On being
a farm wife
Joyce
-And other
hazards
By gosh, there’s nothing like a
good old fashioned blizzard to put
life in perspective.
While a foot of snow is ho-hum
stuff to our neighbors a few
counties north, we folks who live
here on the state’s southern border
are more accustomed to coverings
in the 2-to-ft-inch range.
With a heavy cloud cover
dumping white stuff at the rate of
an inch-plus an hour, suddenly a
chocked-full schedule of pressing
meetings, appointments and
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errands loses its importance to a
more immediate issue.
Survival. Man against the
elements. Brain against the brawn
of Mother Nature.
Point person in the blizzard
survival battle is your favorite
weather forecaster, issuing ex
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phrases as “severe winter storm
warning,” meaning snow has
started to fall. Or, there’s a related
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perhaps, possibly, have snow or
ice; on the other hand, the whole
front could either fall apart or blow
out to sea and be lost in the Ber
muda Triangle.
Response to such ominous an
nouncements is totally predic
table: a run to the local super
market for survival rations. This is
done regardless of whether the last
food-stock-up trip occurred three
weeks or 12 hours previous.
Fascinating, wouldn’t you say,
that in this best fed country in the
world, it is entirely possible upon
warnings of an impending snow for
a person to be crushed in the
stampede to stock up on food.
Indeed, a friend who stopped at the
supermarket just before last
week’s big snow had to wait in line
for a cart before she could get
down to business.
While blizzards may add ex
citement to day-to-day routine,
they do create extra work out on
the farm. Feed must come in and
product must go out. Most of us
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hand, so getting the milk out is the
major concern. A dairyman facing
a tank of white liquid about to spill
over the top while a herd of full-
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uddered milkers bawls in the
background is not a pretty sight.
So the next scouts in the dairy
farm blizzard survival battle are
the milk haulers. There aren’t
enough words of praise for most of
these veterans of ice, sleet, snow,
blow and drifts, who routinely pull
out at unspeakable hours in the
dark of night or very early mor
ning, making impossible runs in
unpredictable weather.
Then, more excitement in
keeping a blowing blizzard at bay
so the trucker can get from point
A, a plowed road, to point B, your
milkhouse. So, out of the shed
roars the battle tanker, a diesel
wrapped in a plow and cab or wind
guard, or similarly equipped four
wheel-drive pickup.
For at least the last couple
generations with which I’ve been
familiar, males in this family
carry a genetically-heritable
weakness for plowing snow. One
such third-generation snowplower,
who laments rolling out of a warm
bed for a schoolbus, voluntarily
Students Don’t Object To Reduced
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meals mean reduced taste meals,
those same people may not pass a
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a recent issue of FDA Consumer.
Recent studies in Louisiana and
New Hampshire schools showed
that most students didn’t notice
when the sodium content of school
meals was decreased. Those who
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bounces out from a pileup of warm
blankets to embrace weather that
would frostbite a polar bear, so
long as it means running the
tractor and plow.
Combine local milk truck routes
with locations of nearby relatives
and friends who need plowed out,
and it means one kid who eagerly
skips breakfast to disappear for
hours on end, totally hypnotized by
the motion of white snow rolling
over the corner of a shiny blade.
Back on the home front, blizzard
survival equates to baking bread.
(Never mind that there are a half
dozen loaves in the freezer.) Some
primeval urge draws me to yeast
and flour (or frozen bread dough)
and the heavenly smell and cozy
warmth of loaves browning in the
oven.
Frankly, in spite of the extra
hassles, I suspect most of us enjoy
the mini-break created by being
temporarily blizzard-bound for a
couple of hours.
Think we could schedule one
about mid-August?
75 percent in dinner rolls and other
baked products. Students
recognized no difference in quality
and wasted no more food than they
had when served the high sodium
baked goods. The New Hampshire
study involved monitoring the
blood pressure of high school
students in relation to dietary
sodium.
Although they are not ready to
report clinical results, Maryetta
Dorricott, Delaware County
Cooperative Extension home
economist, says both groups of
researchers say it’s not too early to
conclude that students don’t object
to sodium reduced diets.
If you need new ideas to lower
the sodium content of your diet,
come to the Low-Sodium Meeting
at the Hunt Club Building in Rose
Tree Park, Media on Friday, Feb.
6 from 10 a.m. to noon. New ideas,
data, and taste of foods will be
available. Cost is $2, payable at the
door.
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