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while cooking. Placing the lid on a potof boiling water will trap heat and causethe water to come to a boil faster. Andthere is no need to preheat the ovenwhen cooking a large piece of meat, likea turkey or ham (you do need to preheatwhen baking or cooking smaller dishes).And, if you are planning on using theoven for a long period of time — forinstance, when you are cooking one ofthose large pieces of meat — you mightbe able to turn down your home’s ther-mostat. The simple act of cooking willadd warmth to the home because theheat from the oven can raise the temper-ature in the kitchen and surroundingrooms. This is especially true if you arehosting a party. Once your home beginsto fill with people, the temperature willquickly begin to rise.

Even after the meal is over, there arestill ways for you to save energy. Thefirst is to make sure that your dish-washer is full before it’s started. Next,make sure you are using the right set-ting on your dishwasher. Many newerdishwashers have sensors that detecthow clean your dishes are. When theseauto cycles are used, they will get dishesclean without wasting energy or water.The sanitize setting should rarely beused since it is energy-intensive. It isalso a good idea to make sure the filterat the bottom of the wash-tub is cleaned.This will help the washer work at itsoptimal level.

One of the cheapest and easiest waysto save energy in the kitchen is toreplace existing lights with LEDs. Notonly do they use less energy — youdon’t have to replace them nearly asoften. Plus, their costs have come downin recent years, making them far moreaffordable to install. (Note: if you cur-rently have linear fluorescent lamps,converting to LEDs may be too expen-sive to justify.)

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ferent ways to practice efficiency in thekitchen, and who knows — you couldeven save enough money to treat thefamily to dinner out a couple of times ayear.l

Brian Sloboda is a senior program man-ager specializing in energy efficiency for theCooperative Research Network, a service ofthe Arlington, Va.-based National RuralElectric Cooperative Association. TheCooperative Research Network monitors,evaluates, and applies technologies that helpelectric cooperatives control costs, increaseproductivity, and enhance service to theirconsumers. Additional content provided byESource.

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THE HOLIDAYS are upon us, whichmeans most of us will be spending a lotof time in the kitchen. Whether you areconsidering replacing an appliance orsimply looking for small ways to bemore efficient, here are some tips to helpyou save energy — and money.

It sits in the kitchen, quietly hum-ming away to keep your food cold. Mostpeople don’t think about their refrigera-tor that often — as long as it’s working.A refrigerator typically runs for severalyears without any problems — but thatdoesn’t mean it’s performing to its opti-mal capacity. Older refrigerators usemore energy. Upgrading this appliancecan bring a major return on your invest-ment.

According to Energy Star, if yourrefrigerator is from the 1980s, replacingit with a new model could cut your elec-tric bill by $100 a year. If you boughtyour refrigerator in the 1970s, the sav-ings could be as much as $200 a year.

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would become the model for the CivilianConservation Corps (CCC) work camps.Men at the CCC work camps built morethan 20,000 miles of paved roads inrural Pennsylvania.

But Pinchot’s most significant contri-bution to the life of rural Pennsylvani-ans came in the form of support forwhat would become the rural electriccooperative system. That support isnoted on a state historical marker inCrawford County, home of CambridgeSprings-based Northwestern Rural Elec-tric Cooperative.

One of Pinchot’s top priorities afterhe became governor in 1923 was to bringaffordable electricity to the state’s ruralareas. Pinchot hired Morris LlewellynCooke to develop a plan to distributepower throughout Pennsylvania. Pin-chot introduced the plan in the state leg-islature seven times, but it was neverenacted.

Cooke would go on to become thefirst director of the Rural ElectrificationAdministration (REA), created by execu-tive order by President Franklin D. Roo-sevelt in 1935. Carrying out Pinchot’sdream for the electrification of ruralPennsylvania, Cooke approved the firstREA loan in Pennsylvania for theSteamburg Electric Cooperative Associa-tion, which later became NorthwesternRural Electric Cooperative. The firstREA pole in Pennsylvania was set onAug. 5, 1936, on the A.D. Stainbrookfarm near Meadville.

Pinchot died in 1946. The Gifford Pin-

chot State Forest in Washington state isalso named in his honor.

State ups penalty for killing eaglesPeople who kill golden or bald eagles

soon will face stiffer penalties underPennsylvania law. In addition to fines,the penalty will include $2,500 forreplacement costs for each dead eagle.Previously, the replacement cost fee was$200 per eagle.

The Pennsylvania Board of GameCommissioners said the board’s recentaction to increase fees reflects the factthat although golden and bald eagles arerecovered in Pennsylvania, they stillneed further protection.

Hunters asked to report bandedpheasants

The Pennsylvania Game Commissionis conducting a study to assess harvestrates of ring-necked pheasants that wereraised on game farms, and then releasedin the wild to provide hunting opportu-nities. About 5,500 banded pheasantsand more than 200,000 non-bandedpheasants will be released over thecourse of this hunting season.

Each leg band is stamped with a toll-free number that hunters can call to pro-vide the date and location of harvest.Hunters who participate in this study willprovide important information that is cru-cial to the success of the study, and stateofficials are urging all hunters who bag abanded pheasant to report their harvest.In addition, anyone who observes a

Reader input still being acceptedRandomly selected Penn Lines readers who received a four-page reader survey in

October have until Dec. 15, 2015, to return the completed questionnaire to be eligibleto win an iPad Mini.

This survey is one of the important ways in which Penn Lines magazine and adver-tising staff gauges readers’ likes and dislikes, which helps determine editorial andadvertising content for the publication.

The questionnaire takes just minutes to complete and all responses are kept instrict confidence. If you were one of the readers who received a survey in the mail,please complete it and return it in the provided postage-paid reply envelope.

Remembering Gold Star familiesIn 2016, Penn Lines is planning a spe-

cial Memorial Day feature about GoldStar families who are consumer-mem-bers of a Pennsylvania rural electriccooperative.

A Gold Star family is a family whohas lost a father, mother, brother, sister,son, daughter or other loved one whodied during wartime in service to thenation. The term “Gold Star” refers tobanners first flown by families duringWorld War I. Banners were decoratedwith blue stars — one for each familymember serving in any branch of theU.S. armed forces. If that family memberdied during the war, the blue star wasreplaced with a gold star — a traditionthat continues today.

If you are a Gold Star family, or knowof a cooperative member who is part of aGold Star family, please let us know byemail at editor@prea.com or by mail toPenn Lines Editor, P.O. Box 1266, Harris-burg, PA 17108-1266.

