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EVENTS
6, Budbreak Wine & Craft Beer Festival, Mount Airy, NC, budbreakfestival.com
19-20, Bloomin' BBQ Music & Food Festival, Sevierville, TN, visitsevierville.com
19-21, Appalachian Trail Days Festival, Damascus, VA, visitdamascus.org
20-Jun 3, Alderson Strawberry Festival, Alderson, WV, visitwv.com
27, Gallabrae Greenville Scottish Games, Greenville, SC, gallabrae.com
27-28, Arts in the Park Festival, Blue Ridge, GA, blueridgeartsinthepark.com
sunrise sunset
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MAY MONTH AT A GLANCE
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Day of
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Day of
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Age
121 M 11
122 Tu
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123 W 13
124 Th
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Chang and Eng Bunker born, 1811
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128 M 18
129 Tu
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130 W 20
131 Th
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Stonewall Jackson dies, 1863
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135 M 25
136 Tu
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137 W 27
138 Th
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142 M
143 Tu
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144 W 5
145 Th
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148
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First Kentucky Derby, 1875
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149 M 10
150 Tu
11
151 W 12
skywatch
 New moon - 19th  Full moon - 5th
) First quarter - 27th
May's full moon is the Flower Moon.
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Regional Notes
As hikers leave the Appalachian Trail
in Blairsville, Georgia for the last time,
they toss their boots into a tree outside
the Walasi-Yi interpretive center. How
many boots are hanging in those
branches? No one knows for sure
because the number keeps changing.
It's worth a visit to go and count for
yourself. P3MJ+XV Blairsville, Georgia
( Last quarter - 12th
Abraham Lincoln nominated for presidency, 1860
Amelia Earhart's solo flight across Atlantic, 1932
American Red Cross founded, 1881
Laurence Olivier born, 1907
South Carolina becomes 8th state, 1788
First official telegraph message sent, 1844
Babe Ruth's 714th home run, 1935
Golden Gate Bridge opens, 1937
Memorial Day
Patrick Henry born, 1736
John F. Kennedy born, 1917
My three favorite vegetables are
pumpkin pie, carrot cake and
zucchini bread.
Strength is the ability to break a
chocolate bar into four pieces with
your bare hands, and then
just eat one piece. ~Judith Viorst
My mom made two dishes: Take It
or Leave It. ~Stephen Wright
Katharine Hepburn born, 1907
Smallpox vaccine developed, 1796
Seven Years' War begins, 1756
Kitchen Notes
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
I won't be impressed with
technology until I can download
food.
A diet is a specific way to restrict
calories that always starts
tomorrow.
Caviar is the food of gods. I think
that's why they are so skinny.
Clashy-heavy dashes of rain
Dag-a thin mist of rain
Driffle-raining in sparse drops
Flaught-a sudden burst of wind and rain
Impearl-rain that leaves drops like pearls
Nubbin stretcher-heavy rain that helps corn to develop
Stillicide-rain that falls off the eaves of your house
onto someone else's property
Garden Notes
Use leftover tea and coffee grounds to acidify the soil
of acid-loving plants such as azaleas, rhododendrons,
camellias, gardenias and even blueberries. A light
sprinkling of about one-quarter of an inch applied
once a month will keep the pH of the soil perfect for
an abundant harvest of blooms or berries.
Old Saws
Remember, if you lose a sock in the dryer, it comes
back as a Tupperware lid that doesn't fit any of your
containers.
If a vegetable goes into a coma, is it called a person?
Your life is a garden, your thoughts are the seeds,
If your life isn't awesome, you're watering the weeds.
Factoids
More than ten people a year are killed by vending
machines.
The mountains of Virginia are home to two of the
youngest volcanoes on the East Coast: the 48 million
year old, 150-foot high Mole Hill in Rockingham
County, and the 35 million year old, 200-foot high
Trimble's Knob in Highland County.
Although 75% of America's waste is recyclable, we
only recycle around 30% of it.
Alan Shepard, first American in space, 1961
Kentucky Derby
Mother's Day
First Mother's Day, 1914
Harry S. Truman born, 1884
SIGNIFICA
May Day
Weather Notes
Three dewless morns, rain is for certain.
Frogs singing in the evening indicate fair weather the
next day.
FUN DESCRIPTIONS FOR RAIN
After drops-rain that falls after the cloud has passed
Brash-a burst of rain
May 7 - sun rises 6:17; sun sets 20:15; length of day 13h 58m
May 14 - sun rises 6:10; sun sets 20:22; length of day 14h 11m
May 21 - sun rises 6:05; sun sets 20:27; length of day 14h 22m
May 28 - sun rises 6:01; sun sets 20:33; length of day 14h 31m
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