On Being a
Farm Wife
(and other
hazards)
Joyce Bupp
We’ve all heard that a pictufe
is worth a thousand words.
Now there’s a book that
apparently suggests that your
surroundings tell far more about
what kind of person you are
than anything you might say.
I looked around here and
decided that was a scary
thought.
According to a review I’ve
recently read of “Look Before
You Love: Feng Shui Techniques
for Revealing Anyone’s True
Nature,” author Nancilee Wydra
proposes that much about an
individual’s nature is laid out in
plain view by the things with
which one collects and/or deco
rates one’s environment.
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out their place.
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The Farmer’s assessment of
folks by hoW they maintain their
vehicles, especially pickup
trucks. If I want to stir up trou
ble, all I have to do is suggest he
take a look at his own pickup
and .... on second thought, we’d
better not go there.
Anyway, I took a good look at
our farmhouse surroundings
and did a quick self-assessment
from a scattering of what I saw.
Two calf tags, labeled with
birthdates, management num
ber and name, laying on the calf
book parked on the edge of the
kitchen counter. Apparently this
person (they’re in my printing)
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starts jobs and doesn’t finish
them. A stack of registration
papers, some still awaiting the
sketch markings that positively
identify the calves whose pedi
grees they contain, back up that
personality assessment.
A few steps away, on the
kitchen cart, lies a squishable
plastic - is “squishable” a word?
- small black and white cow fig
ure sporting red jogging shorts
and stylish sunglasses. The col
lapsible I know that’s a word
cow is my frustration pet,
designed to be squeezed hard
when some irritation becomes
such that a physical response
feels necessary. Squishing the
cow, which pops right back out
into shape, is a more acceptible
response than hitting some
thing. Or kicking something. Or
yelling.
That the squishable cow is
kept, real handy, on the kitchen
cart, might give you a clue about
its owner. On the other hand,
the cow still looks almost brand
new.
Somewhere around here on
the main floor of our old house is
the portable phone from the
office desk. We have a second
portable phone, but the push
buttons no longer all work. But
it belongs to the answering
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The usable portable is some
times where it belongs on the
office desk. Or it may turn up on
the kitchen table. Or in the liv
ing room.
When one’s house is acces
sorized with appliances which
only half-work, and which may
be out of place, what soul traits
does that clue? That it’s frivo
lous to replace something which
is still useful? That we’re not
organized? Or that we’re just too
busy to care, so long as it works
when we need it ? Maybe all of
the above.
But the part of the book
review I chuckled over most was
a section which noted that folks
who don’t have pets or plants in
their house are subliminally
showing they don’t want to be
responsible for taking care of
others’ needs.
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York County FFA Selects
Outstanding Members
A committee consisting of Pat
Diebert of the Lincoln
Intermediate Unit, Ed Heindel
of the York office of Farm Credit
Services, and John Smith of the
York Fair Agricultural Society
selected the first and second
place students from each chap
ter. Each person selected will
receive monetary awards for
their accomplishment.
From those individuals plac
ing first in their chapter, an
overall county award winner
was selected. The county award
recipient is Emily Bankert of the
Red Lion Area FFA chapter.
Bankert is the daughter of
Michael and Joyce Bankert, Red
Lion. As a part of her FFA expe
riences she has had projects in
off-farm work experience, poul
try layers, and sheep breeding.
Bankert has served as her
chapter sentinel, reporter, and
president and has been chosen
for the York County FFA office of
sentinel for last year and for the
current year. She has participat
ed in and received numerous
awards in York County contests
such as livestock judging, dairy
judging, creed speaking, meats
judging, dairy foods, forestry,
horse judging, ag salesmanship,
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1 read that after having
switched chairs so Monk, the
aging, spoiled-rotten housecat,
could remain curled up on the
warm cushions of “my chair” at
the kitchen table and after hav
ing removed a bouquet of
chrysanthemums parked in the
center of the table.
Fact is, I’m not sure I know -
or care - what having pets
and/or plants in one’s house
means. I just know that most of
the people I know well and love
have one or the other, and often
both.
Finally, I don’t know if the
book relates how to judge some
one who reads book reviews, but
not the books themselves. It
probably means we cut corners
on some things.
And we have to, if we’re ever
going to find any time to fiddle
around with those pets and
plants.
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apple judging, parliamentary
procedure, wildlife identifica
tion, and recordkeeping. She has
also participated in state con
tests of dairy foods, parliamen
tary procedure and agricultural
salesmanship.
First-place winners of other
chapters were Jason Deardorff,
son of Wayne and Bonnie
Deardorff, East Berlin of the
Dover chapter; Alicia Klobetanz,
daughter of Michael Klobetanz,
New Cumberland, and Karen
Kohler, Lewisberry, of the
Gifford Pinchot chapter at
Northern York; and Carrie
Bailey, daughter of Richard and
Darlene Bailey, Dover, of the
White Rose Chapter at York Vo-
Tech.
April Harrison, daughter of
Woodrow and Rose Harrison,
Red Lion of the Red Lion Area
FFA chapter received second
place honors for representing
her chapter.
All of these outstanding stu
dents will be completing applica
tions this fall in order to receive
the Keystone Degree, awarded
by the PA FFA organization.
DeKalb Genetics sponsored
the awards. Senior students
from each of the chapters are eli
gible to be selected as the out
standing members of their chap
ter.