Ing, Saturday, April 10, 1993 810-Lancaster Farmli Three Dairy Maids Love AH Animals And The Farm GAY N. BROWNLEE Somerset Co. Correspondent SPRINGS (Somerset Co.) Carrie and her twin sisters Wendy and Jenny Miller love cats. Not only that, but they don’t mind rats, mice, snakes or any other kind of animal, bird or insect they might see. They believe one critter is as good as another. So they just Ivoe ’em all. Carrie knows why. “Daddy In fact, Glenn, their dad, found S3 y S slobber,” she said, a young black snake and gave it to xhe sisters love the cows and 10-year old Came for her birth- are happy when they can see a calf day. For a very short time Came being bom. In fact, a bull calf was had it in the house. bom the day of this interview with Boy! Did her mom, Tammy, g, r j s ever put her foot down about hav- Their parents think that farming ing a snake in the house. j s a ver y g o od family life. She said to Carrie, “It’s either Carrie, Wendy and Jenny have me or the snake, Carrie, but one of lots of things to do for fun besides us has got to go!” Ofcourse.it was helping in the bam by sweeping the snake that went, but Came s the walks, feeding the cats, and mom said she was really relieved unloading newspapers for when Carrie chose to keep her bedding, instead of the snake. Their mother has taught them to The Miller s have a wonderful embroider. They own oodles of big old house that has a bedroom Barbie dolls. A favorite hobby is for each girl. Imagine that, no that of fusing beads to make bright sharing. They rent a farm across and pretty refrigerator magnets, the road with a bam for all their The latest project with the fuse cows that s down a long country beads is to make lots of tree oma lane. That’s where they spend ments for next Christmas. hours riding their bikes in the summertime. Wendy says, “I like living on a farm because there’s kitties.” But Jenny says, “Because there’s calvers.” Carrie says there are so many cats in the bam, you can’t count them all. But they have at least 18 different meow-ers there. Whatever their dad finds in the animal or insect kingdom, he gives it to his daughters (there are no other children in the family). Some creatures they have had were an opossum, a screech owl, a praying mantis, salamander, and wild baby bunnies. Once they saw a deer that accidentally got caught in the bam. The Miller sisters always have something fun to do whether they are inside or outside. Here they are doing their embroidery at the kitchen divider, relaxing with their bare feet sticking out. Left is twin Jenny. Opposite her Is Carrie, 10, and twin Wendy, 8. WM The girls said that catching frogs is one of their favorite pas times. And they can catch butter flies with their hands. Wendy said she does not think rats are ugly at all. The have a dog named Sloan. What they really want is a horse. But for some reason their dad isn’t interested in getting a horse. Once a year, in June, the sisters put on their finest cloihes so they can be Dairy Maids at the Some rset Co. Dairy Princess Contest. This year will be the last time for Carrie who says the best thing about being a dairy maid is, “Get ting the ice cream, after.” “After Carrie isn’t in it, I’m not either,” said Jenny, Going across a stage is less scary with a big sister nearby. Once, the master of ceremonies called both of the twins by the same name although they came on-stage separately at the contest. They didn’t tell the man about his mistake. The sisters attend the Salisbury- Elk Lick Elementary School. Sitting on the stacks of newspapers kept at the barn for bedding, and holding their many cats, are the Miller sisters, Jenny at the top, Wendy to the left and Carrie. Fuse beads for the Miller sisters are kept In plastic Ice cream tubs. They like to work on the living room coffee table to make refrigerator magnets and Christmas tree ornaments. Left Is twin Jenny. Right Is twin Wendy and Carrie. You can pretend lots of things with all the Barbie and Ken dolls that belong to the MlHer sisters. From left. Carrie, twins Wendy and Jenny.
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