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New. Improved.
From deodorant to dog food,
laundry soap to over-the-counter
medications, the label "new,
improved” makes it all better.
Or does it?
More than once I’ve growled and
grumbled while trying to open a
"new, improved” type container,
spout, lid or boxtop. And too often,
those “new, improved"
ingredients found inside may be no
better than what was there before,
and will undoubtedly cost more.
Anyway, this all came to mind as
I realized over the past few days
that my lifestyle has become
'new, improved” in two small, but
significant ways
First, culture has come to my
calf feeding chores.
Well, maybe culture isn’t exactly
the term you’d use
It all depends on how you like
rock music Or country Or that
background, easy listening stuff
they label “muzak,” and play m
your ear when you’re put on hold
on some telephone call.
Depending on who dials in the
dairy barn radio, any of the above
sounds may blare out toward the
milking herd. To date, no study
that I know of has ever determined
which type radio music en
courages the most contented cows
or the highest production.
But last week, the farmer
happened to come into ownership -
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free - of a roll of unwanted elec
trical communications wire and an
orphaned stereo speaker. This
unexpected good fortune was too
much to just ignore.
With just a few perfunctory
electrical hookups, he extended a
speaker from the cows’ radio up
into the heifer-calf raising areas,
for my listening enjoyment.
While I have a speaker, I lack a
dial, thus have no choice Over the
selection, unless I parade down to
the dairy barn and spin out
someone else’s earlier selection.
That would undoubtedly get me in
trouble, especially on the nights
that the kids help to milk.
In fact, that first night that I fed
calves accompanied by blaring
rock music, the farmer did come
up to check up on me and make
sure 1 was feeding, not doing the
Curly Shuffle with a bag of calf
feed
And as if that wasn’t enough to
revolutionize my lifestyle, a
request of some 15 years has
finally gone through the resident
engineering departmental head.
Since a round of remodeling that
took place when the teenager was a
wee babe, the bathroom closet
location has been smack dab over
top of the laundry area m the
basement.
For this past decade and a half, I
have periodically pleaded to have
a hole cut in the bottom of the
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GLENELG - Entries are
opened for the First Maryland
Grand Cook-Off sponsored
by the Maryland Sheep Breeders
Association.
The Cook-Off which offers prizes
of $5O, plus a Maryland lambskin,
$4O, plus a gift pack of Maryland
lamb, $3O, plus a Maryland leg of
closet, so that the mounds of dirty
barn clothes can simply dropped
down to the washing machine.
Lo and behold, after this long
time, a ten-minute bout with a
noisy saw rendered a chuck of the
floor on the basement cement and -
viola! - you can now almost drop
your dirty socks right in the
spinning basket.
A dear friend who stopped by
over the weekend took one look at
my “new, improved” facilities and
broke up in laughter. Seems that
when she was a teenager, she
became stuck in a similar laundry
chute hole, while clowning around,
and in humiliation had to be
pushed-pulled out by her parents.
I think I’d better withhold a
"new, improved” label until I see
how many kids or cats I have to
retrieve from the addition.
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lamb, and cookbooks for 10
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A minimum of one pound of
American lamb any cut must be
used. Entries will be judged on
taste (40 points), appearance (20
points), originality (20 points), and
ease of preparation (20 points).
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Prior to the May sth Cook-Off,
10 finalists will be chosen to cook
for the judges at the fesitval.
Deadline for entries is April 9.
Send recipes along with complete
preparation and cooking in
structions, name, address, and
phone number to Peggy Howell,
14584 Triadelphia Road, Glenelg,
Maryland 21737 or call her at 489-
4342
pests around the home and garden
will be held April 3, 7:30 p.m., and
the series concludes on April 10,
7:30 p.m. with talks on rock gar
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Select those that are of par
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They will be held at the Extension
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