Vol. 2 No. 6
{AMISH COMMUNIT Y NEWS}
Summer Memories By Ellen Hershberger
Every summer, Mother would pack up the two seater buggy with us seven children and good food, and we’d go to Nelson Ledges Park. It was always an event we looked forward to, and we’d walk the trails and ride the merry-go-round with our cousins. Dad raised Billy, the safest horse we ever had, and at 9 years of age I’d be sent to Parkman to Al George’s store with a grocery list. I still like to drive a horse. Mom raised lots of peas. She’d bake bread, and then we’d put the creamed peas on the soft bread and that was our main dish for supper. One time brother Leir and I tried to see who could eat the most ears of corn. I think he won. Mom usually lined the edge of her large garden with 4-o-clocks. Oh, they smelled wonderful in the evening and morning when it was cool. We also had a pond where we’d wade in barefooted to catch tadpoles. None of us ever fell in, but I once fell in the creek on the way home from school. But that’s another story.
Summer Memories By Barbara Ann Detweiler
I loved going to my Grandparents’ farm and being involved with all the action that happens on a farm. I helped drive the horses while making hay and loved being in the barn with all those Holstein cows and drinking cold, fresh milk out of the bulk tanks. I remember that once, while chopping corn to fill the silo, my uncles in the silo got a scare because Grandpa’s hat went through the chopper and they saw the pieces after it went through. But the best part was eating Grandma’s delicious dinners. Grandpa and Grandma aren’t with us anymore, and I still miss them a lot. Memories are very precious.
July 21, 2010
Surviving Hot July From Sarah Miller:
Drink lots of water!
From Barbara Detweiler: We have no air conditioning, so once the temperature is warmer outside than inside, I close all the windows and the curtains where the sun shines in and the house stays cool.
From Anonymous: Keep foods and desserts light with plenty of salads, fruits, ice tea and lemonade.
From Jacquie Foote: Do as many chores in the early morning as possible. Then, spend the hottest part of the day in the coolest place you can find, reading, visiting, letter writing, playing board games … or just plain dozing! (If you don’t know where the coolest pace in your house is and you have a house cat, just go wherever it goes! ) Remember … when you sweat, you lose more than just water. You lose minerals that also must be replaced. There are drinks or drink mixes available that do replace the minerals. The most well known of these is Gatorade, which you can find in the juice section of the stores. There are also drinks specially meant for young children. These you will find in the pharmacy area. (A sign that you have lost too many minerals and need to replace them is that you get to feeing very tired and “muddy headed.” I like to say it feels like you are “thinking through a head full of pudding.”)
Summer Survival Hint Submitted by Katherine Byler
Selsun Blue Shampoo is good to put on skin rash to help get rid of it.
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