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Ida’s
Notebook
by
Ida Risser
When snow is on the ground
and my husband is shoveling our
driveway, then I can really appre
ciate my blooming flowers. Ac
tually, most of them are foliage
plants. Only the poinsettias, be
gonias, impadens and kalanchoes
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are blooming. Even so the ferns,
spider plants and vines are a nice
contrast to the frozen outdoors.
The other night we kept our
grandchildren for several hours.
The youngest is just, starting to
walk and he can really throw a
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who likes our small plastic ani
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accumulated about 100 cows,
horses, pigs, chickens, sheep and
geese. Bradley likes the two goats
and takes them on imaginary
walks all over the table.
I’ve been rereading leters that
my oldest daughter wrote to me in
the 1960 s when she was in college
and training to be a nurse. She liv
ed in Syracuse, N.Y. and worked
in a hospital. She wrote every few
days and told about the first opera
tions that she attended. She was a
sophomore in college and three
yean later was in charge of the In
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Rochester hospital. Later she got
her master’s degree in Medical-
Surgical nursing in Seattle. Wash
ington and now is a nurse practi-
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Lancaster nrailng, Saturday, fttiniary 18, 1995-B9
tioner in New Jersey.
After reading all of those let
ters, I felt like phoning her. When
I called, her son said that she was
in Washington, D.C. as she is on a
national committee who write
tests for nurse practitioners. Our
14-year-old grandson David was
Amazing Shapes
Family Workshops
CHADDS FORD (Chester Co.)
—Families are invited to discover
the “Amazing Shapes” that go into
Amish quiltmaking on Saturday,
March 4, at the Brandywine River
Museum. They will explore with a
guide the exhibition Amish Quilts
from the Museum of American
making a chocolate mousse.
When 1 questioned him about it,
he said it was for a French class
assignment.
Fron age eight, our own boys
and girls always cooked and bak
ed. I am glad to hear that our
grandchildren arc doing the same.
Folk Art. The workshop will be
offered to families with young
children (ages 3-S) from 10 to 11
a.m. and to families with older
children (ages 5 and above) from 1
to 2:30 p.m.
Family members will search for
shapes in Amish quilts during a
gallery tour, and then create then
own geometric paper quilt designs
using a variety of art materials. A
museum educator will lead the ac
tivity.
The workshops are free with te
gular museum admission. To re
gister, contact the Education Of
fice at (610) 388-8376.
The Brandywine River Mu
seum is located on US Route 1 in
Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. The
Museum is open daily, 9:30 a.m.
to 4:30 p.m., except Christmas
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