Rural electric program leader honored with 150th birthday party

Gifford Pinchot, who was elected totwo, four-year terms as governor ofPennsylvania (in 1922 and 1931), and was

honored for his conser-vation efforts by havinga state park named afterhim, was recognized onOct. 11.

On the 150thanniversary of Pinchot’sbirth, the Gifford Pin-chot State Park in YorkCounty hosted a birth-

day celebration that included tree plant-ing, tree crafts and birthday cake.

Pinchot was appointed by PresidentTheodore Roosevelt as the nation’s firstchief forester in the U.S. Division ofForestry in 1898. In Pennsylvania, Pin-chot is well known for setting up workcamps during the Great Depression that

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banded pheasant that is found dead (forexample, if it was hit by a vehicle) is alsoasked to report to the commission.

The Pennsylvania Game Commissionwill use the results of this study todetermine pheasant harvest rates, butalso to assess where opportunities existto maximize the number of hunter-har-vested pheasants through changes instocking strategies.

Ag department launches farmerveterans program

The Pennsylvania Department ofAgriculture is recognizing farmers whoare veterans through a partnership withits PA Preferred program and the

Homegrown By Heroes(HBH) initiative.

PA Preferred is theofficial Pennsylvaniabranding program usedto identify locallysourced agriculturalproducts made orgrown in Pennsylvania.

HBH is the official farmer veteranbranding program in the United States.Products with the HBH logo are pro-duced by military veterans from allbranches and eras of military service.

Pennsylvania Secretary of Agricul-ture Russell Redding has said that 2 per-cent of our population feeds us andanother 2 percent protects us, and manydo both. This partnership is one way torecognize and support them.

For more information about the PAPreferred program, go to www.papre-ferred.com, and for more informationabout the HBH program, go to www.far-mvetco.org/homegrown-by-heroes.

Gettysburg Cyclorama paintingto be open ‘after hours’

“An Evening with the Painting,” aspecial after-hours exclusive programhighlighting the Gettysburg Cycloramapainting at the Gettysburg National Mili-tary Park Museum and Visitor Center,has been scheduled.

Visitors will be able to explore the his-tory of the genre of cycloramas in general,as well as the specific history of the Battleof Gettysburg Cyclorama. The presenta-tion will include a discussion of the multi-

year conservation effort of thelarge painting, along with timeto view the painting in fulllight and a journey under thediorama to see how the illu-sion comes to life.

The painting, done in thelate 1880s by French artist PaulPhilippoteaux and a team ofassistants, measures 377 feet incircumference and is 42 feethigh (longer than a footballfield and as tall as a four-storybuilding). It focuses on thefury of Pickett’s Charge duringthe third day of the Battle ofGettysburg. Conservationwork was done on the painting from timeto time, and beginning in 2003, the paint-ing underwent a five-year, $13 millionrehabilitation/preservation project. It isnow located in the Gettysburg NationalMilitary Park Museum and Visitor Centerin its own viewing auditorium.

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RURAL AIRWAYS

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Ed Sell’s childhood memories are filled withtales of flying exploits by neighbor Allen

Baker, who flew a B-24 bomber for the U.S. ArmyAir Force in World War II.

“I was born and raised here on this place,” Sellsays of his Bedford County home served by NewEnterprise Rural Electric Cooperative. “Allen wasour closest neighbor and when we were kids, weworked with him, making hay and other chores.He would talk to us about flying and I alwaysknew that’s what I wanted to do. He was a biginfluence on me.”

At first, Sell listened to Baker’s stories aboutflying. Later, Sell had his own flying stories to share

Local airports connecting cooperative members

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AIRPLANE LINEUP: Nearly 40 planes from three states participate in the 2015 fly-in at Brokenstraw Airport inWarren County. The airport is served by Warren Electric Cooperative.

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with Baker. It is thanks to Baker, whopassed away earlier this year in his mid-90s, that Sell now has a family airstrip. Selldidn’t own enough level land to build anairstrip, but Baker did. Years ago, theytransferred some land between their fami-lies, and the Sells built the airstrip betweenthe residences.That means Sell and his wife, Lois, can

walk out their door, across their yard,push their four-seat Cessna Skyhawk 172out of its hangar, taxi down the grass run-way, and take off.“Back when gas was 60 cents a gallon,

we flew all the time,” Sell says. “We haveflown to Florida, Wisconsin, all over. Nowwe pretty much just fly around in this area.”Sell is one of approximately 19,000

licensed Pennsylvania pilots, his plane isone of more than 8,000 aircraft based inthe state, and his airstrip is one of morethan 600 private-use and 130 public-useairports in Pennsylvania, according to thePennsylvania Department of Transporta-tion’s Bureau of Aviation.The airports — or aviation facilities as

they are officially known by the state —range from international airports down towhat to the untrained eye looks like amowed field. Whatever their size, they pro-vide a gateway into and out of Pennsylva-nia for both people and products.

Economic impactBut they are more than that. According

to a study prepared for the PennsylvaniaDepartment of Transportation’s Bureau ofAviation by consultant Wilbur Smith Asso-ciates, Inc., airports also stimulate eco-nomic activity through jobs, contribute tothe attraction and retention of businesses,facilitate the emergency transfer of patientsto local and area medical centers, and pro-vide assistance in local law enforcementand search-and-rescue operations.Statewide, the industry employs more

than 304,000 people and provides morethan $23.6 billion in annual revenue impact,according to the Bureau of Aviation. DuBois Regional Airport, which is

served by United Electric Cooperative, isone of the state’s small commercial aviation

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facilities, recording between 5,000 and6,000 commercial passengers annually.The Wilbur Smith Associates Inc. studylists its direct economic impact at $12.8 million for airport output withanother $3.1 million for visitor output.It may be on the small side for an air-

port, but DuBois Regional Airport Man-ager Bob Shaffer says, “We give anyoneaccess to the world through Silver Air-ways, which offers daily flights with 34-passenger turboprops from DuBois toDulles International Airport in Wash-ington, D.C.”As for why passengers choose to fly

out of DuBois? Shaffer says, “It’s handy. The parking

is free, and the TSA lines are short,because the most people you’ll ever havein front of you is 33. It’s also reasonablypriced.”The airline has a maintenance facility

onsite, along with a restaurant, rentalcar office, rental space for 20 privateplanes and a maintenance shop. It isoperated by an airport authority, with anine-member board appointed by

BEHIND THE COUNTER: United Electric Cooperativemember Patty Benninger, a customer serviceagent for Silver Airways Corp., is the first facemost flyers see when they arrive at the DuBoisRegional Airport.

