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Celebrate Look for an Evergreen Day
Every year one thing remains the same around the holidays, people everywhere have to decide at what point before the big day they’re going to go out and hunt down a Christmas tree· Look for an Evergreen Day is about the last opportunity you have if you haven’t already gotten yours to ensure you have a tree for the Holidays
Even if you’ve already got your tree for this year, this is a great opportunity to go out and familiarize yourself with the other types of Evergreens in your neighborhood, and discover that these regal giants are around you all year round.
History of Look for an Evergreen Day
Look for an Evergreen Day was originally established by the National Arborist Association to create a day to appreciate the beauty of these trees outside of the confines of merely being bedecked with glittering lights and ornaments· Even in the depths of winter these noble trees keep their foliage, providing that wonderful green and white contrast that is so representative of deep winter.
Evergreens have played an important role in many societies throughout the ages, selected for religious observances due to their seemingly eternal nature even in a season of death· But that’s not the only place they’re represented, the Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest were entirely reliant on the red cedar for multiple aspects of their culture· Whether they were making clothing, fishing line, ropes, or building their homes or canoes, the red cedar was vital a vital part of their lives.
Nathan Oliveira was an American artist and prominent member of the second generation of the Bay Area Figurative artists. Though he worked with a variety of media, subjects, and disciplines over the course of his long career, Oliveira is best remembered for the brilliantly colored figurative and landscape paintings he created while associated with the California movement. His work has been met with critical acclaim, receiving numerous honors such as a 1996 Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute and a major retrospective in 2002, “The Art of Nathan Oliveira,” mounted by the San Jose Art Museum. The Windhover Contemplative Center, a structure completed in 2014 at Stanford University, permanently displays four of Oliveira's paintings. Born in Oakland, CA on December 19, 1928, he died on November 13, 2010 in Stanford, CA at the age 81.
Word of the Day
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| Definition: | (adjective) Worn and broken down by hard use. | ||
| Synonyms: | decrepit, derelict, flea-bitten, run-down, woebegone | ||
| Usage: | There is a certain house within my familiar recollection...a rusty, crazy, creaky, dry-rotted, dingy, dark, and miserable old dungeon. | ||
Idiom of the Day
two a penny— Very common, ordinary, or widespread. |
This Day in History
Operation Vijay: India Annexes Daman and Diu (1961)
Spanning less than 50 square miles (130 sq km) on the coast of India, Daman and Diu became Portuguese colonies in the 16th century, along with the port of Goa. After India gained independence from the UK in 1947, its government began working toward the return of all Indian colonies held by Portugal. Portugal, however, violently suppressed peaceful Indian activists opposed to its continued rule
Carter Godwin Woodson (1875)
| Born into a poor African-American family, Woodson had little formal schooling until he was in his late teens. Yet he went on to earn a PhD and become a prominent historian, author, and journalist. He devoted his life to promoting African-American education and history, founding the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History and writing, editing, and publishing books and periodicals on African-American life, history, and culture. |
Opalia
The ancient Roman fertility goddess Ops was known by several different names—among them Rhea, Cybele, Bona Dea and Magna Mater. She married Saturn and was the mother of Jupiter, and was usually portrayed as a matron, with a loaf of bread in her left hand and her right hand opened as if offering assistance. Not much is known about what actually took place during the Opalia. It appears that women played an important role in the festival. Because Ops was a fertility goddess, she was often invoked by touching the earth.
"Perfume is the most intense form of memory," said the esteemed French perfumer Jean-Paul Guerlain. Smell, like perhaps no other sense, manages to unlock our subconscious, excavating long-suppressed memories and invoking places and times to which we thought we could never return. It is both the most evocative, and the most elusive of senses.
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1732 - Benjamin Franklin began publishing "Poor Richard's Almanac."
1843 - Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" was first published in England.
1871 - Corrugated paper was patented by Albert L. Jones.
1903 - The Williamsburg Bridge opened in New York City. It opened as the largest suspension bridge on Earth and remained the largest until 1924. It was also the first major suspension bridge to use steel towers to support the main cable.
1917 - The first games of the new National Hockey League (NHL) were played. Five teams made up the league: Toronto Arenas, Ottawa Senators, Quebec Bulldogs, the Montreal Canadiens and the Montreal Wanderers.
1918 - Robert Ripley began his "Believe It or Not" column in "The New York Globe".
1959 - Walter Williams died in Houston, TX, at the age of 117. He was said to be the last surviving veteran of the U.S. Civil War.
1960 - Neil Sedaka’s "Calendar Girl" was released.
1972 - Apollo 17 splashed down in the Pacific, ending the Apollo program of manned lunar landings.
1980 - The film "9 to 5," with Dolly Parton, opened.
1984 - Ted Hughes was appointed England's poet laureate.
1990 - Bo Jackson (Los Angeles Raiders) became the first athlete to be chosen for All Star Games in two sports.
