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Current Webletter Contents • Old year past and new year just begun• Central Washington Mid-Winter Weather • How to Cook a Pear Cheese Melt Sandwich by Bruce • Archive Feature - Girl Holding Canned Goods • How to Keep a Journal by W. S. Jerome • Quick Click Highlights for Winter • Various Featured Fruit Still Life by Vincent Van Gogh |
Winter walks continue despite some inclement weather during December and into January. Around Christmas the temperature warmed up under influence of a "Pineapple Express" but by New Year the thermometer dropped below freezing again. Despite the weather, getting out for fresh air and exercise is part of the daily routine. Winter walks are always nice even when it is sometimes tricky to maneuver; we slosh through puddles that form over ice sheets along banks and trails when warm rain falls on top of frozen ground. With snow melt comes run-off and places along the trail where "wannabe" ice bergs cast loose and begin to float up on rivulets trickling beneath them. Such it was around Christmas but those conditions came to a quick end when warm air from out of the South Pacific was dispelled by a series of cold fronts. Snowy days
have since returned. Grandpa Dee could tell you the highs
and lows as he's been watching the digital readings from the gauge Urban
and Kim gave him for Christmas. The Washington
Crop Weather report on conditions in Kittitas County at the end of
2005 stated, "December was exceptionally wet and cold. Precipitation
of 2.4 inches was received - nearly double the long-term
average of 1.25 inches. Snow depth was considerably better than this time
last year, a hopeful sign for irrigators." Support your local pet shelter where you will find kittens and puppies galore and their grown-up counterparts.
If you keep a journal now, no reason to read on, but if you don't (and you're looking for a just so great idea for a new, New Year's resolution) this copy of W. S. Jerome's article titled How to Keep A Journal (from the St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, October 1878, No. 12 and found in the Project Gutenberg Online Book Catalog) is just the thing you'll need to get started! HOW TO KEEP A JOURNAL. By W. S. Jerome. Autumn is as good a time as any for a boy or girl to begin to keep a journal. Too many have the idea that it is a hard and unprofitable task to keep a journal, and especially is this the case with those who have begun, but soon gave up the experiment. They think it is a waste of time, and that no good results from it. But that depends upon the kind of journal that you keep. Everybody has heard of the boy who thought he would try to keep a diary. He bought a book, and wrote in it, for the first day, "Decided to keep a journal." The next day he wrote, "Got up, washed, and went to bed." The day after, he wrote the same thing, and no wonder that at the end of a week he wrote, "Decided not to keep a journal," and gave up the experiment. It is such attempts as this, by persons who have no idea of what a journal is, or how to keep it, that discourage others from beginning. But it is not hard to keep a journal if you begin in the right way, and will use a little perseverance and patience. The time spent in writing in a journal is not wasted, by any means. It may be the best employed hour of any in the day, and a well-kept journal is a source of pleasure and advantage which more than repays the writer for the time and trouble spent upon it. The first thing to do in beginning a journal, is to resolve to stick to it. Don't begin, and let the poor journal die in a week. A journal, or diary, should be written in every day, if possible. Now, don't be frightened at this, for you do a great many things every day, and this isn't a very awful condition. The time spent may be longer or shorter, according to the matter to be written up; but try and write, at least a little, every day. "Nulla dies sine linea"—no day without a line—is a good motto. It is a great deal easier to write a little every day, than to write up several days in one. Do not get for a journal a book with the dates already printed in it. That kind will do very well for a merchant's note-book, but not for the young man or woman who wants to keep a live, cheerful account of a happy and pleasant life. Sometimes you will have a picnic or excursion to write about, and will want to fill more space than the printed page allows. Buy a substantially bound blank-book, made of good paper; write your name and address plainly on the fly-leaf, and, if you choose, paste a calendar inside the cover. Set down the date at the head of the first page, thus: "Tuesday, October 1, 1878." Then begin the record of the day, endeavoring as far as possible to mention the events in the correct order of time,—morning, afternoon and evening. When this is done, write in the middle of the page, "Wednesday, October 2," and you are ready for the record of the next day. It is well to set down the year at the top of each page. Then put down the letters you have received or written, and, if you wish, any money paid or received. The day of beginning or leaving school; the studies you pursue; visits from or to your friends; picnics or sleigh-rides; the books you have read; and all such items of interest should be noted. Write anything that you want to remember. After trying this plan a short time, you will be surprised at the many things constantly occurring