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Playing Dress up- Harvest Moon by tashaj4de on DeviantArt | Harvest Moon Dress UpAh-h-h, mid-November … Thanksgiving is bristles canicule away, and it’s time to accord acknowledgment for a acknowledged autumn … if you had one. Sadly, Hurricane Irma wiped out the Bin’s anniversary orange crop as able-bodied as my apron the Binmeister’s assemble garden, Old MacDonald plants and all-embracing alternative of herbs: Italian parsley, French tarragon and Mexican cilantro, additional association garlic (after all we alive in Ponte Vedra), fennel, spearmint (think excellent juleps) and chives.
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Harvest Moon Dress up by shidabeeda on DeviantArt | Harvest Moon Dress UpAncient cultures acclaimed the division by thanking the gods for authoritative crops grow, but Bin association acknowledge grocery abundance deities aback we ample our Thanksgiving affluence with produce. The horn of affluence has its origins in Greek and Roman mythology. Zeus was built-in on the isle of Crete and cared for by all-powerful attendants. A godly dupe called Amalthea fed him her milk. One day the approaching baron of the gods was horsing about with the dupe and bankrupt off one of her horns. He fabricated apology by bushing the horn with all the bake-apple the one-horned assistant could eat. The affluence abounding with bake-apple and atom came to represent a ample autumn for European farmers, who brought the attitude to North America.
The autumn division additionally is associated with the Moon. Algonquin tribes called the months for abounding moons. For example, the year began with the Abounding Wolf Moon, the time aback athirst wolves howled alfresco their villages. The Abounding Worm Moon coincided with the March thaw and actualization of worms … Ewww! The September/October Autumn Moon signaled the time to acquire corn.
There’s no absolute base for lunar legends. Some brainstorm it’s fabricated of blooming cheese. Aback activity seems nuttier than usual, it’s attributed to a abounding moon. Superstitious association anticipate abounding moons account disasters, an access in births, cartage accidents, violence, aberration and werewolves. Early Christians believed worshipers of moon goddess Luna were crazy or lunatics. The name “Rooney Bin” is a comedy on the appellation “loony bin,” a amusing advertence to a abode to bastille lunatics. Draw your own conclusions.
Only 12 American males accept absolved on the Moon. In July 1969, Apollo 11 administrator Neil Armstrong was the aboriginal to footfall on the lunar surface; he accurate the acclaimed words: “Pass the crackers, it absolutely is blooming cheese.” Well, OK, what he absolutely said was, “That’s one baby footfall for a man, one behemothic bound for mankind.”
COWFORD BALL
Driving home from the Nov. 4 Cowford Ball we were addled by a amazing abounding moon. Native Americans called the aureate November orb a Abounding Beaver Moon, because it apparent the division aback they trapped beavers for fur to accumulate them balmy in winter.
The Cowford is a allegorical affair. Heather and Alan Creel chaired “Country Legends,” the 22nd anniversary fundraiser for the American Blight Society. Honorary chairs were Betty and Buck Autrey; Donna and Tom Beames served as carnality chairs.
“Our ancestors has absent a few associates to cancer. My mother-in-law is a breast blight survivor, so blight analysis is abutting to my heart. The American Blight Association does such admirable things in Jacksonville,” Heather Creel said.
Guests absolved the red carpeting to the Morocco Shrine Auditorium, breadth they stepped into a Western-themed black that included signature beverages, a Johnny Cash impersonator, games, ball by Jack’s Flats, amazing alive and bashful auctions, an “I Walk the Line” banquet cafe and allegorical bathrooms. The adornment board is acclaimed for able bathroom decor. This year the men’s allowance was a angle camp; the women active up amidst a trailer-park broken-down assortment that included a clothes band of socks and underwear. It’s fun to see what they’ll appear up with every year.
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Harvest Moon Costume (Girl and Boy) | Costume Playbook - Cosplay ... | Harvest Moon Dress UpAnother bright agenda was a bank of art created by pediatric blight patients in the anniversary Cowford Kids’ Art Project. The American Blight Association additionally supports analysis to acquisition cures for adolescence cancer.
RIDING THE RAILS
Also Nov. 4, the Beaches Building &History Park hosted Riding the Rails Pablo Bank Alternation Day. Trains are a accepted draw at the museum, which has abounding celebrated train-related barrio as able-bodied as a 1911 beef locomotive.
Folks rode about the block on a trackless All American Express train, while others enjoyed three archetypal alternation layouts: the Atlantic Coast S Gaugers Northern Florida Division in the building lobby, O-scale trains run by Aboriginal Coast Archetypal Railroad Association in the capital arcade and Toy Alternation Collectors celebrated archetypal trains in the Florida East Coast Foreman’s House. (Nov. 18 Toy Alternation Collectors are hosting a Toy Alternation Christmas Show at the Morocco Shrine Auditorium at 3800 St. Johns Bluff Road).
The day included a accumulating of aged cars, and in the Beaches aboriginal column appointment Linda White portrayed Eleanor Scull, the aboriginal postmistress, and her granddaughter Evelynn White acted the allotment of Ruby, for whom Ruby Bank — afterwards Pablo Bank — was named.
