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Posted - Sep 25 2007 : 07:52:03 AM
According to MJ's 2007 Farmgirl Calendar, today is "Good Neighbor Day." So, lend a hand mending fence or picking apples, or just give a warm smile to make your neighbor's day brighter!
MJ's Farm is now taking preorders for the second annual MaryJanesFarm
Calendar! Each month’s top page features a full-color image from our farm and each calendar page includes dates, holidays, inspirational sayings, lunar phases and fabulous farmgirl culture.
http://products.maryjanesfarm.org/pfoshop/product.asp?ProductID=75040002&dept%5Fid=299
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| Jen |
Posted - Dec 31 2007 : 10:44:02 PM
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
Jen
Farmgirl Sisterhood Member #9
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Posted - Dec 19 2007 : 09:51:00 AM
Did you know it's Oatmeal Muffin Day?
Me neither! But here's a simple yummy recipe to try:
Oatmeal Blueberry Muffins
Yields: 12 servings
INGREDIENTS:
1 1/4 cups quick cooking oats
1 cup flour
1/3 cup sugar
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup milk
1 egg
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1 cup blueberries, rinsed and drained
DIRECTIONS:
1. Combine oats, flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt. Mix in milk, egg, and oil; mix just until dry ingredients are moistened. Fold in blueberries. Fill greased muffin cups 2/3 full with batter.
2. Bake at 425 degrees F for 20 to 25 minutes.
PS - I just got my 2008 MaryJanesFarm Calendar, and I think it may be even more beautiful than '07!
Check it out at http://products.maryjanesfarm.org/pfoshop/product.asp?dept_id=299&ProductID=75040002
Jen
Farmgirl Sisterhood Member #9
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| Jen |
Posted - Dec 17 2007 : 2:36:33 PM
It's Underdog Day, so celebrate an unsung hero!
And I agree, Elizaray - how can a whole year have gone by already? 2008, here we come....!
Jen
Farmgirl Sisterhood Member #9
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| Elizaray |
Posted - Dec 17 2007 : 08:10:00 AM
Can you believe the year is almost over! It's almost 2008! I am going to have such a hard time accepting the transition this year! LOL
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| Jen |
Posted - Dec 09 2007 : 09:21:01 AM
As if we need another reason to eat pastries this month, today is PASTRY DAY! Have a crispy, fluffy, sweet, yummy day 
Jen
Farmgirl Sisterhood Member #9
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| Jen |
Posted - Dec 05 2007 : 08:49:24 AM
Happy Chanukkah!
Chanukkah (Hebrew: #1495;#1504;#1493;#1499;#1492;#8206;, also spelled Hanukkah, Chanukah or Hanukah), also known as the Festival of Lights, is an eight-day Jewish holiday beginning on the 25th day of Kislev according to the Hebrew calendar, which may fall anytime from late November to late December. It celebrates the rededication of the Second Temple at the time of the Maccabee rebellion. The festival is observed by the kindling of lights on each night of the holiday: one on the first night, two on the second, and so on.
Read lots more about the history and traditions of Chanukkah at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanukkah
Jen
Farmgirl Sisterhood Member #9
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| Jen |
Posted - Dec 04 2007 : 12:40:49 PM
It's National Cookie Day - Yea!!
I LOVE cookies, so I get a giggle every time I see Aunt Jenny's tagline over on the MaryJanesFarm forum: "Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies." Sure enough, cookies do it every time!
Last night, I made Carob-Pecan Oatmeal Cookies and sent a couple in Rita's lunch bag today (I love giving her little tidbits of homemade love while she's at school). My recipe was simply the one that's printed on the underside of the Quaker Oats lid (the slow-cooking kind). Then, I dumped in a hearty amount of carob chips and pecan pieces. They were delicious!
Jen
Farmgirl Sisterhood Member #9
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| Jen |
Posted - Dec 01 2007 : 8:01:36 PM
What fun - December is Howdy Neighbor Month!
And today is Rosa Parks Day - Hurray for Rosa!
"On the evening of December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, an African American, was arrested for disobeying an Alabama law requiring black passengers to relinquish seats to white passengers when the bus was full. Blacks were also required to sit at the back of the bus. Her arrest sparked a 381-day boycott of the Montgomery bus system and led to a 1956 Supreme Court decision banning segregation on public transportation." http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/dec01.html
Rosa Parks: "Why do you push us around?"
