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Police chief pumpkin carving kit dollar store 60 Miami partying "couldn't go on any longer" Miami Beach officials are extending an emergency 8 p. Wednesday, Jan. Make sure the plants are healthy and have blue-green stems. Most seed carvimg say radish will mature in 30 days but we know this is just not true because they usually require two weeks to germinate, so a harvest can be more like 40 days. Crushed leaves form a protective blanket for ice cold purple top turnips resting under varving soil. If you have rolls of Christmas gift wrap, store these rolls in the same box along with the bows and ribbons.

It is a great idea to keep an extra ice scraper in your vehicle in case the one you are using breaks. Once a week during winter, clean the wiper blades to remove debris from the road that builds up on the wiper blades. Chicken salad casserole. This is an unusual casserole with great ingredients that the family will love. It has most of the ingredients that chicken salad contains and plenty of flavor. You will need:. Saute diced celery and onion in half stick margarine until tender.

Cook chicken breast and dice. Pour into a large casserole or 13x9x2 inch baking dish or pan sprayed with Pam oven spray. Bake at degrees for 45 to 50 minutes. Filling feeders and checking birdbaths. The birds of winter are continuing to search for food and water. Water is extremely difficult for them to find in the dead of winter with many mud holes frozen as well as birdbaths.

Keep the feeders refilled during the week and empty the ice from birdbaths each day when the temperature rises above freezing. Check them each day when ice forms in the baths.

The source of water and food we provide will help them make it well through the cold winter. Signs of spring in winter. Even with winter still with seven more weeks remaining, there are a few signs of spring in our midst. The heart-shaped leaves of the American violet are popping out of the cold winter soil.

Hyacinths and jonquils are showing green spikes emitting from underneath layers of crushed leaves. The perennials on the porch and deck are showing signs of life and the Carolina Jasmine still has quite a few yellow blooms and the sweet fragrance of spring. Grapevines and fruit trees can be pruned in February. Fruit trees and grapevines can be pruned in the month of February.

Grapevines and fruit trees are dormant which will make shaping and pruning easier. Limbs, branches, and runners will be visible and pruning more effective. Pruning in February when trees and vines are dormant will promote a more productive harvest and quality fruits. Prune back all limbs that rub together and long water sprouts that reach out of the reach of a harvest.

Try to choose a calm, sunny day with no wind to make the task easier. Dormant oil spray. One calm and sunny February afternoon after fruit trees and grapevines have been pruned, apply a coat of dormant oil spray mixed with proper amount of water and placed in a sprayer. Spray the trees and vines from top to bottom until they are slick and shiny.

Try to choose a day when no rain is forecast for several days to allow the oil spray to dry out. February can be a month of hard freezes. This is not all that bad because a hard freeze will help kill off wintering insects and their egg and larvae as well as fungus and diseases in the soil. Now a 5-year-old can do it!

Six-year-old Jody was interested about God making Eve from a rib of Adam. On Thursday, Jan. There is some special weather lore on his special day that is just as interesting as the apostle Paul and also just as positive. A halo around the near-full moon in winter. For the days until the snow, count the starts inside the halo. My Northampton County grandma went a step beyond the poem and her prediction was the number of visible stars inside the halo were the number of inches of snow that would fall.

When the temperatures are colder aloft where the halo is than the temperatures on the ground can surely set the stage for some white stuff from above. At this time of winter as January is closing out and February is on its way, there is not much going in in the garden plot, but you can purchase packets of seed, plant food, garden supplies, or order seed from catalogs. Another interesting chore is searching for Valentine gifts for the family, kids, grandchildren and sweethearts. Most stores, flower shops, and supermarkets are well stocked.

You can go ahead and order flowers now from florist to be assured of timely delivery. Many women love to have flowers delivered to their door! The inventory at most retailers is great and most stores are well stocked. Strawberry banana whipped cream pie. As the season of the Valentine draws near, this colorful and creamy pie will melt the heart.

