“Well, now that was one Sunday
afternoon that was really wor
thwhile,” our teenager concluded
as the sunset wrote a curtain call
for a perfect October weekend.
And that opinion, coming from
one whose likely description of a
majority of activities is “boring!",
is no small compliment.
We had not gone out to dinner.
We had not gone to the movies, or a
sporting event, a meeting, a get
together, or even turned on the
television.
We had simply stayed home.
But there’s so much to do here at
home.
Like work on the bike invented
by the big and small farmers.
Using an accumulation of old bike
parts in the shop, they’d taken a
few moments of the glorious af
ternoon to finish a "chopper”
bicycle, styled after those strange
looking motorcycles with the front
wheel stretched out way ahead.
We now own the silliest looking
bike in the neighborhood.
This was not boring. This was
worthwhile.
Next came a hike down through
the pasture, accompanied by the
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usual un-boring chasing the
minnows and jumping across the
creek until at least one sneaker is
good and soggy.
In the pasture fencerow stands a
. venerable, aged, pear tree, that
has sten many moons. Climbing
that tree, leaning your weight
against a branch laden with
yellow-green fruit, and shaking
pears down on your brother’s and
mother’s heads is not boring.
Even less boring is watching
mother mount her bike, one hand
clutching a bulging bag of pears,
the other wrapped'arounda cluster
of bittersweet branches, and tiy to
ride back home on the bumpy field
road.
And observing mother disappear
into the cornfield as she looses
control of the bike is certainly not
boring.
Other highlights of a worthwhile
afternoon include lugging the fat
lamb on the pickup for a ride to
meet a handsome ram. Or wat
ching the neighbor’s adorable new
baby pigs, or hauling home the
pumpkins he’s given you, while
pestering that they be turned mto
pies immediately.
August CPI reflects higher meat prices
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Higher
retail meat prices last month were
the mam cause of the four percent
rise-before seasonal adjustment-in
theconsumer price index (CPI) for
food in August, Assistant
Secretary of Agriculture William
Lesher said today.
“The August increase in food
prices brought the food CPI to a
jevel 7.2 percent higher than a year
earlier,” Lesher said, "continuing
the pattern of food prices rising
less than prices for nonfood
items.”
Lesher said he expects this
year’s rise in retell food prices to
be about 8 percent, thereby
moderating the general inflation
rate. This compares to last year’s
8.6-percent increase and would be
the sixth time in the last seven
years that food prices have risen
less than prices for nonfood goods
and services.
Food marketing costs mil ac
count for about two-thirds of this
year’s food price increase. About
one-fourth mil be attributed to a
higher farm value of foods. The
remainder will be due to higher
costs for imported foods and fish.
~ The U.S. Department of Labor’s
Bureau of Labor Statistics
An impromptu doggie roast in
the back yard, a prelude to the
regular evening milking chores,
wrapped up our non-bonng Sun
day.
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kids are over-involved, oVer
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whelmed with then: abundance of
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released the August consumer
price index earlier today.
"Food prices at grocery stores
rose four percent as did prices for
meals purchased away from
home,” Lusher said. "Meat prices
increased nine percent in July, led
by a 1.6 percent rise in pork prices.
This reflected lower hog slaughter
in July.”
Regarding prices for other foods,
higher marketing costs offset a
lower farm value for cereals and
bakery products, pushing prices
for these f'W'ds up n 1 percent,
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Berks Co. Society 5 meets for
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Lancaster 13 meets for their 50th
anniversary banquet; en-
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Lancaster Society I meets with
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Lancaster Society 32 meets for a
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Lesher said. Declining supplies of
apples from cold storage and lower
California orange production
pushed fresh fruit prices up 5.1
percent.
Lower potato prices offset higher
prices for lettuce and tomatoes,
pushing the CPI for fresh
vegetables down 3.5 percent. Dairy
products prices fell 0.2 percent as
continued large milk production
offset rising marketing costs. The
CPI for fats and oils rose only 0.2
percent, reflecting large supplies.
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York Society 9 meets with hostess
Anna Butcher
York Society 7 meets with Beatrice
Heindel
Lancaster Society 14 meets with
Jean Thomas
Thursday, October 15
Lancaster Society IS to watch a
flower arrangment program by
Sarah Hess
Saturday, October 17
Lancaster Society 3 takes a trip to
Gettysburg
Lancaster Society 18 to hear Alice
Oourte present a musical
presentation
Lancaster Society 12 to do work for
the Needlework Guild
Wendesday, October 14