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Dec 2013
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Greetings from LBI
Merry Christmas
Holiday Calendar Nov 28 Nov 29 Nov 30 Dec 7 Dec 25
Thanksgiving and the First Day of Hanukkah Santa arrives by Coast Guard Boat at 7 PM 10th and Bayview Ave Barnegat Light, NJ 5th Annual Holiday Soiree Kapler’s Pharmacy on the Corner of Bay and Centre in Beach Haven Christmas Parade, Ship Bottom 1PM Christmas Day
Jeffries Flooring
129th St. Beach Haven Terrace Since 1947, We have been LBI’s Original Floor Covering Store Carpets • Wood Floors • Upholstery Services Ceramic • Cabinets Licensed and insured: 13VH05719300
609-492-0010
Beach House Retreats The Wed and Bed
113 East 85th Street Beach Haven Crest Long Beach Township NJ 08008 MaryAnn@InfoOptics.com • 609-947-1377
www.LBI-Vacation.com
Make your own Christmas Card--Fold a piece of heavy paper in half, cut to 4” x 5”. Cut out the above picture and glue it on your card. Embellish with ribbon, glitter and paper scraps.
CATERING
On or Off Premise
Italian Pignoli Cookies
WOOD FIRED BRICK OVEN
TRATTORIA WE DELIVER www.brazzibrickoven.com Now accepting reservations for Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve. Reservations only. Traditional 7 fishes for Christmas Eve. Have us cater your holiday party. GIFT CARDS AVAILABLE
601 Route 72 East • (Harbor Plaza) • Manahawkin, NJ
609-597-8161
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2 7-ounce tubes almond paste 1 cup sugar 2 large egg whites finely grated zest of one orange 1½ cups whole pine nuts Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment. Crumble almond paste into the work bowl of a food processor and process until the paste is in fine crumbs. Sprinkle in the sugar with the motor running. Once the sugar is incorporated, add the egg whites and orange zest. Process to make a smooth dough, about 20 to 30 seconds. Spread the pine nuts on a plate. Form the dough into 2-tablespoon-sized balls by rolling in in between the palms of your hands, then roll the dough in the pine nuts until coated, then place on baking sheets. Bake until lightly golden and springy to the touch, about 13 to 15 minutes. Let cool on baking sheets for about 5 minutes, then transfer the cookies to cooling racks to cool completely.
Kids’ birthday parties Group and private parties Leagues for all ages Video games and pool tables Color pin / black light bowling Friday and Saturday night @ 9 PM Win FREE games Open 7 days a week Public bowling every day & night (Availability limited)
Be Happy
Are you excited about Christmas? I am. Why you ask? Because I choose to be happy. I refuse to worry about how I’m going to afford it or what to cook or which house we will choose to gather. I will prioritize gift giving from the youngest to the oldest. After all, the oldest had so many more Christmas mornings then the little ones. And little kids are so much fun to watch as they open their gifts. Friends will understand if I give them small tokens of love. They don’t need expensive gifts but they do need acknowledgement that I care deeply for them. Finding them the perfect gift may be time consuming but does not need to be expensive. One year I found the perfect gift for my mother right in the supermarket. She loves to clean so I shopped for all the latest, greatest cleaning products. All of gadgets that makes the house sparkle. I wrapped them in a brand new bathroom trash basket covered with shrink wrap with a big bow. She loved it! She felt loved. I knew what she liked. It may have been non-traditional but it was all about my mother. Non-traditional gifts are unexpected and fun. One year my brother gave me a radio / flashlight that can be hand cranked to recharged. We now know how handy that is during storms.
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Pottery Barge
2101 Long Beach Blvd, Ship Bottom, NJ
WE ARE OPEN Everyday except Wednesday
494-0606
Hand made gifts not only make wonderful gifts but helps the local economy. Shopping local adds meaning to a gift. To say “I bought this on LBI” adds summer memories to the gift. The important thing is to enjoy Christmas shopping and gift giving. If you shop with your heart, everyone will be happy.
