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While the ice is rough and bumpy, the cats are just delighted with these hard, slick rinks. Suddenly there are these large expanses of flat shiny surface providing easy short cuts, far superior to poking one’s dainty little paws down through rough, ice-crusted snow. So the cats race across the fro zen ponds, from one to another to another, creeping under the piers and pausing to investigate the ragged lines of animal tracks Reg. Ret. i $399.95 Our Price I *sTf9rtts | RQ9S J Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 13, 2001-B3 which criss cross the ice’s snow coyer. Patches of dried cattails along the frozen edges hold yet more scents of ground rodents and water birds to add interest to this buffet of things to sniff. Derra jingles back from a side excursion, joins the sniffing party among a patch Of cattails and starts digging frantically with her big front paws. Though she makes only a minimal dent in the frozen ground, that muskrat scent is just too enticing to ig nore. Prolonged concentration is no Derra’s great suit, so she soon abandons the excavation and jin gles off in another direction. Stars sparkle from the big black upturned bowl of sky over head, with Orion the Hunter tramping through the heavens above the woodlot, as he always does these wintry nights. A gust of wind rattles the dry grass patches and the cats come charg ing from their ice-capades to pause at my feet, waiting to see which direction we go next. Marking the far end of our wetlands is the Frog Pond, an en hanced swamp with slightly raised islands for goose and duck nesting. The cat trio races among the small mounds of ice-locked Jack-In-The-Box Cheese Carving Springs Into First HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.) The third annual Creative Cheese Carving Contest was con ducted at the 85th Pennsylvania State Farm Show. When the carving was complete, Angela Housch of Berks County was named the winner, receiving $l5O. Her jack-in-the-box was the winning cheese sculpture. The event featured the talents of six amateur contestants dem onstrating their cheese-carving skills. Each contestant was pro vided one hour to sculpt an image from a five-pound block of cheddar cheese. Mahoning Cheese Company from Smicksburg, Indiana Coun ty, provided the cheese for the contestants. Second place went to Karen Huston of York County, who re ceived $lOO, and third place went to Wendy Gregory of Perry land, sniffing out every hint of smell lingering from last sum mer’s hatching season in this normally inaccessible-to-cats ter ritory. Derra pokes her nose among the young rhododen drons, savoring the unseen marks of fox and squirrel, rabbits and muskrats, frogs, birdlife, and the deer which sneak-through on occasion. The wind picks up more, rat tling the bare branches of mul berry and oak and swamp maple. Derra dances back, nose white with snow, still bouncing with the endless energy and pure doggy pleasure she finds on our moonlight meanders. We turn back toward the lights of the house, the cats racing ahead, Derra pausing for one last moon light muskrat check. Back inside, Derra races up stairs while I hang up layers of outerwear, coats, hats, gloves, then slide another chunk of wood on the fire. By the time 1 reach the top of the basement stairs, she is sprawled at the foot of easy chair, where The Farmer is sound asleep. Both are snoring. When it comes to promoting restfiilness, few things are better than a healthy dose of moonlit fresh air. County, who received $5O. Each winner also received a gourmet cheese basket. To other contestants included Mike Wedrick of Northampton County; Ken Howard from Dau phin County; and Rodney Flenchbauch who resides in York County. Among the other cheese cre ations was a cow Jumping over the moon, a cat, cow, pig, and a farmer. All carvings were dis played in the cheese sculpture booth in the food court during the week of the Farm Show. Judges for the event were Lori Burkholder of WGAL, Channel 8; the Pennsylvania Dairy Prin cess, Melinda Wolfe; and the Vir ginia State Dairy Princess, Laura Robinson. They were looking for the most creative, visually ap pealing and original sculpture.
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