Ida’s
btebook
by
da Risser
rears go by our lives and
tivities change. We hope it
for the better but we never
As I’ve written a daily
ALLENSVILLE
Uensville Shoe Shop Fisher Harness & Lost Creek Shoe Shop Leo’s Shoe Store
Box 7 State Route Shoe Shop RD #1 Box 88 Godfrey St.
HONEY BROOK
andywine Shoe Shop
.620 Cambridge Rd.
KUTZT
r aynes Dry Goods
diary every day for almost 65
years, I thought it might be inter
esting to see what I wrote on Dec.
1. So, I’ve checked every 10 years
Fitting You Right Is Our #1 Priority.
MADISONBURG
Star Route, Box 47
MARTINSBURG
Zimmerman Harness
RD 2 Box 36
814-793-3961
since 1948.
On Dec. 1 of that year, I was
awaiting the birth of our first
child. She was bom Dec. 5, and I
was knitting a sweater for the
new baby. I baked a custard and
three pumpkin pies. I made scal
loped potatoes and a baked ham.
My husband hauled a load of our
potatoes to his brother’s home.
On Dec. 1,1958,1 went Christ
mas shopping for our four chi]p
dren. Alro, I altered one of my
old coats so that it could be worn
to do bam work. Again I baked
ham and squash while Allen went
to the bank and a grocery store.
On Dec. 1, 1968, we had two
children in college and the other
COMFORT that
four were in public school. We
celebrated a birthday early as our
daughter was home and had
worked three days at the Ephrata
Hospital. We took pictures to
send as a Christmas card and
packed a big lunch as four of us
were going deer hunting the next
day.
On Dec. 1, 1978,1 washed our
car, took a broken part of the
grandfather’s clock to Lancaster
to be repaired, baked date-nut
cookies for our Square Dance
Group, and talked to an aunt
who lived in a nursing home.
On Dec. 1, 1988, I walked all
over our farm with my husband
to mark which walnut trees we
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MIFFLINTOWN
MILLERSBURG
Tall Pines
Country Store
796 Kessler Rd
717-362-3024
(voice mail only)
wanted lumbered. Went shop
ping and bought Christmas cards
as we could not get all of our chil
dren together for a group picture.
They sold a cow and decided to
buy a new trailer as my husband
and son had formed a partner
ship.
On Dec. 1, 1998, I wrote my
Lancaster Farming article and
sent a card to an iff relative. My
husband got a thorn in his one
good eye and had to see a doctor.
I took old Christmas cards to an
adult care center.
We went from a household of
children to a household of two
older people. Our life certainly
isn’t as busy as it was 50 years
ago.
REHRERSBURG
717-933-8169
SPRINGFIELD
Red Wing Shoe Store
511 Baltimore Pike
610-544-1664