62-L«ncaster Fanning, Saturday, October 5, 1996
On Being a
Farm Wife
(and other
hazards)
Joyce Bupp
It all just kind of sneaks up on
you.
One day you’re running around
in shorts and a tank top, parking
yourself on the porch with a glass
of iced tea at dusk to enjoy the
evening’s cooling down. Less
than 24 hours later, you find your
self yanking the screen out of the
basement window because of the
chilliness there early in the morn
ing.
A few days later, while retriev
ing something from the attic, you
notice a brisk breeze blowing
through the small windows. It
takes just a few moments to slide
the screens up into the winter stor
age position and pull down into
place the double-glassed storm
window barrier.
After a stretch of cool, dreary
weather, the sun jogs up over the
morning horizon with a blinding
burst of golden rays. You open the
doors to let the sunshine in— and
close it when a blast of cold gush
es into the house.
So, you plod back up a couple
of sets of steps to the attic and re
trieve the storm windows for the
front and backdoors. And tempor
arily delay the screen-window
switch while you make a trip to
the hardware store to have re
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paired the one that shattered when
a storm gust grabbed the back
door and slammed it backward
one afternoon in late spring. Since
it was time, then to put in the
screens anyway, it sat there in the
garage all summer.
You go into your old farm
house, tucked in the shade of a
half-dozen thick, tall trees and
find the inside cooler than the out
side. You unearth a sweatshirt to
wear while fixing lunch and are
grateful for the heat generated in
the kitchen by the oven.
The hot shower feels wonderful
in the evening, but you dread turn
ing off the water because the bath
room like the rest of the house
is damp and chilly. You chase
the chill with a fuzzy blanket and
the cat on your lap while you
watch the news. Eventually you
abandon the warmth to crawl be
tween chilly sheets in that un
heated upstairs bedroom where
you still have the window open a
bit because you like the fresh air
and listening to the owls hooting
to one another.
So, you unearth the flannel
sheets from their summer storage
in the blanket chest. And when the
night temperatures inch down yet
a few more degrees, and even the
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LIVERPOOL (Perry Co.) As
the leaves change colors and the air
turns cooler, a small country
church starts to prepare its annual
apple butter boil scheduled for
Oct 12.
About 40 miles up the Susque
hanna River from Harrisburg and
just a few miles back in the hills
from the tiny riveride town of
Liverpool sets a small red brick
flannel has a chill to it you dig the
electric blanket out of the closet.
Hot chocolate becomes your
preferred mid-morning thirst
quencher. With a marshmallow
for good measure. You find your
self concocting hot soups for sup
per.
In the early morning darkness,
you rummage in drawers for tur
tleneck shirts and sweaters to wear
while doing bam chores. Putting
on a pair of cotton gloves for get
ting bales of hay and straw out the
bam no longer leaves "your hands
hot and sweaty.
Finally, one evening after an
extra-long stretch of bam chores,
you retreat to the house, hungry
and half-damp from helping clean
up the milkhouse and rounding up
an uncooperative heifer. And de
cide that the time has come and
you have to face the inevitable.
You give in and turn on the
furnace. In a few moments, warm
air floods the house and magically
transforms the damp and chilly to
a toasty, cozy environment
That however, enhances the
pungent odor of the mouse that
has died somewhere in the ceiling
over the kitchen, while hunting a
warm spot.
Time to winterize, folks.
The mice are already way ahead
of us on this one.
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church known as St John’s (Ear
ner’s) Lutheran Church.
As many sleep through the mid
night hours of Oct. 12, some men
will put freshly pressed cider to
boil over the open fires. As dawn
breaks through the night sky, the
first bucket of snitz (sliced apples)
is added to the boileid down cider.
By the time the first ketde is ready,
the church grove is buzzing with
activity.
The women gather to prepare
the meals and set up the craft table
for the 10 a.m. opening.
The annual event in the
200-year-old church includes
apple butter boiling, craft table,
concession stand, and a family
style pot pie dinner that costs $5 or
adults and $3.50 for children.
Dessert is extra.
Apple butter is boiled in antique
copper kettles and is for sell on the
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take some home.
The church started boiling apple
butter in 1952 to help with
expenses. About 10 years later, the
church did not need die money, but
members decided to keep the event
going and used the proceeds for
charitable purposes outside the
church.
Over the years, proceeds have
been donated to local Are vic
tims,flood victims, youth baseball
teams, fire companies, Boy
Scouts, Girl Scouts, Lutheran
world relief and missiong support
Make the pilgrimage to the little
red brick church that’s perched
atop a hill in Perry County Take
Routes 11 and IS to Liverpool.
Turn left onto Route 17. Aboutone
mile from Liverpool, turn right
onto Route 235. Follow the apple
butter signs.
plier manufactured the sticks,
which were packaged ia sets of
six. Kraft distributed the sticks
nationwide through an 800-num
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June through mid-July 1996 as
part of a promotion for Jell-O pud
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Consumer should immediately
discard the Chillers Sticks. If con
sumers need further information,
they should call Kraft at (800)
433-9363, Kraft Foods has re
called the Chillers Sticks from
store shelves and will no longer
distribute the sticks.
All Jell-O Instant Pudding mix
is safe and is not affected by this
recall. Jell-0 Instant Pudding re
cipes can be prepared and con-.
sumed without Chillers Sticks.
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