C4—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 5,1980
BY JOYCE BUPP
“Will you be able to get off
work 7 ” I ask my partner at
the other end of the canoe.
We were near the end of the
last “pond classroom”
session of a woman’s
canoeing course, and
making final plans for the
“test” a run down
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some tune as an apprentice on an ap
proved farm.
Helmut’s family will have such a farm
when Helmut finishes his last year of
schooling. He will then have the
qualifications to have an apprentice under
him.
To further economize on the farms
which average fifty acres, most farmers
use smaller machinery and keep their
machinery for a long time by repairing
and maintaining it in good repair. “We buy
new machinery, but we keep it a very long
time,” Helmut said
Helmut came to the United States on
May 11, a very hot day in Washington, D C
He was unaccustomed to the heat and
humidity and found it very uncomfortable
But he chuckles good naturedly when he
explains that he is scheduled to spend
much of the Summer m the state of lowa
“I have already heard about the weather
there 1 ” he grinned
After spending a brief tune in the
nation’s capitol, Helmut came to Chester
County to stay for three weeks at the Art
Hershey farm near Cochranville After
that time he went to visit with the
Wollastons for three weeks Following that
he left for a Beaver County host farm. He
will be in lowa during July and August.
Helmut said that three weeks was too
short a time to spend with each family
because by the tune he and they felt at
On being
a farm wife
-And other
hazards
Joyce Bupp
beautiful rock strewn Muddy
Creek.
“Maybe I can take a
mental health day,” she
mused
Mental health day 7
I liked the sound of that. It
drums up images of some
pressing need a brief
respite that no one would
c ti/otps
dare mink of denying you
By contrast, “sick leave”
sounds depressing, con
juring up thoughts of lying
miserably on the couch with
a fever, red nose, supply of
tissues and quart of orange
juice. And while “vacation”
has a somewhat more
pleasant ring to it, ex
perience hints of a period of
rushing around, packing and
unpacking, and trying to
squeeze too many activities
into too short a time
No, mental health day
sounds much better.
And who could possibly
use a mental health break
more than a mother in the
middle of summer school
vacation’ Perhaps we could
band together and negotiate
having this benefit written
mto our lifelong contract.
Rules for mental health
day for mothers would
require no running to 4-H or
Scouting meetings,
home with each other it was time to move
on. He would like to have more time to visit
in each area and enjoy the family and
farm life of each host
The Wollastons took Helmut to market m
Lancaster and to Longwood Gardens
before he left. He also walked across the
fields to tour the neighboring mushroom
plant
Although Helmut admits that he never
did like mushrooms to eat and has not
eaten them here yet, he has eaten more ice
cream since here than ever m his life
“I never knew anyone to eat so much
ice cream as they do here,” he said. “Ice
cream for dessert after every meal,
almost,” he added “In my family we do
not have as many desserts after meals as
here,” he explained. “I will have to be
very careful!” he sighed as he patted his
still trim and firm mid-section
Another part of our everyday life which
is novel to Helmut is putting ice in drinks.
They are too cold for his liking. He says his
family usually has coffee, toast and butter
for breakfast - no cereal - occasionally
eggs, a hot mid day meal and small sup
per. So far his hosts have had large
breakfasts, light lunches and larger
suppers. But Cathy explained to him that
not all farm families across the nation
follow the same patterns
Helmut looks ahead to several months of
discovering ]ust what American farmers
are like
recreation, swimming
classes, ball games hr
shopping Periodic
referreemg of the “but-he
hit-me-first” crowd would be
absolutely outlawed.
All requests for pitchers of
cold drinks, snacks and
meals for the day would be
banned. Lift no mops,
bfooms, vacuum cleaners,
dust ia o j, uish cloths or
clothes pins. Go somewhere,
by yourself or with a close
friend just spending the day
in some enjoyable way.
Maybe even just curl up with
a good book
Do you suppose there’s
even a vague chance we may
someday pull it off 9
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