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Online Newsletter
Hello everyone! Something to think about ... Earth Day is Friday, April 22nd. Whether you're planning an earth walk or wterway cleanup to celebrate Earth Day, you find resources here. Take a moment to subscribe to the free "Solutions newsletter which is published by EDC (Earth Day Canada); Canada's not-for profit environmental charity.
Meet the Members
Please say hello to
Marie, aka Peachy, from Ontario, Canada. Actually Peachy Marie lives in Canada during the Summer and Fall but she and Garnet winter in Deland Florida. She celebrates her birthday January 22, 1937 and she is 68 years young. She has been married almost 50 years and she has 13 grandchildren and 3 great grandchildren. Her favourite saying is "whatever". She heard about the WWWCOF from her sister-in-law, Florida Marie.
Peachy Marie is the Co-Ordinator of our Friendship Bracelet Club.
Do take a moment to visit all the wonderful member profiles and if you have not completed your survey yet do be sure to do so now -- you never know you may be the next one to be featured in Global Express!
Planet Kryzys
IN THE GARDEN
Plant a lilac, and you plant a memory ... A lilac ... will lend your landscape the aura of nostalgia, the remebrance of springs and summers past.
TO DO THIS MONTH
Start this growing season by opening a garden journal to help you track plans, plant purchases, flowering times, garden visitors (human and wild), weather highs and lows, harvest times and yields, and even bird migrations. Use your journal for notes and add drawings, month-by-month photos, pressed flowers and leaves, feathers, plant tags, seed packages and nursery receipts.
Be sure to check out our Recycle Message Board on our MSN Community.
Raising awareness is always the first step to action. Join our Planet Kryzys" (Crisis) Team today and come forward with things about your own area. We start off with awareness, and follow up with what we can do about it.
- Site manager, Daphne (BA,Argentina)
- Western Canada Coordinator, Sharon (BC,Canada)
- Eastern US Coordinator, Becky (Maryland, US)
- US Coordinator, Claudia (Chester IL)
The Planet Kryzys" (Crisis)site has been updated. Check out the latest news!
Member Photo Albums for your enjoyment!
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Tips & Recommendations
Be Kind to Your Planet
Couple of tips for conserving water outside your home:
- Use a rain barrel to collect rainwater for watering your garden. Make sure the barrel is covered to discourage mosquitoes from breeding.
- Don't overwater your lawn and water early in the morning to reduce evaporation.
Baking Soda cleans, deodorizes, scours, shines silver and is environmentally-friendly. Sprinkle on damp sponge and clean and deodorize the microvave, scour a bathroom and clean walls and furniture.
- To clean pots and pans shake a generous amount of baking soda into a pot with baked-on food; add hot water and dish detergent and let stand for 15 minutes.
- To shine your silver line a shallow pan with aluminum foil. Place silverware on the foil. Add a tablespoonful (15 millilitres) of baking soda. Pour boiling water over items to cover. Let stand until tarnish is gone (about 30 minutes), rinse and dry.
DISCLAIMER: Tips reflect member suggestions and are not verified by the WWWCOF.
Pet Section
Bea from Florida has sent in this great link on taking a Road Trip with your dog.
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To find all the interesting and exciting news and information all you have to do is go to the Vital Stats Department where you will find all the links you need.
To check on the latest report from your Department of Vital Statistics Director BigSisPat click on the logo below:
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Fun Tests & Quizzes & Games
Senior exercise Just came across this exercise suggested for seniors, to build muscle strength in the arms and shoulders. It seems so easy, I thought I'd pass it on to some of my mature friends and family.
The article suggested doing this three days a week.
Begin by standing on a comfortable surface, where you have plenty of room at each side. With a 5-lb. potato sack in each hand, extend your arms straight out from your sides, and hold them there as long as you can. Try to reach a full minute, then relax.
Each day, you'll find that you can hold this position for just a bit longer. After a couple of weeks, move up to 10-lb. potato sacks. Then 50-lb. potato sacks, and then eventually try to get to where you can lift a 100-lb. potato sack in each hand and hold your arms straight for more than a full minute.
When you feel confident at that level, put a potato in each of the sacks.
submitted by Jayne from Kansas, USA.
Remember to check here for a new crossword puzzle every week.
HAVE A GREAT WEEK
Fitness & Wellness
Kendra and I have joined a Fitness Club and are looking forward to enjoying becomming physicaly active and toning up our bodies. Will keep you updated on our progress. The Club we joined is an affiliate of Sisters Pace Fitness and it is located not far from Kendra's school and my work.
Picked up some Healthy Tips for the Month of March too:
- Whether you're going to the grocery store or heading to an appointment, choose walking or biking instead of driving for at least one of your errands.
- Make activity a social outing! Invite family or friends (or your dog!) to go on a walk with you in a local park, on the beach or around your neighbourhood.
- Sign up for a new recreational activity. Whether it's Salsa dancing, Ultimate Frisbee, Floor Hockey, volleyball or basketball, it will enhance your social life as well as your health.