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Airports aren’t only for airplanes. At some airports — likeBrokenstraw Airport in Warren County — small airplanes andgliders share air space. Other facilities — like the Mid-AtlanticSoaring Center in Adams County — cater exclusively toglider pilots.Brokenstraw Airport, which is served by Warren Electric

Cooperative, is a well-known spot for “soaring” — what gliderpilots call using lift to power their unpowered aircraft. Al Gustafson, a glider pilot from Warren, says the preva-

lence of thermals, which help provide that lift, makes Bro-kenstraw Airport ideal for soaring. Gustafson has been fasci-nated with gliders since the early 1970s.“At my military base in Vietnam, they had a top-secret

aircraft,” he recalls. “It was always covered with a shroud.One time I saw it without the shroud and I took a photo. Itwas a glider. It didn’t work out too well for the military, but itsparked my interest in gliders, and when I got back to theU.S., I looked into it.”Gustafson is one of about 20 members of the Brokenstraw

Soaring Club, which has more than a dozen single-seat glid-ers based at the airport, along with a two-seat club trainer. For those not familiar with soaring — it involves a tow

plane (a small plane that attaches to an engine-less gliderwith a rope), the glider and an upward current of warm air

known as a thermal. The plane’s pilot typically tows the gliderto about 2,000 feet and disengages the rope. The glider pilotis on his own from there. Besides the obvious goal of landingsafely, the glider pilot can either focus on staying aloft for aslong as possible or trav-eling as far as possible.A typical glider’s topspeed is around 100 to150 miles per hour.At Brokenstraw Air-

port, airplanes and glid-ers share the air spacearound Pittsfield, but atthe Mid-Atlantic SoaringCenter near Fairfield, it’sall about soaring.Located at a privatelyowned airport served byAdams Electric Coopera-tive, the center operatesa three-runway, 119-acrefacility. The Mid-AtlanticSoaring Association has about 90 members, making it oneof the largest U.S. soaring clubs. The association has sixgliders (including four two-seaters for instruction) and fourtow planes, and many members have their own gliders.Rick Fuller, a former president and safety officer, says

club activities are scheduled every weekend March through

B y K a t h y H a c k l e m a n

Sky’s the limitGLIDERS SHARE AIRSPACE WITH AIRPLANES

Clearfield County and Jefferson Countyofficials. It operates as its own munici-pality, with a private water system, firehydrants, fire department, sewage treat-ment plant and small industrial parkwith two additional businesses: CactusWellhead and Orien Drilling.

Flying communitySmaller yet, but still critical to its

community, is the Brokenstraw Airportnear Pittsfield. In fact, it was Broken-straw Airport owner Bill Holder’s dreamto “save” aviation in Warren County thatled him to purchase the small airport in1992 when its owner — John Teconchuk— died and his family had no interest inoperating the airport. The airport isserved by Warren Electric Cooperative.While he has succeeded to this point,

he’s unsure what the distant futureholds for small airports.“There are fewer and fewer people

flying as the years pass,” Holder says.“It’s probably due to a combination ofthings — people don’t want to take thetime to study to get a license, and thecost of fuel has gone up from around $2(per gallon) in 1992 to more than $5.40now.” In the meantime, he’s doing what he

loves — flying and working on airplanes.He has completed multiple upgradessince taking over the airport, includingadding a fuel farm, regrading and light-

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ing the runway, and constructing a 10-unit, T-hangar, office/pilot lounge, andmost recently, a new maintenancehangar. (Much of the construction workwas done by Turner Enterprises, ownedby Dave Turner, chairman of the War-ren EC board. A pilot, Turner alsokeeps two planes at the airport hangar.) “I wouldn’t exactly call this an occu-

pation,” Holder says with an easy laugh.“I work full time for little money, but Ienjoy the camaraderie.”The camaraderie he talks about was

on full display at the annual fly-in, heldin late August at the airport. Nearly 40planes from three states — Pennsylvania,Ohio and New York — participated, withpilots and passengers flying in for a tra-ditional barbecue with all the fixin’s pro-vided by Holder and Sue Wonderling.Brokenstraw Airport is home to two

flying clubs, along with Valair FlyingService, which provides instruction andaircraft rentals. The Warren Aviation Club, founded

in 1958, has been at the BrokenstrawAirport since 1972. The club, which has

November (weather permitting). Activities include flighttraining, cross-country flying, task competitions and hostingone of many Soaring Society of America regional sailplaneracing contests.

“Soaring is all aboutgoing up and finding lift,which comes in differentforms,” notes Fuller, aretired U.S. Navy pilot.“Think of cross-coun-

try competition like asailboat race,” he says.“You have to go aroundcertain turn points. Youcruise on one thermal, goaround one point, pick upthe next thermal, roundanother turn, and finallycome back home. Dis-tances covered can be upto 100 to 200 miles.”What if the glider

pilot doesn’t hit the correct thermals to bring him home?“You can always land on a small grass airstrip,” he says.

“Or there are farmers’ fields. We get good at two things: ana-lyzing the local weather and looking at fields to see whichones you could land in safely if you can’t make it back.”If that happens, he adds, it’s not a major problem as the

gliders break down easily and can be trailered back to theairstrip. All the pilot needs is a friend willing to drive thetrailer to the impromptu landing zone. And the ability tochoose a safe landing spot.“You learn all of that in training,” Fuller says. “Students

learn how to operate the glider, everything about thermalsand how to do a safe spot landing.”Integral to completing a safe landing — whether planned

or unplanned — is learning how to operate the controls,including the control stick and rudders, along with “spoilers”— fences atop the wings that change the lift. Speed is con-trolled by adjusting the glider’s nose down for faster or upfor slower.The perfect day for soaring is a sunny, mild day without a

lot of wind, Fuller says, noting the National Weather Serviceand several dedicated soaring prognosticators do a good jobof predicting soaring conditions.The Fairfield airport is excellent for gliding, Fuller says,

due to its location and types of lift. In addition to the com-mon thermal lift, the area also is known for its “ridge lift,”which allows gliders to fly along the ridges low and fast.A third, more unusual, type of lift in the area is the “wave

lift,” Fuller notes. During the right meteorological conditions,the air flows like water over rocks, providing “bounces” athigh altitudes. This only occurs occasionally in the late fall,winter or early spring.“Still, the No. 1 rule is always, always stay within glide

range of a good field,” he adds.

