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Urban's Resolution - I want to be a part of the community’s discussions of agricultural, water and land resource issues that are important to the future of our area. Also go to Europe in the spring of 2005, with my Dad (Dee R. Eberhart, 42nd Rainbow Division, 242, I-Co.) and family members, for 60th Anniversary commemoration ceremonies of the liberation of Dachau and end of World War II. Bruce's Resolution - "...to be kind to all." Barbie's Resolution - "I don't think New Year's resolutions are a good idea. In the long run, don't they just cause guilt? I've given it some careful thought and I've decided that too many problems are caused by procrastination, so rather than making a New Year's resolution I think we should have a New Year's motto. How about something like "just get it done!" or maybe "put it in its place." There are all kinds of possibilities! The motto could be taped to the bathroom mirror or bathroom scale, maybe hung from one's rearview mirror, certainly put on the refrigerator." Cory's Resolution - "Barbie's first response was 'more of the same...work hard...do good...' but as she doesn't believe in New Year's resolutions, I'll adopt what she said for my own resolutions in 2005. That, and mean what I say, say what I mean, always try to be nice and never be mean. Buckaroo Banzai: Hey, hey, hey. Don't be mean. We don't have to be mean because, remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
Resolutions...weight loss on your list? Exercise more and improve one's diet are always popular items on New Year's Resolution lists. Some of us need all the help we can get in keeping these promises. Here is a link to a Food & Health website which offers some common sense tips for reducing calories such as "Don't eat when you're not hungry!" The joy of winter: the downright joy of winter! I tramped to-day through miles of open, snow-clad country. I slipped in the ruts of the roads or ploughed through the drifts in the fields with such a sense of adventure as I cannot describe. - Great Possessions, by David Grayson (Chapter VII, Look at the World)
Our featured writer this issue is Ray Stannard Baker who published during the first half of the 20th century under the pen name of David Grayson. Baker lived from 1870-1946 and had a reputation as one of the most prominent American journalists of his day. President Theodore Roosevelt labeled Baker a muckraker along with others, including those who served on the staff of McClure's Magazine where he worked for a time. The titles that Baker published under the name of David Grayson show a softer side of the progressive, crusading journalist, portraying country life with all of its charms. Great Possessions was one title in a series of nine volumes described as "adventures in contentment". Baker also served as Woodrow Wilson's press secretary and compiled a voluminous biography of President Wilson's life titled Woodrow Wilson: Life and Letters. There are more representative excerpts, perhaps, than the one below. But this one touched us as suitable for winter time and weather. You would be better served to find Grayson's entire work and peruse it altogether. A snippet rarely does a thing justice. For a critical review, see: www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/rbannis1/Baker/grayson.html. Reprinted from Great Possessions, (Chapter VII, Look at the World) by David Grayson (1870-1946). Source: www.gutenberg.org [EBook #10593] It is a strange and yet familiar experience how all things present their opposites. Do you enjoy the winter? Your neighbour loathes or fears it. Do you enjoy life? To your friend it is a sorrow and a heaviness. Even to you it is not always alike. Though the world itself is the same to-day as it was yesterday and will be to-morrow--the same snowy fields and polar hills, the same wintry stars, the same infinitely alluring variety of people--yet to-day you, that were a god, have become a grieving child. Even at moments when we are well pleased with the earth we often have a wistful feeling that we should conceal it lest it hurt those borne down by circumstances too great or too sad for them. What is there to offer one who cannot respond gladly to the beauty of the fields, or opens his heart widely to the beckoning of friends? And we ask ourselves: Have I been tried as this man has? Would I be happy then? Have I been wrung with sorrow, worn down by ill-health, buffeted with injustice as this man has? Would I be happy then? ... ... I had a curious experience not long ago: One of those experiences which light up as in a flash some of the fundamental things of life. I met a man in the town road whom I have come to know rather more than slightly. He is a man of education and has been "well-off" in the country sense, is still, so far as I know, but he has a sardonic outlook upon life. He is discouraged about human nature. Thinks that politics are rotten, and that the prices of potatoes and bread are disgraceful. The state of the nation, and of the world, is quite beyond temperate expression. Few rays of joy seem to illuminate his pathway. As we approached in the town road I called out to him: "Good morning." He paused and, to my surprise, responded: "Are you happy?" It had not occurred to me for some time whether I was happy or not, so I replied: "I don't know; why do you ask?" He looked at me in a questioning, and I thought rather indignant, way. "Why shouldn't a man be happy?" I pressed him. "Why should he be? Answer me that!" he responded, "Why should he be? Look at the world!" With that he passed onward with a kind of crushing dignity. I have laughed since when I have recalled the tone of his voice as he said, "Look at the world!" Gloomy and black it was. It evidently made him indignant to be here. But at the moment his bitter query, the essential attitude of spirit which lay behind it, struck into me with a poignancy that stopped me where I stood. Was I, then, all wrong about the world? I actually had a kind of fear lest when I should look up again I should find the earth grown wan and bleak and unfriendly, so that I should no longer desire it. "Look at the world!" I said aloud. And with that I suddenly looked all around me and it is a strange, deep thing, as I have thought of it since, how the world came back upon me with a kind of infinite, calm assurance, as beautiful as ever it was. There were the hills and the fields and the great still trees--and the open sky above. And even as I looked down the road and saw my sardonic old friend plodding through the snow--his very back frowning--I had a sense that he belonged in the picture, too--and couldn't help himself. That he even had a kind of grace, and gave a human touch to that wintry scene! He had probably said a great deal more than he meant! Look at the world! Well, look at
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Special Photo Feature - Here is a slide show tour of Ellensburg taken on Thanksgiving Morning. - Courtesy of the Vanderbilt Country Estates website.
