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18 • November 2015 • UPBEAT TIMES, INC.


17th Annual Holiday Guide


Consider the Garden... NOVEMBER ... continued on page 18


Laurel leaves (Laurus nobilis or the much stronger tasting California bay, californica)


are


Umbellularia traditionally


used but other herbs work well. Experiment! Once assembled, drop your bouquet garni into your still-simmering stock, soup or stew for the last fi ve or ten minutes of cooking to add perfectly delicate fragrances and fl avors.


Remove your


bouquet garni before serving. Perfect! The evening sky is getting dark earlier and it’s a great time to read. Check out the vintage Ways


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Rachelle Blondel. You’ll dis- cover traditional garden lore, old but not forgotten and much more. Private Gardens of Paris by Alexandra d’Arnoux and Bruno de Laubadere is another beautiful collection to inspire. There are always lots of books on bulbs, cultivation, bulb his- tory and bulb gardens that you can fi nd used or on line.


A fun and educational (or should I say enlightening) proj- ect for children and friends: Scatter 50 or more crocus bulbs (look on line or local nurseries) in a freshly mown lawn and dig 3”deep holes where they fall or arrange them in spirals, long or wide swaths in earliest No- vember. Remember bulb tips should be pointing to the sky, and cover with organic bulb planting mix. Keep the grass cut short until you see their green tips barely poking up. A magic surprise in earliest spring awaits! Mow the grass after they have totally faded away since the leaves feed the bulbs. They will stay nestled in the earth until next spring re- producing more every year! Wispy tips of white brush


strokes sweep across soft blue sky, beautiful red capped Woodpeckers


are


for hidden acorns and in- sects beneath tree bark.


looking The


marvelous chill of November is creeping in. . .


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JOKES & Humor # 7 One afternoon, this guy drives down


Hi Paul! Upbeat Times in Zürich Switzerland on the Uraniabrücke, with the Grossmünster Zürich (“great minster”) behind on the left and the top of the Great St.Peter Church tower and largest church clock of Europe. Lucky it was a sunny day at 50 Fahrenheit. Keep up the good work!! Thanks- Brigitte D, Sebastopol


Upbeat in Maui!


a highway to visit a nearby lake and relax. On his way to the lake, a guy dressed from head to toe in red standing on the side of the highway gestures for him to stop. The guy rolls down the window and says, “How can I help you?” “I am the red nut of the highway. You got some- thing to eat?” With a smile on his face, the guy hands a sandwich to the guy in red and drives away. Not even fi ve minutes later, he comes across another guy. This guy is dressed fully in yellow, standing on the side of the road and waving for him to stop. A bit irritated, our guy stops, cranks down the window, and says, “What can I do for you?” “I am the yellow nut of the highway. You got something to drink?” Hardly manag- ing to smile this time, he hands the guy a can of soda and stomps on the pedal and takes off again. In order to make it to the lake side before sunset, he decides to go faster and not to stop no matter what.


To his frustration, he sees another guy on the side of the road, this one dressed in blue and signaling for him to stop. Reluctantly, our guy decides to stop one last time. He rolls down his window, and yells, “Let me guess. You’re the blue nut of the highway, and just what the heck do you wanna have?”


“Driver’s license and registration, please.”


T e Holidays are Around the Corner!


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