84-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 9, 1998 “Love your mother.” We encourage our Sunday School class youngsters to think about and practice that (And to love their fathers, too.) You might expect to find that message on a selection from your local card store. An advertisement from the floral industry. Maybe even a res taurant chain hoping you might treat her to lunch. Their lunch, of course. But on a bumper sticker? “Gee,” I thought, “that seems a little different for a bumper stick er.” Then, the rest of the message carried on the bumper of the sport utility vehicle became visible and made complete sense. For at the far side of the long promotion al sticker was a picture of the earth. Love your Mother . .. Earth. What a lovely and positive thought, was my first reaction. But the longer I thought about it, the funnier it got Because, here we had a good sized, probably somewhat gas guzzling, air-polluting vehicular emissions source promoting good stewardship over Mother Earth. Let Schnupp's Grain Roasting Your Moldy Corn! • Flame Roasting Kills the Molds Present in Corn • Flame Roasting Will Reduce Toxins to Safe Levels • Flame Roasting Will Remove Odor and Increase Payability. X Th °“£“ S,ed f ) grains are really tasty When one of the critical issues causing Mother Earth to choke up happens to be vehicular emissions and the side effects that go with them. Probably lots of the admoni tions many of us grew up with from our own mothers were directly or indirectly-related to the kind of good stewardship and good citizenship that is necessary to be good to our Mother ... Earth. Don’t litter. Along the roads, in the back yards, in the fields, in the streams. In your room. I frequent ly return from walks along the road with discarded drink and fast food containers tossed out by passing drivers. To say nothing of those piles of personal trash pitched into ours and other con venient woodlots along the high ways. Or, how about this mother ad monition: if you’re cold, put on a sweater. (My brothers always claimed a sweater was something you wore when your mom was cold.) But, by not overheating our buildings, and instead raising our comfort level via another layer. MOLDY CORN? we can reduce maybe by at least a smidgeon the burning of fossil fuels to keep ourselves over heated. Shut the refrigerator door ... Turn off the TV if you’re not watching it ... Turn off the air conditioner and open the window. Ever hear Mom say any of these? Help cut the electric bill for good ness sake, much of which is also generated by those diminishing fossil fuels. Clean off your plate. Remem ber Mom telling you that? We waste so much food. And continue to tear down and bum off virgin timbers and jungles around the world to clear land to grow more to keep the price cheap so we can continue to waste it Trees which, by the way, help Mother Earth purify the air for us to breathe. Like our own mothers. Mother Earth is amazingly tolerant and generously forgiving about our naughty behavior. Given the slightest opportunity, she will seed and sprout and re-green even the ugliest earth-batterings which we administer. Mother’s persis tence is evident everywhere you see weeds and grass sprouting up through the slightest crack in con crete or asphalt And then there’s that favorite “mom ism” about changing your underwear every day, just in case you’d be in an accident and have to be taken to the hospital. Did anyone’s mom ever really say that? SAVE CHNUPP’S N ROASTING ■ox 840, Lebanon, PA 17046 >5-661 1 Fax #865-7334 800-452-4004 IROFF, RD #3 Lewisburg, PA 17-568-1420 Mom’s messages generally all tempting to instill us with that, come back to one starting point— l° vc them Mother and personal responsibility. As we Mother Earth for their abund again celebrate Mother’s Day, we ant forgiveness when we forget can thank our moms for at least at- Love ’ya. Mother. Ida’s Notebook Ida Risser We can’t stop time, and as we get older we think that it goes fas ter. Children think that time goes slowly, as they wait for a birthday or a special holiday. And, what marks time for us? Clocks, watches, and other time pieces are important in our lives. My parents had a wall clock that sat on a shelf and inside woe hid den the numbers to their large safe. It was moved from house to house and now my sister has it. Our son made a Grandfather’s clock in high school, and I en joyed having it chime away in our living room. However, when he got married, he took it to Georgia and now this spot was empty. So. we bought another Grandfather’s clock. This is an older one, but it has no chimes. 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When I was a teen-ager, I had a few chckens and sold their eggs for 12 cents a dozen. After enough pennies were saved, I bought my self a used Swiss wristwatch. Then it stopped running. I was very upset Probably I had not wound it properly. But 1 still re member that day. Somewhere there is a quote that says, in regard to a river, “Men may come and men may go, but I go on forever.” How true that statement is. * *|
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