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Today is the day.
For months, it’s been talked
about, planned for, worried over
and dreamed of. Ideas have been
suggested, discussed, discarded,
adopted, revised and revised
again.
We’ve fixed up, tom down,
picked up, mowed down, hauled
out, brought in, disconnected,
hooked up, patched up, cleaned up
- in a seemingly endless process.
The time is past for planning,
for hoping, for dreaming.
Today is the day.
Today our only daughter and
our future son-in-law become man
and wife.
Friends have repeatedly warned
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about the emotional trauma of
daughters’ weddings. Add to that
the implications of the bride’s
determination that she wanted
their reception to be held where so
many of her fondest childhood
memories are rooted: right here on
the farmstead lawn.
“I hated weddings when I was
little,” she insists. “Dress up and
sit still. I want the kids to have fun
and play at our wedding.”
Needless to say, the prepara
tions for this momentous day,
coupled with trying to plant com
and beans, and harvest hay crops
through one of the wettest spring
seasons on record, have kept life
anything but dull these last few
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weeks.
At last, the underskirts of our
towering old maple trees have
been pruned, allowing cooling
breezes and daylight access once
again to the house and porches.
Trim (Hi the house is touched up,
grass regrown on the bare spots
(most of ’em, anyway) ' and the
inevitable crop of weeds removed
as best possible from the flower
borders.
Today is the day.
Pots of geraniums hold high fat
clusters of pink and red blossoms,
to scatter color in random spots.
Daylilies, hollyhocks, hostas, and
marigolds join the roses in bloom
ing for this very special event.
Even the garden, “thudded” in
between showers and springs
trickling -around its perimeter,
shows promise of looking more
like a plot with a purpose, than a
wetlands preserve’.
Grandma has put the finishing,
lacy re-touches for today’s bride
to my wedding gown, silently
stored for 25 years to adorn this
second generation. One last clus
ter of seed pearls has been stitched
to the veil netting.
And the somber, ceramic bride
and groom which adorned our
wedding cake again pose atop
another creation of white-dough
tiers and pink-icing roses.
Sachets of potpourri for gift
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baskets no longer perfume the liv
ing room - where they’ve been
stashed for the last few. weeks,
The route to the attic steps is
almost cleared of paper goods.
decorations, and the bride’s
worldly goods being packed for
moving. A stockpile of cold buffet
foodstuffs awaits only the final
setting out by assisting friends
from church.
Today is the day.
With a> little luck, the season’s
abundance of showers, thunder
storms and mistiness will give
way to sunshine and comfortable,
light breezes. With a little luck, no
heavy winds will toss limbs or
leaves to litter the lawn. With a
little luck, Beth, the yearling Hou-
Historic Schaefferstown
To Feature Baking Day
SCHAEFFERSTOWN (Leba- Craftsmen-will include Jim
non) —On Saturday, July 8 and Faust in the blacksmith shop, farm
Sunday, July 9, Historic Schaef- harvesting and threshing and a
ferstown will defy the age-old Fri- 100 year old sawmill will enliven
day baking tradition of the Pen- the activities for both days,
nsylvania Dutch country by firing Visitors may see the large col
the large 1771 bake oven in the lection of farm implements, tour
kitchen of the historic Alexander the gift shop, the unique 1760
Schaeffer House. The bake oven Schaeffer House with its distilling
will turn out bread, raspberry cus- cellar, absolute garden, log house
tard, rhubarb pie and custard and over the spring, the bam, the dry
gooseberry pie and custard. house and a beautiful 90 acre
The 1989 Festival will present a farm,
new program on herbs and their The Country Classics will
use in foods, medicine, and sym- entertain Saturday and on Sunday
bolic uses. Speakers will discuss there will be a German church ser
and demonstrate herbs from the vice and the Dulpehock Sanger
garden through all aspects of the chor and the Rehresburg band will
country life. entertain.
Saturday, at 11 A.M. judging
will begin for the third annual
black raspberry custard pie baking
contest Prizes are $75 for the win
ner and $25 for second place.
COME TO OUR
TUESDAY,
JULY 11. 1989
dini of the heifer herd will be on
her best behavior, staying behind
the fence rather than grazing
through the oats just behind the
lawn border.
Today is the day.
Amid flowers of white and
blue, flickering candles, the love
of family and friends, and - most
importantly - in the sight of God,
these two young lives today join in
jnarriage.
With tears in our eyes, lumps in
our throats, and hearts overflow
ing with love for you both, we
pray God’s blessing on you both
today -- and*always.
Best wishes, Patty and A.J., on
your wedding day!
Schaefferstown is located at the
junction of Routes 897 and SOI,
north of Lancaster. Admission is
$2.50 for adults, children under 12
free.
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