uncles would come down at like 5 in the morning, and my grandmother would actually get up to cook them breakfast and make sure they were properly clothed for sitting outside in the cold for hours upon end. Around lunchtime you’d start to see them trickle in, some with deer, some without, and we’d all have a big feast on some hot stew to warm up.
I just feel really warm, as a person, during this time. There are a lot of fond memories.
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