HIGH IN THE SKY: This photo by BaudeLitt, taken for the Mid-Atlantic SoaringAssociation near Fairfield, Pa., showsthe bird’s-eye view glider pilots havefrom the air. The association is housedat the Mid-Atlantic Soaring Center, amember of Adams Electric Cooperative.

BUSINESS TRAVEL: Mark Folk, owner of Keystone Lime Company and the Keystone Lime Airport, enjoysflying for fun, but over the years he has taken many trips to industry meetings and to pick up parts forhis business, which is served by Somerset Rural Electric Cooperative.

10 members, owns a Cessna 172, andmembers pay an initiation fee, monthlydues and plane rental rates.

Hyperlocal If Brokenstraw Airport is considered

“small,” then the only word that could

be used to describe the Keystone LimeAirport in southern Somerset County is“tiny.”Mark Folk, owner of Keystone Lime

Company, headquartered in Fort Hill,and a member of Somerset Rural Elec-tric Cooperative, says many of his flying

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hours have been for pleasure, but hehas also racked up business hours inthe air. “There’s a big machinery place in

Pittsburgh that has a little airport,” hesays. “I have flown there for lots ofparts. It only takes me 20 minutes to getthere, so I save time and have fun whiledoing it.”The Cessna Skylane 182 — his fifth

plane — is only one of several planesthat use the Keystone Lime Airport. It’snot classified as a public-use airport, butit is listed on aviation maps for use incase of emergencies or with permission,and Folk says it’s not unusual to have anaircraft land weekly. That’s because it has a long, paved

runway, uncommon for a private facility.“I have always liked to fly, and we

had a grass airstrip that was sufficientfor what I wanted to do,” he relates.“One of the things we do at KeystoneLime is crush stone and make blacktop,and one day I went to Milwaukee forparts. When I came back, my father hadpaved the strip. After it was paved, morepeople began to want to land. One day,the FAA people came and said, ‘Whydon’t you just put it on the aviationmap?’ That’s when we began to get moretraffic.”

That traffic is not always asmall plane. Once, crewsfighting a nearby forest firebased their tanker trucks atthe airstrip and flew in toload their helicopters. Somer-set Rural Electric Cooperativehas also used the airport torefuel helicopters that arechecking and clearing rights-of-way around electric lines.As Folk looks toward

retirement, he expects busi-ness flying trips to winddown. Of his three daughterswho work with him — Bev-erly Critchfield, Melinda Gib-son and Kendra Geigra —only Critchfield has flownregularly with him, and hedoesn’t anticipate she’ll everpick up parts in a plane. Back on their grass run-

way the Sells contemplatewhere their next meal will be.While they don’t fly the long-distance runs they once did,their love of flying remains —even if it’s flying somewhere just to get abite to eat. “We’ll go to Lancaster, DuBois,

Latrobe, Johnstown for breakfast or din-

ner,” says Ed Sell. “We pick an airportthat has a restaurant or a courtesy carand we’ll go out to eat. We love to fly. It’sfun, it’s relaxing.”l

DIFFERENT SIZES: DuBois Regional Airport, one ofthe state’s small commercial aviation facilities,caters to small, private aircraft, as well as 34-pas-senger turboprops operated by Silver AirwaysCorp. that fly daily to Dulles International Airportin Washington, D.C. The airport is served by UnitedElectric Cooperative.

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AT YOUR SERVICE: Ed Sell holds the airplane door open for hiswife, Lois, as she boards their small aircraft in preparation for tak-ing off from their on-farm, private airstrip in Bedford County. TheSells are members of New Enterprise Rural Electric Cooperative.

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TIMElines Y o u r N e w s m a g a z i n e T h r o u g h t h e Y e a r s

1975 The Railroad Museum in Strasburg is one ofa network of museums and historic sites operatedby the Pennsylvania Historical and MuseumCommission.

1985 Roy and Carol Decker, Sussex, N.J., aren’toften visible in the woods, but they are there.Hidden in a blind, he photographs wild animalswhile she sketches them.

1995 Depending on the viewpoint, Pennsylvania’sdeer herd is either a cash cow or a maraudingmenace, and everyone has an idea on how tomanage it.

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Remember to caulk and weather stripyour windows before making any otherwindow efficiency improvements. Movea stick of lighted incense near all gapsand watch the trail of the smoke to findair leaks. Do this during windy weather,or briefly switch on an exhaust fan todraw outdoor air in through the gaps.

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OUTDOORadventures b y M a r c u s S c h n e c k

SORTING some outdoorgear into various storage con-tainers the other day, I cameacross our current Colemanlanterns — durable, battery-powered, quad lanterns thatcan also be separated intofour flashlights each.

I love those lanterns. Insix or seven years of camp-ing, fishing, emergencies andwhatever, they’ve never failedme.

It wasn’t always that Icould say that about a Cole-man lantern. I hated myfather’s old, metallic, liquid-fuel Coleman that went withus on every camping andnight fishing trip more thanfour decades ago.

That beast required extracaution in filling it with thewhite gas in the square metalcan. We even had a special, lit-tle, metal funnel that traveledwith the lantern to allow spill-less filling, most of the time.

It demanded a certainnumber of pumps to build upenough pressure before stick-ing a lit match into the glassglobe to light the cloth man-tels, which spread a diffusedcloud of burning gas into theglobe to produce light.

And, it seemed that aboutevery 10th time or so, thosemantels had exceeded theirlifespan and crumbled intonon-functioning dust. Thatmeant a dismantling of theglobe to carefully tie newmantels onto the gas outletsbefore the lantern would pro-duce light once again.

Camping really was“roughing it” back in the day.

Nearly every aspect of livingat a campsite for a weekendor week was work. It wasn’tthe work that people did dur-ing their normal 9-to-5 lives,so it also was play for thatpoint in the history ofleisure-time activities.

But that Coleman lanternwas state of the art in its day,the best available technologyat the time.

It also was the latest in avery long line of lanterndevelopments from Coleman,which in 1909 first offered analternative to the smoky,kerosene-burning lanternscommon in the early 20thcentury.

W.C. Coleman introducedan outdoor, “weatherproof”version of the lantern in 1914.

