"You won't be thinking of Christmas when spring finally rolls around and the sap rises in the trees, but the syrup you'll have on your Christmas breakfast must be made now. The potatoes and corn for your Christmas feast must be weeded all summer, and the apples for your Christmas pies must be picked in the fall. You see, to have a Christmas like Helen's, you'll need to work that land all year long, and know that hill farm in all its seasons."
A Christmas Like Helen's, Natalie Kinsey-Warnock 2004.
