84-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 13, 1995
On Being a
Farm Wife
(and other
hazards) i
Joyce Bupp
With summer coming fast, lots
of folks are planning ahead for
their vacations.
Vacations are generally plan
ned around things we like to do
even if it’s just nothing for a day
or two. Visiting family and
friends, sightseeing, outdoor acti
vities, sporting, educational and
cultural events all sound like great
vacation plans. But I would never
have guessed the numer one item
at the top of a “things we like to do
on vacation” statistical list I re
cently ran across: dining out
While we like to cat I can’t re
member a vacation for which din
ing out was the prime focus. But it
did bring to mind some meals eat
en out that became especially me
morable. And I do mean meals
eaten “out.”
One particularly breathtaking
evening of dining occurred in the
beautiful mountains outside Sun
Valley, Idaho, camping with our
daughter and son-in-law. A parti
cular treat for them had been
sweet com, purchased from a
roadside farm stand earlier in the
day and steamed in the husk over
an open campfire. It was the first
sweet com they’d eaten in two
years after leaving York County.
While they reveled in its deli
cious flavor, darkness fell and a
gigantic, white moon crept up
over the tall peak across a small
stream. A truly wonderful me
mory of dining “out”
In a different part of Idaho, two
years later, five of us in the ex
tended family huddled around an
other campfire. As a gray jay flew
in to snatch bits of bread we toss
ed, the sun poked through the tall
pines growing at 8,000 feet to be
gin thawing the ice frozen to our
breakfast table that 28-degree,
July morning.
And, dining out by a rodring
breakfast fire was a welcome al
ternative after a night of freezing
in our sleeping bags, in tents.
Warmed by the fire, we discover
ed that our stiff joints still worked.
Dining out was a genuine high
point of a recent weekend visit
with friends who live 100 miles
west of us. While there are several
routes which can be taken to their
mountain farm, on pretty days we
favor making a portion of the jour
ney on Route 30, where it climbs,
sky high, over Tuscarora Moun
tain.
At the highway’s summit is a
side trip to a perch on the moun
tain’s sometimes jagged spine, on
a rock outcropping called The Pul
pit. Hawk watchers frequent this
site and we’ve seen numerous
birds of prey during our few stops,
including a mature bald eagle
which inspected us one breathtak
ing afternoon.
As has become custom for The
Farmer and I on these occasional
visits, time and weather allowing,
we stopped at a nearby small mar
ket for sandwiches for dining out
at the peak. Toting those on the
short hike to the peak, along with
a pair of field glasses, we soon
discovered there would be lots of
company during our short stay.
Parked wing-to-wing on the
steep, grass-and-rock slope were
17 hang-gliders in cheery, neon
colors. Clustered near the peak
were their pilots and assorted as
sistants, some pacing inpatiently,
waiting for the stiff wind pouring
over the peak to slow so they
could get airborne.
During our half-hour vigil with
the gusty wind. The Farmer had to
remove his hat to keep it from
blowing off his head and down the
mountain and the hang-glider pil-
Two Fair Officials Receive
Executive Certification
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—Two
Lehigh Valley fair officials are
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ots never got to hang out under
their gossamer wings. Maybe next
time.
Looking back, those impromp
tu, informal and inexpensive
meals, out, are more special in our
memories than the little fancy
“dining out” we’ve ever done.
We do enjoy dining. Out. Way
out.
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