Ron and I spent most of the day last Saturday working in the vegetable garden planting onions, lettuce, radishes, peas, green beans, sweet corn, and even set out 4 pepper plants that I will probably have to cover on Wednesday night with the threat of a frost. The cucumber and yellow summer squash seeds I started inside are looking real good – I’ll set them out soon, I hope. We are so excited about gardening weather finally being here! I have yet to get my tomato plants, plus we’ll be planting a few hills of potatoes. With the high prices of just about everything, our plan is to can and freeze a lot more than we have in the past.
We took advantage of the gorgeous weather last weekend and went up to the Windfall Cemetery and cleaned out all the dead stuff out of the crocks to get ready for new. It was a nice little ride and got to see some new calves roaming around in the field where the buffalo were grazing. We’ve also seen lots of beef calves and lambs as well. The spring seems to be rushing by so fast! We’ve hardly had time to enjoy the emergence of new life.
Mother’s Day is always a rather sad day for us – having lost our only child Lindsay Anne over 30 years ago, but we tried to make the best of it and took a nice ride to Sylvania (Palin came, of course) to buy diesel fuel for the truck and bought an orange creamsicle as our sweet treat for the day. We came back by way of Farmer’s Valley and as always the scenery was quite beautiful – including the windmills spinning, like the ones we can see from our house, which are located on Armenia Mt.
Don’t forget to get out and vote next Tuesday, the 19th. It’s not just your RIGHT - it’s your DUTY!
Rural Brotherhood is next Thursday, May 21st, hosted by our own Alba Christian Church, beginning at 7 PM – and all are welcome. We are serving roast turkey with all the trimmings and the evening’s entertainment is the Jazz Band from Troy High School. It’s sure to be a fine evening of good food, entertainment and Christian fellowship.
Another job well done on the Colton property last weekend was trimming dead limbs from trees and bushes. The flowering crab and lilacs seemed to burst open over night! I can’t remember them smelling as sweet as they do now!
May 14, 1686, marks the birth date of Gabriel D. Fahrenheit. In 1714 Fahrenheit, a German physicist invented the type of thermometer used today. On May 15, 1862, Congress passed legislation creating the Department of Agriculture. Also on that day, in 1942, wartime gasoline rationing began, limiting sales to 3 gallons a week. Interesting. On May 16, 1866, Congress authorized a new coin – the nickel. And, on that day in 1939, Food Stamps were introduced. May 17th is known as “Pack Rat Day” – Ron and I both are victims and hold this title. Also on the 17th, it’s rubber band’s birthday – 1845. May 20, 1873, is considered “Blue Jean’s Birthday” by Levi Strauss & Co. Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis obtained a U.S. patent on the process of putting rivets in men’s work pants on this day. On May 20, 1830, the fountain pen was patented by D. Hyde of Reading, Pennsylvania. On May 21, 1881, the American Red Cross was founded by Clara Barton. I’m donating blood this week to that organization, and I’m always amazed when I sign in and they tell me how many lives I may have saved by my total number of units I’ve donated over the years. It’s very humbling, indeed.
Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes: “It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it’s a privilege of wisdom to listen”.
Food for thought: Love sees through a telescope, not a microscope.