Lifestyles

Dear
Ramona

DEAR RAMONA,

I'm a teenage girl who has been going steady for two years with a real nice boy. We've enjoyed each
others company at church picnics, high school dances and once I even let him hold my hand after skipping stones on Prater's Creek.

But Ramona, he says he wants to start "heavy petting" with me. I just don't know if I'm ready. Any advice?

—A NICE GIRL

DEAR NICE GIRL,
You're ready! Go right ahead. Why when I was 13, I started heavy petting with my boyfriend and it was great.

Me and my boyfriend went behind Mr. Jones barn and we did it. We bought a 500 Ib. cow. We raised it, sold it, bought two more, raised them and sold them too. Not only did we make a handsome profit, but we won three blue ribbons from the 4-H club for our cattle raising and two for our hogs.

We found working with bigger animals was more fun and profitable than working with rabbits, chickens, goats or any other manner of light petting.

So you and your boyfriend start heavy petting and maybe you'll name your first cow "Ramona."

—RAMONA

Prater's Creek Resident Tries,

With Help Of Scientists,

To Bring Skating Star To Farm

Local bluegrass picker. Dr. Ignatius J. Trundell has been trying to come up with another "big name" event to entertain the folks around here. With the help of some local scientist, he is trying to invent artificial ice. "Well the ski slopes have been a doin' it with artificial snow for years," said Trundell. "So I's readin' a Kurt Vonnegut book, Cat's Cradle, and I started figurin', "Hey, Ice Nine! Now there's an idea.

 "Trundell wants to be able to freeze the Drover's pond while it's still warm weather, he hopes to get the 1992 Gold Medal figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi to make a public appearance at his family's farm. "Why doesn't he just wait until the pond freezes naturally?" "Because she won't be wearin' one of those little outfits if it's too cold outside. She'd have to bundle up and what's the point in that?" Yamaguchi could not be reached for comment.

Spaghetti Supper To Benefit

Volunteer Fire Company

The Prater's Creek Volunteer Fire Company will hold a spaghetti supper this Friday night at the fire station on Stewart Gin Road. Plates will be $4 for adults and $2 for children under twelve.

The volunteers are raising money to buy a fire truck. The fire wagon, which the Ben Franklin Museum donated to the Prater's Creek Community in 1942, is in dire need of replacement and is 150 years out of date. Fire Chief Flint McCalister commented, "Dawg gone, even the Amish in Pennsylvania stopped using wagons and bought trucks years ago!"

McCalister also said his band, Flint and the Flat Tops, would perform at the spaghetti supper.

Black Raspberry Pie

(Mrs. Slovic's own recipe)

Crust pastry for 10-inch double crust pie:
2 cups flour
1 teaspoon salt
2/3 cup shortening
5 to 6 tablespoons cold water
Sift flour and salt. Add shortening. Add cold water by teaspoons, tossing with a fork. Make into a ball and divide for upper and lower crusts. Chill pastry. Roll pastry 1/8 inch thick and line 10- inch pan. Add pie filling. With the other half of pastry roll out 1/8 inch and cut into strips for lattice upper crusts. Lay strips across top of pie and cut off excess strips. It's ready for the oven. Now if you want to take a short cut, you can buy the frozen piecrusts and use the second crust for the lid of pie.

Pie Filling:
4 cups black raspberries
1 cup sugar
1/4 cup all purpose flour
1 1/4 Tbsp. lemon juice
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 Tbsp. margarine
Combine berries, sugar, flour, lemon juice, and salt in a bowl: Mix it up real good. Then spoon berry mixture into your bottom pastry-lined pie plate. Dot mixture with butter or margarine. Arrange your ½  lattice strips or your other frozen pie crust over the top of pie. If you are using the frozen crusts make sure you flute it (poke you some holes in it.) Bake at 350 degrees for 55 minutes.