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sive, so distant, so mysterious.
Their overhead passage has
always been a seasonal indicator,
as much a part of the natural lore
as woolly caterpillars and volumes
of berries on bushes. In fact, the
raucous honking from their V
shaped formations winging over
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the farmstead still stir our immedi
ate interest.
And always, always, we hoped
that a few of the majestic Canada
geese might look down with favor
onto our meadow and ponds.
While a few geese did occasional
ly take rest stops, even paddling
around the water or grazing the
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fields nearby for a few hours, none
ever stayed for long.
So what was wrong with our
pond, anyway? Wild mallards
come, enjoy our meadow ameni
ties and occasionally raise fami
lies. Lately, though, even they
have been fewer and fewer in
number.
One problem we suspected is
our abundant fox population. Fox
es grin wider than usual at the
prospect of a sitting duck - or
goose - hunched tight to a nest of
eggs. That’s the fox equivalent of
petty shoplifting. Only surrounded
by water would a nesting spot in
our pond be relatively safe.
An island. What we needed was
an island.
Now, islands most commonly
form from nature when a volcano
or earthquake-created cataclysmic
event reshapes Mother Nature’s
face. In the absence - thank good
ness! - of either, any island here
IN STOCK
was going to have to be manmade.
An anchored raft of locust logs
was fashioned mid-pond last year
- promptly sinking after it had
soaked a couple of days. So much
for the theory that our common
types of wood float.
When several Canada geese
began hanging out at our pond in
recent weeks, and one pair return
ing daily, the island plan got a
jump-start.
That first wonderfully-warm
Sunday afternoon found us pond
side, adding final touches of
camouflage brush and branches to
our creation. Already in place
were four pilings driven into the
pond’s soft bottom, onto which
the wooden-pallet-foundation
would be fastened.
Ever try to launch an island?
It took the pushing and pulling
of both of us to get the first comer
over the low bank, at which time it
promptly hung up in the mud of
the shallow edge and began soak
ing up water. By the time we’d
maneuvered the rest of it onto the
water, that first comer was already
listing like the gashed side of the
Titanic.
Strategy was for The Farmer to
paddle the launch craft, the canoe,
from the front. I was the towing
hookup, hanging onto the heavy,
taking-on-water island with my
right hand, while trying to remain
firmly seated mid-stem in what is
not the world’s most stable float
ing object.
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Do you have a desire to turn your
craft or sewing skills into a busi
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working as a home-based sewing
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“Sewing and Craft For Pfofit”
Seminar will be of interest to you.
Joyce Smith, Ohio State Uni
versity clothing specialist, will
speak on “Is Home-Based Busi
ness For You?” Also, leant about
Taxes and Record Keeping from a
representative of H & R Block;
and Russ Powell, business man
agement agent of Penn State
Cooperative Extension, will help
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After lunch, L. Jeffrey Patton,
marketing agent of Penn State
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While I didn’t completely dis
believe our ability to pull this off,
let’s just say I removed my non
waterproof watch and laid it on the
pond dock before climbing into
the canoe. And I hoped none of
our neighbors happened to glance
out their back windows.
After at least an hour of groan
ing, grunting, leaning, stabilizing,
paddling, back-paddling, one claw
hammer had sunk to the pond’s
bottom. It took several trips back
bankside to the pickup for more
long spikes and haling twine
before the island was secured.
Actually, it looked more like a
duck blind with a front and back
porch, rather than something
designed to offer a secure nesting
spot. The Goose Hotel I dubbed it.
Twenty-four hours later, we
heard the first returning geese.
They glided toward the pond, hon
ked loud and furious, and franti
cally winged back off in the direc
tion from whence they’d come. In
fact, it went several days before a
duck or goose would set a single
webbed foot even on the bank.
This morning, as the sun cast
sparkling diamonds across the
pond’s waters, one of the two
geese climbed onto the “hotel”
and sat in the sun. Later, as the
mallards paddled around its edges,
the geese swam by and bullied the
smaller ducks away.
We think our island has finally
been discovered and is already
the site of territorial dispute.
“Legal Issues” by John Becker,
attorney of Penn State Coopera
tive Extension, and a panel discus
sion of persons currently operat
ing a sewing or craft business will
conclude the afternoon’s program.
This seminar is sponsored by
Penn Slate Cooperative Extension
and will be held at Penn State,
Harrisburg. The one-day seminar
is set for Tuesday, May 1, 1990,
from 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Advanced registration by April 20
of $2O is required. This includes
lunch, all materials and .5 Conti
nuing Education Units from Penn
State University. For more infor
mation, contact the Dauphin
County Cooperative Extension
Office, 1451 Peters Mountain
Road, Dauphin, PA 17018, (717)
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