Officer: "I don't know but the law is the law and you're under arrest."
From Rosa Parks with Gregory J. Reed, Quiet Strength
(Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Pub. House, 1994), page 23.
Jen
Farmgirl Sisterhood Member #9
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| Jen |
Posted - Nov 29 2007 : 07:49:55 AM
Howdy & Happy Square Dance Day!
English, French, Irish, and Scottish settlers brought square dancing to the U.S. As it evolved here, a caller was added to help dancers stay in step. It remains popular among southern and western rural areas, and with senior citizens.
Square Dancing is both fun, and great exercise. To learn more about swinging your partner round 'n round, go to http://www.dosado.com/
Yee-haw!
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| Jen |
Posted - Nov 27 2007 : 06:52:30 AM
Happy? Pins and Needles Day!
The real origin of this special day goes back to the labor movement in the 1930s. The pro-labor Broadway musical Pins and Needles, opened on this day in 1937, at the Labor Stage Theater in New York City. This play was written by Harold Rome. It was produced by the International Ladies Garment Workers' Union. Union members made up the cast. It ran for 1108 performances, once holding the record for longevity. http://www.holidayinsights.com/moreholidays/November/pinsandneedles.htm
Over time, people lost track of the original meaning of this day. Now, most people think it's a nervous and anxious day. Why would anybody commemorate that?
So, anyway, have a calm & serene Pins and Needles Day
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| Jen |
Posted - Nov 26 2007 : 10:20:44 AM
With grandparents here to tend the kids, I got to enjoy a warm bath yesterday - a rare treat!
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| Elizaray |
Posted - Nov 25 2007 : 7:18:45 PM
Weather is cold and misty in my neck of the woods. This morning it was 23 degrees out. I went to a long walk this weekend and was suprised at how chilled I got even working hard. I had to take a warm bath to recover.
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| Jen |
Posted - Nov 23 2007 : 09:55:00 AM
I hope you all had a cozy, cheerful Thanksgiving. The weather turned cold here in northern Arkansas, just perfect for the holiday. We enjoyed a delicious meal with the woodstove crackling, and then we walked outside in the frosty evening air to make room for dessert! I am truly grateful for my many blessings.
"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." -Marcel Proust
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| Jen |
Posted - Nov 17 2007 : 3:43:12 PM
Yesterday just slipped right by without me noticing that it was BUTTON DAY! According to Holiday Insights.com, www.holidayinsights.com/moreholidays/November/buttonday.htm, Button Day "is a fun day to collect, use, and just enjoy buttons. Button come in all sorts of shapes, sizes, colors and designs. There is an amazingly endless variety of buttons for your collection. But, wait a minute....is that the meaning of this day!? Maybe, the purpose of this day is to wear buttons. You know, those diverse buttons that send a message for political purposes. Or, ones that have funny sayings. Or, a button with a smiley face to cheer everyone up."
So, Happy Belated Button Day to You!!
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| Jen |
Posted - Nov 15 2007 : 11:44:02 AM
Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day - Who Knew??
I actually cleaned mine out a few weeks ago when it was practically empty & so I had no excuse not to. Now it's filling up for Thanksgiving, so I dare not attempt a clean-out today. Hats off to all of you brave, meticulous souls who do!
From Practically Edible: The Web's Biggest Food Encyclopedia
http://www.practicallyedible.com/edible.nsf/encyclopaedia!openframeset&frame=Right&Src=/edible.nsf/pages/cleanoutyourrefrigeratorday!opendocument&BaseTarget=Right
"Today is a day dedicated to fridges filled with USO's -- unidentified shriveled objects. Seriously, the search for new life forms should start in some people's vegetable crispers.
So you think, okay, I'll throw out all the expired jars, as well as the jars with the little bits of crusty jam in them. But that's just the start. They want you to get all hardcore about it, and actually clean the fridge. And the real catch? You have to do it yourself -- they don't actually send a team round house to house to do it for you.
But afterwards, everyone gets the fun of comparing notes about the grossest thing they found in their fridge. Produce drawers can be the worst, where vegetables have decomposed over the past year into brownish gels. Some people have vegetable crispers that are so bad they should make certain they have handy the number for a hazardous waste disposal team.