- Buy a pedometer. Many models are available and it's a great way to track how much you are moving. You'd be surprised how quickly you are motivated to accumulate more steps today than you did yesterday!
- Need to exercise at home? Walk on the spot while watching your favourite TV show, or do sit-ups during commercial breaks. Every little bit counts!
- Choosing juice? Look for the words "100 per cent juice" on the label. If it says beverage, fruit cocktail or fruit punch it may offer little more than sugar and water.
The Argentinean Chapter
Daphne and Leo got home ok on Wednesday from Mendoza and do take a moment to read her story.
You can read about Argentina, the country I adopted here
Love from Daphne
Messages from Members
- Wow...what a surprise to see me in the News! Thank you to whomever is
responsible. It made my day.
Love to all Linda from China.
- It's pretty cold here. 17deg. We are suppose to get snow but I hope the weathermen are wrong. I can say we are having a very sunny day.
I just had a birthday and you should have seen my house. I had so many flowers sent I thought I opened a shop. I had to put flowers up stairs just to make the down stairs look nice. Then the party was great. Sitting at the table blowing out 1 big candle my grandson age 3 wanted to know why only 1 candle when I'm old. We told him the fire truck couldn't make it down our street in case there was a fire. That little guy said" Tell me about it girls" Boy did we ever break out laughing.
Hope all is great with you. Carol from New York.
- My oldest son just brought me over a new Dell computer & all the trimmings for a special gift just cause I'm Mom! It is so nice. He just got it installed & the printer even works this time! I am so excited. Now I just have to learn to use it. That's going to take some doing! Hope all is well. Love Charla from Florida USA
- Hi! I miss everyone. Now I'm in Beijing. Not easy to get a
computer and let alone online. I miss u all and I'm so glad to see our
WWWCOF is going to have birthday. Happy to be the 100th member, though
seldom do things here. Love and Hugs Linda from China.
- What a morning! Just after my husband left for work I went downstairs to the basement ... and I noticed my 2 cats looking at the furnace. I could hear noise in the pipes ... flue. I knew it must be a squirrel or a bird trapped. When I had the furnace cleaned the furnace man told me he found a few burned up dead birds. I think the worst noise is hearing something trapped fighting for it's life. I did one thing my dad always taught me as a kid ... he always taught me how to turn the furnace off by the emergency switch. I turned off the furnace because the heat coming on would of killed what ever was there. My son had better ears than I did ... he noticed he heard it moving as I walked down the stairs. The trapped something? was now sitting on the shelf of the flapper for the furnace. The next thing we did was give it some air ... I wedged a pencil in the flapper to give it good air. I then went up to get a flash light ... another thing my dad taught me ... always have a GOOD powerful working flashlight .... he never believed in the dollar flashlights ... he had to buy the $20.00 kind that you could shine it on something and see it across the yard. I had a gut feeling it was a bird because a squirrel would of been making lots of noise ... all I heard was feet. When I shinned the flashlight into the flapper I could see a bird hanging on for dear life. Soon Alan came home and he put a bag over the flapper and unscrewed it ... the bird wasn't going into the bag so I reached in and grabbed the bird ... the poor thing was alive and alert ... it has soot on it ... and it's eyes looked dusty. I took the bird outside and watched it fly away. My husband now has a project in getting one of these things to put over the top so we our furnace will not kill anymore birds.
It was a good feeling knowing this bird made it out alive.
Pami from New York, USA.
- Bigsis Pat from Ontario, Canada send us this lovely Pine Tree Crosses.
News & Announcements
- Kendra from Paradise Island, Canada got her First Aid Level 1 Certificate on March 8, 2005. Isn't that great!
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Wanted to share an accident that happened in our neighbourhood, please tell people, this is so dangerous. There is every weekend a race around here also in the sand pit down the street with dirt bikes. Well fnally, we knew some day someone would be hurt, as police have been called so many times. There was this couple man & wife and their 17 month old baby on a dirt bike; they seen police coming and started to race to beat them, while doing so they collided with another dirt bike with a 12 year old boy, so daddy went flying off dirt bike and is in critical condition, baby went flying off crushed his face, the 12 yr old boy had a broken leg, we had 2 ambluance 2 rescue trucks and many police cars here. So please if any member has a dirt bike OH PLEASE don't put a baby on it. We don't know yet how everyone is. Bea from Florida, USA.
Be sure to brush up on safety with your children. A good place to start is with a visit over to the Safe Kids Canada website.
In this issue...
- The Argentinean Chapter
- Planet Kryzys
- Tips & Recommendations
- Fun Tests, Quizzes & Games
- Recipes
- Crafts
- Reunion 2006
- Meet the Members
- Fun
- Featured Sites
- Department of Vital Statistics
- Friendship Bracelet Club
- Pet Section
- News & Announcements
- Messages from Members
- Health
Crafts
Easter Spice Potpourrie
- 4 Oranges
- 4 Lemons
- 1/2 c Whole cloves
- 1/2 c Whole allspice
- 10 Cinnamon Sticks, broken
- 10 Bay leaves, crumbled
- 8 oz Decorated jelly jars with bands & lids
Spread peel on paper towel lined pan. place in preheated oven to 175, or set oven to WARM. Dry in oven for 1 1/2 hours, tossing occasionally. Peels should be leathery and/or slightly crunchy.