Lisa Ball
Sales & Rentals 2909 Long Beach Blvd. Ship Bottom, NJ 08008 Toll Free 1-800-LBI-4-SUN MaryAllen.com
Business 609-494-0700 Cell 609-312-9747 Fax 609-361-1410 Lisa@LivingLBI.com
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LBI Surf Fishing Classic 2013
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Registration Fee: $30 adults, $15 for youths 17 and younger. Registration on sale at one of the sponsoring bait and tackle shops:
Surf City Bait & Tackle
Surf City 609-494-2333
Fisherman’s Headquarters Ship Bottom, 609-494-5739
Jingle’s Bait & Tackle
Beach Haven, 609-492-2795
The holidays are here! It is an exciting time of the year and a lot of motivation is needed to get all the work done. Decorating, shopping and baking takes so much energy that if you don’t stay off of the sofa, you’ll never get it all done. Early sunsets add to the difficulty of getting motivated. I know that I go to bed early in the winter. Cold weather slows me down. Yet, the excitement of the holidays keep me going. Christmas carols and eggnog with a raging fire is what I need to wrap gifts and tuck them under the tree. The wonderful smell of pine and cinnamon fills the air as we hang cookie ornaments on the tree and nibble on the broken ones. Christmas is a big deal. I can’t wait until black Friday to start my shopping. The minute Halloween is over I start right in on Christmas shopping. Trying to pick out the perfect gift for everyone that I love is very time consuming. The day after Thanksgiving the tree goes up and decorating begins. The countdown begins. Only 4 weeks until Christmas, panic sets in. I spend the weekend wrapping gifts that I’ve been hiding for the past month. I make the list of people I missed and list the people I need to send cards to. And there I sit...waiting for Christmas.
Captain’s Quarters
Brighton Beach, 609-361-9800
Arts and Crafts Show
Saturday; Nov 23, 9:30 AM – 4:00 PM Sunday; Nov 24, 9:30 AM – 2:00 PM St. Francis Community Center Gym Admission: $2.00
Arts and Crafts Show
Motivation
Visit our Table
Sat, Nov 30, 10am – 3pm Beach Haven Firehouse Come out and do some unique holiday shopping. Lots of local artists and crafters. This show benefits the Beach Haven Vol. Fire Company Auxiliary. $1 donation at the door.
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Just Ask Darla
Dear Darla,
I’m so jealous of a friend. She is so smart and everyone likes her. How do I stay friends with her? Friend of smarty pants Dear Friend,
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To:
From:
You should feel honored that someone so smart with so many friends picked you to be her friend. You must have something to offer or she wouldn’t bother with you. Stop being jealous and start valuing what you have to offer. She obviously thinks highly of your friendship. wish you luck, Darla
Horoscopes Aries
Stop all of your non-sense March 21 - April 19 and buckle down. You’ve got work to do.
Taurus
April 20 May 20
Gemini
May 21 - June 20
Cancer
June 21 - July 22
Leo
July 23 - Aug 22
Virgo
Aug 23 - Sept 22
Libra
Sept 23 - Oct 22
Scorpio
Oct 23 - Nov 21
Sagittarius
Nov 22 - Dec 21
Capricorn
Dec 22 - Jan 19
Aquarius
Jan 20 - Feb 18
Pisces
Feb 19 - March 20
Nourishing
Thoughts
Growing up a twin in a small, cluttered apartment on 14th Street and Avenue B in New York City, I was fascinated with one of my father’s mottos: “Take care You’ve got a good heart, of yourself; that makes one less person for everyone keep it healthy. Eat right else to worry about.” I found that concept often as and exercise this month. elusive and unattainable as flying over the rainbow in the hopes of finding my pot of gold. My well being It’s time to make a was inextricably interwoven with that of my brother, decision about someone Jake. Thinking and acting on my own behalf was a vague dream. Decades later, that changed. Jake died that you want to spend nineteen days after he was hit by a car while riding his some time with. bicycle on a quiet road in the Hamptons. That summer, Home and family is where I celebrated my forty fifth birthday without him. it’s at this month. Give out Jake’s presence in my life helped to instill in me lots of hugs. two gifts: the ability to share and the courage to respectfully live my own truth. Some two decades later, more than ever, I live the dream awake—and Stop whining and start share it with you: winning. You have to start “Expect nothing from life except the pleasure derived living. from what you contribute to it.”--ljg When will you have enough? Stop spending! Save your money for a rainy day. Keep both feet on the ground. Traveling to far will make you lonely.