His first lanterns burned

white gas — Coleman fuel —to generate 300 candlepowerof light. For those of the digi-tal age, that’s 3,771 lumens.

Battery-powered Colemanlanterns would wait until 1986.

A common quality amongthose lanterns is their dura-bility. I still have my father’slantern. If I wanted, I couldtie on some new mantels,pour some fresh Colemanfuel and light her up.

IF I wanted, that is. I don’t.I prefer to grab a handful ofbatteries and get my quad-lanterns ready for camping,fishing, emergencies or what-ever.l

MARCUS SCHNECK isthe outdoor writer forThe (Harrisburg) Patriot-News and its website,PennLive.com. He alsowrites for many outdoorpublications and is theauthor of more than

two dozen books. Keep abreast of his adven-tures and writings at www.marcusschneck.com.

TIMES — AND LANTERNS — CHANGE:

Camping has gotten easier with theswitch from old fueled lanterns totoday’s battery-powered models.

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COUNTRYkitchen b y J a n e t t e H e s s

PUMPKIN PANCAKES

1 egg1/2 cup canned pumpkin1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons lightcream (half and half)

1/2 cup milk2 tablespoons packed brown sugar1 teaspoon vanilla extract1 cup (5 ounces) flour2 teaspoons baking powder1 teaspoon cinnamon1/2 teaspoon saltButter, warm maple syrup, and toasted pecans for serving

With electric mixer, beat egg until foamy. Add pumpkin, light cream, milk,

brown sugar and vanilla extract. Add all dry ingredients and beat just until

smooth. Heat non-stick griddle until hot enough to make a drop of water

sizzle. To make pancakes, pour scant 1/4 cup batter on hot griddle and

spread out slightly with back of cup. Cook until bubbles appear and edges

look dry. Flip. Continue cooking until interior is set. Adjust griddle temper-

ature downward as necessary to keep pancakes from burning. Makes

approximately 10 pancakes. Serve hot with butter, warm maple syrup and,

if desired, toasted pecans.

Irons and griddlesWAFFLES and pancakes are much appreciated when familiesgather for the holidays. It’s hard to imagine an easier, more satis-fying way to fill those ever-emptying plates.

This month’s recipes bring seasonal flavors to waffles andpancakes. Simply mix up some pumpkin- or stuffing-flavoredbatter, warm up the proper iron or griddle, and start feedingyour hungry horde.

Pumpkin Pancakes add a hint of autumn to traditional break-fast fare, while savory “Day-After-Thanksgiving” Waffles mightjust change the way your family views leftovers. Stack these veg-etable-studded waffles with sliced turkey, warm gravy and evenmashed potatoes to create trendy, open-faced sandwiches.

If or when your supply of pumpkin pie runs out, PumpkinSpice Waffle Bites might just save the day. A cross between a

cookie and a cake donut, these tasty nuggets cometogether quickly and disappear quickly, especiallywhen dunked in cream cheese frosting! lA trained journalist, JANETTE HESS focuses her writing on interesting

people and interesting foods. She is a Master Food Volunteer with her

local extension service and enjoys collecting, testing and sharing recipes.

DAY-AFTER-THANKSGIVING WAFFLES 1/2 cup finely diced onion1/2 cup finely diced celery4 tablespoons butter, divided2 teaspoons poultry seasoning2 cups (10 ounces) flour3 teaspoons baking powder 3/4 teaspoon salt1 3/4 cups milk2 eggs, beatenLeftover Thanksgiving turkey, mashed potatoes and gravyIn non-stick skillet, sauté onion, celery and 2 tablespoons butter untilvegetables are softened, about 5 minutes. Add poultry seasoning andremaining butter. Set aside to cool. Combine dry ingredients in mixingbowl. Whisk in milk, beaten eggs and sautéed vegetables. Bake waffles inhot, non-stick Belgian waffle iron according to manufacturer’s instruc-tions. Separate waffles into sections. To serve, top with heated, slicedturkey, warm mashed potatoes and hot turkey gravy.

PUMPKIN SPICE WAFFLE BITES

3/4 cup granulated sugar1/4 cup soft butter1 egg1 cup canned pumpkin1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 cup (5 ounces) flour3/4 teaspoon salt3/4 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon cinnamon1/4 teaspoon ginger1/8 teaspoon nutmeg1 recipe Cream Cheese Frosting

OR 1/2 cup powdered sugar

Beat together sugar, butter, egg, pumpkin and vanilla extract. In separate

bowl, combine flour, salt, baking powder and spices. Whisk pumpkin mix-

ture into dry ingredients. Drop by tablespoons onto each section of heat-

ed, non-stick Belgian waffle iron. (Most irons have 4 sections.) Cook

according to manufacturer’s instructions, carefully removing and transfer-

ring each waffle bite to cooling rack when done. Repeat until all batter is

used. Serve with Cream Cheese Frosting or, while still warm, coat with

powdered sugar. To coat with powdered sugar, place powdered sugar in

large zip-lock bag; add waffle bites, 6 or 8 at a time, and shake. Makes

approximately 30 waffle bites.

CREAM CHEESE FROSTING

2 tablespoons butter, softened

4 ounces cream cheese, softened

2 cups powdered sugar1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Beat together all ingredients and serve with Pumpkin Spice Waffle Bites.

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EDITOR’S NOTE: Longtime Power Plantscolumnist Barbara Martin is retiring fromwriting in order to focus on another creativeendeavor: art. She recently satdown to discuss her lifelonginterest in gardening and whatshe will be doing next. Here areher answers to our questions:

Q — What sparked yourinterest in gardening?

A — I vividly rememberseeing the koi pond at Long-wood Gardens near Philadel-phia and visiting the Chil-dren's Garden in New York’sCentral Park when I wasabout 4. By the time I was ateen, my father worked forthe United Nations and welived overseas. We visitedsome famous European gar-dens and I fell in love withtropical plants. By my late20s, I had become a seriouslyobsessed hobby gardener andstudied after work and onweekends for a U.S. Depart-ment of Agriculture certifi-cate in horticulture.

Q — Tell us about your gardeningexperiences.

A — Over the years, I’ve done marketgardening with vegetables and cut flow-ers, worked for a small retail nursery,and designed gardens for myself andothers coast to coast. I was a Penn StateMaster Gardener in Adams County for atime, and from there began teaching gar-dening. I had a sprawling country gar-den and I also worked as a designerthrough a nursery. Then I worked as atelecommuting horticulturist for theNational Gardening Association.

