On Being a Farm Wife (and other hazard; Joyce Bupp As we humans go about our daily labors and responsibilities, most of us relentlessly watch for that which makes our jobs easier, more efficient, more productive. Laborsaving devices, if you will. Well, mebbe. Our house has ’em. No doubt yours does too. Society’s eager embrace of laborsaving devices, gadgets and gimmicks has devel oped whole new industries, some times spiraling creative inventors of them into the 10-figure person al wealth level. Not having a “real” job which gives me a paid holiday off this weekend, I always find myself re lating Labor Day to this new, im proved stuff which makes our lives less complicated. One of our early laborsavers in the kitchen was the dishwasher. Which turned up more or less under an early Christmas tree of ours in response to my ad amant refusal to return to a trac tor seat before the lunch dishes were cleaned up and put away. To this day, I dislike a sinkful of dirty dishes, but you can hide them very effectively in a dish washer. A microwave oven followed not too many years later, serving us faithfully until just a few years ago, when it nuked itself into oblivion. Most interesting is that it’s replacement cost a fraction of the first one. That is one particularly re warding side of modern laborsav ers. Mass production technology and cheaper electronics puts them within the reach of most households, another reason to Morton Buildin *• v ~i < . * 'O 800-447-7436 MORTON BUILDINGS Gettysburg, PA 717-624-3331 Mt. Pleasant, PA 724-542-7930 PO Box W Moiton II 61SS0 w w w nioitonhuiklinys coni «Mmion liiiikimiis lm WV C onli uioi s I WWVOO7B4B celebrate Labor (saving devices) Day. On the down side, if you will, we have few excuses for not get ting all this stuff done. Stuff we maybe never even knew we needed to do or have before and now can’t live without. Like e-mail, faxing, VCR’s voice messaging, pagers, and try ing to respond to bombardment with more information than we have time to sort out. Not to mention having to leam to “pro gram” even the simplest things, like a wrist watch. No doubt, probably the largest labor management leap came when computerization crossed society’s threshold. And today’s brain “chips” have enabled downsizing bulky, backbreakers with just a few megs of memory to palm sized pieces with the storage space of a small library. Now we can take it all with us, even when what we really need more than anything is to get away from it all. Just last week, after hooking up parts, plugs and assorted pieces of plastic attachments, I re-programmed myself to operate a new fax machine. Our first well-used one had begun drawing long black lines on each sheet it received or sent before finally giv ing up the ghost. Like others, we’ve gone from barely being ac quainted with the word “facsim ile” to not being able to live with out a push-button, life-sized version of it to transport instant information. Not to mention the most perhaps übiquitous develop- ;s Farm/S Lancaster Announces Goat Roundup Results QUARRYVILLE (Lancaster Co.) Following are the results of the recent Lancaster County 4-H Goat Roundup. NON-SELLING MARKET GOAT Lightweight preview market goats: 1. Rachel Keener. 2 Amanda Grube. 3. Bntta ny Becker. Middleweight preview market goats 1. Bnan Geib. 2 Bethany Keener. 3. Joel Geib Light heavyweight preview market goats 1 Stephen Geib. 2. Nathan Eisenhower 3 Tyler Esh. ment of all laborsaving improve ments: the mobile phone. And while farmers adopt technology at a fairly fast rate even while poking fim at it, mobile phones have proved as much a boon to agriculture as milking machines, GPS crop-tracking and round balers. I can actually track down The Farmer when he is off-site and some critical component like a dead water pump or milk ing system glitch develops and needs to be fixed now. That, friends, is real progress. The Farmer still chuckles about one day, not too long after I equipped him with a mobile phone for my peace of mind, when he realized he been shoved into a new level of accessibility. Picking up supplies, he was somewhat inwardly laughing at folks walking through the supply establishment talking on theft cell phones. Until his rang with a message that a bearing had out on some piece of equipment at home and could he please pick one up on his way home. Reality is, we got along for years without all this “stuff,” and could again. If we had to. But the booming sales of new, improved, laborsaving gadgetry screams loud and clear that it isn’t going to happen. 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