judy horowitz www.senoraonline.com
An Unapologetic Voice
Christmas season makes its presence known like high tide on the shore: gradually, persistently, undeniably. My thoughts turn to my father. He was buried on Christmas Day. The year was1988; he ended on a Friday morning during the English as a Second Language Department holiday breakfast at Fairleigh Dickinson University, where I was teaching at the time.
So you think you can change? Not many can. You are strong enough so My brother in law had arrived to our apartment the night before in anticipation of the yearly holiday visit go for it. to Florida with my husband and young son. I was looking forward to a quiet week of work and evenings Sometimes it’s best to just by myself. forgive and forget. Things get out of hand when you A part of my heart will be forever seared and scarred hold a grudge. by the moment of cheerfully arriving home to learn that during my morning of merriment, my father had taken his final breath. Smile even when you think you don’t have any reason to. Smiling makes It took years for the guilt of my not being by his side when he passed, to subside. With the passage of time you happy. and the help of a wonderful teacher, it has. I appreciate anew, the beauty and wonder of this season, shrouded Spread kindness this in its own mystery. I have learned that we can never month. Even small plan the perfect ending of a life. We can only live each gestures mean a lot to a day of our lives with love and compassion towards special friend. ourselves—and others—and hope for one more day… to do it again. Really? You can’t be “We carve out the world with words; we sculpt our believe that thinking world with deeds.”--ljg negative thoughts will judy horowitz change anything. Start www.senoraonline.com thinking positive.
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LivingLBI Joke What do snowmen eat for breakfast?
Spanish
Math The Koch Snowflake demonstrates infinity, one of the most intriguing concepts of math. Created by Swedish mathematician Helge von Koch, the fractal begins as a line segment and is divided into three equal parts. An equilateral triangle is then created, using the middle section of the line as its base, and the middle section is removed. After a single iteration of this process, the result is a shape similar to the Star of David. The process is repeated indefinitely.
Snowflakes
Art
Kids Feliz Navidad Feliz Navidad Feliz Navidad Prospero año y felicidad. Feliz Navidad Feliz Navidad Feliz Navidad Prospero año y felicidad. I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas From the bottom of my heart.
Science
Snowflakes are not created from frozen raindrops. Liquid water that freezes in the atmosphere as it falls to the ground is actually sleet. And hail, is just a large piece of sleet that collects water and grows as it travels from the atmosphere to the ground. Snowflakes are formed from water vapor that condenses directly into ice inside of clouds. They take shape as water vapor molecules from cloud droplets condense and freeze on the surface of a seed crystal, and patterns emerge as these crystals grow. The seed crystal itself forms on a tiny particle, like a speck of dust in the air, which serves as a base for ice growth. “A snow crystal is a single crystal of ice. A snowflake is a more general term for a snow crystal, or a few snow crystals stuck together that form ‘puff-balls’ that float down from the clouds.”
History 6
Decorate the Christmas Tree
The story Frosty the Snowman supposedly takes place in White Plains, New York, or Armonk, New York. Armonk has a parade dedicated to Frosty annually. December 25–Christmas Day–has been a federal holiday in the United States since 1870.
