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Oil Painting Demonstration by Artist Don Oman At the Snake River Artisans’ November meeting, Don Oman demonstrated how he creates an oil painting from start to finish. The base layer was cerulean blue, then he sketched in basic shapes; trees, mountains, and rocks. The group of about 20 artisans watched Oman deftly brush in a peachy tone to fill in some clouds. Oman pointed out, “You’ll notice that clouds are never pure white.” He starts to paint from the back and top of the canvas and works forward, as everything overlaps. He used fall colors like yellow ochre for meadow grasses, some purple for the aspen and pine trees, and filled in reflections in a small pond, sweeping a soft camel hair brush over the reflections to give them “a blurred effect as if underwater”. He often used a palette knife to apply the oils, giving his art a textured look, especially with the lichens adorning boulders. The resulting oil painting reminded everyone of Idaho’s beautiful South Hills. Oman teaches painting at the Twin Falls Senior Center on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons. Contact the Snake River Artisans by calling Jenny Etches at 837-6404. Jenny’s website is www.jennyetches.weebly.com. Etches is holding a scratchboard workshop at CSI in Twin Falls December 8, called ‘Scratching the Surface’. The workshop is from 10am to 2pm. Contact Ashley Schulz at CSI for workshop details.
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We noticed some new blue and white signs at Oster Lakes in Hagerman recently that read Idaho Birding Trail SW36. Go to this website to learn about the many species that visit or live in southwest Idaho. http://fishandgame.idaho.gov/IFWIS/ibt/site. aspx?id=SW36
Hagerman Valley November 2012
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INSIDE: Welcome! Let’s Talk About . . . Health The Gardener’s Plot New Shop in Hagerman Sheep Ranching Monument CSI North Side Center Getting Fresh in the Kitchen Snake River Artisans Idaho Birding Trail
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Saylor Creek Wild Horses These photos were taken in September 2011 when the Bureau of Land Management released some wild horses back onto their home range at Saylor Creek above Hagerman Valley. Photos by Michelle Brown, Michelle’s Photography by Design.
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Here we go again.......Happy Holidays!
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Fall is a beautiful time of year in our Hagerman Valley. It’s not as colorful here as it is in Vermont, but the poplars and other deciduous trees have changed from green to many shades of yellow and gold. We’ve put away the air conditioner and fired up the woodstove. The horses are already wearing their winter coats and another good frost or three should wipe out most of the pesky flies. Until next month, Evelyn Simon, Editor
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Around the Valley: November 22 Thanksgiving Day December 1 Festival of Trees at the Gooding Country Club December 15 Christmas Banquet * December 23 Christmas Celebration* December 25 Christmas Day December 30 New Years Celebration*
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Growing up in the 1970’s, we never heard the term “fat-free”. That’s because it did not yet exist. Julia Child showed us how to saute everything in butter. Morning shows didn’t have segments on “how to slim down your holiday fare”, and it was ok to have a REAL Sugar Plum Fairy dance in your head! Holiday memories always involved events with family and friends and wonderful times spent together. I remember walking into my Grandma’s house on Thanksgiving, and there would always be a huge box of See’s candy! You know the one with not just one layer of chocolates, but two layers of the most wonderful treats known to man. My cousin and I studied the swirls on top and became experts on identifying each piece ofcandy. I can’t remember where I left my keys in the last hour, but I can still identify mos of those chocolates by swirl to this day. Parties were usually at the same place each holiday, and the same recipes were made every year. My aunt made these fabulous baked cheese olives. She took a styrofoam cone, tooth-picked lettuce leaves on it with her “olive balls”. They made lovely olive Christmas trees on her table, and we would pick the “ornaments” off and eat them. Grannie Dorothy made her famous Wassail drink at the annual Christmas day open house, a delicious hot spiced cider. Cookies were everywhere you went as far as the eye could see, and you knew which ones were made by Margaret, or Aunt Opal, and so on. Maybe it is true now, and we are a much fatter society than we were back then. I can’t help but think the “fat free” years were a part of that evolution. Why have one real cookie when you can have four fat-free cookies? My hope is that we are coming full circle and really appreciating real food again. Not in huge amounts, but
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press in tradition,gratitude, and artistry. One of my friends has started to make homemade marshmallows. They are heavenly, and I don’t even like marshmallows all that much. Now I will look forward every year to Stacie’s marshmallows! So everyone get out your grandma’s recipes, use real butter and cream, and have another serving of Auntie Bertha’s bite-size fruit cakes. (She would stay up all night and make 2,000 of them. I’m not kidding!) Enjoy the holidays to their fullest potential. We’ll talk low-fat lingo again in January, I promise. Here’s the recipe for
Aunt Carol Ann’s Olive Balls:
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1 cup grated cheddar cheese, 2 tablespoons melted butter, 1/2 cup flour, dash cayenne pepper, enough water to make the dough stick together, and 1 jar of pimento-stuffed olives Cream the cheese and the butter together in a mixing bowl. Blend the flour and the pepper into the mixture. Add enough water to help the dough stick together. Wrap the dough around each olive and roll it into a ball. Place the olive balls on a cookie sheet. Bake at 400 degrees for 15 minutes.
