Ida’s Notebook Ida Risser The end of February is near. I’ve always enjoyed winter, ex cept for icy roads, as it gave me a respite from outside work. I’ve always had a big garden and in earlier years, I sold sugar peas, sweet com, and strawber ries. My customers were people who live in a nearby develop- ANIMAL HEALTH & HOUSING Vaccination Programs Disease Prevention ■ Animal Housing Keystone International Livestock Expo ment. I’d take orders on the tele phone and then deliver them. As we lived at the end of a dead end road, we did not have traffic going by. So, I put baskets of tomatoes along the road at my parent’s house. One day a little neighbor girl was sent to buy a small box of cherry tomatoes. She DISTRIBUTION... Lancaster Farming Circulation Empire Farm Show Ag Progress Show All American Dairy Show ■/*/_ EFERENCE GUIDE April 6 August 6,7,8 August 20,21,22 September 22-26 October 2-7 returned them as her mother thought they were cherries I guess they looked like that from a distance. I’ve alw.' v ■ grown two kinds of sugar pea l he seed came from my moth i i-law and is now available from the Heirloom Seed Project at the Landis Valley Mu seum. Risser’s Sictde Peas will grow to a height of six-feet if there are good weather condi tions. So, they definitely need a fence. The Risser Early Sugar Peas are a ’ shorter and will bear peas in May. Four or five hundred-foot rows of peas gave me more than I needed for our family. My girls never enjoyed picking them as much as I did. Thus, they would ask to go to the house and prepare meals. At 8- or hed Sat., April dime, March 9 ■ Biosecurity ■ Health Issues ■ Feed Programs Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 23, 2002-B7 Leant Joys Of Quilting YORK (York Co.) “Com mon Thread,” the newsletter of the York Quitter’s Guild has an nounced plans for a National Quilting Dav Workshop sched uled for S turday, March 16 from 9am to 3 p.m. The guild will gather ■<. i St. Paul’s Lutheran 10-years-old, they learned to put the meat on the stove first, peel potatoes, and then cook the vege tables. Baking they really en joyed, and they begged to do it everyday. Even our boys baked pies, cookies, and cakes. So, while it is still .winter, I’ll try to finish the braided rug that I’m making and maybe embroi der another pair of pillow cases. * Church on Trim" ic id (Route 616) off Route 3( i V est York. The public is in ued to learn about the joys of quilting. National Quilting Day is offi cially designated for quilter’s around the nation to celebrate their passion for quilting by com ing together to spend the day working on quilts or quilt-related projects. In the past, the guild has worked on baby blankets that were donated to a local charity. This year, it is anticipat ed that the members will work on “UFOs” (unfinished objects), a special personal project as well as items that will be sold at “A Cel ebration of Quilts 2002,” the guild’s quilt show, scheduled for June 29-30. r FOR SALE 'V PEANUT \ HULLS 1 For | BEDDING Most effective as bedding for all kinds of beef and dairy cattle, hogs, ' horses, sheep and Any (Ami Also - Steel Roof Trusses for Buildings • Portable Hog Buildings - Bucket Elevators ■ Grain Augers Distributors - Flow Pipes & Accessories Ph: 570-345-3724 Fax:s7o-345-2294 STOLTZFUS WELDING SHOP Owner - Samuel P. Stoltzfus RD 3, Box 331, Pine Grove, PA 17963
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