Even the cold did not prepare us for the snow Sunday. If it had been the first snowfall in human history, it could not have come down more inopportunely. There is still a lot of cut firewood scattered about the woods. The barn is not yet battened down. And probably they would remain uncompleted if it didn t snow until April.
Man is just naturally improvident.
There is a lot of wood stacked up in country yards against the coming cold. That seems to be one exception to the rule. But, otherwise, most of us resist deadlines with the greatest determination. The Aesop fable of the bee and the grasshopper does not seem to convey anything to generation after generation of children. Maybe it is just as well.