Simpler Times

by Jerry D. Young

  The winter lasted well into the time spring should have come. The greenhouses continued to produce, but there were serious doubts about whether or not it would be prudent to use their seed stock for the field crops, if it was likely they wouldn’t survive until harvest.

  It was finally decided to put in small crops and hope for the best, while holding enough seed to plant the next summer should they not be able to recover seed from this crop. Even with another long fall, the field crops were marginal. The stocks of food and biodiesel were good, so almost all the production was put into seed storage for the following year.

  All the initial breeding stock had been carefully chosen. The fact that they had started with such good stock was showing up. The well cared for animals were staying healthy and breeding well. The Farm was at the upper limit of how many animals they could support. It was decided to keep the levels up, as meat on the hoof, just in case there were problems.

  But that winter, and the following spring and summer seemed to be the last of the war caused weather changes. It became milder over a period of years, until the growing season was about what it was before the war.

  Brittany recovered and Glenn asked her to marry him not long after Tabitha died. She accepted and they were married that spring. So were Christine and Harry.

  There was talk of a new state government, and even federal government. River traffic grew, and one of the first major road repairs and replacements was an all weather road from the Farm to the river around Cape Girardeau.

  While it could never be said that things returned to normal, a new normal came into existence, leaving behind much of the bad from the old normal. It would be a few generations, but human kind would go back to the moon, to start exploring and expanding again.

  The End

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  By

  Jerry D. Young

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