OalMiiil a a farm -And others Joyce Bupp w Through the square glass passes a parade of interesting en tertainment, an ongoing look at life with high drama, humor, ex citement, suspense - and oc casionally, even tragedy. Not the television set screen. My kitchen window. Outside our farmhouse, a series of Little scenarios unfolds con stantly, played against the backdrop of changing seasons, the curtain ringing down only when evening’s darkness interrupts the presentations. Sometimes the action is the choreographed movements of green and red and orange machinery, hauling, turning, planting, harvesting across the ribbons of crop colors that hug the gently curving contours of the land. More often, though, the characters with the lead are animals. We humans mostly get to play but bit parts in the story plots created by the domesticated birds and beasts. Three chickens cruising the backyard a few mornings ago enacted what reminded me of those brief skits we used to per form around 4-H day camp’s evening campfires. The action took place among the maple leaves decomposing over the youngsters’ old sand pile, once busy with the toils of toy machinery, but mostly abandoned these days. A handsome white rooster, one A BALING BRE Krone Roun Baler A totally NEW con baling machinery, Krone line of round baler features an endless chain conveyor without belts. Closed chamber reduces problems associated with conventional belt type balers. Less horsepower required for the Krone Round Baler’s fewer moving parts means great energy sayings. Produces weather resistant bales with hard outer wrap and medium density core for better curing. Available in two models for bale diameters of five or six feet. CONTACT YOUR DEALER FOR MORE INFORMATION Distributed By: CUMMINOS & BRICKER, INC. black feather curving gracefully through his tail plumage, scrat ched with a vengeance through the rotting leaf mold. As he apparently uncovered some tasty morsel, one of the hens he’d been chattering to as he scratched swooped down in a split second to grab some goodie he’d uncovered. That seemingly made the other hen in the harem furious. She began wildly chasing the first hen, which still clutched the uneaten bit in her beak. Round and round they went, the pursuer never letting up a second for the pursued to gobble down the goodie. Meanwhile, Mr. Rooster totally ignored the jien fight, seeming relieved to finally be able to get on with enjoying his own breakfast. Before the hens had negotiated their differences, in the driveway came a buyer for the junior far mer’s newly-weaned piglets, the offspring of those notorious sows, Atomic and Bomb. In a sort of assembly-line loading arrangement, a human chain began loading the feeder pigs onto the waiting truck. Suddenly from out of the pen burst Bomb, not in protest to the removal of her children, but almost as though she was helping with the arrangements. Up through the yard, past the truck, beyond the barn she trotted, as fast as those short, hoofed legs would carry her heavy, bulky body. It looked for all the world as though Bomb was dancing off the 100 Stover Drive Carlisle, PA 17013 717-249-6720 burden of motherhood, embracing the unexpected welcome freedom from the squealing, grunting, pushing, constantly-hungi y brood. No, the scenarios through our windows aren’t alive with cars that talk, contestants that scream and dance when they win expensive prizes, or detective shows where the good guys always manage to get their men within the 60-minute show limit. What we see in window-watching is much closer to afternoon soap opera, the never-ending sagas of little disasters, everyday pleasures, foibles, frailities, trails and triumphs. Besides, there are no com mercials interrupting the action beyond the kitchen window. SURDIAC COALSTOVES I ioßsci [r t) Hopper Feed and Automatic Draft Uiftst Prices Ever BOWMAN'S STOVE SHOP RD3, Ephrata. PA 17522 Rt. 322,1 Mi. East of Ephrata (717) 733-4973 lues., Wed. 10-6; Thurs., Fri. 10-8; Sat. 10-4 Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 24,1984—81 S Saturday, March 24 program by Kristine Van Lancaster Society 23 meets to Erlach. entertain husbands at Meadow Tuesday, March 27 Hills Dining Room. The Lanco Lancaster Society 24 meets for a Lads will have the program at craft night. 6:30 p.m. Thursday, March 2» Lancaster Society 26 meets at Lancaster Society 11 meets for General Sutter Inn at 6:30 p.m. program on India by RdP to entertain husbands. The Mellinger. program will be an African Saturday, March 31 Safari with Bob at the Lancaster Society 5 meets at noon Brubakers. for a tour of the Blind Lancaster Society 4 meets at the Association. 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