English
How We Spent Our Summer Maddie & Seán
Frosty The Snowman Frosty the snowman was a jolly happy soul, With a corncob pipe and a button nose And two eyes made out of coal. Frosty the snowman is a fairy tale, they say, He was made of snow but the children Know how he came to life one day. There must have been some magic in that Old silk hat they found. For when they placed it on his head He began to dance around. O, Frosty the snowman Was alive as he could be, And the children say he could laugh And play just the same as you and me. Thumpetty thump thump, Thumpety thump thump, Look at Frosty go. Thumpetty thump thump, Thumpety thump thump, Over the hills of snow. Frosty the snowman knew The sun was hot that day, So he said, “Let’s run and We’ll have some fun Now before I melt away.” Down to the village, With a broomstick in his hand, Running here and there all Around the square saying, Catch me if you can. He led them down the streets of town Right to the traffic cop. And he only paused a moment when He heard him holler “Stop!” For Frosty the snow man Had to hurry on his way, But he waved goodbye saying, “Don’t you cry, I’ll be back again some day.” Thumpetty thump thump, Thumpety thump thump, Look at Frosty go. Thumpetty thump thump, Thumpety thump thump, Over the hills of snow
Maddie Maxfield and Seán Steede have been best friends since they were three years old, can you believe that? Anyway Seán is our son and Maddie is our friend's daughter. We've (the two families) have rented a house in Beach Haven together for the past five years. Since we are always there for two weeks at a time we really get to know the lifeguards and this year Allison and Alex invited them to help as Jr. Lifeguards. They kids met the lifeguards at 10AM most mornings to help set up whether it was helping carry a flag, first aid kit, cans or rescue board stand. If we were around at 5PM they would help clean up too. The real lifeguards were great at explaining every thing to the kids from what to have in the first aid kit to digging holes with their toes for the cans to be put in. We couldn’t have had two more kind, attentive and fun lifeguards at out beach! Allison even babysat the kids so the adults could go out! The real lifeguards would put riddles on the back of their chair almost every day and we all enjoyed trying to guess the answer! The kids wanted to chip in with some riddles of their own on the days the lifeguards didn't have any to post.
Music
Frosty The Snowman g e f g c bc dc b a g bc
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Geocaching on LBI Recently a friend of mine, Mary Ann Everitt-Gutchigian of Beach House Retreats, brought geocaching to LBI. It was a fun outdoor event for the entire family and will become a yearly event on LBI.
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Geocaching is a real-world, outdoor treasure hunting game using GPS-enabled devices. Participants navigate to a specific set of GPS coordinates and then attempt to find the geocache (container) hidden at that location.
How is the game played? At its simplest level, geocaching requires these 8 steps:
Winter Sunsets Winter sunsets warm my heart blending colors, work of art
ice cold air shows my breath but also tells of summer’s death a quiet sky, hides behind heavy clouds that are aligned
Register for a free Basic Membership. Visit the “Hide & Seek a Cache” page. GeoTrail Coin Enter your postal code and click “search.” Choose any geocache from the list and click on its name. Enter the coordinates of the geocache into your GPS Device. Use your GPS device to assist you in finding the hidden geocache. Sign the logbook and return the geocache to its original location. Share your geocaching stories and photos online.
What are the rules of geocaching? If you take something from the geocache (or “cache”), leave something of equal or greater value. Write about your find in the cache logbook. Log your experience at www.geocaching.com.
softly, slowly the sun will set the show goes on with no regret
What do I need to go geocaching? The only necessities are a GPS device or a GPS-enabled mobile phone so that you can navigate to the cache, and a Geocaching.com Membership. Check out www.geocaching.com for more information.
as darkness covers all the blue specks of lights creep into view I see reflections on the bay a giant moon lights the way the cold sets in and I must leave but I’ll be back the next day’s eve. Lisa Ball
Mangia
Bene!
On Christmas Eve, Italians honor the Feast of the Seven Fishes, in Italian “Esta dei Sette Pesci.” Observing “Cena della Vigilia,” or the Christmas Eve dinner, started when Catholics fasted to anticipate the birth of the baby Jesus on Christmas Day. The fast would end when they received Holy Communion during Midnight Mass. Dairy or meat is not allowed to be eaten on Christmas. There are several theories when it comes to the symbolism of seven: it took seven days for God to create the earth, the Bible says. Others believe that seven stands for the sacraments. Catholic Italian-Americans eat fish like calamari (squid), baccala (cod), blue crabs, scallops, pupa (octopus), shrimp, clams, oysters, lobsters and much more to celebrate Christmas.