It is very easy to prepare and requires no baking. In a large bowl, combine the pie filling and the bananas and spoon into graham cracker crust. Spread the Cool Whip over the strawberry banana filling. Keep refrigerated. Snow, ice, and icicles protection. In winter when it snows, a wet snow can be heavy and damage shrubs, bushes, and low-hanging limbs of trees. Keep a broom outside the door and brush off heavy build-ups of snow and ice from shrubs, bushes, and limbs.

Another hazard of winter weather is when icicles form over the carport and porches as well as entrances and doorways. Knock them down with the broom before they fall on someone or damage your vehicle. An outside broom is also handy to brush off shoes, boots, and keep ice and slush from being tracked to inside the home.

Hard freezes as January reaches the last week. The garden plot needs hard freezes to kill off wintering insects and pests and decrease their population. Hard freezes will also destroy weed seed, fungus, and organisms in the soil. Hard freezes can also destroy many diseases deep in the soil. Starting a very early vegetable in the winter garden.

January is a cold month but on days when the ground is not frozen, you can sow a packet or two of radish seed. Radish is a vegetable that can withstand cold winter temperatures and produce harvest in about 45 days.

When planting radish in winter, cover the seed in a layer of peat moss and apply an application of Garden-Tone organic plant food in the furrow and hill up soil on both sides of the furrow and tamp down with the hoe blade. Spread a plant cloth over the radish for a bit of protection. Fog in January means a wet spring. This is a rare bit of winter weather lore that is almost as rare as a fog in January because the month is usually too cold for fog to develop.

Spring is eight weeks away. January has only seven day remaining. February has 28 days and spring arrives March This means there are only 56 days until spring arrives.

On several nights in January, we have heard frogs croaking down by the creek bank and letting us know the number of days until spring. The Carolina Jasmine already has some yellow blooms and a fragrance of spring emitting from them.

Hyacinth bulbs are shooting out green spikes and a few wild onions are showing up on the lawn. Day continue to get longer by one minute each evening and this is a sure sign of spring.

A plant cloth is a good investment. As cold weather vegetables such as radish, lettuce, and greens are started in late winter, a plant cloth is a great investment for protecting early vegetables.

You can buy cloths in 25 foot rolls that can be cut to fit over plants. Most hardware stores and garden shops sell the cloths by the roll.

They can be cut to any size, recycled and used year after year. Rain water runs through them as well as providing protection from extreme weather. The pastor stood at the door shaking hands. Enjoying the Full Wolf Moon. The full moon of the month of January will occur on Jan. If snow is on the ground, the snow will look like sparking diamonds. The bulbs of springs are beginning to awaken. The spring bulbs of jonquils, hyacinths, daffodils, narcissus, and tulips are showing signs of life as the spike from underneath the layers of crushed leaves.

Apply a layer of bone meal on them next week to get them off to a good start. Spring seeds showing up in stores. Many supermarkets also have racks of seed displays. We like to purchase a few packets of flower seed while we are shopping during the weeks of winter.

We store them in a small box in a warm room. We place flower seed in one bundle and vegetable seed in another. We also make a list of the seeds as we purchase them. Snow is heavy when it is a wet snow.

There are two types of snowfalls; one is a wet snow and the other is a dry snow and is flaky, dry and easy to shovel. Then there is the wet, sticky variety that is heavy and harder to shovel because it has plenty of moisture in it. Wet snow makes good snowmen and snowballs, but rough to clean from driveways and sidewalks.

Wet snow also makes better snow cream. On the other hand, dry snow is easier to clean from windshields, windows, and easier to remove from driveways. It has less moisture and can be blown out of carports and porches.

A snow shovel makes a great gift. No gift is as wonderful as one that is practical and useful. A snow shovel is that type of gift that may not be used every day, but is great to have on hand when you need it. The best time to buy a snow shovel is when there is no snow on the ground or in the forecast.

The best snow shovels are those made of light aluminum which makes shoveling much easier. Carolina Snow Cream. The next time we get enough snow to shovel, scoop up some clean snow and prepare a bowl of Carolina Snow Cream.

