Fanning, Saturday, Way 12,1979 Ida’s Notebook ~ Ida Risser \ 4 I’m constantly torn bet ween going. - outside and working or staying inside and reading. My children have given me many books on different subjects in which they felt I’d be in terested. Recently, I got one on “Blueberry Culture”, which contains hundreds of pages dealing only with blueberries. It is amaring that there is so much to be said on one subject even if it does cover breeding, propagating, harvesting, processing and marketing. Another is written on “The Pennayvlania Dutch” and includes their religion, their history, their work and their folkways. Still another book tells all about herbs and other medicinal plants. The other day a reader of 1 ancestor Farming gave me a catalog of Honey Plants. Now I didn’t even know such a catalog existed. In it are listed unusual plants such as anise hyssop, poking cotoneaster, nurple STOLTZFUS BROTHERS SPRAY PAINTING • GOOD QUALITY PAINTS • VERY REASONABLE • ROOF COATING - BIN AND WATER TANKS • BARN PAINTING & BRUSH IN • AIRLESS SPRAYING • HYDRAULIC AERIAL EQUIPMENT • SAND BLASTING IF NECESSARY EPHRAIM B. STOLTZFUS 61 Hess Rd. Leola, PA 717-656-8003 V loosestrife and. migonette which are grown especially for nectar in a “bee garden”. All of these books contain "aluable information but I’m afraid I’d never be able to confine myself to one area of study long enough to learn everything there is to know about it There are so many fascinating topics which I want to learn about. For example, much as I love woven coverlets, Fm afraid I’d never have the patience to work for years in order to list all the weavers and to research all the intriguing patterns. So now that Fve looked over my books again. I’ll go outside and spade up a space for my bushels of dahlias. This year my garden is so full of sugar peas that a new place will have to be found for the flowers. Ob yes, I’d better saw off a few more dead limbs and do some weeding too or Til wish that I had when harvest time comes'. Mother had gotten me ready for church a little early that morning, and sent me outside to play, with a firm command to "stay out of trouble". Toddling on my still occasionally unsteady legs, I walked out onto the porch of the house, and surveyed the scene. Now just what could a four year old, dressed in her newest jacy white dress do with a couple of minutes on her hands? My eyes came to rest on the little chicken house, where the hens and roosters were eagerly scratching in the dirt. Nearby the ducks waddled in and out of the old sunken tub that served as their pond. In a jiffy I was hightailing it out to the shed. Grabbing a feed scoop with some corn in it, I hurried out to the chicken yard to feed my little feathered friends. The only problem was that the ducks decided that they were hungry too. Now when I was four years old, those ducks looked mighty big and mean to me, and when they started waddling over, flapping their wings and quacking as loud as they could, I got scared. My little hands tried to throw the corn out faster and faster to keep them occupied. The corn fell closer and closer to my black double-buckled shoes, as in my panic, my aim faltered jnd the corn dribbled out on the ground in front of me. PLANNING TO BUILD? • MACHINE SHEDS • CATTLE BARNS • HORSE BARNS • HOG CONFINEMENT • GARAGES AND SHOPS ORDER A MORTON BUILDING AND SAVE. M ** WRITE OR CALL TODAY! * /WO. 1 CHOICE OF FARMERS Serving Central Pa. and Maryland RD4, Box 34A Gettysburg, PA 17325 Ph- 717-334-2168 Serving North Central Pa Area P.O. Box 937 State College, PA 16801 Ph- 814-383-4355 IF YOU HAVE BEEN CONSIDERING A NEW BUILDING, LET US SHOW YOU $$ SAVINGS ON A MORTON BUILDING - YOU HAVE EVERYTHING TO GAIN! 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