Buy from Local Markets and Framers!!

Check out this great website about locally grown food. You can use their easy to use map to locate farmers' markets, resturatnts, or farms. This time of year is the best time to get out there and search out food grown by your neighbors, rather then stuff imported from other countries or stuff grown with chemicals & hormones!

http://www.localharvest.org/ - "The freshest, healthiest, most flavorful organic food is what's grown closest to you. Use our website to find farmers' markets, family farms, and other sources of sustainably grown food in your area, where you can buy produce, grass-fed meats, and many other goodies."

Breakfast Smoothies!

Try this when you need just a little somthing sweet at breakfast along with your eggs and toast. I have it as a snack sometimes too or when those bannas are too ripe to eat anymore. You can freeze the bananas too to make it all a little thicker! Try adding any other kind of fruit - strawberries, blueberries, raspberries or pineapples.

1 banana, peeled, cut into chunks
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups orange juice
1 cup plain or vanilla yogart

Combine all ingredients in a blender. Blend until smooth. Pout into a nice glass and enjoy!!

There are MANY other receipes for smoothies on www.foodtv.com if you simply search for "smoothies".

Moon in the desert 

Summer Solstice and Full Moon tonight!

So rehersals for the Masque are every night this week until 9pm! Last night was not too bad because it was a beautiful summer night and there was the almost full moon that rose over the tall pine trees at Saint-Gaudens like a watchful eye in the sky checking out our play.

Tonight is the Summer Solstice! Longest day in the year and hopefully a clear night to see the full moon of June! So if you are feeling a little off kilter today...just blame it on the energy and force of the moon high up there in the sky!
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Masque of the Golden Bowl - Performed at Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site
Friday, 6/24 & Saturday, 6/25 - 6:00 P.M. - Sunday, 6/26 - 2:00 P.M.
Admission to the performances will be FREE and there will be lawn seating – bring blankets and/or lawn chairs.

The event celebrates the 100th anniversary of a pageant (or play) held to honor sculptor, Augustus Saint-Gaudens. The original pageant performed in 1905, “A Masque of ‘Ours’ or the Gods and the Golden Bowl” was written by Louis Evan Shipman with the prologue by Percy Mackaye, both of the Cornish Colony. The performance will be on the original pageant location by the “Temple” in the meadow below “Aspet”, Saint-Gaudens’ home.

Fridy afternoon Blues

As my first blog entry I thought I would share my feelings on Friday afternoons. They are tricy things to deal with sometimes. Yes there is work to be done and yes it is just another work day, but getting things accomplished after 3pm on a Friday is almost impossible.

This holds true when most everyone else you work with "has left the buidling"!!

Does anyone else have this problem?