n Hr' On being . a farm wife I I -And other hazards Joyce Bupp outside, the sky hangs sullen and gray. Inside the cavernous, concrete-block building, the ait matches the leadeness of the cloud cover. And I am bored. This is my afternoon for volun teering in our county’s dairy prom otion sales booth at the local fair. Days of showers and the winding down of events have cut further into what is normally one of the slower days of business. Besides the usual business of dipping delicious ice cream, this annual afternoon of dairy booth volunteerism has always served a second purpose: people watching. • 1 The Original HERRMANN ROYAL LIPIZZAN STALLIONS ADMISSION LOCATION! Adults $B.OO 10 Miles South 6 to 12 yrs $2.50 of Lancaster 5 ft Under FREE Rt. 272 SEE YOU AT THE BUCK! 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Gosh, we spend millions of our own bucks every year to splash promotion - for something - from our heads to TRACTOR PULLS.. SAT. NIGHT SEPT. 26 8 PM SUN., SEPT. 27 2 PM Balmer Bros, for quality engineered walls. CONCRETE WORK, INC. It will last a lifetime. our toes. About every fifth person sported a promotional shirt or hat, making for interesting reading. Travel locations with hands down in the tee-shirt category, fea turing vacation sites from Hawaii to summer camp. Also favored are vehicles - trucks to motorcycles - and foods. Rock groups, sports, even Mickey Mouse, stroll past the booth in this promotional parade. “Did your parents really name you ‘Milk’? asks a wise-guy exhi bitor across the way of my bright blue tee-shirt imprinted with the white letters M-I-L-K. Hey, one has to flow with the trend, and when in Rome.... Hats lean more toward vehicles and equipment, with less space, of course, for creative artwork. One hat wearer, though, isn’t about to use his “ad space” for promotional benefit Printing on the headgear grumbles: “Whatever it is - I’m against it” People are just as fascinating as tee-shirt reading on a slow afternoon. Sometimes the hats and shirts stop to point, laugh, and acquire a dairy promotional favorites: color ful cow erasers which never fail to amuse kids (old and young). “I want the pink one,” pleads a small youngster to the male adult accompanying him. “No, that’s purple," the grownup insists, of the obviously (to me, anyway!) bright pink, rubbery cow. Saying no more, the youngster accepts the correction from what I mentally label a color-blind individual. When, an hour later another adult called it a Purple Cow. I start doubting my own eyes. Not the guy who comes along a bit later and acquires one of the erasers. Claiming he’s never made a mistake yet, he allows that he’ll take one anyway. Just in case. Dot matrix music, the clicking of a computer printer across the aisle, stirs me from a lenghty yawn. At the computer photo booth, a monitor which shows the subject being photographed broad casts the picture of a dog. A dog? Moments later, a husky, burly gentlemen leaves with computer printout photo in one hand, and a handsome, fullbred Doberman fol lowing on the leash in the other. Capture your loved one in a photo, “Make It With Wool” The “MAKE IT WITH WOOL” local contest will be held at 8:00 P.M., October 8, 1987 at the Unionville Community Fair, Unionville High School, in the Chester County Sheep and Wool Grower’s exhibit tent. The contest is open to individu als over 10 years of age who con struct their garments using at least a 60% wool fabric - commercially woven, hand loomed, knitted, felted, or crocheted. The winners of the junior and senior divisions in this District competition will compete on the State level in November or December. 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No accompanying adult is in sight “Sorry, we don’t have any soda,” I reply. “How about Choco late milk?” “I’ll have a chocolate milk,” says the smudged-face, tow haired, about-five-year-old. “No Heather,” instructs the only-slightly-older, tallest of the three. “It’s not free.” While I fleet ingly debate an out-of-pocket donation, the trio vanishes. Before long, my stint is over. I gallop to the cattle bams just ahead of a cloudburst and head home through traffic for an evening of chores. Convinced that such an occa sional afternoon of boredom isn’t a bad idea at all. Sign me up for next year. in January 1988. The purpose of the “MAKE IT WITH WOOL” contest is to focus attention on the beauty and versa tility of wool; to encourage use of this incomparable fabric or yam in sewing, knitting, crocheting, felt ing, or woven fashionable gar ments, and to help promote an American-made product -- Ameri can Wool! Entries are due by October 1. Applications are available by con tacting: Bobbie Leis, 4003 sth St. Road, Oxford, PA 19363, or call ing (215) 932-9638. The contest is sponsored by the Women’s Auxili ary to the National Wool Growers Association, a non-profit organi zation, and the American Sheep Producers Council, Inc. I pi yr S
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