The Gardener’s Plot
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The vegetable garden has been ‘put to bed’. Frozen tomato and cucumber vines were yanked out for the new compost pile, and finished compost and leaves are keeping the top layer of soil protected and alive with microbes, earthworms, and other soil creatures. Garlic overwinters well when mulched with compost, straw, or leaves. Besides some Halloween fun and great pies, pumpkins make nutritious livestock feed. This month our chickens, goats, and cattle are feasting on dozens of the heavy orange globes. The goats love the seeds and pulp best, and it’s funny to watch them shove their faces inside a pumpkin to get the best parts.
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Construction has started at the site for the lifesized bronze statue being created now by sculptor Danny Edwards of Twin Falls for Hagerman’s Bill Jones. A pad is under construction for the monument, and landscaping and parking will be added.The statue site is the triangular lot at the north end of Hagerman on Hwy. 30, on the west side of the road, just southwest of the RV park. Jones is a second generation sheep rancher and farmer and has commissioned the sculptor to create a beautiful and impressive life-sized bronze It includes a shepherd and his horse, a herding dog, and eight sheep.
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Now is the time to register for CSI academic (credit) courses. Over 20 classes are available at the North Side Center. Below is a partial list. Cultural Anthropology-Ceramics 1 & 2 Fundamentals of Oral Communication Principles of Macroeconomics Basic English and Writing Developmental Composition English Composition 2-Western Civilization 2 Prealgebra -Beginning Algebra-Intermediate Algebra-Math in Modern Society College Algebra-Brief Calculus Over 60 and Getting Fit-Theater Appreciation Basic Reading-Building College Vocabulary Reading Development-College Study Methods We’re here to help! Call us 923-8678, e-mail us at northsidecenter@csi.edu or stop by the office 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. Spring 2013 semester begins on Tuesday, Jan. 22. CSI is closed and no classes are held on Monday, Jan. 21, in honor of Martin Luther King Day. Cost is $110 a credit plus books. See the CSI 2012-2013 Catalog for all course descriptions: http://www.csi.edu/catalog/. We are also offering FREE workshops to help prepare you for the Compass Test. COMPASS PREP WORKSHOP Learn all about the Compass Test, the placement test required for degree-seeking students. Free! 6:30-9:30 p.m. on Dec. 11th and again on Jan. 8th in Room 5 at the North Side Center. To reserve your seat: Carla Wherry @ 732-6525. Don’t miss our Cake Decorating for the Holidays class! Instruction will include borders, writing, drawing and a number of holiday designs. You will also get to try your hand at creating beautiful layers by torting and adding delicious fillings to your cakes. Frosting and frosting recipes will be provided, but you will need to bring your own cake(s) to practice on each class. Thursday, Dec. 6 to 13 5-7 p.m.North Side Center Fee: $30 + $15 supply fee paid to the instructor Instructor: Jillian Greenawalt
B6, C, and E alter immune responses. Here are two essential ways to aid your body in its ability to fight immune system challenges. Cod liver oil is a wonderful nutritional supplement that provides multiple health benefits. It’s rich in nutrients such as: Vitamin A: to maintain a healthy immune system, helps resist bacterial and viral infections. Vitamin D: maintains strong and healthy bones. Omega-3 Fatty Acids: have anti-inflammatory properties which help relieve the symptoms of arthritis, improve brain function, and help with learning and behavioral disorders including bipolar syndrome. EicosaPentaenoic Acid (EPA): for the cardiovascular system and helps reduce inflammation throughout the body. Also works as a natural antidepressant. DocosaHexaenoic Acid (DHA): a fatty acid that’s vital for good eyesight, a healthy nervous system, and healthy skin. Research has also shown that consuming 1-2 teaspoons of cod liver oil daily can help to prevent serious diseases such as cancer, diabetes, arthritis, musculoskeletal pain, kidney problems, and high cholesterol. It has germ killing, disinfectant and anti-fungal properties. Fatsoluble vitamins are those which disperse, and are stored, in fat. Bacteria, and some viruses, have a very flimsy lipid fat membrane skin. Since Monolaurin has the same size lipid-fat molecules they absorb into the thin-skinned bacteria’s skin. When inside, monolaurin blocks replication making it easier for your immune system kick the bacteria out.
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Let’s Talk About.... Fall & Winter Health Issues Courtesy of Julie Johnson at NourishMe Health Food Store & Cafe’ in Ketchum, ID.
Fall and winter seasons can bring on a variety of health issues including pesky colds and even the dreaded flu. Bacteria and viruses fly from person to person, in the air, on hands, doorknobs, bathroom doors and drawers, and in foods. Under normal circumstances, our immune system can be efficient, providing multiple defenses against the onslaught of these outside invaders. Apart from washing your hands, good nutrition is essential to a strong immune response but even mild deficiencies of certain nutrients can make all the difference in fighting infections. So, for starters food matters. Nutrition and a good functioning digestive system are vital to one’s health. A healthy digestive tract will give your immune system its base, and the ability to directly fight something like a flu virus, which incubates in your digestive tract before spreading to some other area of the body. Eating processed foods rob your body of vitamins and minerals. Studies have shown that deficiencies of zinc, selenium, iron, copper, folic acid, and vitamins A,
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