Sometimes, I’d be tempted to
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Especially when winter is dis
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mering us with winds, socking us
with sleet and snow, or leaning
on the thermometer ’til it slides
down in submission.
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tail and doggy, grin of expecta
tion, and a couple of cats milling
around our feet in anticipation,
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a cozy easy chair beckons.
So we go moonlight meander
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Moonlight meandering has
been a fresh and frosty adventure
most nights so far this brisk,
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for the scent of the deer which
travel through from woods to
woods.
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the yard, Derra is already down
by the second pond, nose work
ing in high gear. Spotting a
cream-colored “yellow” lab on a
snowy, moonlit night is more by
assumption than by eye, but Der
ra’s jingling “dog tags” give her
away.
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wetlands area. As the cattle were
fenced off from the springhead
and lowlands areas, pasture has
been converted to fish and wild
life habitat, including several
ponds.
Those ponds have been grow
ing ice cover since late Novem
ber, one of the earliest long-term
freezes we can remember. 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
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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.