810-Lancaster Fanning. Saturday, February 5, 2000
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Travis, Paula, and Laura help each other get around In the snow. With drifts of
two to three feet, sometimes it’s easy to get stuck when you’re a kid.
Snow Makes For Fun Adventures
Laura and Travis like to play with their baby lambs,
Snowball and Marshmallow. Even in two feet of snow,
the kids still trek out to see the sheep everyday.
Paula is busy making snowballs. She has to prepare
for her brother Travis’s favorite activity, snowball fights.
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JAYNE SEBRIGHT
Lancaster Farming Staff
EAST BERLIN (Adams Co.)
While the first warning of a
substantial snow storm brings to
parents’ minds bad roads,
stranded loved ones, and shovel
ing backaches, to kids it means
one thing FUN.
What kid wouldn’t love days
off school, all-day sledding ad
ventures, and neighborhood
snowball fights? Not to mention
the toasty hot chocolate and
marshmallows that mom makes
when the kids return to the
house.
The Holtzinger kids are no ex
ception. Six-year-old Laura,
four-year-old Travis, and three
year-old Paula live with their
parents, Kevin and Karen
Holtzinger, on a 310-cow dairy
farm in East Berlin.
The kids enjoy playing in the
snow and visiting their many
animals. Their favorite animals
are the baby lambs, Marshmal
low, Snowball, Amy, and Jamie.
Marshmallow and Snowball are
pets for Laura and Travis. The
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Travis likes to be the king of the hill, standing on a pile
of snow in the Holtzinger’s front yard.
Laura likes making snow angels in the snow. The
angels show up really well in two feet of snow.
kids’ older sister Shannon also the snow is go sledding, while
has two ewes that are soon going Travis loves making and throw
to have baby lambs. ing snowballs. Paula enjoys
The calves are also a favorite playing with the family’s new
for Laura, Travis, and Paula. Cocker Spaniel puppy, Copper.
Each time a new batch of calves Whatever the adventure, the
arrives in the calf pens, each Holtzingers always have lots of
child gets to pick a new pet calf. fun on the farm, especially when
Laura’s favorite thing to do in it snows.
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