-And other hazards Joyce Bupp Warning. What you are about to read could disturb you... could alarm you... could intimidate you. If you become easily upset, please turn the page and read something else. If you’re feeling brave, well, here goes... Busy at work in her farm home, my mother-in-law had her mind on a dozen different things. Like most of us, her hands are busy with one group of jobs while her thoughts addressed other issues. And, again like most of us, in Go a Little Wacky With Your Weeds FS-74 AVRE FS-76 AVRE Flex Shaft STIHII Solid Shaft $269.95 $299.95 Lightweight & Powerful Designed for Extended Use \/ Accept a variety of cutting attachments Available at these servicing dealers Bechtelsvllle PASSMORE SERVICE CENTER, INC RO 1, Rl. 100 215-367-9084 East Earl GOODS LAWN & GARDEN CENTER Rout* 23 717-354-4026 Ext. 34 Elizabethtown MESSICK FARM EQUIPMENT, INC. 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I stepped on the pond deck the other afternoon just in time to' watch our excessively chubby resident water snake slither out of the springhouse wall and launch herself (her, we think) off into the water. Probably in search of a fat frog for dinner. Snakes at the springhouse are one thing. A snake in your kitchen is a whole different issue. Actually, the fairly large reptile slithered under her stove, out the other corner and disappeared through a crack in the toe space area within a few seconds, leaving my mother-in-law standing in the middle of her recently remodeled country kitchen in absolute, stunned shock. Followed by the REALLY scary part. Where had it come from? Where did it go? And... what were its intentions? Not having any of those answers (and not really expecting to get them from one now departed snake), my mother-in coverage at much higher speeds. 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One suggestion - just not going back home - was not a workable one. “I’ll deal with it,” she sighed as she talked about it. “I don’t like it, but I’ll deal with it.” Less than a day later, a young friend stopped by with the news that he and his wife had just bought a piece of farm property. The land lays in a valley through which runs one of the county's lar ger streams. Also considering the same piece of property had been another couple looking for a country place BROADCASTING SMALL GRAINS AND GRASSES: University of Illinois found overseeding by broadcasting followed by a Fuerst Harrow a superior combination, out-performing equipment costing more than 10 times as much Pulled behind the broadcaster, it covers seed to desired depth in one time-saving operation SHREDS STALKS: Shreds and spreads stalks in spring ahead of no-till and rldge-till planting 4 to 42 ft. widths. Flexes to cover every inch at 6-8 mph. No maintenance. Easy to use and store. Insist on the original "Spreading Action" 11 ’ tines Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 27, 1992-B3 to call home. But when they had gone walking near the stream in the meadow - and spied a snake - the wife made clear her intent to move nowhere even close to where a snake existed. Numerous conclusions could be drawn from these two snake tales. Mine is to have yet more admi ration for the resilience of a farm widow who “deals with” both the pleasant and unpleasant surprises in her life without extreme panic and manages to retain a sense of humor through it. Several days later, the snake’s whereabouts were still unknown and the flowered paper had been removed after nary a sign of tell tale tracks. Reaching into a lower cupboard for an onion, I remember two instances of baby snakes turning up inside our own stone foundation farmhouse. And reach a little more careful ly the next time. 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