1997 - "Titanic" opened in American movie theaters.
2003 - Images for the new design for the Freedom Tower at the World Trade Center site were released. The building slopes into a spire that reaches 1,776 feet.
DAILY SQU-EEK
If You Were Born Today, December 19
You are an attractive and magnetic person with a flair for the dramatic and exceptional creative powers. While you come across as gentle and patient, you can also be very determined and willful. Once you find the path that feels right, you put your heart and soul into whatever you do. Perceptive and intuitive, you are a people watcher--forever curious about the world around you, and sometimes self-centered in your restlessness for new experiences. Your imagination is highly developed, and sometimes overly so! Famous people born today
1902 Ralph Richardson, English actor (Anna Karenina, Doctor Zhivago), born in Cheltenham, England (d. 1983)
1915 Édith Piaf, [E Giovanna Gassion], chanteuse (Little Sparrow), born in Paris, France (d. 1963)
1980 Jake Gyllenhaal, American actor (Donnie Darko, Jarhead), born in Los Angeles, California
READERS INFO
1.
1843 -
Charles Dickens’ novel "A Christmas Carol" was first published in England on this day.
Charles John Huffam Dickens (February 7, 1812 – June 9, 1870)
2.
1957 -
On this day "The Music Man" opened on Broadway.
Robert Preston Meservey (June 8, 1918 – March 21, 1987)
3.
Starry Starry Nights 2018
Nov 23 - Dec 31, 2018 | Llano, TX
Badu Park|300 Legion Dr
Starry Starry Nights in Llano, Texas, starts on the Friday after Thanksgiving and runs until the end of the year. Colorful twinkling lights are strung along the Llano River and through Christmas Park, creating a festive glowing landscape for the whole family to enjoy. There are also animated displays, a lighted Christmas Parade with decorated floats and a Snow Day where children can come have fun in the snow!
further information: Starry Starry Nights Lighted Christmas Park
4.
Desert Botanical Garden Las Noches de Las Luminarias 2018
Dec 1-30, 2018 | Phoenix, AZ
Desert Botanical Garden|1201 N Galvin Pkwy
Discover the beauty of Arizona’s flora at Los Noches de Las Luminarias. For several magical nights during late summer, the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix comes alive with the gentle glow of over 8,000 hand-lit luminarias, small paper lanterns with a candle inside. At this gorgeous nighttime event, guests are not only treated to the serene glimmer of the luminarias, but to heart-warming music and mugs of hot cocoa and warm cider as well. It is a great way to enjoy the serenity of cool Arizona nights with friends and family.
further information: Visit Las Noches de la Luminarias at DBG
5.
Honolulu City Lights 2018
Dec 1, 2018 - Jan 1, 2019 | Honolulu, HI
Grounds of Honolulu Hale|530 S King St
further information: Honolulu City Lights (34th Annual)
Pictures of the day
The kob (Kobus kob) is an antelope found across Central Africa and parts of West Africa and East Africa. It is closely related to the reedbucks and waterbucks and similar in appearance to the impala but more heavily built. Kob have few strong social bonds, but females can live in herds numbering in the thousands. Males are generally territorial, although on densely-populated floodplains some males live in clustered territories known as leks. This picture shows a female and calf of the Ugandan kob (K. kob thomasi) in the Semliki Wildlife Reserve, Uganda. This subspecies appears on the coat of arms of Uganda.
Grey Heron
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crochet, Christmas
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It’s The Christmas Crochet Teapot Pattern!
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RECIPE
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CROCKPOT RECIPE
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SWEETS ... Christmas
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ADULT COLORING ... Christmas
CRAFTS ... Christmas
CHILDREN'S CORNER ... Christmas
thanks, Kitty
Cinnamon Stick Tree Christmas Ornaments
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CLEVER ... Christmas
If your cake recipe calls for nuts,
heat them first in the oven, then dust with flour before adding to the batter to keep them from settling to the bottom of the pan
Nathan OliveiraEYE OPENER ... Christmas
thanks, Anna
Helpful Holiday Diet Tips
If no one sees you eat it, it has no calories
If you drink a diet soda with a candy bar, they cancel each other out
If you eat standing up, it doesn’t count!
STRESSED is just DESSERTS spelled backwards
If you eat the food off someone else’s plate, it doesn’t count
Cookie pieces contain no calories because the process of breakage cause calorie leakage
Food used for medicinal purposes have no calories. This includes: any chocolate used for energy, brandy, cheesecake, and Haagen-Daz ice cream 
When eating with someone else, calories don’t count if you both eat the same amount
Movie-related foods are much lower in calories simply because they are a part of the entertainment experience and not part of one’s personal fuel. This includes: Milk Duds, popcorn with butter, Junior Mints, Snickers, and Gummi Bears.
If someone gives you a box of Chocolates…there are no Calories because it was a GIFT!
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