During the 10 years I wrote garden-ing columns for Penn Lines, we movedto Oregon, then Los Angeles and finallyto Oregon again. I now have a yardwith several “inherited” mature treesand shrubs. I am learning to grow

many zone 8 plants I envied fordecades living in colder winter areas.We also have “food” plants: Oregon

grape, hardy banana tree, a palm, figtrees, ginger, rhubarb, taro, plus onetomato, some roses for hips, and a fewculinary herbs.

Q — What is your favorite part ofgardening?

A — All of it! Even weeding, exceptfor battling oxalis, English ivy, and poi-son oak or poison ivy.

Maybe the planting. I love trees andshrubs and flowers. The excitement oflaying out a new planting area andselecting plants at the nursery and set-ting them out. I love imagining how itwill all look. Or maybe the vegetablegarden when the new plantlets are intidy rows and the seeds are beginningto come up.

Maybe watching the landscape in thespring — coming back to life so full ofsurging vitality. Or maybe in winter,

wandering in the cold and peering atthe buds to see if they are still healthy,hoping for glorious winter color pops

like hellebores or Chinesepaperbush. Or summer,when the lavender is wafting,the roses are blooming andthe daylilies are out. Or fall,when the colors change andwe really see the twig andbark textures and the fruitsand nuts and notice the dis-tinct patterns of the ever-greens. I like it all.

Q — How did you beginwriting about gardening?

A — First, I wrote a piecefor a small nature reservenewsletter, then a short col-umn for the local paper, fol-lowed by a weekly internetcolumn, a regional columnfor the National GardeningAssociation website, a regu-lar contribution for theNational Home GardeningClub’s magazine, and finally,my monthly column here in

Penn Lines. I have also had pieces pub-lished as far away as Canada, Australiaand Texas. Penn Lines was my last writ-ing assignment.

Q — What are you focusing onnow that you have retired from writ-ing gardening columns?

A — Although I have always enjoyedwriting and gardening, I have also dab-bled in art since childhood. During thepast 10 years or so, I have developed myinterest in art, and I am now makingmy name as an artist working in paint,encaustic and collage. My work is in col-lections from Los Angeles to Brooklynto Miami and I have shown in Norway.I also teach art workshops from time totime. I have a website, BarbaraMartinArt.com, and am on Facebook at Bar-baraMartinArt. Sometimes, I share pho-tos from my garden. l

SPOTlight

Columnist turns attention from writing to art

FAVORITE ART: This encaustic painting (using paint made from pigment mixedwith hot beeswax and resin) is one of artist/writer/gardener Barbara Martin’sfavorite pieces of artwork she has created.

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BRINDLE AUCTIONEERING now accepting quality consignmentsfor fall and winter sales. Competitive rates. FFC license. We canlegally sell your firearms. $25.00 each sale. 3rd Saturday eachmonth and New Years Day. 717-360-9493.

BUILDING SUPPLIES

STEEL ROOFING AND SIDING. Over 25 years in business. Severalprofiles — cut to length. 29 and 26 gauge best qualityresidential roofing — 40-year warranty. Also, seconds, heavygauges, accessories, etc. Installation available. Located -northwestern Pennsylvania. 814-398-4052.

FACTORY SECONDS of insulation, 4 x 8 sheets, foil back. R-Value 6.5 per inch. Great for pole buildings, garages, etc. Manythicknesses available. Also blue board insulation sheets. 814-442-6032.

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

TIRED of the Rat Race? Want to own your business? Low cost,high-end leadership company has open positions! 814-603-0231.

CHURCH LIFT SYSTEMS

Make your church, business or home wheelchair accessible.We offer platform lifting systems, stair lifts, porch lifts andramps. References. Free estimates. Get Up & Go Mobility Inc.724-746-0992 or 814-926-3622.

CONSULTING FORESTRY SERVICES

NOLL’S FORESTRY SERVICES, INC. performs Timber Marketing,Timber Appraisals, Forest Management Planning, and ForestImprovement Work. FREE Timber Land Recommendations. 30years experience. Call 814-472-8560.

CENTRE FOREST RESOURCES. Forest Management Services,Wildlife Habitat Management, Timber Sales, Appraisals. Collegeeducated, professional, ethical foresters working for you. FREETimber Consultation. 814-571-7130.

CRANE SERVICE

NEED A LIFT? Crane service for all your lifting needs.Experienced, fully insured, Owner-Operated and OSHACertified. Precision Crane LLC, Linesville, PA 814-282-9133.

FENCING

HYDRAULIC POST DRIVER FOR RENT. Easy hookup andtransportation. Safe, simple operation. Convenient, cost-effective alternative for setting wood posts by hand. $200 forfirst day, $175/additional day. 1-800-KENCOVE.

FINANCIAL FREEDOM

DO YOU NEED CASH NOW? No buying — No selling — Noboss. Computer needed. Jim Vargo 314-614-6039.www.smileyougotcash.com.

GIFT AND CRAFT IDEAS

SPECIAL OFFER — BOTH COOKBOOKS FOR $12. “CountryCooking” — $5, including postage. “Recipes Remembered” —$7, including postage. Both of these cookbooks are a collectionof recipes from men and women of the electric co-ops ofPennsylvania and New Jersey. Payable to: Pennsylvania RuralElectric Association, P. O. Box 1266, Harrisburg, PA 17108. WriteAttention: Cookbooks.

HEALTH AND NUTRITION

Tired of all those medicines — Still not feeling better? Do youwant to feel better, have more energy, better digestion, lessjoint stiffness, healthier heart/circulation and cholesterollevels? Find out how to empower your own immune system —start 1-26 today! It’s safe, affordable, and it works. Call 800-557-8477: ID#528390. 90-day money back on first time ordersor call me 724-454-5586. www.mylegacyforlife.net/believeit.

HEALTH INSURANCE

DO YOU HAVE THE BLUES regarding your Health Insurance? Wecater to rural America's health insurance needs. For moreinformation, call 844-591-2797 (PA). Call us regarding Medicaresupplements, too.

INFRARED SAUNAS

Removes toxins, burns calories, relieves joint pain, relaxesmuscles, increases flexibility, strengthens immune system.Many more HEALTH BENEFITS with infrared radiant heatsaunas. Economical to operate. Barron’s Furniture, Somerset,PA. 814-443-3115.