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FruitFromWashington Mailbag... Great Site. I was born & raised in Washington & now live in Wisconsin - another great fruit state. I was excited to discover your site as it is just about apple picking time here & I will put your recipes to great use. Also have a "dish of apples" from your site as my computer background. THANKS! - T.T. Thank you for this conversion site. I needed to enlarge the recipe as baking requires accurate measurements. This is a lifesaver. My deep appreciation. - D.P. Note: You might want to use Katie's Recipe Quantity Calculator when cooking for large gatherings, such as a New Year's crowd at your house this January! The Alaskan Citron Emergency—About a week before Christmas we received a desperate sounding phone call from Katie and Chuck in Alaska. They had just done their shopping for cookie baking supplies, Lebkuchen in particular, which requires citron as one of the ingredients, and they told us there was naught to be found in their grocery store. When they asked a clerk for help in locating citron on the shelf, they were told that all citron was sold out! Apparently an overstock last year led to a management decision to reduce the quantity of this year's order and thus there was no citron to be had. If you have never enjoyed Lebkuchen you can not fathom the depth of their depression at the thought of having to do without it at Christmas time. "Don't panic," I told the Alaskans, "just as the serum was rushed along the Iditarod Trail to stem the outbreak of diphtheria in Nome, we would somehow get citron to Palmer, Alaska." Our word was good and the package full of citron was shipped the next day. Shortly thereafter we received this message from Katie: "I told Grandma Arly about the 'citron emergency' last night and she suggested going to 'Shop Rite' -- a practically anachronistic (i.e., from the '60's or '70's) grocery store on the other side of Wasilla. I got over there today and they had a few tiny plastic tubs left. So I have some now. I hope you didn't go out of your way about this and thank you so much if you spent time looking." And so, the Citron Emergency came to a happy end, and the smell of baking Lebkuchen filled Alaskan kitchens. Bakers possess strong feelings about their favorite cookie recipes. Many variations of traditional cookies can be found. The following is one that Cory makes for Lebkuchen, written down by R. H. Sargent of Richland, Washington and published in "America Cooks". Katie has another recipe that is quite different still. Some Lebkuchen recipes call for honey, others require corn syrup or refined sugar, but whatever the ingredient list, all are rooted in old European farm traditions. While we are offering this recipe in January, it should have appeared in November. Because they are considered best when allowed to age, some bakers make these traditional Christmas cookies as early as Thanksgiving. Cory believes you should make them at least two weeks before they are consumed. Katie says, "good luck!" At her house, she can't keep them around long enough to age at all!
I have just had one of the pleasant experiences of life. From time to time, these brisk winter days, I like to walk across the fields to Horace's farm. I take a new way each time and make nothing of the snow in the fields or the drifts along the fences.... "Why," asks Harriet, "do you insist on struggling through the snow when there's a good beaten road around?" "Harriet," I said, "why should any one take a beaten road when there are new and adventurous ways to travel?" - Great Possessions, by David Grayson
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find that there are so many things to hope for when the year is fresh.
Optimists among us suffer nosebleeds from the pinnacle peaks where high
hopes take them at this time of year. They see the world set right, peace
and plenty bestowed, families reunited after too long an absence. Then
there are the pessimists of the clan, who with an all is woe expression
(somewhat like Pooh's friend Eeyore), expect 2005 to age with the same
hard, worn look that 2004 wore when we showed it the door at midnight
on December 31st. Whatever visions you have for what's to come in the
New Year, we hope you are able to share time with family and friends,
and as the old goes out and the new comes in, 
Farewell,
thy destiny is done,
When
you take your exercise in the form of a winter walk in the country, try
to figure out who else has been out and about on the trails. Snowfall
makes tracking easy even for relatively new naturalist observers. An empty
irrigation canal becomes the preferred thoroughfare for wildlife pedestrians,
such as coyote, rabbit, skunk, pheasant, quail and other critters.
You will be amazed
by all the animal activity which you may never have witnessed, but which
the tracks reveal! Quite likely that a pheasant or two left this crisscross
series of marks shown along a snowy stretch of ground around Eberhart
Orchards. Learn more about 
