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Weather Aphorisms

If a cold August follows a hot July, it
foretells a winter hard and dry.
If the first week in August is
unusually warm, the coming winter
will be snowy and long.

The Daniel Boone
with Hunting
Dogs statue is
on the campus
of Appalachian
State University
in Boone, North
Carolina.

RANDELL JONES

When clouds look like a painter's
brush, the winds will soon around
you rush.

Regional Notes

The dog days of summer are the
perfect time to picnic at the base
of the Daniel Boone with Hunting
Dogs statue, located in Tomlinson
Park at the corner of River Street
and Stadium Drive on the campus
of Appalachian State University
in Boone, NC. GPS 36.213739,81.6844087

Recipe

Factoids

There are 25 trillion pieces of plastic debris in the ocean.
Of that, 269,000 tons float on the surface, while some four
billion plastic microfibers per square kilometer litter the
deep sea.
The words " orange " , " silver " , " purple " , and " month " have no
rhymes in the English language.

Ingredients
½ cup corn meal
4 TBS butter
1 tsp sugar

AUGUST ALMANAC

The expiration date on a bottle of water is the time at which
plastic from the bottle will start to leach into the water.

HOTEL ROANOKE RECIPE
FOR SPOON BREAD

½ tsp salt
2 eggs

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 New moon-8th	

	

) First quarter-15th	

Christopher Columbus leaves Spain, 1492
Louis Armstrong born, 1901
Barack Obama born, 1961
First person to finish entire AT, 1948
Voting Rights Act signed, 1965

President Richard Nixon resigned, 1974
Herbert Hoover born, 1874
IBM introduces home PC, 1981
Appalachian Trail completed, 1937
Woodstock, 1969
Hurricane Camille, 1969
Meriwether Lewis born, 1774
Bill Clinton born, 1946
Benjamin Harrison born, 1833
Hawaii becomes 50th state, 1959

White House burns, 1814
National Park Service established, 1916
Lyndon B. Johnson born, 1908
March on Washington/ " I have a dream, " 1963

( Last quarter-30th

August's full moon is the sturgeon moon.

SIGNIFICA
Francis Scott Key born, 1779

 Full moon-22nd	

sunrise sunset

Aug. 1 - sun rises 6:25; sun sets 20:26; length of day 14h 1m
Aug. 8 - sun rises 6:31; sun sets 20:19; length of day 13h 48m
Aug. 15 - sun rises 6:37; sun sets 20:10; length of day 13h 33m
Aug. 22 - sun rises 6:42; sun sets 20:01; length of day 13h 18m
Aug. 29 - sun rises 6:48; sun sets 19:51; length of day 13h 3m

EVENTS
7, Drums on the Dam Dragon Boat Race, Sevierville, TN,
drumsonthedam.com
9-14, Old Fiddler's Convention, Galax, VA, oldfiddlersconvention.
com
12-21, West Virginia State Fair, Lewisburg, WV, statefairofwv.com
13-15, Avery Fine Art & Master Crafts Festival, Sugar Mountain, NC,
averycounty.com
13-21, Georgia Mountain Fair, Hiawassee, GA, georgiamountainfairgrounds.
com
20-21, Railbird Festival, Lexington, KY, railbirdfest.com

AUG

Day of Day of Day of 
Mo Year Week Age

skywatch

Old Saws

A bartender is just a pharmacist with a limited inventory.
Am I ambivalent? Well, yes and no.
Every organization is perfectly designed to get the results it
is getting.

2/3 cup milk
½ cup boiling water
1 tsp baking powder
Directions
Mix cornmeal, salt, sugar and boiling
water. Add butter and set aside. Beat
egg and add milk. Combine the two
mixtures, then add baking powder.
Pour in casserole dish and bake
30-40 minutes at 350⁰. Serve hot
with a dollop of butter. This is the
perfect accompaniment to fried fish.

Kitchen Hints

To keep cauliflower white while
cooking, add a little milk to the
water.
For juicier hamburgers, add ½ cup
cold water to each pound of meat.
Icing will remain where you put it
if you sprinkle cake with powdered
sugar first.

Garden Hints

August is the perfect month for
drying flowers. In addition to the
everlastings such as straw flower and
globe amaranth, you can also dry
larkspur, hydrangea, marigold, and
celosia. Just find a warm dry spot,
bundle two or three flowers with
rubber bands and then hang upside
down until dry.



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