812-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 12,1990
Ida’s
Notebook
Ida Kisser
The sugar peas are blooming
and the lawn needs to be mowed.
The new seeding of alfalfa is grow
ing and the rye is in the silo. The
meadow fence has been repaired
and my iris of various colors are
blooming.
There is so much activity on the
farm after our return from Atlanta.
Even so, I find time, while weed
ing my big strawberry bed, to
reminisce.
Our three-year-old grandson
was so excited when we arrived at
his house that he ran into the kitch
en full-speed, stumbled and slid
halfway across the wooden floor.
After a big breakfast (they fed us
too well during our Georgia visit),
we drove to Athens to see the State
Botantical Garden. There was a
special exhibit of very unusual bird
houses and tropical plants. Then,
we took a nature walk through a
nearby woods where tiny signs
identified the wildflowers that
were growing there. And, if the
pansy isn’t the state flower of
Georgia, it should be. Everywhere
we were greeted with large beds of
yellow or blue pansies. We ate a
big picnic lunch of fried chicken
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which our daughter had made. We
found a picnic table near the Envir
onmental Protection Agency
where our son does research.
There was a cool breeze and I was
glad the little baby had a blanket to
be wrapped in as I held her.
Their strawberries were half
ripe the first week in April and
three-year-old Matthew picked
some. He was told by his father
that they were sour and so he threw
them away. What a waste! So, I
encouraged him to go and find
them in the grass where he had
thrown them. I showed him how
his grandma eats them by dipping
them in the sugar bowl. He almost
bit my finger off eating them.
We went to a small Presbyterian
church near Lawrenceville with
our son on Sunday morning. In the
afternoon we walked through a
nearby development. I was struck
by the designs of many of the new
houses. They had front porches
and actually looked like
farmhouses.
Our flight to the airport was une
ventful. However upon arrival we
found that they had lost our
luggage.
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