The Green book (2012)
“There was lots of work to do. Everyone went up to the field to gather and stack the wheat, the next day, and for days afterwards. Father said he wouldn’t need to build a mill, because the grain was so easy to grind, but every family needed a pair of stones for grinding flour, and they had to be found and shaped. We needed a big bunker to store the grain, some to eat, and some for next year’s growing. By and by, Father went and fetched some moth wings from Boulder Valley, all faded and limp, and... Malcolm brewed up something to steep them in that made them into a kind of stringy soup; and then we dried out the fibers by pouring the soup through a tray of sand and leaving it to dry in the sun, and then the fibers could be spun into thread, using a funny thing like a top on a stick that Father made. He was going to make a loom next. We would all have red and gray mottled clothes out of moth cloth, when our Earth things wore out. We were looking rather ragged already.
When the harvest was in, and we were getting used to our own good bread, we began to see that winter was coming.MoreLess
When the harvest was in, and we were getting used to our own good bread, we began to see that winter was coming.MoreLess
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