Ida’s
Notebook
by
Ida Risser *
The beginning of May and all
the flowers are blooming.
When I was a teenager, my six
sisters and I planned a “May
Day.” Each year a different girl
had the opportunity to be
crowned queen. She wore a pret
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ty cape and a crown and held a
big bouquet of flowers. Then it
was time to get the camera and
record the event. We copied what
was done at our high school and
had a lot of fun doing it.
Most of my garden was plant
ed the other week as a son and
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This year I planted white onions
f instead of yellow ones. I hope
/ that I won’t be sorry as I’ve
/ heard they do not keep as well.
/ The yellow ones were packaged
in a very large package and I did
not need a bushel or two of on
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jSr large yard, and my husband did
jSf some.
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nice meal of spare rite for them
with some fresh asparagus. They
didn’t guess the fruit in the des
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cranberries and not cherries.
The other day I broke my
good, old hoe as I weeded the
strawberry bed. We shall only
have a few berries as the bed of
plants is quite old. Maybe our son
can weld the hoe for me. One can
get attached to a tool alter many
years of using it.
My husband can get around
the house maybe too good. He
stumbled over a block of wood in
the garage and really banged up
his face. The skin came off of his
nose and he had a big bump on
his forehead. The nosebleed
lasted for hours but he is recover
ing okay.
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