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Show Wife Will Not Be Pale Won't Have to Use Sun Lamp To Thaw Pipes This Year en house and the barn frostproof frost-proof faucets, which give water at 20 below. Like all great inventions, in-ventions, they are simplicity, itself. The vslve thst turns on the water is buried three feet beneath the earth where it can't freeze: an iron rod reaches down to this. Ths water gushee up through a pipe, which draina itself when the fsucet is shut. I don't ever expect to thaw the pipes and freese my feet again. When we bought our beaten-up beaten-up old house in Fairfax county there were so msny brambles, bushes, and stsnds of honeysuckle honey-suckle in the bsck pasture thst we didn't know what was underneath. under-neath. We eventually got these cleaned out and disclosed to our own amazement a concrete root cellar, a pioneer inatalled a couple of generations sgo. This, we have fitted with a new door, as on a refrigerator. Insids on strsw-lined racks we hsve placed a few dozen bushels of our best apples which, according ac-cording to the agriculture department, de-partment, should stay perfect II winter Most of our aDDleS By Frederick C Othmaa M LEAN. Vs. It s frosty in ths hills of Virginia these mornings. morn-ings. The leaves sre turning technicolor. The squirrels are stealing nuts thst cost me 63 cents a pound in the chain grocery. The horse is growing himself a fine, new overcoat and winter, obviously, is upon us. Only this year, aa a trsns-plsnted trsns-plsnted city man in ths country, I'm not dreading it I'm waiting wait-ing anxiously for the first big snow to see how my preparations prepara-tions work. Ths snowplow, which I ordered more than year ago, arrived this August. It hitches on to the front of my tractor and I've been practicing with it ever since, moving mud. It works fine: I think I've been snowbound on my own road for the laat time. Then there ia the little matter mat-ter of my bride's sun lamp, which she bought for her health's sske. She never got to use it lsst winter, becauae I kept it most of the time thsw-lng thsw-lng the water pipee at the barn. Thia left Mrs. O. pale for more reasons thsn one, but this winter she csn hsve her lamp. I have Installed in ths chick- had specks andor worms. The latter, ssid my bride, hsd to be removed before I could squeeze 'em into cider. I told her that I hsd read in a scientific Journal where the worm wss more nourishing than the apple. She ssid, no worms in her cider. This cider is getting - hardar as time - goes by and Tm waiting for the first cold spell to freeze the wster in same and leave me with the alcoholic essence. The beautiful leaves, unfortunately, unfor-tunately, are fluttering earthward. earth-ward. There la a fellow named Harry Truman in Washington who haa a leaf problem similar to my own and he has solved it with an oversized vscuum clesn-er clesn-er with a sest on it. A gasoline engine does all the work and his mschinery put-puts across his lawn, aucking up the leaves as it goes. This is sn expensive -solution; sbout $700 worth. But then Mr. T. got a whopping big raise this year. Me, I've got to atirk by my rake. Leaf rsking is hard work, but also a kind of sstisfsction. Ths president burns his. I understand, un-derstand, but I bury mine in a pit back of the barn. After a year of rain and sun they turn into the richest, blsckest fertilizer ferti-lizer you ever ssw. It costs me nothing, except blisters, and if you'll pardon me now I'll get back to producing some of the lstter. Copyright, 1949. United Feature Syndicate |
