Celebrate Learn About Composting Day
You know what’s irritating? The cost of potting soil, and the smell of rotting vegetables in your garbage can. In fact, it’s also irritating that there’s no good use for eggshells or old coffee grounds, or is there? All of these ingredients (and much more!) can be added to a compost bin to create a delightful and nutrient rich mulch that can go into our gardens! Not only will it reduce the amount of food waste in your house, it will also give you a way to enrich your garden through composting! Learn About Composting Day is dedicated to spreading information and awareness about this fun, green, and money-saving activity!
History of Learn About Composting Day
Who would have thought that the waste from your kitchen could turn into rich nutrients for the food in your backyard? Learn About Composting Day shows you how those ingredients (and more things you may be surprised to learn about!) can help accelerate your garden by filling it with nutrient rich mulch! Tired of raking leaves from your front yard and bagging them up for garbage day? Wish there was something you could do with all those newspapers once you’re done reading them? You can! These can all go into your composting bin!
For those who don’t know, composting is the practice of taking certain types of waste that occur in our homes every day, and putting them into a compost bin to steadily decompose. With the right mixture of ingredients, which can range from wood ash, to grass clipping, eggshells, even hair and fur, you can create a powerful and rich nutrient mix that will have your plants growing bigger than ever!
All you have to do is create a simple compost bin, or just a pile of organic material, and come out to stir it once a month with a shovel. During the winter you only have to turn it over every three or four weeks, since it doesn’t have the heat from the sun to speed decomposition.
Word of the Day
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| Definition: | (adjective) Feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses. | ||
| Synonyms: | remorseful, rueful, ruthful | ||
| Usage: | He was so contrite that he wrote me a letter of apology. | ||
Idiom of the Day
not have two nickels to rub together— To be extremely poor; to have very little or no money to spend. Primarily heard in US. |
History
Bing Crosby Records "White Christmas," Best-Selling Single of All Time (1942)
| Composed by legendary songwriter Irving Berlin, "White Christmas" has been recorded by numerous singers. By far, the best known version is performed by Crosby. However, it is not his 1942 recording that American audiences hear endlessly during Christmastime, but rather the re-recording he made in 1947. The song was further popularized by the film of the same name—starring Crosby—released in 1954. |
Iannis Xenakis (1922)
Xenakis was a Romanian-born French composer, architect, and mathematician. He started out studying engineering and music in Greece but was forced to flee in 1947 when he was denounced as a communist. He moved to Paris and, for the next 12 years, worked with the architect Le Corbusier. In his 30s, he began seriously studying composition with Olivier Messiaen and others and earned acclaim for his use of mathematical models in musical composition.
Kasone Full Moon Day
| The most important of the 12 Burmese festivals of the months, Kasone Full Moon Day celebrates the birth and the enlightenment of the Buddha at the foot of the banyan tree. Buddhists in Myanmar (Burma) gather at monasteries and precept halls to practice meditation, to make charitable donations, and to observe the precepts of Buddhism. Another ritual associated with this day is the pouring of water to celebrate the preservation of the banyan tree. Because Kasone is a hot, dry month, fish are often transferred from streams, ponds, and tanks to places where there is more water. |
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1790 - Rhode Island became the last of the original thirteen colonies to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
1848 - WIsconsin became the 30th state to join the United States.
1910 - An airplane raced a train from Albany, NY, to New York City. The airplane pilot Glenn Curtiss won the $10,000 prize.
1913 - Igor Stravinsky's composition "The Rite of Spring" premiered in Paris.
1951 - C.F. Blair became the first man to fly over the North Pole in single engine plane.
1953 - Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay became first men to reach the top of Mount Everest.
1962 - Buck (John) O’Neil became the first black coach in major league baseball when he accepted the job with the Chicago Cubs.
2001 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that disabled golfer Casey Martin could use a cart to ride in tournaments.