It is easy to prepare and the very coldest treat you will ever eat. To make a bowl of snow cream you will beat four eggs until stiff, add a can of evaporated milk and beat it into the eggs, add two cups of sugar and beat into the mixture, add three and a half cups milk, a pinch of salt, two tablespoons vanilla flavoring. Beat all ingredients together.

Prepare the snow for the snow cream by scraping off the top layer of snow, and scoop up clean snow that you know has not been disturbed and place in a large pot or bowl. Add the harvested snow to the prepared milk mixture until it is thick and creamy.

If any is left, you can place it in the freezer. To make chocolate snow cream, add two cups of chocolate syrup and subtract half cup sugar and one cup milk. Blues on a day before a snowfall. This bit of winter lore says, a blue sky on a January day can suddenly become snowy gray.

A sudden change in the direction of wind from south to north or one cold blast brought in by the north wind or even a front from the Gulf of Mexico can quickly change a weather pattern from blue to gray. Sweet, tender cold weather vegetables. Cold weather has a positive effect on the taste of Kale, collards, turnips, and curly mustard greens as well as broccoli.

They have a certain color and crispness about them and also insects do not bother them in cold temperatures. We believe colder temperatures enhance the vegetables in the winter garden and give them an extra sweetness and flavor.

Robins in mid-January. They seem very comfortable and why not? The ground freezes only a few times all winter and they find shelter in barns, shacks, stables as well as hollow trees and logs. Maybe even in the attics and eaves of homes. Robins seem to have done the math and have added it all up that they can find a plentiful supply of food right here.

All the robins we see are colorful, healthy, bouncy, and seem to be well fed. They definitely make winter more active and alive and they remind us of spring. A container of fragrance in the home all winter. A pot or container of these in your dining room or den will add a scent of spring and a burst of color inside your home. Jonquils and hyacinths are spiking. Green spies of hyacinth and jonquils are popping out of the beds of leaf mulch and are about a month away from full bloom.

It is great to see them come to new life. We will soon be seeing more subtle signs of spring as we reach the end of the long month of January. You can now purchase them at hardware stores, seed shops, garden departments, and supermarkets. Their lush green foliage blends well with their blooms. The man went over and listened. Can you explain why there is a footprint in the middle of my food? Red cardinals and frosty crystals on the winter lawn make winter colorful. The cardinals visit the feeders and birdbath every morning and add plenty of color to the winter landscape along with the crystals of frost lingering on the lawn.

Even in winter, as January begins, robins are bouncing around the lawn looking healthy and searching for grubs or whatever they can scratch up. If seems most of them have remained here rather than fly south.

This may be a sign that our winters are mild enough for them to remain here. We are certainly glad to see them around and in action on the lawn. January can bring a mixed winter. Ice in mud holes, frosty mornings, frozen sod, icy winds and maybe some snow — this can be the recipe for January as we begin the second week of the month. Even in January, we can have a few sunny days with blue skies and temperatures above freezing.

In Minnesota when the last snow falls, some of the first snowfall of the year is still on the ground. Frosty turnips from the garden plot. Crushed leaves form a protective blanket for ice cold purple top turnips resting under the soil. A bowl of mashed turnips makes a welcome meal on a cold winter evening.

Turnips are easy to prepare. You will need about eight to ten turnips, peeled and cut into half-inch cubes. Boil until you can stick a fork through them. Drain most of the water from them, add one stick of light margarine, one tablespoon of sugar, half teaspoon salt, half teaspoon pepper, half teaspoon paprika, two teaspoons of bacon bits. Stir and mash with a vegetable chopper or potato masher. For extra flavor, add a tablespoon of white Karo syrup.

Snow is good for our health and also the garden plot. Snow during the winter is good for our health because as snow falls, it has a cleaning effect and adds trace nutrients to our immune system and also helps us adapt to cold weather. It kills germs in the air that have influence on our bodies, it is good for our lungs to breathe in a fresh snowfall from above.

