B4*Uncast«r Farming, Satyrday, Fabruary 5, 1994
You’ve heard of a bad hair day?
Well, it’s been a bad hair year,
fhis bad hair year is directly at
tributable to the continuing parade
of wintry challenges which Moth
er Nature keeps sending along to
build our stamina, develop our
characters and teach us patience
and tolerance.
(When we whine “Awwww,
Mom Nature, why does it have to
be so cold and nasty,” she snaps in
reply the classic answer of moms:
“Because I said so, that’s why!”)
Meanwhile, our earthly moms
engrave in our brains, from the
time we can toddle iiptil we’re
whipping out the door with the car
keys, their'appropriate solution;
“Pul on your hat!”
A serious ear infection when I
was a child apparently left me
with ears that are extremely sensi
tive to cold and wind. It’s often
suggested that the problem is that
the wind goes in one and blows
right through out the other. What
ever, just as soon as the First chill
brcc?cs of fall swish through the
autumn leaves, out come the head-
coverings.
Somewhere back in the recesses
of our family history, a loosely
knit, basically-shapeless, red hat
fell into my possession. Its source
is and shall probably forever re
main unknown. Maybe just as
well. It’s outlasted thousands of
calf feedings, various outdoors
activities, chasing cattle,
moving feed and years of derision
by the kids.
Its saving grace is that it is so
loose. After being covered with it
for three hours worth of bam
work, the hair beneath still resem
bles hair, not a rubber swim cap
glued to one’s head.-And my head
doesn’t itch like a chronic case of
poison oak.
Colder temperatures bring a
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switch to the earmuffs. Earmuffs
are generally my winter mainstay,
hugging the ears with warmth
while being kinder to the hair. Ex
cept for the flattening across the
top where the plastic half-circle
connects the muffs.
But when it’s near zero, with a'
hefty wind and outside barn
chores to battle, we pull out the
big guns. Warmest hat in our base
ment arsenal of headgear is a
tightly-knit ski cap with a milking
equipment company name woven
through its blue and white stripes.
When the kids were still home, it
was a sort of community-property
hat.
That hat has gone sledding and
cross-country skiing at the moun
tains, covered heads on tractors
and heads loading hay, ice-skating
heads and heads grinding feed,
heads covered with grease and
buried deep in equipment motors
and wood-hauling heads.
Its warmth is partly due to being
fashioned of a double-layer of
tightly-woven acrylic and partly
because it fits so snugly that a
draft of cold air stands no chance
of breaching the edges. Fact is, af
ter an hour or two of being
straight-jacketed with his hat,
your head feels like a melon in a
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Wenger Names Boyd To
Head Re-election Campaign
STEVENS (t Co.) team as the state senator repfe- Currently, Boyd is a director of
State Senator Noah W. Wenger the 36th Senatorial Dis- Brethren Village, Neffsville, and
has named Darvin E. Boyd, 1116 northern part of president of the Lancaster Farm-
Akron, to chair his 1994 campaign Lancaster County. land Trust. He is also the modera
tor re-election. Before his election to the Pen- tor of the Ephrata church of the
Wenger is seeking his fourth nsylvania Senate in 1982, Wenger Brethren. He serves on the exccu
served three terms in the Pennsyl- live committee of the American
a vania House of Representatives. Bankers Association’s National
“Darvin Boyd's community agricultural Bankers Division,
service leadership, his interest in Boyd received the Lancaster
political affairs, and his experi- YWCA “Citizen of the Year
ence in financial and business Award” in 1988 and the Pennsyl
management reflect his strong vania “Friend of Extension
qualifications. lam honored to Award” in 1987 for his support of
have him again chair my re- agriculture, home economics, 4-H
election campaign,” said Wenger, and other Pennsylvania State Uni-
A senior vice president of versity Agricultural Extension
Hamilton Bank, Boyd has had service programs,
responsibility for the bank’s Agri- A graduate of Delaware Valley
Finance Department since 1976. College, Doyles town, Boyd holds
Previously he was an associate a Master of Public Administration
legislative research analyst for the Degree from the Pennsylvania
minority caucus of the Pennsylva- State University,
nia House of representatives. “I’m He and his wife, Linda, have
very pleased to support Senator two sons and a daughter.
Wenger as his campaign chair
man,” said Boyd. “He is a very
accessible, knowledgeable and
effective public savant who not
only represents his District well,
but is widely recognized for his
policy-making leadership as cau
cus secretary in the State Senate.”
Active in numerous community
organizations. Boyd is a past pres
ident of the Farm and Home
Foundation of Lancaster County,
a past chairman of the Lancaster
YWCA Board of Trustees and a
former chairperson of the Lancas
ter County Human Relations
Commission where he continues
to serve as a board member. He
chaired Wenger’s successful State
Senate re-election campaign in
1990.
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tightening vise.
And what this hat does to one’s
hair is so depressing I can barely
stand to think about it. Bangs
smashed' into the eyebrows. Sides
becoming one with the inner ear.
And a hair style fashioned like a
highway department cone marker.
Given the deep-freeze in which
we’ve all lived recently, go figure
which headgear is getting the most
use.
Meanwhile, The Farmer per
sists in wearing his traditional
“farmer” caps, with, logos of co
op, breeding service, seed com or
equipment brand, libetally dipped
in winterweight oils and rolled in
manure. Over those when out
doors goes something hooded,
thermal sweatshirt, hooded vest,
etc. This allows the versatility of a
hood layering over the cap for out
door use, and quick removal of it
when in less severe temperatures.
Bundled up against winter’s
worst, it becomes hard to tell from
a slight distance just who’s who
under all the ballooning layers of
protective clothing.
Around her, just look for The
Hood and The Conehead.
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