DAILY SQU-EEK
If You Were Born Today, May 29
You are an “idea person” with a sharp mind and a gift for gab. You are exceptionally passionate and quite idealistic about love, which can lead to ups and downs in your love life. You exude strength of character, although sometimes your harder outer “shell” can hide a person with many soft corners inside. Famous people born today:
1736 Patrick Henry, American Revolutionary and Founding Father famous for his "Give me liberty or give me death" speech, born in Studley, Colony of Virginia, British America (d. 1799)
1903 Bob Hope [Leslie Townes Hope], British born American entertainer, born in London, England (d. 2003)
1906 T. H. White, English author (King Arthur), born in Bombay, India (d. 1964)
1914 Tenzing Norgay, Tibetan climber who was the 1st to reach the summit of Mount Everest in 1953 with Edmund Hillary (exact date of birth unknown, but he celebrated on the 29th), born in either northeastern Nepal or Tibet (d. 1986)
1917 John F. Kennedy, 35th US President (1961-1963) and Senator (D-Mass), born in Brookline, Massachusetts (d. 1963)
1953 Danny Elfman, American composer (The Simspons Theme), born in Los Angeles, California
1958 Annette Bening, American actress (Grifters, Bugsy, American Beauty), born in Topeka, Kansasthanks, Lyn
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PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Last Saturday, a buyer with a penchant for vintage denim had plunked down nearly $100,000 for a pair of truly vintage jeans that come
from the American Old West. The 125-year-old Levi Strauss & Co. blue jeans, which failed to sell at auction in 2016, now have a new owner somewhere in Southeast Asia.
The price puts it near record territory for old Levi’s. But the private sale agreement prevents the disclosure of the exact price or the buyer’s location. The buyer sent a representative to Maine to inspect the jeans before buying them on May 15.
Rochester Food Truck Rodeo 2018
May 30, 2018 | Rochester, NY
City of Rochester Public Market| 280 Union St N
Food trucks are the kind of heroes that don’t need capes, only four wheels and a mouth-watering selection of delicious eats. The Rochester Rodeo is packed with a multitude of local food trucks that are ready to satisfy your immense hunger. Bust out a lawn chair, pop open a local brew and listen to some rockin’ tunes while you enjoy the grub.
further information: Food Truck Rodeo
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Media Dining Under the Stars 2018
May 30, 2018 | Media, PA
Along West State Street between Jackson & Orange Streets|W State St & S Olive St
There’s nothing romantic about being stuffed in a dingy restaurant populated with sweaty diners. The City of Love inspires this festival in Media, Pennsylvania, by situating the dinner table under the night sky. Lit by shiny stars rather than wax candles, guests will dine in style with the area’s many restaurants.
further information: 11th Annual Dining Under the Stars
Pictures of the day
The Four Continents is a painting by Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens made in the 1610s. It is held to depict female personifications of four continents (Europe, Asia, Africa and America) sitting with the personifications of their respective major rivers: the Danube, the Ganges, the Nile and the Río de la Plata. Other interpretations have suggested that these four female figures are nymphs representing the headwaters of four major rivers. The painting is held at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.
DIVINE MAKEOVER
Taken during “The Mayana Soora Thiruvizha” festival takes place every March in the small village of Kaveripattinam, the day after Mahashivarathiri (The great night of Shiva). The festival is devoted to Angalamman, a fierce guardian deity worshiped widely in Southern India. Location: Kaveripattinam, Tamilnadu, India
knit
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crochet
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Ladies Brimmed Hat
RECIPE
thanks, Sylvia
Sylvia's Spinach Dip
10 oz. package frozen chopped spinach (thawed and thoroughly drained)
2 T. butter
1 t. garlic, minced
3 grinds black pepper
1 envelope leek soup mix
8 oz. can water chestnuts (chopped, coarse)
1 cups mayonnaise
1 cup sour cream
1 envelope leek soup mix
8 oz. can water chestnuts (chopped, coarse)
1 cups mayonnaise
1 cup sour cream
1 round pumpernickel or rye bread
Cut a wide circle into the top of the bread, in one piece; then hollow the loaf out gently, saving the bread pieces for dipping.
I saute the thawed spinach in the butter, garlic, and pepper before mixing with the rest of the ingredients, and packing it into the bread and covering it with the circle for transport (or tear it into pieces for dipping if you are staying in).
Trust me, cooking the spinach is much better, and takes away that weird bite to the spinach when it's been frozen.
CROCKPOT RECIPE
thanks, Shelley
ADULT COLORING
CRAFTS
CHILDREN'S CORNER ... color matching
thanks, Grace
PUZZLE
Dog Lookup Jigsaw Puzzle
WORD SEARCH
| align astronomy bacon beach below bran bread bright butter | camera care celestial condemn coupon digital dough | editor emerge evening extend hire inner justice | knead lace male midday month photography | raise relative shower submit viewer write young |
SUDOKU ... hard
solution:
CLEVER
EYE OPENER
thanks, Heide
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