84-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 30, 1993 On being jW 'jE Joyce Bnpp * J|g|| a farm wifa -And other hazards Everyone needs to be needed. When the paperwork is piled up to your earlobes, when the phone rings for the umpteenth time in a morning, when the cry for “Mooommmmmmm,!” echoes in your ears until you want to scream and slam the door behind you on the way out it helps to remem ber how lonely not being needed would be The call of “Moooommmmmmm!” no longer echoes in our household as it does in those where children are resi dent. Instead, it’s been replaced by long-distance “Hi, Mom!” calls from far and even farther away. Now we have joined the official ranks of “empty nest syndrome” parents, those couples left to rattle around in their own house when the last child departs. In this case, the last child has moved on to Penn State’s main campus to com plete his final two years toward his agriculture degree. 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CONVENIENT HOURSyjjjjjJ paved driveway and the milk house door. Along the upper edge of the porch is a stone retaining wall, edge of a natural, in-ground planter utilizing the sloping hill into which the milkhouse is built. Lined up along the four feet stretch of the stone wall was a neat row of nearly a dozen rounded, furry backsides. Cats. Black cats, gray cals, black and white cats, gray and white cats, and of course, dark tiger-striped Butch. All in the same pose, the same patient position. Waiting. Waiting for someone to come through the door with a bucket of milk for their breakfast. Like kids in a cafeteria line, only somewhat more orderly. Normally, they’ll be underfoot through calf feedings, or waiting beside the upturned bucket lids which serve as community cat serving dishes. Whatevere possessed this feline crew to que up in this most orderly fashion outside the milkhouse door is beyond my imagination. I had been away the previous even ing; perhaps their suppertime had been overlooked and they had no intention of allowing a repeat of that neglect. Inside the house, another feline prowls'the “empty nest.” Actually she has her own nest, a heavy snuggle-bag coverlet spread over the double beanbag chair except for when the cover is warming the Farmer though his evening TV-nap. On occasion, he will actually remove the blanket from under the cat, an act of almost unpardonable aggression reflected in her stare at him from steely green eyes. Then she comes to my lap for comfort and consolation, launch ing a throaty chirp (this cat does not meow) of greeting. If I linger at the kitchen table doing paper work beyond the lime she consid ers opening of regular “lap” hours, she parks herself next to the chair and fixes me with an impatient glare. And the dog has claimed his own niche in the nest slightly away from the cat’s. Our medium sized, long-haired dog is to be an “outside” pet, though we’ve not been able to ever completely con vince him of that status. Soon after I returned home very late one night from a meeting, the familiar sound of his forepaw scratching at the front door started. “Did you feed the dog?,” I asked the Farmer. “Yeah; he didn’t do that until you got home,” came the reply. Okay, so maybe he’s a little spoiled. Knows who takes pity on him on a damp night, lets him in to dry off and then doesn’t have the heart to wake him from a sound sleep under the coffee table. Not even when he opens one eye to see if he’ll be overlooked as we get ready for bed. So he can speak onto the couch for the rest of the night. Empty nest? Not really. The dirty socks, scruffy sweatshirts and pairs of sneakers that feath ered the nest have merely been replaced by hair balls. It’s nice to be needed. 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