Ida’s Notebook Ida Risser fi-rower^ Markete st*}H*Sb. — 2 TIT Marketer i «nc«**rl L</' lift'll r )/T» \ r~~~* \ \ ' I * 1^1 ufj tyeeS „ „,t;cers: Farmers vari “^ ' '» - f< //x «* *y t , i “ k ----- : os'v ioimsM hlt kb 1 " Section^—- M r -m \ IC. L.—. s«* pluming I I” , ' / tJra, ♦lvv Nf *SH TwCh ‘ lol vl»*' »"«•"'* n«V"' , ° W .,„*n - ' • , * » '*"*£ *’ H * ,r .-• *«’ C" -- - c tN u itn os -> ' •' - . „ '-; . 1 "'“ rl iY;£‘" ■o ( jj-v ; 1 ' p u .rw® Today I decided to write about life on our farm almost 40 years ago when our six children were all living at home. They ranged in ages from two years to 17 years old. This is what I read in my diary. It was a very busy time in De cember 1965. Every day I drove four children to kindergarten and had to pick them up again at noontime. At that time we did not have a freezer but rather kept our vegetables and meat at a local frozen food locker. Our 12-year-old boy liked to bake bread. I was surprised to read that I had made six fruitcakes be- A • Section to provide a complete preview and exhibitor map of the Mid-Atlantic Fruit and Vegetable Convention Jan. 27-29 in Hershey. • Aqua Country, serving the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic aquaculture industries. Also scheduled: • Fish hatchery feature from Lebanon County. • News from the Aquaculture Association annual meeting. • Calendar of events. |UCC< e tK <>“ b «m» lum ' n ’* T I *M>n l** 1 A I, , «W »' liwh 1 ' 1 fore Christmas. We seemed to do more visiting then than we do now. Our chil dren often had friends come to share meals with us. Not too much work got done when other boys came and so some com lay unharvested in the field. At that time we replastered a ceiling in our house and then painted it. Repair men had to come and fix the furnace and washing machine. We helped to butcher two big pigs that we bought from a neighbor. We bought snow tires and my hus band and an older boy went deer hunting. tb&i..’.*'" Wt% rif SATURDAY JAN. 24, 2004 SPECIAL FOCUS ON FARM MARKETS WITH FULL-COLOR LARGE-SIZE POSTER OF SOUTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA FARM MARKETS AND AQUA COUNTRY! Advertising Deadline: Thursday, January 15 ADVERTISER PLAN NOW TO RESERVE YOUR AD MESSAGE SPACE FOR THIS SPECIAL SECTION OF LANCASTER FARMING CALL 717 721-4415 NOW! Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 20, 2003-813 It was this month that our old est daughter was notified that she had a full scholarship to Alfred University in New York state. She was elated and so were we as she had always had her heart set on being a nurse. At this time she could drive a car and help with taking our children to 4-H meet ings. She also tutored several boys and girls in other school dis tricts. That year I canned and froze some 400 quarts of vegetables and fruits from my garden. We didn't have much money, but we had lots of good food to put on the table.
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