2 • February 2016 • UPBEAT TIMES, INC. ®


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Paul Quistgard An Upbeat Sunset November 2015 just below Little River in Mendocino County. ~ P.A.D. Think Green! SIGMOND


You may think us plants just sit and grow...but there’s a whole lot


more to us than meets the eye! Sigmond will grow on you!


2 • February 2016 • UPBEAT TIMES, INC. “Minds are like fl owers, they only open when the time is right.”- Stephen Richards Edited reprint from 2008


Natalie Minuzzo and Jonah Son, from Sonoma, CA, reading Upbeat Times while visiting St. John in the US Virgin Islands. T e breathtaking views, perfect weather, pristine beaches and warm water


with turtles, rays, colorful fi sh and coral for amazing snorkeling made this winter holiday vacation in the Caribbean incredible. T anks so much! Jonah Son


Upbeat at St. John in the US Virgin Islands! The Upbeat Photo Album


www.upbeattimes.com First Fun Facts


The 29th of May is offi cially “Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day“. (what?)


Cherophobia is the fear of fun.


You are born with 300 bones, by the time you are an adult, you will have 206. Some bones grow together as we age.


It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it.


The present population ‘on Earth’ is expected to rise to 15 Billion by the year 2080.


The Punitentiary #1


I totally understand how batteries feel because I’m rarely ever included in things either.


I used to think the brain was the most important organ. Then I thought, look what’s telling me that.


A farmer in the fi eld with his cows counted 196 of them, but when he rounded them up he had 200.


by Paul Andrew Doyle


I CAN’T SAY I’M GREEN WITH ENVY


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