Ida’s Notebook Ida Risser RED WING SHOES BOOTS THAT WORK OVERTIME WORK HARD ALLENSVILLE Allensville Shoe Shop Box 7 State Route HONEY BROOK Brandywine Shoe Shop 1620 Cambridge Rd. LANCASTER Red Wing Shoe Store 106 S. Centerville Rd. Woods Edge Plaza 717-509-1990 Fitting You Right Is Our #1 Priority. Star Route, Box 47 Zimmerman Harness RD 2 Box 36 814-793-3961 A new year has begun and there is no way that we can know if it will be a good year or a bad year. I guess it depends on what basis we use. Will there be anoth er very dry summer? Will our health be our number one con cern? Will our country be at war? There are so many possibilities. It is time to start our winter ac tivities. Embroidering pillow cases and making another braided rug are some of my busy work in winter when I can’t go outside. Because we do not go outside very much we have acquired an- DIS NBURi Fisher Harness & Lost Creek Shoe Shop Shoe Shop MARTINSBURG MIFFLINT RD #1 Box 88 MILLERSBURG Tall Pines Country Store 796 Kessler Rd 717-362-3024 (voice mail only) Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 4, 2003-811 other activity. The deer that I mentioned before now come up to our house. They amble around in our yard and sniff the bushes at the house. Sometimes we chase them away. When we called on one of our Amish neighbors over the Christ mas holidays, we disturbed a family gathering. They had 42 members of their immediate fam ily at a sit-down meal in their kitchen. How many of us could do that? There were grandchil dren of all ages. The kettle of mashed potatoes was a restau rant-size container. They even baked bread that very day and S§»j#E S TjSjJP Made in U.S.A. gave me a warm loaf. This year I’ve been given sev eral poinsettia plants. Some are a light pink, some light red and two are a brilliant red. Usually I can keep them for one year but I do not get them to bloom again. As I write this article we still have not had our Christmas gathering. I am certainly hoping for good weather as some people will travel great distances. In the many years that we have been hosts only once did we have to cancel due to a snow storm. How ever, the type of snack food that we serve can wait for another day. REHRERSBURG Leo’s Shoe Store Godfrey St. 717-933-8169 SPRINGFIELD Red Wing Shoe Store 511 Baltimore Pike 610-544-1664