Ida's Notebook Ida Risser RED WING SHOES WORK HARD ALLENSVILLE Allensville Shoe Shop Fisher Harness & Lost Creek Shoe Shop Leo’s Shoe Store Box 7 State Route Shoe Shop RD #1 Box 88 Godfrey St. Star Route, Box 47 717-933-8169 HONEY BROOK MILLERSBURG Brandywine Shoe Shop 1620 Cambridge Rd. KUTZTOWN Waynes Dry Goods Fitting You Right Is Our #1 Priority. MADISONBURG MARTINSBURG Zimmerman Harness RD 2 Box 36 814-793-3961 One never knows what the next year will bring, but we can always hope for the best Our family never celebrated New Year’s Day. It was a day off from school and often it was butchering day on our farm. It was not even a day when we had to have pork and sauerkraut as we do now. I reread some of my diaries and often we helped our father to chase his steers to the Conestoga River to get water when the cistern was empty. Other times we helped to strip tobacco on another farm that we owned.’ COMFORT THAT In the evenings we visited rela tives that lived nearby. Most all of our relatives lived nearby. Today they are really scattered over the country. When I worked in Lancaster, New Year’s Day was a day to stay home and bake for my mother and really clean my bedroom. Depending on the weather. I sometimes would go fishing in our meadow. Some years started out badly as one year my sister was deathly ill and died. On a better year, I was tending my first baby, a three- NEVER QUITS Red Wing * cjmmSTM REt.Ei^pSt'C msms • I*3? MIFFLINTOWN Tall Pines Country Store 796 Kessler Rd 717-362-3024 (voice mail only) Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 8, 2000-811 Made in U.S.A. REHRERSBURG SPRINGFIELD Red Wing Shoe Store 237 Baltimore Pike 215-544-1664 week-old little girl. As our family grew we had children at home on January first to help their father at the bam. Our girls loved to bake and in my diary one year I wrote that, “Nancy used 20 cups of flour today.” But, we had plenty of peo ple to eat the baked goods. This year when my sisters were at our home over the Christmas season, I gave them packs of let ters that they wrote to me 30 or 40 years ago. Later I got phone calls saying that they stayed up late to read them. It was as though they had kept a diary too.
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