DIANE'S CORNER ..
Celebrate Refired, Not Retired Day
Retirement is like a long vacation in Las Vegas. The goal is to enjoy it the fullest, but not so fully that you run out of money.
Jonathan Clements
Retirement is often considered to be the long tea-time of the soul, a passage from an active life and career into a quiet convalescence and pestering the children while spoiling the grandchildren. Refired, Not Retired Day turns this entire idea on its head. Retirement should be a time to get refired about your life, and using your newly found freedom to get back to living life to the fullest, not quietly getting out of the way. Are you Refired?
History of Refired, Not Retired Day
Refired, Not Retired Day was established by Phyllis May when she began her mission to start living her life large and getting her zest for life back on the heels of her retirement and her husband leaving. She started by moving to Key West, Florida, a town where she didn’t know anyone and was starting over again at the age of 55. She began taking jobs of different types to keep herself active and experience things her previous professional life prevented her from doing.
Since then she’s had a parade of interesting jobs, from working as a concierge, working through a series of temp jobs, a bed and breakfast, and now at a gift shop. Does this not sound super exciting to you? Remember that all this is happening in Key West, at a gift shop called The Pelican Poop Shop and listening to Caribbean music all day. All she needs is a cheeseburger and she’s got it made!
Things really got moving when she hosted her own television show for a year and then promoted a book called “Keys to Paradise… a fun guide to Key West”, her first publication. She isn’t living her life retired, she’s living it ReFIRED.
Joke of the Day
What did the knitter say to Michael Buble?
Word of the Day
lilliput
Gulliver in the now-defunct theme park Gulliver’s Kingdom in Japan. Mount Fuji is in the background.
noun: Someone or something very small.
Joseph Harry Silber; Bum; Lulu; 2012.
Idiom of the Day
What does 'Asleep at the switch' mean?
If someone is asleep at the switch, they are not doing their job or taking their responsibilities very carefully. 'Asleep at the wheel' is an alternative.
DAILY SQU-EEK
Although you are self-reliant and for the most part independent, you are also a true giver, with loads of compassion for others. You have a vision and you go after it. Truly inspired, you have an innate understanding that change is necessary in order to grow and move forward. You can be very persuasive when you want to be. While you can be moody and sensitive, you are also very good at picking yourself up from a fall, dusting yourself off, and changing plans if need be. Famous people born today:
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The musical film The Sound of Music was released. The famous film starred Julie Andrews as Maria, a young woman who leaves her convent life to act as a governess for the seven von Trapp children. While a governess, Maria introduced the children to singing. Christopher Plummer portrayed Captain von Trapp, the children's father and a widower, who falls in love and marries the young governess. In the movie, the Nazis order the captain to report for duty in the Germany navy, which he decides against doing because of his disagreement with Nazi ideology. The von Trapp family escape the Nazis during a musical competition with the help of the nuns at the convent. The family eventually walks across the mountains into Switzerland. Although The Sound of Music was very loosely based on a real family, there are many key differences. For instance, Maria did leave an Austrian convent, but did so in order to tutor one of the von Trapp children who was recovering from an illness. Some of the children's names and ages were changed for the film. Maria and Captain von Trapp married much earlier in real life than portrayed in the film. Another important difference was that Captain Georg von Trapp was recruited by the Nazis to join their navy but was never ordered to report for duty. In both the movie and in real life, Georg chose not to join. The real family consisted of Georg's seven children with his first wife, who died of scarlet fever in 1922, and an additional three children that he had with Maria, whom he married in 1927. Most importantly, the von Trapp family were professional touring singers, and they left Austria via a train to Italy rather than escape over the mountains as portrayed in the film. The family eventually settled in Vermont during the 1940s. Before The Sound of Music film, the von Trapp story had been featured in a book, in two other films, and in a musical stage production. Maria von Trapp wrote a book, published in 1949, called The Story of the Trapp Family Singers. The movies, The Trapp Family (1956) and a sequel entitled the Trapp Family in America (1958), were released in West Germany. The Broadway musical The Sound of Music, by Rodgers and Hammerstein, premiered on Nov. 16, 1959, and starred Mary Martin as Maria and Theodore Bikel as the captain. The popular musical won six Tony awards including Best Musical. The movie The Sound of Music became a huge commercial success as well, receiving five Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
Ready to Get into the Garden?
