Northeast Gardening: Hello...new to Dave's Garden and NE Forum :-), 1 by grammyphoeb

grammyphoeb wrote:
Polly - No, I didn't got to Cornell, but I was close by on the other hill. I went to Ithaca College for music education. I only needed to get 30 extra graduate hours for permanent certification back then (that kinda dates me) and I did that during the summers at both Oswego and Albany. Yes, that's the farm. A while back, the egg and dairy were split up and became separate farms. My uncle who was in charge of the egg farm decided that the dairy and crop farms (my father and another uncle in charge of that portion) would be better off as separate farms - dairy not doing as well as the egg business. The egg farm (still in business) is now located east of Elbridge and the dairy farm and land has been sold. I usually stay in Glens Falls in the winter unless there is an emergency in the Syracuse area. I've had tooooooo many bad winter driving experiences to go to the snow belt without a good reason. Before my father died I was going back and forth several times a week and managed to dodge most of the storms. One time i went out between two storms and made it. In my younger, single days it took me 5 hours once to drive from the Fonda/Fultonville exit to exit 39!! That was during a blizzard and I drove 15 miles/hour the whole way while cars were whizzing by me. I had the last laugh because a few minutes later I drove by them. I think I must have been the only car that actually stayed on the road that night. There have been other winter driving nightmares but I'm much older and wiser now and stay home!!!!! The pic is a scanned photo of my brother standing in the middle of a road filled with snow. We couldn't get out for days. Eleanor