84-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 28, 1993
On being
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-And other
hazards
Everyone’s house has a few of
them.
Some peoples* houses are
chocked full of them.
Ours has at least its share. May
be more.
It’s that stuff that you use only
on occasion, but absolutely have
to keep around for those periodic
instances when you couldn’t pos
sibly be without it. You know,
those items that clog your base
ment shelves, multiply in the gar
age and fall on your head when
you open the hall closet.
The stuff you probably can’t
find when you finally do need it.
(We have a place on the farm,
too, where such agricultural items
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arc kept. We call it The Fanner’s
shop.)
Digging out the canning equip
ment recently, I pondered on some
the miscellaneous items accumu
lated over the years, faithfully
stored and of great necessity for
perhaps three or four days out of
365.
Like my Foley food mill. Run
ning tomatoes for pasta sauce
through it’s hand-cranked sieve,
the sturdy metal dark and discol
ored from use, I remembered
another, more costly, gadget once
acquired for the same job. But the
food mill is less hassle to use and
easier to clean up, so the other
gathers dust on a basement shelf.
Also called into use for tomato
canning season is a vintage, wide
mouthed funnel of aluminum, per
fect for filling jars. The funnel is
battered and crinkled from fight
ing for cupboard space with other
items of other eras. Like the plas
tic set of popsicle makers
untouched in years. And cookie
cutters. Who has time to roll out,
cut and decorate shaped cookies?
Keeping company near the can
ning stuff is a 20-cup coffee pot It
came into our lives years ago for
use while exhibiting at cattle
shows.
Now in retirement it perks into
life only for the occasional meet
ing or large family gathering we
might host
Then, too, there are items stored
for periodic use - and lost. (Maybe
not at your house, but certainly at
ours!) Several years ago, my
mother gifted me with an attrac
tive, insulated, beverage carafe. I
carefully stored it where it could
be found when needed - and then
couldn’t It turned up later as I
searched for something else - and
then got lost a second time.
By the time the carafe and I had
agreed on a mutually convenient
spot to meet one another, a table
cloth turned up missing. This
heavy, plastic-coated, outdoor
tablecloth was a gift from a good
friend who sent it along back with
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a picnic table their family had
borrowed.
The tablecloth spent all last
summer on our back porch • cov
ering the picnic table. I wiped it
extra clean for storage in the fall,
carefully folded it and put it away.
Somewhere. I remember running
across it in the spring - while look
ing for something else - and men
tally noting that it would soon be
needed again. Then lost the mental
note.
That tablecloth still hasn’t
turned up. but should still be in
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mint condition for next summer. If
I can find it.
And while thinking about all
this, a floor polisher that hasn’t
been used for years suddenly
came to mind. I haven’t a clue
where in the house it might be. Or
if it’s even in the house any
longer.
Indeed, perhaps the time has
come to make a clean sweep of the
place and hold a “clearance” yard
sale. Except I might need some of
this stuff. Someday.
If I can just find it.
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done by the community as a fund
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