On Being a Farm Wife (and other hazard: Joyce Bupp Tis the perfect season for pro crastination. But soon there will be no more putting off ‘til tomorrow what should have been done yesterday. It will be too late. No, this year’s procrastinating hasn’t been over holiday prepara tions. Holiday chores sort or, more or less, as best we can just get wiggled in between the daily chores and all those surprise jobs that crop up and need prompt at tention. Herd checks and bill paying. Freshening cows and tending new baby calves. Spend ing a whole afternoon upgrading The Farmer’s cell phone service when his obsolete pocket-side kick finally died. Implementation of a long-delayed conservation improvement in a pasture. Wedged between the routine n&s-s- ■B a a .6- ;# p? °-/ V 3 pc. END TABLE SET \ I w/Chrome ■ W »SS. , I 539M6. . 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Ipr)yppgrppht<m fcrjory jasafttf ifre pgty tq substitute altrtanw j 13; Leaves around the house rarely fail much before Thanksgiving, meaning that an early snow or a sudden freeze often leaves us with a littery-looking lawn for winter’s duration. At least until it gets covered with snow. But, thanks to the extended period of weather procrastination, we now have a tidy lawn for the holidays and a neater landscape to look out upon until spring. On another September-like re cent afternoon, my guilt and I lugged a spade to the garden to dig up the gladioli bulbs. The chore had been postponed earlier, when the soil was brick hard. And then, simply forgotten. Until one of those soggy, sodden days of welcome moisture, when the thought of the bulbs still undug popped into my mind. No worse for their extended underground storage, the bulbs were like little treasures turning up in spadefuls of soil perfect for digging. 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One was apparently growing or confused over procrastinating weather and was already pushing out little green sprouts. Roses planted in the fall, and pruned back weeks ago in antici pation of winter, have since thumbed their thorny noses at the calendar and pushed out lush fresh foliage. Another, missed in that early round of pruning, poked up a five-foot shoot, after languishing in the summer drought. Dandelions have been happily blooming around the yard for the past few weeks, some of them even going to seed. And, back under the big old Norway spruce, where some well aged tomatoes apparently were pitched, at least a half-dozen stocky, sturdy tomato plants have sprouted into foot-high wannabees. Would a few potted and held over until spring give us the earliest ripe tomatoes in the On Nov. 17, Roberta Shepherdson, Landisville, was hostess to Lan caster Farm Women Society 18. Refreshments and social time were enjoyed as members arrived. Mary Lou Shelton led in devotions. Members answered roll call by telling who was the inspiration for their first and middle names. Some reported they were called nicknames, others were given a family name for the first or second name or named after a relative. After a business meeting led by Ruth Landis, president, committees presented reports. The interesting “show and tell” program involved all members. Each showed photographs of parents and grandparents and an item received from them. The birthday song was sung for Ella Mae Hershey who had a No vember birthday. ■ ■ For Value-Added Sales or for Personal Use 1 a Process meat easily and affordably with Chop- ■ ■ Rite Two Meat Processors. Make sausage for your JJ * own use or to sell. Save time and money and have ■ ■ the freshest ground meat ever. jj ORMsusmi w]% wm* : 531 Old Skippack Rd. J Harleysville, PA 19438 . on the Web: 1 www.chop-file.com J » mft'm mm* m m'*m --- - - J. & sk Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 15, 2001-B3 Lancaster Society 18 Call 1-800-683-5858 neighborhood next June? Or maybe just become straggly, stemmy, buggy plants? We may find out, if I get a few potted up, without procrastinating too long about it. While Mother Nature has been procrastinating around about the seasons, the mail-order seed folks haven’t. In the past, the spate of colorful, enticing seed catalogs usually began arriving just as the Christmas card deliveries stopped. This year, we already have at least three of them stacked and waiting on the to read pile. With a little more procrastina tion on Mother’s part, despite a few frosty-white morning set backs, we may just get caught up enough on the outside chores to start getting serious over study ing those garden wishbooks. In the meantime, its been great weather for putting up outside holiday decorations. And...l just remembered an other batch of dahlia roots still buried in the ground.
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