November 2010
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November National Events
2, General Election Day. This year,
vote to elect members of Congress
and state and local officials.
11, Veterans Day. National holiday
observed first in 1919 as Armistice
Day. It honors all who have served in
the U.S. Armed Forces.
25, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
Huge parade features floats, giant bal-
loons, bands and famous stars. Tele-
vised nationally.
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Fall Back!
Daylight-saving time
ends on Sunday,
November 7.
Set your clocks back
one hour Saturday night.
~ The origin of the name "Three Sisters" is told in many different
History Matters!
Gathering together!
You may not be having duck, fish and deer for Thanksgiving dinner, as the Pilgrims
did, but gathering with family and friends is probably in your plans.
What we think of as the first thanksgiving in 1621 was made possible in part by the
Pilgrims' friends and neighbors.
Massasoit, leader of the confederacy of Wampanoag tribes, and about 90 of his
men, brought deer and other meats to the Pilgrim's harvest celebration. The Pil-
grims certainly needed the friends. After a year in the
New World, their numbers had declined by half and
they had faced deprivation and hardship. The
. Wampanoag's generosity was surely welcome.
Today, we still get along with a little help from
our friends, neighbors and Creator.
Let's give thanks for our
countrymen, our families,
and our faith which help
us through good and
bad times.
Have a thankful, joyous
and safe holiday,
CHALK TALK
The story of Three Sisters and the pilgrims' survival
When the pilgrims landed on the shores of America, they were ill
equipped to live off the land. Without the aid of the Indians, they
might have perished before they built a settlement.
Part of their survival training was the Indians teaching them the
secrets of the Three Sisters, a collective name for corn, beans and
squash.
The Indians planted these crops in one mound. The corn provided
the ladder for the beans to grow and the beans returned nitrogen
to the soil. The squash plants provided the shade that held pre-
cious moisture in the ground.
legends. One tells of an Indian medicine woman with three feud-
ing daughters. She asked the Creator for help. In a dream, she
saw each sister as a different seed that she planted in one mound
so each could help the other.
In the morning, she cooked an egg for her daughters, but fixed them differently. She told her
daughters they were as different as each egg but that they were loved. The daughters began
to celebrate their differences, the feuding stopped, and from then on the Native people
planted the three crops together.
The first Thanksgiving, in 1621 at Plymouth, Mass., was both a thanksgiving for the harvest
and a thank you to the Wampanoag Indians who had given of their knowledge to help the
colonists.
But this was not the first thanksgiving held in America. Each year, Native Americans such as
the Pueblo, Cherokee and Creek celebrated harvest time and a bountiful crop.
And the tradition goes on as we too give thanks for our blessings and celebrate as so many
others did in the past.
 ON THE LIGHTER SIDE
\ The man who forgot to buy a
turkey for Thanksgiving
It's the day before Thanksgiving, and the
butcher is just locking up when a man be-
gins pounding on the front door.
'Please let me in,' says the man desper-
ately. 'I forgot to buy a turkey and my wife
will kill me if I don't come home with one.'
'Okay,' says the butcher. 'Let me see what I
have left.' He goes into the freezer and
discovers that there's one last scrawny
turkey left. He brings it out to show the
man.
'That one is too skinny. What else you got?'
asks the man.
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Thanksgiving Ghost
By Karl Fuchs
The last piece of apple pie is gone;
How did it disappear?
The bowl of delicious stuffing
Has also vanished, I fear.
It happens each Thanksgiving,
When leftover goodies flee,
And each of us knows the responsible one
Couldn’t be you or me.
The only way it could happen
Is readily diagnosed;
It must be the crafty, incredibly sneaky,
Still hungry Thanksgiving ghost.
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The butcher takes the bird back into the
freezer and waits a few minutes and brings
the same turkey back out to the man.
'Oh, no,' says the man, 'That one doesn't look
any better. You better give me both of them!'
Big Turkeys and Little Turkeys
If a big turkey is called a gobbler,
what do you call a little turkey.
A goblet.
He’s got a point. Nobody eats a
flamingo on Thanksgiving!
The Thanksgiving Tree
What to do while the din-
ner is cooking? Families
may play games, visit or
watch TV; but, the
Thanksgiving Tree can
involve all and be a color-
ful addition to the holiday.
Here’s how to make it:
1. Cut leaf shapes out of
colored paper and punch a
hole in each one. This can
be done before guests arrive, or if guests are
handy, they can make their own leaves.
2. Take a small bare tree branch and set it in
a pot of dirt.
3. Have each guest write something on a leaf
for which they are thankful. Have the writer
sign the leaf or have guests decide who made
it when it is read later. Hang the leaves on the
tree with ornament hangers.
4. During dinner or after, have guests in turn
select leaves and read what is written on
them. It’s more fun if they read someone
else’s leaf than if they read their own.
The project points up the fact that there are
many things to be thankful for, from a nice
day to the presence of a special person to
being thankful for a new puppy.
November Project
If you’re a bird-lover, as we are, you’ll want
to make a treat for them for Thanksgiving7
and all winter long.
Sure-fire Suet Mix
~Sharon Smith
“This is SOOOOOO easy to make, and my
birds love it...from woodpeckers to chicka-
dees to thrashers to sparrows.
Heat and let cool:
1 part peanut butter (crunchy)
1 part shortening
Heat again; when starting to thicken, stir
in:
1 part flour
3 parts cornmeal
1 part cracked corn
I also add black oil sunflower seeds and/or
mixed seed.
As I say, it's very easy to make and quite a
popular item. (Last year I was given some
store-bought suet cakes, and my birds re-
fused to eat them! I finally broke them apart
and combined with the above recipe!)”
[Ed. Note: Add cracked nuts if you use
smooth peanut butter; raisins are another
option to add. Let mixture cool in a brownie-
type pan and cut into large blocks. Wrap in
netting (the kind that’s used to bag or-
anges); tie with cord and hang in trees
where you can view the birds from a win-
dow or place in a bird feeder. Freezes well,
so make a batch. ^.^]
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Being thrifty for the holidays
Lighting: Invest a few extra dollars in LED
lights. They use 80 to 90 percent less en-
ergy. Set up a timer so they go off auto-
matically at 10:30 or 11 p.m.
Wrappings: Special paper and bows are
expensive and wasteful. Save a tree and
some cash by using gift bags saved from
last year. Try creative wrapping with fab-
rics, posters or magazines.
Trees: Fake trees are expensive, petro-
leum-based and not bio-degradable. A real
tree can be taken to the county recycling
facility and turned into mulch.
Holiday cards: They are expensive to buy
and mail. Instead, create an email greeting
that could include photos. Send individually
to each person, not to an entire list at once.
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