Patience by the Bucketful Warning; If you follow me, you will be in the slowest line! I think that I should probably have a T-shirt with that message written on the back for anyone who steps behind me in a line. I guaran tee it will be the slowest one (at least that is what it seems like to me)! A few wepks ago I had a car full of teenagers and was in a line of traffic that took three hours to go three miles. By the third hour, my •tience was depleted. Patience is the name of the game, and one in which I must improve my average. A co-worker once related to me a visual image of receiving a bucketful of pati ence each day. Each of us gets a fresh bucketful each day that must last for the whole day. No one gets more than one bucketful, and none can be saved for another day. The goal is to use up as little as possi ble. If you can visualize a bucket ful of patience it is easy to under stand what someone means when they say, “I’ve justabout run out of Uaw. |MA>nil \har-ma-ne\n.l: working together I ICXI • 11IU• Ily2: a mutual rstanding We are Triple H Construction. We listen to our customers, to hear both what is said and what is read between the lines. For all agricultural applications, we are the one company you can absolute ly trust to handle every step of construction. The quality shows we’ve built our business on it! Custom Builders of Dairy, Hog, Poultry, Horse, Storage, Residential And Commercial Buildings BA€I HOMS By Michelle S. Rodgers Berks Extension Home Economist patience!” The biggest problem with this bucket of patience is keeping it intact. Sometimes we have leaks in the bucket. Do you “lose** patience when someone drives slower than the speed limit...in front of you; when your child takes twenty minutes to dress himself; when an elderly person climbs the stairs slowly while you wait to rush by. We each have our own “leak” in our bucketful of patience. Some times our leaky bucket is purely our own fault and results from over-scheduling, poor planning, and fatigue. The next time you find that you are “running out of pati ence” try a time-out. For example, if you have become exhausted from refereeing the children, actu ally call a time-out Each family member goes to a separate area for the designated period of time. Five minutes is generally long enough to refresh your bucketful of pati ence. Then get back together and calmly work out the solution together. If you find you have “lost TRIPLE H Construction 430 Springville Road Ephrata. PA 17522 your patience” while waiting in line at the grocery store, calm yourself by calling a time-out. Instead of muttering and shooting fire at the person ahead with 100 coupons, use the time for your per sonal benefit. Take several deep breaths, hum a favorite tune, roll your head from side to side to relax your neck muscles, or analyze the fashion trends of the other shop pers. We have to work at patience, because for most of us it does not come naturally. I’ve also noticed that we seem to loss our patience most often with two types of people: family mem bers and people we don’t know aj all. That may seem like opposites but it is understandable. Close friends and family members know us well and generally accept our behavior as it is. Strangers that we see only once in a lifetime have never seen any other behavior and probably don’t care. Isn’titembar rassing to tailgate the slow driver in front of you, only to pass and find out it is your neighbor? Now you worry about the impression you’ve made. Patience is a gift we can give to family, friends and strangers. Pati ence. You can’t see it or feel it, but you sure know when you have a lot and when you’ve run out It’s there to use when you really need it, if you work to stop any leaks. I have been wondering, though, do parents get larger buckets than everyone else, or do they just plug leaks better? r v J. > > 717-738-2142 1-1800)-TRIPLE-1 Lancaster Farming. Saturday, October 14,1980-821 Classic Calendar Vintage tractor owner John Clow, Centreville, Maryland, has earned recognition for restoring a 1937 Oliver Hart-Parr Standard 70 to its original condition. His pain staking project won a page in the 1990 Classic Farm Tractor Calen dar by Du Pont, which will be dis tributed to more than 100,000 far mers. A companion full-color poster and videotape also are available, featuring all 14 tractors selected for the calendar. “My husband’s name is John, but from his ‘habit’ you would National Forest Products Week Scheduled WILLIAMSPORT (Lycoming Co.) By congressional procla mation, October IS through 21 is National Forest Products Week. The theme for this year is manag ing the future of Artierica’s forests. This theme reflects the forest industry’s concern and commit ment to America’s future. Forests play an important role in Pennsylvania’s economy. The wood-using industry in Pennsyl vania employs more than 89,000 workers with an annual payroll in excess of $1.9 million. Seventeen million acres in Pennsylvania is classed as forest; this represents 58 percent of the total land area in the state. Pennsylvania grows some of the Tractor Released swear it’s Oliver,” says Pat Clow of her spouse’s obsession with old Oliver tractors. A semi-retired carpenter, John denies having green blood, but doesn’t deny being fascinated by antique Oliv ers. “Every trip I take, I scan every farm for old models,” he says. This Oliver sports a six cylinder, vertical, valve-in-head engine with a 3'/. in. bore and 4 3 /i -in. stroke. An electric starter, battery and lights were optional. This model came with steel “tip toe” wheels, while rubber tires were optional, of course. highest quality hardwood timber in the United States. Species such as red and white oak, sugar maple, white ash, and yellow-poplar occur throughout the state. Pen nsylvania also grows the best black cherry in the world, and it is the most valuable timber species in the state. Many of the baseball bats used in major leagues are made from Pennsylvania white as!;. The continued productivity of Pennsylvania’s forests depends on wise, professional resource man agement. Despite continued popu lation pressures and competing uses for forest resources, Ameri ca’s forests still are among the most productive in the world. Largely as a result of careful resource management, the U.S. built 46 million new housing units and produces 1.7 billion tons of paper and paperboard in the past 25 years. Today, wood products include more than just lumber and paper products. Wood flour and mela mine resins, using cellulose filler, are components of dinnerware, telephone housings, and radio and TV cabinets. Torula yeast, made from wood sugars spent in the pulping process, is used in baby foods, cereals, baked goods, and dietary preparations. Ethyl cellu lose is used in products such as sausage casings and photographic films. Rayon, a natural fiber, is used in the garment industry. Given this rising demand for both traditional and non traditional uses of wood fiber, it becomes apparent that sound for est management is becoming more and more important. With sound management, timber can be harvested leaving a supply avail able for future generations. Information on Wrests and fore st management can be obtained through county Extension offices. Berks Society 9 Nine members of the Berks County Society 9 of Farm Wo men, entertained six members of Group Four at an International Dinner on Tuesday, September 26, at St. Paul’s United Church of Christ in Amityville. Dishes were served from a variety of countries including Mexico, China, Russia, Italy, France and England. The next meeting will be held on Wednesday, November 8, at the home of Winnie Hayik in Weavertown. Each member will make and decorate a Christmas wreath at that meeting.
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