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When you stop learning, you’re
dead.
By fate or by design, we learn
new things everyday. Or should, if
we’re paying any attention to life
swirling around us.
Fact is, with each passing year,
I realize how little I know about an
increasing number of things ....
and how impossible it is to ever
keep up with the exploding
amounts of new material to leant.
A tribute to the quest for conti
nuing education is the number of
classes offered everywhere from
our area colleges and high schools
to institutions like the “Y,” com
munity organizations, even local
department and specialty stores.
A bulletin arrived a few days
ago from our local school district,
outlining the evening classes
available for the spring semester.
From ballroom dancing to stock
investment, from computer educa
tion to photography, from craft
classes to tennis, there’s some
thing for just about everyone.
When the kids were younger
and I had fewer barn chores, I
went with friends to various clas
ses. We learned tennis through
windy March evenings that some
times nearly blew the balls away
and tole painted assorted items
from around our households.
With the family grown, more of
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those hours are devoted to farm
responsibilities. After scanning
the adult education lineup, I just
couldn’t find any that really
addressed the kind of learning my
lifestyle currently demands.
For instance, there is no class
being offered on emergency bam
plumbing repairs.
That knowledge would have
been most useful a few days ago,
when evening chores opened with
a lively stream of water gurgling
down the cows’ feed trough. It
lent new meaning to the term
“high moisture com.”
Source of the indoor brook was
obvious a gush of water arched
above a separation in a drinking
cup hookup, thoroughly rinsing
the stall’s cow mat as well as
flooding around the piles of
freshly-fed haylage.
Plastic water pipe runs along
the curb of the feed trough. “Tee”
hookups tap into the pipe to supp
ly water to the drinking cups,
located between .every two stalls.
On occasion, a cow will get her
foot up over the curb and knock
the hookup loose.
While I knew where the shutoff
valve was, I couldn’t make it
work; switching it the opposite
direction from “on” left the cas
cade pouring out as fast as before.
In desperation, the separated plas-
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tic pipe was finally forced back
onto the ‘Tee” resulting in a
bath of cold water in the process
and tied in place temporarily
with (what else!) plastic baler
twine anchored to the metal stall
divider.
By the time the gusher had
worked its way loose again, The
Farmer was home from a broken
part errand. He demonstrated how
to shut down the waterline by
turning the valve .... only half as
far as I’d been switching it.
When it comes to health prob
lems such as high blood pressure
and heart disease, is salt at fault or
not? Experts say it depends on
whether you’re “salt sensitive.”
There are SO million Americans
who have high blood pressure and
an estimated 2S million of them
are salt sensitive. There are also
another 20 million who don’t even
know they have high blood pres
sure. That’s why it is often called
the “silent disease”: you may feel
fine while high blood pressure is
damaging your arteries.
So, how do you know if you are
salt sensitive? Unfortunately,
there is no way of knowing, unless
you do extensive testing while on
a salt restricted diet. So to protect
youf heart health, it’s best to
assume you are salt sensitive and
reduce your intake, as well as lose
weight, exercise and reduce your
alcohol intake. The British Medi
cal Journal reported that even a
modest reduction of sodium in the
typical Western diet will reduce
the risk of stroke by 22 percent
and heart disease by 16 percent. If
you’re a woman, keep in mind that
reducing salt can also reduce your
risk of osteoporosis.
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Groan.
And, while craft shops offer
classes on grapevine wreath
decorating and fabric painting,
where can you find a single semi
nar on “Handy Shortcuts With
Duct Tape”? We duct tape spe
cialists have to just muddle
through, with no expert advice, on
taping storm windows back in
after 50 mph. gusts have rattled
them loose from bam windows.
And doing it with four heifers
chewing at your elbows.
Is Salt At Fault?
To help you reduce your
sodium intake to a recommended
3000 mg. per day, here are some
lips:
• Start by eliminating salt
added at the table.
• Next, eliminate salt added in
the cooking process.
• Experiment with herbs,
spices, wines, vinegars and
aromatic vegetables.
• Look for low- or no-sodium
foods at the supermarket. Del
Monte, for instance, has a No Salt
Added line of vegetables and is
currently introducing a 50 Percent
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When will someone teach “Fine
Points of Stapling Feed Bags Over
Bam Gaps”? Or ‘Thawing Frozen
Pipes Made Easy” and “Easy
Steps To Reattaching The Out
door Thermometer That The Wind
Blew Away.” If I could find it,
that is.
There are definitely some major
gaps in my education. But there’s
hope.
A voice just muttered some
thing about “teaching old dogs
new tricks.”
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• When dining out, ask that
food be prepared without salt or
MSG.
• Eat more fruits and veget
ables. The potassium, magnesium
and calcium may help to lower
blood pressure.
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pour into freezer. Makes 4 to 5
quarts.
STRAWBERRY ICE CREAM
1 pint heavy cream
1 can sweetened condensed milk
1 can evaporated milk
'A cup sugar
1 Tablespoon vanilla
4 pasteurized processed eggs
18 oz. homemade strawberry jam
enough milk to fill freezer
Mix together all ingredients
except milk and jam. When the
sugar is completely dissolved and
free of lumps, add milk and begin
freezing. Add jam when the ice
cream is about half frozen. Makes
4 quarts.