Lancaster farming. (Lancaster, Pa., etc.) 1955-current, August 05, 2000, Image 59

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Ida Risser
family seems to be a trav
one. We recently had a
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Box 156 Rt. 2
1620 Cambridge Rd.
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family picnic and quite a few
were missing. One sister was tak-
Fitting You Right Is Our #1 Priority.
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MARTINSBURG
Zimmerman Harness
RD 2 Box 36
814-793-3961
ing six weeks to travel across the
country in a recreational vehicle
while another sister had just re
turned from a trip to the Grand
Canyon. She told us of riding a
mule to the bottom of the canyon
and how it tried to eat grass at
the very edge of the path
scary. One of our sons took his
whole family to Hawaii for a
week. While another son flew his
family to Salt Lake City in Utah.
If you have a garden and real
ly tend it, you are tied down to
home territory. That seems to be
our case as we freeze sweet com
and pick green beans most every
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Tall Pines
Country Store
796 Kessler Rd
717-362-3024
(voice mail only)
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day. Now my cucumbers are be
ginning to bear and I’m canning
pickles everyday. The cabbage
that my husband started in the
basement has grown to enor
mous proportions and the heads
are almost too big.
Since the neighbors in an ad
joining development take daily
walks past our farm, I am able to
give my excess vegetables to
them. One of them even baked a
peach pie for us after we gave
her fresh sweet com from our
patch.
The patch has a double
electric wire to protect it from
the animals. Even so, my hus-
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Red Wing Shoe Store
511 BaltinTore Pike
610-544-1664
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 5, 2000-811
band has set traps and caught
five groundhogs so far. Our
daughter in New Jersey also set
traps and she caught two young
raccoons at one time. She tells us
that the deer eat all of her flow
ers too. Oh, for the life of a gar
dener.
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