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Warmer temperatures and recent snow melt have resulted in increased bird and wildlife activity in the orchard. Most farmsteads in Kittitas County's Badger Pocket can boast of large coveys of resident quail. The tall bushes in Grandma Barbara and Grandpa Dee's front yard provide cover for a large number of birds. At daylight, quail emerge from their shrubby roost to scratch in the bare spots of the driveway and fly up to the second floor balcony to partake in a breakfast of wild bird seed (put out for the songbirds). From Urban and Kim's house, a covey of nearly 50 quail make the rounds in early afternoon, to scratch in the dips and hollows at the base of the trees in search of last summer's seed heads and any unsuspecting bugs they can find. Robins have also returned to the Kittitas Valley with the warmer winter weather. "We had two days of snow (which remains) last week. The little birds, quail and now red winged blackbirds are demolishing the big bag of bird seed which you brought." - Grandpa Dee, 1/26/03
The sky is the limit when it comes to Valentine creativity. Round up art paper, pens, crayons, magazine pictures, glue stick, glitter, etc. and paste together a Valentine collage that's uniquely you. If you're handy with needle and thread, stitch up scraps of fabric into sachets and fill them with dried lavender, dried rose petals or potpourri. Always a favorite are Valentine sugar cookies. We use Grandma Violet's cutout sugar cookie recipe that no matter what the holiday goes by the name of "Santa Claus and Christmas Tree Cookies". Of course, by February the Santa cookie cutters have disappeared and hearts now are center stage.
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very room, coz she was in, Book Review - If you find yourself with a desperate desire to write that love letter but stymied by the blank sheet on your writing table, we highly recommend the practical guide titled, "How to Write Love Letters," by Michelle Lovric (Shooting Star Press, New York 1995). In addition to Lovric's advice for amorous expression in ink, she provides a "A Short History of Epistolary Romance" tracking love letters from biblical time, exemplified by the Song of Solomon, to the computer age. She speculates that wars, like the two world wars of the last century, create a flood of letter writing. Very often these war time letters were bundled together and tucked away in the closets, dresser drawers, attics and basements of the family home where chances are they still remain, to be rediscovered by careful family archaeologists. In the American Memory online feature of the Library of Congress, you will find access to the "The Abraham Lincoln Papers". The site's search function is finely tuned. Naturally, we looked for any reference to Lincoln and fruit. Silly, I know, but sometimes the truest essence of character or history, is revealed simply in the detail. Besides, in trodding any investigative path, one must start somewhere. There were photographic facsimiles of letters in lovely, cursive flourish, one correspondence from Amos Ballance and B. B. Dunlavy on behalf of the Society of Shakers, of Pleasant Hill, Mercer County, Kentucky to Abraham Lincoln, on May 15, 1864, which accompanied a gift of fruit preserves and another from Edwin Henry to Abraham Lincoln on August 26, 1862 to announce a gift of Bartlett pears. Pleasant
Hill, KY May 15, 1864 Accordingly, we prepared in our plain way, & forwarded by express yesterday, a small box of preserves, not for their value, which is but a mite, but as a mark of the unfeigned respect entertained towards you as a native of Kentucky, & the high estimation of your probity & private virtues, & the unbending integrity & signal ability which have characterized your official administration, in this unprecedented & lamentable crisis. We thought
that some of the fruits called from the soil of your native State, cultivated
under the arts of peace, might be as savory to your palate, as the thousand
& one perplexing cares that beset your overburdened mind from a world
of strife. Edwin
Henry to Abraham Lincoln
from Washington Note:
Edwin Henry was appointed a captain and commissary of subsistence in November
1863. Flushing L. I, N.Y. “I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.” - Abraham Lincoln
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“Send kisses with apples, and I will feast with pleasure.” - Petronius While
you wait for those January posted seed orders to arrive in the mail, midwinter
gardening tasks beckon– “You,
Beloved, who are all Many ways to say "I love you" appear in the following reprint of the Crafty Secrets newsletter (February 2002). Thank you, Sandy Redburn, for sharing these Crafty Secrets Publications Valentine's Day ideas! Fun & Romantic Ideas For Valentines Day It’s Time to Proclaim Your Love! Words can help us express and affirm our feelings, they can motivate and inspire us to new heights, and they can touch us on such an emotional and personal level, creating a lasting impact. So if loving and being loved is the core of mankind, then proclaiming your love to those you care about can help nourish everyone’s spirit. Valentines Day is not just for ‘lovers’, it’s for anyone you love and care about. I recently read over one billion Valentine cards are sent each year, but you don’t have to give the usual routine Valentine card. You can proclaim your love for others in all kinds of imaginative ways and hey – surprises make life more exciting and fun...Rather than once a year, why not make it a regular occasion to send messages of love to your special Valentines. Places to Put Messages
of Love A Few NEW Places Household
Hints for Valentine's Day– You want to bake a cake for your
sweetheart on Valentine's Day but you don't have a heart shaped cake pan?
That's no problem if you do have both a square cake pan and a round cake
pan handy. For best results, both need to be the same basic dimension,
for example 8 x 8-inch square pan and 8-inch round pan, or you can use
a 9 x 9-inch square pan and a
9-inch round pan together. Remember to grease and flour the pans, divide
your cake batter evenly between them and bake according to recipe directions.
After cake layers have baked, remove from pans and cool on racks. To assemble
your heart-shaped cake, take a sharp knife and slice the round layer in
half. Arrange the square layer in a diamond position on a cake plate,
then place the two half-round pieces with the cut side against the top
diagonal edge of the square layer to form a heart! Frosting fills any
gaps in your heart-shaped single layer cake...candied sprinkles are a
nice decorative touch.
Mountain and Valley View Lot in beautiful Kittitas County, Washington —
Located in the Kittitas Valley of Eastern Washington, this land would be great for raising horses or as a small farm; great view and privacy. It's about 14 miles from shopping, good schools and Central Washington University. The Kittitas Valley is on the 'dry' eastern side of the Cascade mountains, it has 'four' seasons and is a quick two hour drive from Seattle--just a great place! (Click for more). Quick Click
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Fruit
From Washington February 
I'll
have to ask Sophia and the kids to confirm this, but I am quite sure
that the February bulletin board in a typical elementary classroom prominently
features American Presidents, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, plus
Valentine's hearts and cupids. So shall we here, except perhaps for arrow-toting
cupids which really are quite annoying...cherubs in general, I think,
are fine, but lovesick cupids? No thank you. 