Snow is good for the garden plot and the woodlands and orchards. Snow has nutrients that no other form of precipitation has, and the weight of the snow causes these beneficial nutrients to soak down into the garden sod. As snow melts and soaks down in to the soil, it kills germs, eggs, larvae and wintering insects. Winter from the front porch. Avoid cabin fever and a lack of fresh winter-fresh air. Change your environment and scenery, bundle up if you have to, but get outside on the porch and remember that the sun also shines in winter.

You can bask in its rays of ultraviolet light. It will work wonders in your immune system. It will alert your senses and change your attitude about winter and allow you to appreciate this season. Make yourself comfortable by covering yourself with a warm blanket, a toboggan, a pair of warm gloves, and a cup of black coffee or Mountain Dew.

The time outside may kill a few germs inside your body and cause them to bite the dust. A boost to the riding mower. If your mower is in an outside shelter or building, exposed to freezing temperatures, it is a great idea to start the mower once each week and allow it to run until the mower warms up.

It would also be great to leave the blade disengaged and drive the mower around the lawn a few times. Keep plenty of fuel in the mower for easier starts. This really helps because in winter you may want to use your mower to run over leaves to break them down for the compost pile or bin, or mow down clumps of wild onions to ground level. Watering the perennials of winter. We love anything green that thrives in winter weather, it is cool weather vegetables or the hardy perennial flowers on the porch and deck.

When watering in winter, do not over water because too much water will cause soil to freeze and perhaps slow the growth if perennials. Keeping birds of the winter fed. As January moves along, the birds are still active at the feeders during the day as they add color activity to the lawn, especially when cardinals and blue jays visit the feeders.

As the sun causes temperatures to rise, empty ice from the birdbaths and refill with fresh water. The upcoming season of hearts, flowers, chocolate, and love. After all, you have one month to make the right choices. Candy is a great Valentine even if it is only a small box attached to a larger gift. Seed packets make practical Valentine gifts. Remember, if you give gift cards, tape the card onto a small box of chocolates and wrap in paper with hearts on it. This will make your gift love-oriented.

Like mistletoe at Christmas, it may generate a kiss or hug! Another benefit of snow. Snowfall in winter has many long-term benefits that produces plenty of positive results for the garden plot. We are firm believers that a productive garden is a four seasons garden plot with something green producing in every season. Surely snow benefits the garden in every season.

Siberian Kale in winter looks twice as green and is sweeter after winter snow falls on it. Snow also enhances the flavor of collards. Snow is heavy and it produces many hidden benefits underneath the cold soil of winter.

Yes we do believe snow produces four seasons of bounty and benefits. Making the air inside much cleaner. In winter, the home is tightly shut up and air seems stuffy and hard to breathe. You can make a huge change in the air flow of your home by changing or cleaning the furnace filters once a month.

Keep several new filters near your furnace. Write the size of the filter that the furnace requires on the door of the furnace with a black permanent marker. When you install a filter, write the date you replaced it on the new filter. Making a broccoli cheesy macaroni casserole. This is a colorful casserole that will warm up your appetite on a cold winter day. Combine cheddar cheese soup, finely shredded cheddar cheese, milk, and cream of chicken soup.

Mix well. Melt twp tablespoons of light margarine and saute broccoli florets and onion four or five minutes, add diced pimentos. Mix with cheese mixture. Mix the croutons, remainder of the margarine into mixture.

Bake at degrees for 50 to 55 minutes in a casserole dish sprayed with Pam baking spray. His wife Debra was by his side. I must confess that I have been unfaithful to you. Why else would I have poisoned you? Wednesday, Jan. It is the day that we celebrate the arrival of the Wise Men who followed the star that led them to Bethlehem to a house where they found the Newborn King of the Jews, who at this time may have been two years old.

We do know according to the gospel of Matthew that they came to a house, not a cattle cave or manger. Many think there were three base on the three gifts they presented to Jesus. The number is not as important as the fact they came after much searching and found the Christ Child. Will January bring us much snowfall? Can we expect much of the white stuff in the month of January?

