ft- Wife . (and other y hozurds) Joyce Bupp Leaden gray skies hover over- Sometimes it starts softly, fat, head, sinking ominously lower wife flakes casually wafting their with each passing minute. wa y lo the ground. A delicate-type A damp mist hangs heavy in the snow, gentle, quiet, calling atten air, unseen by the eye. but thick tion to its prettiness as it begins enough to feel on your face. Fin- whitening the grass, the pine gers of cold poke past your collar, boughs, the tops of the split rail around your ears, chilling your fence. hands even through a pair of soft Other times, the gray clouds gloves. open overhead and the snow Calves huddle toward the backs arrives with an “attitude.” of their open-fronted hutches. It may begin as sleet, a rain of snuggling down in thick, insulat- tiny ice balls, tick... tick... tick... ing beds of fresh straw and satisi- ticking against the windowpanes, fied by bellies filled with bottles announcing its intention to ruin of warm milk. 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Carlisle, PA 17013 717-776-7806 DISTRIBUTORS WANTED And you’d best get quickly out of the way, because they come with the closest thing to a stampede that our bunch of docile, normally plodding cows will ever attain in speed. A white sheet is already cover ing the pavement of the road past the house and the neighbords on the hill are barely visible in the thickening haziness of the hissing ice balls transforming over to a steady, wind-blown snow. Later in the seaseon of winter, this beginning of a snowy day may set us to grumbling and dreaming of dandelions and daffodils. But, when such a morning comes just ahead of Christmas, it stirs a sea sonal excitement in all but the most fervent anti-snow scrooges. This is a day to wrap those gifts still languishing in their bags in the spare room upstairds. To finish addressing the last of the greeting cards still stacked on the kitchen counter. Such a day taunts one to bake cookies, to concoct that special holiday candy, or to bake a batch of fresh, wonderfully-smelling homemade bread. To get some pine or cinnamon or bayberr scented candles out on the tables, tuck a few pine boughs around their feet and light them when evening rolls around. (Note: This is NOT a day to run to the supermarket, because the rest of the world will be making that snow!... snow!... it’s the end of the world!... emergency trip to stock up on milk and bread and other food necessities like tortilla chips and salsa.) But, hey, it’s the holiday sea son. Let it snow! • Agricultural • Commercial • Residential Kids Learn About Holidays Around The World DAYTON, Ohio Tis the perfect season for school children to leant about different customs and holidays around the world. And thanks to a 4-H in the Classroom program provided by the Montgomery County office of Ohio State University Extension, Dayton-area teachers have a ready, free resource that provides teaching materials on Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Christmas, and various traditions of these celebrations around the world. 4-H in the Classroom programs take science-based, hands-on 4-H projects and modify them for a classroom setting. Teachers in many parts of Ohio can “check out” kits from local Extension offices that provide all the neces sary resource material, equipment, handouts and supplies. Holidays Around the World is a spin-off from these science-based pro grams available to teachers in Montgomery County. “Teachers were asking for a program that covered all perspec tives of the season,” said Andrea Bowlin, the youth at risk specialist at the Montgomery County office. “It seemed to be a natural progres sion of the partnership stalled with other 4-H in the Classroom programs.” The Holidays Around the World kit isn’t fancy. It moves from classroom to classroom in a green, 2-foot-by- 1-foot Rubber nriaid container. But inside are the Partial In-Ground Tank Featuring Commercial Chain Link Fence (5’ High - SCS Approved) • Retaining Walls • Bunker Silos • Manure Storage, Etc. Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 14, 1996-B3 The 2,000-plus Dayton-area students who are part of the 4-H in the Classroom school enrichment programs also have access to all of the 4-H activities, Bowlin said. Any student can go to 4-H camp, participate in the fair or join a youth group. A variety of 4-H in the Class room programs are offered in many counties throughout Ohio. The ones provided in Montgom ery County include Rockets Away, a rocketry science pro gram; Fishy Science; Chick Embryology; Insects; Holidays Around the World; and Manners. The latter two are only available in Montgomery County. interactive tools teachers need to teach third through sixth graders about religious holidays and cus toms of the season. There are templates to make a paper dreydl as students study Hanukkah, a Idnara - a candlehol der containing seven candles - that is the centerpiece of Kwanzaa celebrations, and a crown worn by people passing out Christmas gifts in Sweden. There’s also a globe so students can identify the various countries around the world, Bow lin said. “Any teacher could pull together the same materials I have,” Bowlin said. “But teachers today are time- and resource strapped. They asked for this program, and I think it’s important to meet their needs.”
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