It's not such a bad time of year to tackle it, actually. You'll need the space for the holidays coming up, and when you're desperately rooting in the fridge for stuff to feed to unexpected guests, you 'll want to be sure that you don't haul out something that will kill anyone (unintentionally, at least). It's also a good time to check the temperature in your fridge, before you begin storing all kinds of expensive holiday food in it.
Suggested tasks involve:
* Take everything out;
* Wash down and disinfect the inside walls of the refrigerator, the shelves, and all along the door seal;
* Wash everything going back in - bins, racks, and even the outsides of jars;
* Vacuum the coils at the back of the fridge, if your model has them;
* Clean the floor underneath the fridge.
History
It would appear that the idea for a "Clean Out Your Fridge Day" might have started with Whirlpool Corporation, starting in 1995, aiming for it to be the third Wednesday in November.
1995 - Wednesday, 10 November
1996 - Wednesday, 20 November
1997 - Wednesday, 19 November
1998 - Wednesday, 18 November
1999 - Wednesday, 19 November
2000 - Wednesday 15 November
It appears to be around 2000 that a more general awareness of it came about, when E-Card companies that year listed it as a holiday for the 15th of November, and people made postings about it being the 15th of November (which turned up in searches that people did in later years.)
In 2001, the E-Card companies posted it again as 15 November, not having realized that the scheme intended by Whirlpool was a moving date attached to the third Wednesday of the month, which would have made it the 14th of November in 2001. People with personal, home-spun websites compiling dates of special days included the 15th of November as "Clean Out Your Fridge Day", and other people copied their lists and reposted them.
At the same time, Whirlpool seems to have lost interest in it, or had its publicity lost amongst the voices of other sources saying the 15th. Practically Edible was unable to find any publicity from Whirlpool on the matter from 2001 to 2003 inclusive.
In 2004, Whirlpool in partnership with Glad products declared 4 to 10th April to be National Clean Out Your Refrigerator Week. But it seems to have been too late to change the 15th November date that got stuck in people's minds. Even Emiril, the American chef, wrote in his daily notes for 15 November 2005: "I just learned that today is 'National Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day.' (Retrieved August 2006 from http://www.emerils.com/cooking/archives/002399.html). In fact, though, in Whirlpool's original scheme, it would have been the next day, Wednesday, 16th November.
The 15th of November seems to make the most sense. People always have an easier time remembering fixed dates such as Christmas, than they do moving dates attached to a scheme they don't understand, such as Easter is. And it does come right before the start of the holiday rush. In any event, through constant repetition of a misunderstanding, the 15th of November has indeed become Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day.
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| Jen |
Posted - Nov 12 2007 : 6:39:58 PM
Today is Veterans Day, the American holiday honoring military veterans. Both a federal holiday and a state holiday in all states, it marks the anniversary of the signing of the Armistice that ended World War I. (Major hostilities of World War I were formally ended at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918 with the German signing of the Armistice.)
Today is also the birthday of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, (November 12, 1815 – October 26, 1902). She was an American social activist and leading figure of the early woman's movement. Her Declaration of Sentiments, presented at the first women's rights convention held in 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York, is often credited with initiating the first organized woman's rights and woman's suffrage movements in the United States.
Before Stanton narrowed her political focus almost exclusively to women's rights, she was an active abolitionist together with her husband, Henry Stanton and cousin, Gerrit Smith. Unlike many of those involved in the women's rights movement, Stanton addressed a number of issues pertaining to women beyond voting rights. Her concerns included women's parental and custody rights, property rights, employment and income rights, divorce laws, the economic health of the family, and birth control. She was also an outspoken supporter of the 19th century temperance movement.
After the American Civil War, Stanton's commitment to female suffrage caused a schism in the women's rights movement when she, along with Susan B. Anthony, declined to support passage of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. She opposed giving added legal protection and voting rights to African American men while continuing to deny women, black and white, the same rights. Her position on this issue, together with her thoughts on organized Christianity and women's issues beyond voting rights, led to the formation of two separate women's rights organizations that were finally rejoined, with Stanton as president of the joint organization, approximately twenty years later.
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