Get your vegetables started in your kitchen now, and once the weather warms up, you'll be ready to plant them in your garden. But don't feel left out if you are a city dweller. You can grow many of these vegetables in pots on a patio, balcony, or kitchen window sill.
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10 Vegetables You Can Regrow from Kitchen Scraps to Create a Recurring Harvest
thanks, Karla
Pictures of the Day
Jurong Bird Park in Singapore
knit
thanks, Connie
knit
thanks, Eve
knit
knit
Crochet Patterns of the Day:
crochet
thanks, Doris
crochet
thanks, Helen
crochet
CROCKPOT RECIPE
VEGAN/ VEGETARIAN RECIPE
Both vegetarian and vegan diets may provide health benefits, including reduced body weight, lower cholesterol levels, and decreased risk of cardiovascular disease. However, it is important for vegetarians and vegans to ensure that they are meeting all of their nutritional requirements.
Cafeteria Copycat Recipes
RETRO
SWEETS
ADULT COLORING
FACTS: TRUE OR FALSE QUIZ
There are ten facts below. Your task is to read them carefully and try and work out which one is not true. Nine are true, only one is false.
1. The Bible, the world's best-selling book, is also the world's most shoplifted book.
2. Someone paid $14,000 for the bra worn by Marilyn Monroe in the film 'Some Like It Hot'.
3. Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end.
4. More than 1,000 different languages are spoken on the continent of Africa.
5. In the U.S.A over eleven thousand people (up until the end of 2003) have visited a tortilla chip that appears to have the face of Jesus Christ burned into it?
6. A kiss lasting one minute can burn more than 100 calories.
7. Buckingham Palace in England has over six hundred rooms.
8. There was once an undersea post office in the Bahamas.
9. Abraham Lincoln's mother died when she drank the milk of a cow that grazed on poisonous snakeroot.
10. After the death of Albert Einstein his brain was removed by a pathologist and put in a jar for future study.
To check which fact is false, look here:
CRAFTS
Bias Tape
As I was cleaning out my crafts closet, one of the things I came across was tons and tons of fabric scraps. Such a pity to throw them out, but putting them in just another bag isn't a solution really, as soon I'll have more scrap bags than anything else in my closet. Instead, I decided to somehow 'structure' the mess - by making some bias tape. A nice opportunity to test the new bias tape maker I got last week.
It took me no more than an hour from beginning to end. The result is a roll of - what? - six or seven yards of the most colorful and unique bias tape. I have no idea yet what I'll use it for - a bag most likely or for binding a small quilt - but for now just looking at it makes me feel happy as every little piece of it reminds me of something else I made over the past year.
The crafts closet still looks like a mess but at least I made some good use of (a tiny bit of) my fabric scraps!
You'll need:
- fabric scraps, preferably of same weight
- rotary cutter, ruler, cutting mat
- sewing machine
- iron and ironing board
- bias tape maker (don't bother about the fusing tape mentioned on the package - it works perfectly well without)
Note: As I was looking up 'bias tape maker' I came across this tutorial which shows how to do it without a store bought bias tape maker. Clever!
1. Cut your scraps on the bias in strips of 3.5 cm (or any other width to your liking/ corresponding to your bias tape maker) - I used 3.5cm as this is what my bias maker likes - this will result in 1.8cm wide bias tape.
2. Joining the pieces: Once you have enough scraps, take everything to the sewing machine. Place two pieces, right sides facing, perpendicularly onto each other and stitch at a 45° angle. (Here are some very clear instructions as to how exactly to do this.) Make sure to have right sides facing, to avoid seams ending up at the front of your tape!
3. When you're finished take everything to the ironing board. Press all seams open and trim any excess fabric and loose ends if you haven't done so already.
4. Now feed your bias tape through the bias tape maker and iron as you go. Do this from beginning to end while trying not to burn your fingers.
5. Roll the bias tape onto a piece of cardboard, a tube or something similar. And ready!
CHILDREN'S CORNER .. Think Positive Worksheet
PUZZLE
WORD SEARCH
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SUDOKU .. very hard
solution:
What Is The Best Thing You Have Done In Your Life?
QUOTE
CLEVER
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