LAWN AND GARDEN EQUIPMENT

HARRINGTONS EQUIPMENT COMPANY, 475 Orchard Rd.,Fairfield, PA 17320. 717-642-6001 or 410-756-2506. Lawn & Garden equipment, Sales — Service — Parts.www.HarringtonsEquipment.com.

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LIVESTOCK AND PETS

PEMBROKE WELSH CORGI Puppies — AKC, adorable, intelligent,highly trainable. Excellent family choice. Reputable licensedbreeder guaranteed “Last breed you’ll ever own.” 814-587-3449.

FOR SALE: New pony saddle, excellent shape, brown with 14-inch seat. Lots of silver. Great for pleasure or show. $325. 570-744-2675 or 570-250-1513.

FOR SALE: Pony driving cart. Rubber tires, immaculatecondition. Easily holds 3 people. Use for pleasure or show.$450. 570-744-2675 or 570-250-1513.

COLLIE — JUST IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS — 11.1. AKC registeredsable/white and tri color puppies. Full white collars fromparents with great temperament and personality. Veryintelligent pets. Call 814-793-3938.

LOG CABIN RESTORATIONS

VILLAGE RESTORATIONS & CONSULTING specializes in 17th and 18th century log, stone and timber structures. Wedismantle, move, re-erect, restore, construct and consult allover the country. Period building materials available. Thirtyyears experience, fully insured. Call 814-696-1379.www.villagerestorations.com.

MISCELLANEOUS

BECOME AN ORDAINED MINISTER — Correspondence Study. Theharvest truly is great, the laborers are few, Luke 10:2. Freeinformation. Ministers for Christ Outreach, 7558 WestThunderbird Rd., Ste. 1 — #114, Peoria, Arizona 85381.www.ordination.org.

MOTORCYCLE-SNOWMOBILE INSURANCE

For the best INSURANCE RATES call R & R Insurance Associatesfrom 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 800-442-6832 (PA).

PENNSYLVANIA HUNTING LAND WANTED

OUR HUNTERS WILL PAY TOP $$$ to hunt your land. Call for afree base camp leasing info packet and quote. 866-309-1507.www.BaseCampLeasing.com

REAL ESTATE

BEAUTIFUL LODGE WITH 78 ACRES next to Blue Knob State Park.Two bedroom, great hunting, near ski area. Five miles frominterstate 99. Call 814-404-4662 or email: bknisel@comcast.net.

CLEARFIELD COUNTY, LUMBER CITY. 35 acres mostly wooded,secluded yet accessible, timber, natural gas, large metalcommercial building, spring water. $175,000. Call George. 814-237-1000.

RECIPES AND FOOD

SPECIAL OFFER — BOTH COOKBOOKS FOR $12. “CountryCooking” — $5, including postage. “Recipes Remembered” —$7, including postage. Both of these cookbooks are a collectionof recipes from men and women of the electric co-ops ofPennsylvania and New Jersey. Payable to: Pennsylvania RuralElectric Association, P. O. Box 1266, Harrisburg, PA 17108. WriteAttention: Cookbooks.

SAWMILLS

USED PORTABLE Sawmills and COMMERCIAL Sawmillequipment! Buy/Sell. Call Sawmill Exchange 800-459-2148. USAand Canada. www.sawmillexchange.com.

SHAKLEE

FREE SAMPLE Shaklee’s Energy Tea. Combination red, greenand white teas that are natural, delicious, refreshing, safe. Forsample or more information on tea or other ShakleeNutrition/Weight Loss Products: 800-403-3381 orwww.sbarton.myshaklee.com.

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TRACTOR PARTS — REPAIR/RESTORATION

ARTHURS TRACTORS, specializing in vintage Ford tractors,30-years experience, online parts catalog/prices, Indiana, PA15701. Contact us at 877-254-FORD (3673) orwww.arthurstractors.com.

VACATIONS AND CAMPSITES

NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Florida condo rental. Two bedrooms, twobaths, pool. 200 yards from beach. NA February. No pets. $500weekly, $1,800 monthly. Call 814-635-4020.

RAYSTOWN VACATION HOUSE RENTAL. Sleeps 11, fireplace, fourbedrooms, table for 12, 2 flat screen satellite TVs, 2 flbaths, 2hfbaths, linens/towels provided. Minimum two nights. Call 814-931-6562. www.laurelwoodsretreat.com.

RAYSTOWN — $1,600 to stay all summer. Within .3 of a mile ofSeven Points Bait and Grocery. Call 301-593-1817.

WANTED TO BUY

CARBIDE — Paying cash/lb. — Some examples of items thathave carbide pieces at their tips for cutting or drilling are: coalmining machinery — roof bits — road bits — gas/oil/water welldrill bits — machining inserts as well as many others. We willpick up your materials containing carbide pieces. We willextract the carbide item from the part in which it is held inmost cases. 814-395-0415.

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Issued monthly, 12 times annually.Subscription price is $5.42 for members of electric distribution cooperatives in Pennsylvania. Mailing address of office is 212 Locust Street, P.O. Box 1266, Harrisburg, Dauphin County, PA 17108-1266.Publisher is Pennsylvania Rural Electric Association, P.O. Box 1266, Harrisburg, Dauphin County, PA 17108-1266. Editor/Director of Communications & Member Services is Peter A. Fitzgerald, P.O. Box 1266, Harrisburg, Dauphin County, PA 17108-1266.Owner is Pennsylvania Rural Electric Association, P.O. Box 1266, Harrisburg, PA 17108-1266. There are no otherowners or bondholders. The purpose, function, and non-profit status of this organization and the exempt status for federal income tax purposes have not changed during the preceding 12 months.TOTAL NUMBER OF COPIES:: Average number of copies each issue during the preceding 12 months, 166,334. Actual number of copies of single issue (September 2015) published nearest to filing date, (September 166,204).PAID CIRCULATION:Average Mailed Outside-County Paid Subscriptions, 165,004 (September 164,916).Average Mailed In-County Paid Subscriptions, 0 (September 0).Average Paid Distribution Outside the Mails including Sales through Dealers and Carriers, Street Vendors, Counter Sales, and other Paid Distribution Outside USPS, 669 (September 645).Average Paid Distribution by other Classes of Mail through the USPS, 42 (September 37).TOTAL PAID DISTRIBUTION: Average, 165,715 (September 165,598).FREE OR NOMINAL RATE DISTRIBUTION: Average Outside-County Copies, 277 (September 293).Average In-County, 0 (September 0).Average Copies mailed at Other Classes through the USPS, 0 (September 0).Average Distribution Outside the Mail by carriers or other means, 146 (September 112).TOTAL FREE OR NOMINAL RATE DISTRIBUTION: Average, 423 (September 405).TOTAL DISTRIBUTION: Average, 166,138 (September 166,003).COPIES NOT DISTRIBUTED: Average, 196 (September 201).TOTAL: Average number of copies each issue during preceding 12 months, 166,334 (September 166,204).PERCENT PAID CIRCULATION: Average percentage during preceding 12 months, 99.74 percent (September 99.80 percent).PUBLICATION OF STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP: Publication required. Will be printed in theNovember 2015 issue of this publication.