There is always a great chance and the possibility that the new year can bring us several hefty snows. Snow in January has quite a few benefits and it will certainly brighten up the new year! It will also excite the kids and grand-kids and it will layer the garden plot with a blanket of white to kill off wintering insects and add nutrients to the soil as well as build up the water table.

It would turn the January landscape into a marshmallow world and give us several whipped cream days! All the cactus were beautiful as they bloomed in the sunny living room.

We were especially proud of our new red one that bloomed in early December. As we move into January, we will remove all spent blooms and apply a layer of Flower-Tone organic flower food and check the foliage as the cactus continue to winter over in the living room, where they keep company with the panda and asparagus fern and snake plant.

All they need is a drink of water each week and a layer of Flower-Tone once each month. Even if we get January snow, the garden plot still has plenty of green in it. Even if we do get some snow in the month of January, the garden plot will still have plenty of greenery in contrast to the whiteness of snow. The green of collards, mustard, Siberian Kale, onion sets, broccoli, turnips, and cabbage will adorn the winter garden. They will pop through 10 inches of crushed leaves with no ill effects from the snowfall.

Snow will only sweeten the green of the garden of winter. An unnoticed begins in January. As January begins, the unnoticed gift of an extra minute of daylight is being received each evening. It is really too early to take note of the difference yet, but each day from now until June 21, we will receive an extra minute. Red, white, and pink decking up the stores. Displays in florist shops hint that it is the season of the Valentine.

The colorful displays are a welcome sight in the blahs after December and the cold of January. Recycling Christmas boxes, bow, and ribbon. Now that all the Christmas decorations have been taken down and stored away, it is a perfect opportunity to gather all the boxes, bows, ribbons and containers that Christmas gifts were wrapped in and break them down and store them up to use during the year for birthdays, showers, as well as next Christmas.

You can use a large box to store ribbons and bows as well as Christmas bags. If you have rolls of Christmas gift wrap, store these rolls in the same box along with the bows and ribbons.

Many stores still have rolls of Christmas wrap for less than half price. Weeds are a menace to the garden in all seasons. Many weeds do not take a break because of winter. Some weeds that thrive all year are chickweed, Bermuda grass, wild onions, nut grass, crab grass, and other weeds.

Chickweed is easy to control because it has shallow roots that can easily be pulled up. Bermuda grass grows all winter and can be pulled up along its long root system. As wild onions spike up in the lawn and garden, use the weed trimmer and cut them down to ground zero to slow their growth. The very best week control is the two hand and ten fingers that God gave you! A recycling resolution for the new year. As the year of begins, make recycling one of your priorities in the new year.

The task of recycling can prevent a lot of materials thrown in the trash carts from filling the landfills. You can do your part to protect the environment by recycling aluminum cans, plastic milk cartons, cardboard boxes, newspapers bundled up , plastic bottles, foil plates, metal cans, glass jars, catalogs and phone books.

Clean all cans and bottles and remove labels. Clean all cans and place lids in the cans and mash them shut for safety reasons. Checking seed catalogs as new year begins. The seed catalogs have all arrived, and with the holidays over, we can have a look at what the seed offerings of the garden year of Almost every season we can be sure there will be several varieties of new tomatoes that may be worth experimenting with.

Most seed catalog packets only have 20 to 30 seeds in them. You also have to pay shipping, handling, and sales tax fees. One thing that seed catalogs offer is a huge selection of cucumber and squash varieties as well as a great selection of flower seed.

Never buy seed by looking at the pictures like you would on any packet of seed you would purchase at a seed shop or hardware store. You can buy them at local hardware stores, supermarkets, and book stores. The almanac has interesting articles, information, weather predictions, recipes, fishing calendars, moon phases, astronomy events, moon planting signs, eclipses of the sun and moon, sun rises and sunsets as well as moon rises and sets, the morning and evening stars and planets that are visible in the night sky.

