Lehman’s Country Life

With the price of gas so high, you’ve probably seen a few hundred articles on how to save it. The frugal among us have known for years that you don’t gun the engine just so you can slam on the brakes at the next stop light, and you don’t drive unnecessarily, and you don’t drive around with the car (or truck) loaded with things you’re not using or transporting from here to there. That just makes good sense.

But now it’s getting serious. The price of gas keeps… well, I was going to say “crawling,” but it’s more like leaping upwards. This upward bounding might slow down and even stop, (we can dream) but the chance of the price going back down, at least to any appreciable amount, is pretty small.

So… we’re stuck with high and higher gas prices. Is there any reasonable thing we can do to help our fuel budgets? “Reasonable” may be in the eye of the doer, but there are definitely things we can do to cut back how much we’re spending for transportation.

Try these out:
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As part of Lehman’s Local Artisan Festival on July 12th, Sue Steiner will be at the store doing a painting demonstration and offering artwork for sale. Sue’s farm animal murals can be seen at Lehman’s in the Buggy Barn as well as in the outside eating area of the cafe. You can have your picture taken by Sue’s most recent mural, Rex and Roy, the life sized team of Amish work horses that was painted this winter. She’ll also have on hand more ‘Rex and Roy’ equine art as well as an assortment of Amish, farm and farm animal art. For more information on Sue go to www.suesteiner.com as well as www.kidronarts.com to read about the other local artists who will be participating in the art festival.

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At Lehman’s Local Artisan Festival on July 12th you will get an opportunity to meet local woodturners Tom Smucker and Bob Schloneger of Can Do Woodworking. They will bring a lathe similar to what you see in the pictures and demonstrate taking a natural log, green and wet, mount it on to the lathe, shape the outside, and hollow out the inside of the bowl. While turning the bowls, Tom or Bob will answer questions from people watching. Another demonstration will be turning a hollow form which is a more difficult level of turning. An example of hollow forms is a vase where a small hole is at the top and the inside is completely hollowed out. Turning these hollow forms is difficult because you cannot see inside the vessel as you cut away the wood. At Can Do Woodworking we teach students of all ages the art of turning bowls and finishing them. You can find more information about our three-day school on our website http://www.candowoodworking.com/ We will have a selection of bowls and hollow forms that may be purchased the day of the festival. To read more artist profiles of local artisans who will be participating in demonstrations at the art festival go to www.kidronarts.com

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Mosaic art has a rich and varied history that goes back thousands of years. In today’s culture it is appealing on several different levels. Often the mosaic pieces are made from recycled materials such as broken glass or tiles and can be made into sturdy, decorative and functional art. On July 12 Lehman’s will be hosting an art festival featuring local artists and craftsman sharing their wares and doing demonstrations. Artist Melody Kirby will bring her beautiful mosaic crosses to show and sell. Other artists who will be in attendance at the festival include potters, painters, woodturners, wool rug hookers, fiber artist, gourd artist, mural artists in addition to musicians, special food and kids activities! To read artist profiles on Melody Kirby and other local artists go to www.kidronarts.com

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Bill Cosby once said, “Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.” (For the majority of fathers, we could add neckties and cologne to that phrase, too.) So this year, make sure Dad doesn’t have to pretend. Give him a gift he can really use, and we guarantee his smile and “Wow!” will be 100% heartfelt.
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Once in a while here at Lehman’s we get a chuckle out of the mainstream media’s “breaking news” reports about new, improved, healthier and “greener” ways of living.

We chuckle because many times the products they’re celebrating are the same ones we’ve been quietly offering for years. Many are some of our customers’ favorites, and some we’ve been selling for over 50 years (so they’re most definitely not “new.”)
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You can meet Deby Welty, a local artist, at Lehman’s Local Artisans Festival on July 12th. Deby will be at the art festival with her home grown gourds giving lessons on how to paint your very own decorative gourd birdhouse. To see samples of Deby’s work and read artists profiles of other people you can meet at the festival go to www.kidronarts.com In addition to the artists there will be live music, special food and live demonstrations. Be sure to mark your calendar and spend the day with us!

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People! Are your goats healthy? Your sheep? No arthritis? No hard udders that are a mystery? Are they eating well? Not just peanut butter in celery sticks; as I tell husband Norm, goats do NOT live on peanut butter alone (man does not live on peanut butter alone either, but that’s another story). Or could some of your animals have CAE? Do you even know what CAE is? Sadly, many do not; but don’t feel badly if you are one who does not. Just read on.

CAE (not pronounced ‘kay’ but ‘C - A - E’) is the acronym for CAPRINE ARTHRITIS ENCEPHALITIS. This is a disease that is transferred by milk or by fluids. This means that if your doe has CAE, you cannot allow her kids to be nursed by her or even allow her to lick and clean the kids. Even sneezing can transfer the infection.

Now, I don’t want to put fear in your hearts, but CAE is really a disease to be aware of and avoid if at all possible. Not every animal that has CAE will show signs, but one could be a carrier for youngsters to develop it. Both goats and sheep can carry and suffer from CAE, even though it’s predominant in goats. So I will not keep saying “goats or sheep” but let you change “goat” to “sheep” in your head if you wish.

CAE can have two different signs - a neurological disease in the spinal cord and brain of young kids and a joint infection of older goats resulting in arthritis.
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A handful of motherwit is worth a bushel of learning. -Spanish Proverb

Thank you, Mom, for teaching me.

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I had lots of visitors today in the Buggy Barn at Lehman’s while working on the Hitching Post Mural.  Once I am done with the horse portion of this mural I will paint a Lehman’s sign and a hitching post.  My hope is that people will stand by the Hitching Post to take pictures and that is just what happened today!  Stan, Sandy, Paul and Brenda from Zanesville, Ohio have already been in the store twice to see the progress on the mural and they even asked if I would take their photo.  Don’t they look great?? What fun this was for me and I think they were enjoying it too!  They said they’d be back when I was finished for another picture. 

Thanks for stopping by! 

Sue Steiner

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