812—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 4,1984
Ida’s
Notebook
Ida Risser
People talk about the winter
doldrums. It is considered to be a
period of listlessness and
despondency. I dont’ feel that it
has affected me because I’ve kept
myself busy cooking, baking,
tending hundreds of houseplants
and braiding rugs. I’ve just
finished one and hope to braid
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Mike Fisher
another before my really busy
garden season starts in March.
Winter is my vacation from
picking hundreds of boxes of
strawberries and rows and rows of
sugar peas which I sell besides
tending a large garden for our own
use.
Speaking of vacations, I’ve been
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planning a Caribbean Cruise since
November. I see the dictionary
gives a second meaning to the
word “doldrums.” It says, “a part
of the ocean near the equator
abounding in calms, squalls and
light shifting winds.” As you read
this, if all goes as planned, I should
be flying to San Juan, Puerto Rico
and finding out if this definition is
true. Then will follow visits to a
half dozen islands in the French
West Indies, U.S. Virgin Islands,
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and Netherlands Antilles. It should
be quite an adventure aboard the
Sun Princess, the sister ship to the
Pacific Princess better known as
the “Love Boat” on television.
My children have been
showering me with gifts of clothes
and advice. Also, the loan of a good
camera and an offer to take me to
the Philadelphia Airport It has
been an unusual experience to try
and gather together a nice war
drobe for summer weather in
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215 445-6736
February,
- There will be about fifty people
in our group. They are from
California, Oregon, Texas, S.
Dakota, Nebraska, Missouri,
Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana,
Kansas, lowa, New York and little
me from Pennsylvania. In the
following weeks, I hope to be able
to share with you the sights and
sounds of my tours of these
tropical islands and my life on the
magnificent Sun Princess.
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