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Thoughts from Earl Pitts,UHMERIKUN!

PUNCHlines

Social commentary from Earl Pitts —— a.k.a.GARY BUR BANK , a nation ally syndicatedradio per son ality —— can be heard on the fol-lowing radio stations that cover electriccooperative service territories in Pennsylvania:WANB-FM 103.1 Pittsburgh; WARM-AM 590Wilkes-Barre/Scran ton; WIOO-AM 1000 Carlisle;WEEO-AM 1480 Shippensburg; WMTZ-FM 96.5Johnstown; WQBR-FM 99.9/92.7 McElhattan;WLMI-FM 103.9 Kane; and WVNW-FM 96.7 Burnham-Lewistown. You can also find him atEarlpittsamerican.com.

Walking may addyears to your life, but itwill also add ‘life’ toyour years

Pearl, my better half,has talkedme into walkin’. For fun. I hate walkin’. Tomy way of thinkin’, the only reason you gowalkin’ is to get somewhere that’s too closeto get the pickup out for. But she heardthis story on the radio the other day thatsome four-eyed science dweebs some-where discovered that walkin’ 25 minutesa day can add seven years to your life.

Seven years that you will spendwalkin’. Thank you, science.

Anyways, just so y’all understand —walkin’ is a city activity. That’s where yougot them nice little neighborhoods withthem nice little sidewalks. Stop signs andtraffic lights. Y’all got street lights thatcome on at night and “Caution — Childrenat Play” signs.

Out where we live, we ain’t got no dangsidewalks. Or street lights. Heck, we’relucky to have pavement. No sir, we got toget out on the road to walk. And outwhere we live, if you go a quarter mile,you’ve gotta pass five dead animals in theditch that got hit by a car. And you’re onthat same road because your better halftells you you’re gonna live seven yearslonger if you go walkin’.

It didn’t work out so well for those tworaccoons, the deer and two rabbits!

Also, out where we live, people like tofree-range their dogs. So you’re gonna getchased. It’s just a matter of time. If you’rewalkin’ down the road in my neighbor-hood, you’re playin’ “dog roulette.” Onaccount of you don’t know which one isgonna come up on the road after you.

Last week, we had us a crazed, evilwiener dog chasing us. Only the dog wasin the ditch in the high grass and we wasup on the road runnin’. And somebodytold the boys down at the Duck Inn thatthey seen Pearl chasin’ me down the road.

I says, “No, y’all got that story wrong. Itwas a crazed, evil wiener dog chasing me.”

And Runt Wilson says, “If that’s theway you talk about your sweet Pearl, I cansee why she’s chasing you.”

So then I had to explain the wholestory. That took one of the seven years thatwalkin’ had added to my life.

Wake up, America! Yeah, out wherewe live, there’s only one good reason yousee people walkin’ on the road. They run outta gas. I think it’s best to keep itthat way.

I heard a storyon the radio theother day that the country was sufferin’from a shortage of psychiatrists. That’sright — our number of shrinks hasshrunk. These medical experts say nobodywants to be a psychiatrist anymore onaccount of they don’t make as muchmoney as regular doctors.

Well, I’m thinkin’ it’s that, plus they gotto work with crazy people all the time. Canyou imagine your job involves workin’with certified nut-jobs for eight hours aday? Every person you see is loonier thanthe last. Well, come to think of it, most ofus do have jobs where we are workin’ withcrazies at least some of the time.

Now me personally, I have never beento the shrink. I have never needed theirservices. On account of I’m married. Andevery man alive that’s got a wife knowsthey provide all the psychiatric servicesyou’ll ever need.

Like monitoring your mental stability.Your wife is all the time askin’ you if you’recrazy. She’ll regularly say things like, “Areyou nuts?” “What the heck are youthinkin’?”

So, you can go to some four-eyed, pipe-smokin’ Sigmund Floyd head-doctor whowill show you an ink blot on a piece ofpaper and ask you what you think that is.Or, for about $100 less, your better half willpoint to a stain on the arm of your reclinerand ask you what you think that is.

Some Dr. Phil wannabe will lay youback on a couch and make you rememberall the stuff you ever did. But if your betterhalf catches you layin’ on the couch, she’llmake you remember all the stuff you saidyou would do the next time you had a freeminute.

Wake up, America. Basically, your bet-ter half provides the same mental healthservices as a psychiatrist — only for free.I’m Earl Pitts, Uhmerikun.l

RURALreflections

Debra NeilTri-County REC

Thank you, photographersIN THIS traditional season of giving thanks, we want toacknowledge all of the amateur photographers who submittedphotos for our 2015 “Rural Reflections” contest, which is nowclosed. Winning photos, chosen by an independent panel ofjudges, will be printed in the January and February issues ofPenn Lines.

Photographers can now begin submitting photos for the2016 contest. If your photo wins top honors, you could receivea $75 prize in one of our five contest categories: most artistic,best landscape, best human subject, best animal and editor’schoice. Runners-up will receive a $25 prize.

Send photos (no digital files, please) to: Penn Lines Photos,P.O. Box 1266, Harrisburg, PA 17108-1266. On the back of eachphoto, include your name, address, phone number and thename of the electric cooperative that serves your home, busi-ness or seasonal residence.

Remember, our publication deadlines require that we workahead, so send your seasonal photos in early. We need springphotos before mid-January, summer photos before mid-April, fallphotos before mid-July and winter photos before mid-Septem-ber. Photos that do not reflect any specific season may be sent atany time. Please note: photos will be returned at the end of eachcontest year if a self-addressed, stamped envelope is included.l

Carolyn BledsoeAdams EC

Stephanie LeverknightSomerset REC

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Christine LantzClaverack REC