Answer:
What travels from house to house and is sometimes narrow and sometimes wide but always stays outside?
When I get closer my tail grows longer, but when I go away my tail leads the way.
You throw away the outside, eat the inside, then throw away the inside. What is it?
Whiling away the hours of flowers, Walking through fields of gold. Preening and pruning in lights fading hours, For petals to freeze in the cold. What is it?
I sleep by day, I fly by night. I have no feathers to aid my flight.
They are many and one, they wave and they drum, Used to cover a state, they go with you everywhere.