which you used to overlook, but which now form pleasant paragraphs in your book. But don't try to write something when there is nothing to write. If there is only a line to be written, write that, and begin again next day. Do not set down about people anything which you would not wish them to see. It is not likely that any one will ever see your writing, but it is possible, so, always be careful about what you write. The Chinese say of a spoken word, that once let fall, it cannot be brought back by a chariot and six horses. Much more is this true of written words, and once out of your possession, there is no telling where they will go, or who will see them. The best time to write in a journal is in the evening. Keep the book in your table-drawer, or on your desk, and, after supper, when the lamps are lighted, sit down and write your plain account of the day. Don't try to write an able and eloquent article, but simply give a statement of what you have seen or done during the day. For the first week or two after beginning a journal, the novelty of the thing will keep up your interest, and you will be anxious for the time to come when you can write your journal. But, after a while, it becomes tedious. Then is the time when you must persevere. Write something every day, and before long you will find that you are becoming so accustomed to it, that you would not willingly forego it. After that, the way is plain, and the longer you live the more valuable and indispensable your journal will become. But, best of all, a well-kept journal furnishes a continuous and complete
family history, which is always interesting, and often very useful. It
is sometimes very convenient to have a daily record of the year, and the
young journalist will often have occasion to refer to his account of things
gone by. Perhaps, some evening, when the family are sitting and talking
together, some one will ask, "What kind of weather did we have last winter?"
or, "When was the picnic you were speaking of?" and the journal is referred
to. But the pleasure of keeping a journal is itself no small reward. It
is pleasant to exercise the faculty of writing history, and to think that
you are taking the first step toward writing newspapers and books. The
writer can practice on different kinds of style, and can make his journal
a record, not only of events, but of his own progress as a thinker and
writer. - How
to Keep a Journal by W. S. Jerome, St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys
and Girls, Vol. 5, October 1878, No. 12 Editor's Note: The illustrations
of the boy and girl in winter are from UN
ALPHABET FRANCAIS Par Laura Caxton from the same issue of St. Nicholas
Magazine for Boys and Girls.
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Gift
Box of 15 
Gift Box of 15 
Set
out ingredients including a little sugar, a bottle of sweet French
white wine, one or two ripe d'Anjou pears, a block of hard white
French cheese such as Gruyere de Comté, a loaf of Challah Bread,
some eggs and butter.
Core
and slice pears. Make syrup using white wine with a little sugar
added. Heat syrup to slow boil and add sliced pear. Continue to
cook pears in syrup; turn them now and then.
Melt
butter in a second skillet. Mix up eggs.
Slice
Challah Bread.
Slice
cheese.
of
browned egg battered bread.
But
what are you to write about? First, the weather. Don't forget this. Write,
"Cold and windy," or "Warm and bright," as the case may be. It takes but
a moment, and in a few years you will have a complete record of the weather,
which will be found not only curious, but useful.
But
some practical young person asks: What is the good of a journal? There
is very much. In the first place, it teaches habits of order and regularity.
The boy or girl who every evening arranges the proceedings of the day
in systematic order, and regularly writes them out, is not likely to be
careless in other matters. It helps the memory. A person who keeps a journal
naturally tries during the day to remember things he sees, until he can
write them down. Then the act of writing helps to still further fix the
facts in his memory. The journal is a first-class teacher of penmanship.
All boys and girls should take pride in having the pages of their journals
as neat and handsome as possible. Compare one day's writing with that
of the one before, and try to improve every day. Keeping a journal cultivates
habits of observation, correct and concise expression, and gives capital
practice in composition, spelling, punctuation, and all the little things
which go to make up a good letter-writer. So, one who keeps a journal
is all the while learning to be a better penman, and a better composer,
with the advantage of writing original, historical, and descriptive articles,
instead of copying the printed letters and sentences of a writing-book.
Vanderbilt
Country Estates (VCE) is located within the orchard districts of
the south hills of the Kittitas Valley in central Washington, on
the eastern side of the Cascade Mountains. Covenants are attached
to land sales to protect the overall quality of the entire development.
VCE features
amenities such as a pedestrian and equestrian trail system for the
private use of members of this rural development. Phase II lots
that are available are about three acres to about seven acres in
size and prices vary accordingly. New residents may either farm
their own open land or have it farmed for them contractually to
preserve the current tax status. 