(ConlbMMd from Pag* B 2) the homes of their 9 children. And Wayne makes frames for nearly all Mary’s oil paintings. Much of Mary and Wayne’s time at home is spent in what they refer to as the “playroom,” a sun porch they added 12 years ago to their stone farm home. Wayne built the addition, partly of field stone which the Hoffmans gathered from the fields and cut themselves. A focal point of the stone wall which backs the woodstove is an arrowhead-shaped stone long ago found by Wayne as he worked the fields and saved for just such a project In addition to the painting and woodworking projects under way in the “playroom,” the bright, sun ny area will soon be filled with a quilt frame. The quilt is the annual The rathole key holder Is a whlmlscal marriage of Mary’s painting with Wayne’s woodworking. Teethmarks remain on this piece of old granary board riddled by rats; Mary painted a family of raccoons peeking through the holes. • Winter’s frozen ground conditions reduce soil compaction * I • *. J v .... MM Martin LIMESTONE Hoffmans Retire fund-raising project of the York county Society of Farm Women, an organization Mary first attended as a child. Her mother became a charter member of York Society Group 1 in 1930, with Mary often accom panying her to meetings. After marrying Wayne, she joined Group 4. in which his mother had been a charter member, and to which Mary has now belonged for SO years. In 1975-76, she was the York County Society president, and she is currently a state Farm Women director. Though they both enjoy visiting area craft shows for ideas, the Hoffmans .have no plans to take their artwork on the show circuit. “We sell enough things to sup port our ‘habit’,” figures Mary. “If we had to keep producing enough to take to shows, it would take the Profit from winter lime application fun out of it” “And when you have IS grand children. it tabes a lot of ‘givea ways*,” Wayne says with a grin. He and Mary take obvious great pleasure in sharing their skills with die family. Seven of the nine children live nearby, while one son is in Illinois and a daughter lives in North Car olina. Children and grandchildren, ages 3 to 24, come home frequent ly, and especially enjoy warm weather family campouts at the Hoffman’s camping and picnic spot along the Conewago. Their son, Mike, farms the land and runs beef catfle in the pasture where the family’s Hereford cow-calf herd once grazed. 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