Spread peels on dry paper towels and let air dry for 24 hours.
Combine with remaining ingredients. Fill jars with mixture, place lids on and screw bands on tightly.
Yield: 3 or 4 half pint jars.
To use: remove lid and leave band on for decoration to fragrance a room. OR put one tablespoon into a jar and fill jar with boiling water to release fragrance.
Be sure to check out all the wonderful craft ideas in the WWWCOF Craft Site and add your own favourites or email Crafty Jayne from Kansas, USA, who will be happy to add them to our ever growing collection.
Reunion 2006
Proposals to host Reunion 2006 will be accepted up until the end of June, 2005 following which a vote will be taken and planning will commence.
Do you want to host Reunion 2006? -- if you do please get your Reunion Proposal in as soon as possible! A special request for proposals has been set up here. Do be sure to check it out!!
Bigsis Pat from Ontario, Canada has undertaken the position of Reunion 2006 Coordinator and she will need help so please watch this space for updates and more talk about the who? what? where? when? and why?
She has also created two new albums on the Photo Album Site so that anyone considering submitting a proposal to host the reunion can see how much fun it is meeting other members. The two new albums are Reunion 2003 (at Ruths) and "Let's Do Lunch".
Be sure to check out the Reunion 2006 website.
FEATURED SITES
- Gerrie from Hamburg, New York, USA would like to share her site with us - Precious Expressions - great site featuring primitive dolls, raggedy anns, gingers & ornies, pre made doll bodies, doll furniture and so much more by Precious Expression tm. All original designs, hand made and signed by the artist.
- Bea from Florida, USA recommends 101 Ways to Research Your Family Tree for Free.
Recipes
Roasted Asparagus
- 3 bunches asparagus spears (3 lb./1.5 kg), trimmed
- 2 tbsp (25 mL) vegetable oil
- 1 tbsp (15 mL) grated lemon rind
- 1/4 cup (50 mL) lemon juice
- 1/2 tsp (2 mL) each salt and pepper
(Make-ahead: Cover and refrigerate for up to 4 hours)
Roast in 425 F (220 C) oven, rolling occasionally, until tender-crisp, about 20 minutes.
Do you have a recipe for us to enjoy? We would love for you to add it to all the wonderful recipes being collected in the WWWCOF Cookbook or email The Recipe Lady aka Claudia from Illinois who will be happy to add them for you.
Just for Fun
For everyone who has ever had an evaluation - just remember, it could have been worse. These are actual quotes taken from Federal Government employee performance evaluations.
- 1. "Since my last report, this employee has reached rock-bottom and has started to dig."
- 2. "I would not allow this employee to breed."
- 3. "This employee is really not so much of a has-been, but more of a definite won't be."
- 4. "Works well when under constant supervision and cornered like a rat in a trap."
- 5. "When she opens her mouth, it seems that it is only to change feet."
- 6. "This young lady has delusions of adequacy."
- 7. "He sets low personal standards and then consistently fails to achieve them."
- 8. "This employee is depriving a village somewhere of an idiot."
- 9. "This employee should go far, and the sooner he starts, the better."
- 10. "Got a full 6-pack, but lacks the plastic thingy to hold it all together."
- 11. "A gross ignoramus -- 144 times worse than an ordinary ignoramus."
- 12. "He doesn't have ulcers, but he's a carrier."
- 13. "He's been working with glue too much."
- 14. "He would argue with a signpost."
- 15. "He brings a lot of joy whenever he leaves the room."
- 16. "When his IQ reaches 50, he should sell."
- 17. "If you see two people talking and one looks bored, he's the other one."
- 18. "A photographic memory but with the lens cover glued on."
- 19. "A prime candidate for natural de-selection."
- 20. "Donated his brain to science before he was done using it."
- 21. "Gates are down, the lights are flashing, but the train isn't coming."
- 22. "He's got two brains cells, one is lost and the other is out looking for it."
- 23. "If he were any more stupid, he'd have to be watered twice a week."
- 24. "If you give him a penny for his thoughts, you'd get change."
- 25. "If you stand close enough to him, you can hear the ocean."
- 26. "It's hard to believe he beat out 1,000,000 other sperm."
- 27. "One neuron short of a synapse."
- 28. "Some drink from the fountain of knowledge; he only gargled."
- 29. "Takes him 2 hours to watch '60-minutes'."
- 30. "The wheel is turning, but the hamster is dead"
Be sure to visit our Computer Humour site! Email Daphne from Argentina with any computer jokes you have and she will happily add them to this collection.
I would like to close this week's edition, which I hope you have enjoyed, with Happy 100th Birthday wishes to Saskatchewan and Alberta. The Dominion Act of July 18th, 1905 created these two provinces.Would you like to read more about Canada? The most comprehensive and authoritative source on all things Canadian can be found on The Canadian Encyclopedia site.
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