On Being a
Farm Wife
(and other hazard:
Joyce Bupp
Most food-related establish
ments have walk-in refrigerators.
Then there are some of us with
walk-out refrigerators.
Our walk-out refrigerator is
fully functional only during cer
tain periods of the year, of
course, that time span when out
side temperatures hang at sub
freezing. It saw extra heavy use
during the recent holidays, when
the seasonal excess of food prep
arations and “feast” leftovers
overflowed normal storage space.
Snow and sleet discouraged
the usual feline back porch
perchers while a couple of wire
mesh lawn chairs lingering from
summer offered off-floor storage
with surrounding cold air flow. A
layer of snow only helped further
chill the large roasting pan filled
with turkey carcass bones and
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old brick house exposed to a
stretch of 95-degree days.
Having always lived in houses
with porches makes it hard for
me to even imagine not having
the escape hatch of an outdoor
room. The most mundane jobs,
from folding laundry to snapping
beans from the garden, seem less
a chore when done in the fresh
air ambiance of the porch. No
matter what the source of the
stress of the moment, five min
utes on the porch provide a quick
“mental health” escape.
The wide front porch of the
bits to be reprocessed into soup, house where I grew up lingers on
secured for good measure inside in a significant role in my child
a large, new plastic trash bag. hood memories. Countless sum-
Additional leftovers in sealed mertime vacation hours were
containers added to the porch-re- whiled away on the porch swing
frigerator stash, tucked away in a of our family home, reading the
sturdy, closed, cardboard box. likes of Nancy Drew and Tom
Regular picnic coolers work Sawyer, or practicing embroidery
equally well, especially for long- and knitting. My brothers and I
er-term storage of items like played games and cards there,
quantities of citrus fruits or perched on its steps to observe
apples and look way more pro- the fanning activities of the
fessional. neighborhood and used it as
Temporary food storage is but
one of the uses of our back porch,
which doubles as our outdoor liv-
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of our meals are enjoyed there,
overlooking the fields, meadow
and ponds. And, on suffocating
July nights, we’ve been known to
campout on deck chairs to escape
the old-brick-oven effect of an
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“home” base for after dark
games of hide-n-seek and kick
the-can.
Both Mom and Dad, in their
retirement years, spent hours and
hours on their porch, entertained
by the endless parade of vehicles
and the comings and goings in
their busy neighborhood.
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Boost Your Child’s
Language Development
LEESPORT (Berks Co.)
Language is a tool that will last
your child for a lifetime. Ensure
that your child gets off to a good
start with these simple, but im
portant suggestions.
With Babies:
• Talk to your baby often.
Talk about things you are doing
and the objects around you.
• Use routines such as feeding
and diapering as opportunities to
talk with your baby.
• Introduce your baby to
books. Make this time an enjoya
ble one with your child.
• Find a childcare provider
who understands the importance
of talking to babies.
With Toddlers:
years (Before Computers), I often
lugged the accounting paperwork
out to the back porch on pleasant
days, weighing down bills and re
ceipts with the stapler or edge of
the accounting journal. More
than once, a receipt had to be re
trieved when a gust of wind
whipped around the edge of the
porch and sailed it out over the
bannister rail and into the lawn
below. Laptop computers now
allow for a return to the porch for
“paperwork” on stunning days
when staying inside is intolerable.
News that our second and
third generations would be re
turning from their decade in the
West coincided with our musings
several springs ago about extend
ing the porch with a deck. It now
provides an appropriate race
track area for tricycles and riding
tractors, a shady haven for a sto
rybook moment and picnic tables
which double as impromptu tent
structures when covered with old
blankets. '*'
For whatever reason, ptSrches
fed out of favor fofipnany years,
and builders eroßlfl’ homes
minus these wondern®*elaxation
areas. But porches mil to be
growing in popularity again, as
homeowners rediscover their
pleasures.
And they’re a lot handier for
temporarily storing a turkey car
cass than just stuffing the pan in
a snowbank where it might be
frozen fast for weeks.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 4, 2003-B3
Take your cue from the child.
As they say words, use them in a
sentence.
• Expand their vocabulary by
using new words. You’ll be sur
prised at how quickly toddlers
figure out word meanings and
start to increase their vocabulary.
• Read with your toddler at
least once each day. Look for
books with repetition and rhym
ing words. Young children love
this.
• Use a photo album with pic
tures of family, friends, places
and objects. This will soon be
come a favorite book.
• Use words that describe feel
ings.
• Record your voices on a tape
recorder.
• Sing with your child and
provide music in the child’s envi
ronment.
• Leam some simple finger
plays and poems that you can
teach your child.
Acetaminophen
And Your Child
LEESPORT (Berks Co.)
Acetaminophen is an
over-the-counter (OTC)
remedy (common brand
name: Tylenol) parents
often give to children for
pain, fever, or other symp
toms without advice from
health care providers.
Some parents use too much
of this drug.
Some think that if a little
acetaminophen works well,
more will work better. Just
because it is an OTC med
ication doesn’t mean it is
risk-free.
Signs and symptoms of
acetaminophen intoxica
tion can include nausea,
Vomiting, abdominal pain,
and liver failure. Many
OTC cold and cough prep
arations contain acetamin
ophen, and the simulta
neous use of more than one
such product may lead to
an overdose.
Source: ECELS Health
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