Congratulations
to graduates of the Class of 2002! Interested
in giving your grad a gift box of fruit? Click here.
June rings with the happy strains of "School's out for summer."
High School Seniors are salutarily validated, laureated, and graduated;
with the party over they find it's time to start that summer job
to earn some dough for college, or clothes, or a car, or who knows?
June always seems like
such a youthful, promising month. A month of fine intentions,
of good advice and resolution—maybe even more so than January
and its New Year's. In the orchard, we assess the effect of springtime
frost and make the first predictions of crop yields. The Washington
Apple Commission has come out with their own encouraging number
forecasts.
In June we live outside
more than in January. The days grow long as the solstice nears,
and we use the daylight to immerse ourselves in the great outdoors.
We take in the rivers, mountains, valley vistas, and the fathomless
expanse of sky which holds our view and triggers dreams of possibilities.
Nature is a restorative.
Walt Whitman believed so, too. In
a collection of diary entries published under the title, "Specimen
Days," Whitman, late in life, poses the question: "After
you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality,
love, and so on, have found that none of these finally satisfy,
or permanently wear, what remains?" His answer: "Nature
remains...the open air, the trees, fields, the changes of seasons,
the sun by day and the stars of heaven by night." (See complete
quote by Whitman, below.)
Excerpt
from "Specimen Days"
by
Walt Whitman (1892)
New Themes
Entered Upon 1876, ’77— I find the woods in mid-May and early
June my best places for composition. Seated on logs or stumps
there, or resting on rails, nearly all the following memoranda
have been jotted down. Wherever I go, indeed, winter or summer,
city or country, alone at home or traveling, I must take notes—
(the ruling passion strong in age and disablement, and even the
approach of— but I must not say it yet.) Then underneath
the following excerpta — crossing the t’s and dotting the
i’s of certain moderate movements of late years— I am fain
to fancy the foundations of quite a lesson learn’d. After you
have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality,
love, and so on— have found that none of these finally satisfy,
or permanently wear— what remains? Nature remains; to bring
out from their torpid recesses, the affinities of a man or woman
with the open air, the trees, fields, the changes of seasons—
the sun by day and the stars of heaven by night. We will begin
from these convictions. Literature flies so high and is so hotly
spiced, that our notes may seem hardly more than breaths of common
air, or draughts of water to drink. But that is part of our lesson.
- Walt Whitman
Find
more summer verse by Walt Whitman in Fruit From Washington's literary
quotes collection
Month
of June Feature Recipe
Muster Cookies
Before the Civil War, in New England, the first
Tuesday in June was known as Muster Day. Recruits would report
to the training field for military exercises. Women and children
joined them at mid-day, bringing baskets packed with food including
“muster gingerbread” which was a large, soft, spicy
molasses cookie. This recipe, was sent in to The Christian Science
Monitor by Charlotte Scripture of Concord, N.H. (Wonderful served
with applesauce or fresh fruit!)
2 c whole wheat flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. each cinnamon and ginger
1/2 c. butter or margarine, softened
1/2 c. packed dark brown sugar
1 egg
1/2 c. molasses
1/2 c. sour cream
Mix flour, soda, salt, and spices and set aside.
Cream butter, sugar, and egg together until fluffy. Beat in
molasses. Stir in dry ingredients and sour cream.
Drop by slightly rounded tablespoonful 2 inches
apart onto greased baking sheets. Bake in preheated 375°
F. oven 12 to 15 minutes. Remove at once to cake racks to cool.
Makes about 2 dozen large cookies.
For more cookie recipes (using
Fruit From Washington apples and pears) see the FruitFromWashington
Cookies page!
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The
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Archive Feature of the Month
"I Want my Daddy Back."
Buy Bonds "Remember Pearl Harbor!" Coverage Dates 1941-1945
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Branch, National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi
Road, College Park, MD 20740-6001
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 The
June Fruit Subscription Variety is a 20-count gift box of
Granny
Smith apples .
Sour apple fans will tell you that Granny Smith apples should
not be cooked but are best eaten raw. If you like to pucker
up and enjoy a juicy burst of tartness, the Granny is your
apple. Best served fresh, crisp and cold. Even when used for
cooking, it keeps its zesty flavor.
 You
may think because it's summer time that the living is easy, but
first it's going to take some muscle, sweat and brains to build
this Forest Service style 2-wall barbecue grill and firebrick
lined hearth! We
recommend that you commandeer helpers, for any back breaking labor,
with sincere promises of great,
grilled meals the summer long then simply follow the directions
outlined on this classic U.S. Forest Service plan.
(Click
for Larger View of Plan)
See the classic
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need to furnish your outdoor dining area with beautiful retro-styled
furniture! You will find FFW Manufacturing (formerly DPK Industries)
Redwood and Cedar Outdoor and Garden Furniture including solidly
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 Happy
Father's Day from Fruit From Washington. Here are a few selected
quotes on the subject of Dads:
You don't have to deserve your mother's love.
You have to deserve your father's. He's more particular. - Robert
Frost
One father
is more than a hundred school masters. - George Herbert.
My heart
is happy, my mind is free
I had a father who talked with me. - Hilda Bigelow
A small boy
shouted downstairs, "I'm scared of the dark." His father yelled
back, "Don't be scared. God is with you." There was silence for
a moment; and then the boy said, "Get up here fast -- I need somebody
with skin on!" - Unknown
[On her father:]
He opened the jar of pickles when no one else could. He was the
only one in the house who wasn't afraid to go into the basement
by himself. He cut himself shaving, but no one kissed it or got
excited about it. It was understood that when it rained, he got
the car and brought it around to the door. When anyone was sick,
he went out to get the prescription filled. He took lots of pictures…
but he was never in them. - Erma Bombeck
I used to
feel that all I ever did was take from my father: "Dad, my heater's
not working." "Dad, I need help building the shed." "Dad, can
you lend me money for a car?" Now he has a computer. Things are
evening up quickly. - Den Schlaf
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Up
on the Blackboard
Special Days in the Month
of June
D-Day
Anniversary
Thursday,
June 6, 2002
In 1944 this day the Allies launched operation Overlord,
an amphibious assault on German occupied Europe. 130,000
troops landed on five beachheads of the Normandy coast
with 10,000 casualties.
Flag
Day
Friday, June 14, 2002
Honor your country, display
the flag!
Father's
Day
Sunday, June 16, 2002
Happy Father's Day to all of you dear old Dads!
Summer
Solstice
Friday, June 21, 2002
Summer is here! In the northern hemisphere
it's the longest day and shortest night just the opposite
in the southern hemisphere today.
World
War I Day
Friday, June 28, 2002
First World War lasted from 1914 to 1918. British
combatant lives lost numbered nearly 1 million; French,
1.4 million; Italy .5 million; Russia 1.7 million; USA
115,000; Germany 1.8 million; Austria-Hungary 1.2 million;
Turkey 325,000.
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"I just wanted to let you know that the
people who have been receiving this fruit (my sister and her
husband), say it is the best fruit! They rave about how delicious
it is. Sometimes it is too good to even share with their friends!
Thanks!" A.M. - 5/10/02
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