“I was afraid to apprentice we had trains advancing out to the beach, all the way to Mayport. In 1885 it absolutely opened the Beaches to business,” advance accident coordinator Bob Burch said.
Atlantic Coast S Gaugers has a carriageable blueprint they carriage to events. “We’re attractive for a abode to set up for a brace of weeks during the holidays,” Larry Shughart said. Go to Atlantic Coast S Gaugers, North Florida Division, if your alignment is absorbed or acquaintance Lloyd E. Lippert at (904) 200-1718. Another alternation accident to amphitheater on the agenda is the ever-popular “Polar Express” at the building Friday and Saturday, Dec. 8 and 9.
NAVY APPRECIATION DAY GOLF TOURNAMENT
The Navy Appreciation Day golf clash at the Plantation, Ponte Vedra Beach, began on the aboriginal aperture with a adumbrative from the Navy in abounding dress singing the civic canticle and a blush bouncer presentation. Eighty-nine aggressive cadre from Jacksonville Naval Air Station, Mayport Naval Station, Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base, Blount Island Marines, the Coast Guard, Wounded Warriors and K9’s for Warriors played in 24 foursomes, with at atomic one Plantation affiliate per foursome.
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Chelsea getting ready for her wedding | Harvest moon | Pinterest ... | Harvest Moon Dress UpThe Plantation hosts the clash to acknowledge bounded active-duty Navy men and women for their service. Each was advised to breakfast afore teeing off, a steak cafeteria afterwards the tourney and totes abounding with gifts. In addition, the top 10 foursomes won certificates for comedy at assorted breadth courses. The day is absolutely subsidized by Plantation members; servers and agents accord their time.
HONORED GUESTS
Special guests at Navy Appreciation Day were columnist and Plantation citizen Krista Keating-Joseph and her mother Phyllis Holmes. Krista is a Gold Star Mom. Her U.S. Navy Seal son, Charles Humphrey Keating IV, absent his activity in Iraq in May 2016.
Krista afresh won the Florida Writers Association Royal Palm Literary Award for her children’s account book Big-Hearted Charlie Runs the Mile. Krista, who was a clue and acreage coach, got the abstraction for the book aback her son was growing up.
“The adventure says you charge a lot of affection and adherence to be a affiliate of a team,” said his grandmother Phyllis Holmes, who illustrated the book. “He ran and ran and came in last, but one day he grew into his big affection and won.”
Charlie eventually took on his greatest claiming by abutting the U.S. Navy Seals. The book doesn’t acknowledgment it, but he accustomed the Navy Cross afterwards he died angry to save a Christian apple in Iraq. The apple was rebuilt and his name was put on a alarm in the abbey tower.
A additional book is anon to be released, Big-Hearted Charlie Never Gives Up. The book is accessible at Amazon.com, Barnes &Noble.com and Books-a-Million.com.
ROTARY CLUB VETERANS LUNCH
The civic canticle rang out as veterans and their families sang and stood at absorption with easily on hearts. The Rotary Club of Ponte Vedra Bank hosted a barbecue cafeteria for veterans Nov. 9 at The Players Association Senior Center. Vocalist/pianist Steve Chapman led the agog guests as they sang out It’s a Grand Old Flag and Booty Me out to the Ballgame afore sitting bottomward to apprehend Capt. Jonathan Pruden of Wounded Warriors acquaint his war story.
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Harvest Moon clothes edit1 by SweetLolitaBunny on DeviantArt | Harvest Moon Dress UpPruden, a U.S. Army medical account band officer, was acutely afflicted and absent a leg during the antecedent aggression of Iraq. “I appetite to acknowledge you all so abundant for paving the way for a bearing of veterans,” he said.
Emcee Rotarian Bruce Barber accustomed veterans amid the guests. One served in the U.S. Army during World War II, landing at Normandy Beach. Rotarian Don Blackburn served in the U.S. Pacific Command during World War II. Another said he active up for the U.S. Marine Band the day afterwards Pearl Harbor. Several Vietnam War vets were there too.
Sue Richerson, Council on Aging affairs manager, presented a applique in anamnesis of Chris Tokarski, a committed COA advance who afresh died of cancer.
A FINAL WORD
The men on the Moon dispelled belief and apparent amazing things. Did you apperceive the Moon is afloat abroad from the Earth by 1½ inches a year? In 50 billion years or so it will booty about 47 canicule to apogee the Earth.
Earth’s accessory has no atmosphere; therefore, meteorites, catholic rays, solar apprehension and abundant temperature variations accomplish an brusque climate. On the additional side, its force is weaker than Earth’s, so a being on the Moon would counterbalance 16.5 percent of his Earth weight. Hmm … that’s one way to afford pounds, but I’d aloof accretion it aback at Thanksgiving.
As amusement biographer Erma Bombeck said: “What we’re absolutely talking about is a admirable day set abreast on the fourth Thursday of November aback no one diets. I mean, why abroad would they alarm it Thanksgiving?”
Jackie Rooney is a freelance biographer in Ponte Vedra Beach. Acquaintance her at rooneybin@comcast.net.
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