Probably most everyone will have answered, “No” to that question and it may well be something you have never heard of either. But I can guarantee that many folks have in fact seen them without knowing what they were looking at or thinking they were noteworthy.
Speaking just about the ones most common in our area, and assuming we are talking about times when it hasn’t rained recently and the ground is dry, what we are talking about will appear as very dark brown or black things found o ...
We will close this Thursday, December 23, at noon and stay closed on Friday. We will also close next Friday, December 31. We hope everyone has a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Happy Reading!
New to the Library:
DVDS
The Card Counter
Jack Irish Season 3
Pig
Trolls: Holiday in Harmony
Veggietales: 10 Movie Collection
Venom: Let There Be Carnage
Fiction: (all quotes from publishers’ summaries)
The Ballerinas by Rachel Kapelke-Dale
“Thirteen years ago, Delphine L
Create your garden sanctuary, no matter the size. Whether you live in a small apartment, a home with a front and back yard, or have access to acres, you can create a garden sanctuary. One definition of sanctuary that rings true for this gardener is a place of refuge or rest.
Coming from a close family, holidays were always extra special. Christmas Eve, we would attend the candle-light service at our Lutheran Church as a family then go to my Granny and Pop Geistweidt’s house for Christmas. We celebrated it with our New Mexico cousins, which I always looked forward to because they were close to my age.
This simple little recipe will result in your having a dozen of the most moist, delicious blueberry muffins you’ve ever tried. The biggest problem is trying to keep from eating them all in one sitting!
Ingredients:
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
½ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon cinnamon
¼ teaspoon nutmeg
2 large eggs
1 cup buttermilk
¾ cup granulated sugar, plus extra for topping
½ cup vegetable oil
1 ½ teaspoon vanilla
1 ¾ cup frozen blueberrie ...
Merry Christmas from our house to yours. I am not really ready to have family over for Christmas. The new tree has already lost a string of lights. The other decorations are few and far between. I better get busy. Our family is not really sure what days they will be here.
Sure, Christmas has become over commercialized.
Sure, two favorite holiday songs, among merchants are, “I'm Dreaming of a Green Christmas,” and “What a Friend We Have in Jesus.”
Sure, Santa Claus and Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer have become central characters in the cast of contemporary Christmas.
Sure, there is a lot of unholy paganism in the celebration of the holy Christmas festival of Christmas.
But, “Put Christ Back Into Christmas?” Who says he ever left?
On December 14, the Mason Lions Club met for their weekly club meeting at the Eckert Center for their annual Christmas lunch served by Nacho’s.
The Lions Club welcomed as its guests many of the spouses of the Lions. The assembled Lions and their guests celebrated the forthcoming Christmas holiday by enjoying a brief but resonating talk by Pastor Peter Aguilar of the First United Methodist Church about Service and Volunteerism in the Lions Clubs, beginning at their very foundation.
Pasto ...
There’s really no time of year quite like the Christmas season. During Yuletide otherwise normal people haul shrubbery into their homes on purpose, festoon their houses with enough Chinese-made lights to severely strain even the most robust power grid, and cruise mall lots in their SUVs looking for parking spaces like sharks circling a dying whale.
Growing the Three Sisters Garden.
Who are the three sisters? For many Native American communities, three seeds: corn, beans, and squash represent the most important crops. They complement each other in the garden as well as nutritionally. How do the three work together? Corn provides the tall stalks for the beans to climb; beans provide nitrogen to fertilize the soil while stabilizing the tall corn during heavy winds; and large squash leaves shade out weeds and help retain soil moisture.