The whole year of helpful information in one book. Making a chocolate chip cheesecake. This is an easy rich chocolate cheesecake and a great recipe to start the new year. Preheat oven to degrees. Combine cookie crumbs and melted Crisco. Place in a nine inch pie pan and press down firmly to form the crust. In a large bowl, beat the cream cheese until fluffy, gradually beat in the Eagle Brand condensed milk until smooth. Beat in eggs and vanilla. Toss one half cup of mini chocolate chips into cheese mixture.

Pour into the prepared pie crust, sprinkle the remaining chocolate chips on top. Bake for 55 minutes until center is firm. Cool and refrigerate several hours. Keep leftovers refrigerated. Is anything wrong? The Almanac for January The moon reaches its last quarter on Jan. The Day of Epiphany is Jan. The new moon of January is Jan. Benjamin Franklins birthday is Jan.

The moon reaches its first quarter Jan. There will be a full moon on Jan. These are all benefits of snow in the eyes of a child. As gardeners and lovers of growing things, we need to open our eyes to the benefits of winter snowfalls.

Snow is heavy, and as it melts it carries its moisture deep into the soil for deep, long-lasting moisture retention. Snow also deposits nitrogen and other nutrients into the soil for additional benefits. Most often the snow melts slowly, which makes it like a slow-release fertilizer.

A layer of snow also kills insects that winter in the garden, also destroying their larva and eggs. The expectant earth seems to grow reverently quiet before and after a snowfall, especially when snow arrives before nightfall. Our own hearts beat a little faster as we get excited about the expectation of snow as well.

After the snow falls, the earth becomes insulated and we can actually hear the snow, like the snap, crackle and pop of a bowl of Rice Krispies. Sitting on the porch with a toboggan on, a blanket and a cup of hot coffee becomes a favorite winter sport for me. Out with the old, in with the new: Winter is in season as we enter a new year. The nights are getting colder. Keep yourself occupied; occupy the mind with things at hand to avoid the post-Christmas blues and wintertime blahs.

Get organized. Light your Moravian Star: Even though Christmas is over, we are still celebrating the season of Epiphany. This is the time after Advent when we remember the journey of the three Wise Men to Bethlehem.

An interesting note: Jesus was probably 2 years old by the time of the visit, and was in a house — not a cattle cave — by the time they arrived. You should light your Moravian Star each night through Jan. A sure sign of spring: The seed catalogs are arriving: Along with the holiday season, December brings the seed catalogs. I keep mine stacked together so I can browse through them. As usual, there will be new varieties of tomatoes to add to the ever-growing inventory already available.

When cooking a pot of greens, sweeten the flavor by adding a few tablespoons of white Karo syrup and a little butter or margarine. And for extra taste, add some diced turnips.

Use a food chopper to finely chop leaves and stems. A local product — Mrs. Speaking of greens, you have to have a square of hot cornbread. In a large bowl, combine corn meal and sour cream. Mix together the next five ingredients, then add the corn meal mixture and fold in beaten eggs and melted butter.

Pour mix into pan and bake about 25 minutes or until golden brown until an inserted toothpick comes out clean.

Slice the Halo sections in half and mix with all the other ingredients. Cover and refrigerate before serving. North Carolina Surry County Extension Master Gardener Volunteers recently gathered — both virtually and in real time, to honor and celebrated the accomplishments of two of its long-time volunteers, Judy Bates and Robert Holder of Mount Airy.

Since the pandemic, the Surry County Extension Master Gardeners have held virtual on-line meetings, but cancelled aplanned, in-person Gardening Symposium scheduled for last April along with and all in-person workshops.

Participants in the online audience have included individuals living in California, Australia throughout the Southeast. In Bible times, when people saw angels they first thought they were other ordinary people and only after the encounter realized an angel had paid them a visit.

My wife and I had such an encounter on Interstate 40 near Mocksville several years ago while returning from visiting friends near Statesville. The water pump failed on our vehicle and the temperature gauge topped out. There were no service stations along that stretch of interstate so we pulled off at a rest area. As our motor was steaming, the man asked if he could help. I told him I thought it was the water pump, and he opened his trunk and pulled out what looked like a gallon of antifreeze.

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