Bl2’Lancas,ter Farming, Saturday, September 20,1986
Ida’s
Notebook
Ida Risser
Everything has a story behind it.
As I sit here to write, the constant
loud ticking of the Grandfather’s
clock almost falls on deaf ears.
One can become so accustomed to
the sound that it blends into the
background. But when it strikes
every 15 minutes, you know it is
still working.
After doing its job faithfully for
15 years, ever since our son made
it in high school, this spring it
became balky and only ran
sometimes. So, I took it away to be
cleaned and oiled. This time I
really got my money’s worth as it
reminds me constantly that it is
still running. And when our
electricity goes off, we really
appreciate it as we reset our four
electric clocks. It has a reassuring
“tick-tock.”
Next to the tall clock is my pine
desk. It was purchased a few years
ago in Berks County on a farm set
way back from the road. It’s age is
Bradley Is National Proficiency Winner
Mark Bradley, the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Donald Bradley,
Elizabethtown, was recently
named a national proficiency
award finalist in FFA competition.
Mark’s agricultural elec
trification proficiency project was
among 116 nationwide accepted by
the national FFA.
He has already won the regional
and national cash awards. If he is
the national winner, he will receive
a cash/travel award to help cover
recorded on the bottom of a small
drawer May 17, 1830, together
with its maker and-the original
purchaser. But the most in
teresting feature to me is the cost
which is listed as 3 pounds, 6
shillings and 2M> pence.
On the opposite side of the clock
sits a Windsor-type chair. Twenty
years ago I saw a similar one sell
at my great aunt’s sale. The
auctioneer chanted two, three,
four, four-fifty and I almost bid but
discovered later that he meant
$450.
The chair that I have was
destined to be refimshed as a 4-H
project until I got it home and had
bright light to really see it. It had
the original paint and a black
design painted on the legs. Even
though it sat in my parent’s house,
I’d never noticed that as they
believed in using only 25 watt bulbs
as they felt that larger ones used
too much electricity.
expenses to the national con
vention in Kansas City in
November.
National winners will receive
cash awards, plaques and the
opportunity to participate in the
FFA International Travel Seminar
program and to travel abroad on
an educational tour.
Mark is employed by John
Fullerton, Inc., electrical con
tractors and plans to enter the
Electronics Institute in Harrisburg
beginning in October.
Black-Footed Ferrets
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searching for ferrets for eight
years when he learned that a
Meeteetse ranch dog had killed
one. It was the first ferret found
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