Volume 9, Issue 11, November 2000
The Black Swamp Herb Socity, with Gardens at the Wood County Historical Center
(Please note: this month’s newletter is mostly non-relevant or personal information that cannot be reproduced here.)
Too Much of a Mishmash to be a Potpourri
Most everything has to do with Old Home Christmas, so I am putting together a nonintellectual, but serviceable early issue. Lots of dates, which I am having others check!
Of greatest immediacy: Wreath Workshops at Sandy Dewyer’s home. She and her supplies and expertise will be available Sunday, November 5 from 2 pm until you feel like quitting. We are bringing additional supplies from the Chicken Coop and from a crafting trip to Sandusky. Those who prefer can work on little trees. It would help if you brought your glue gun, any favorite tools and any special gleanings you have from your garden or a neighbor’s. Small amounts of greens or white materials or berries or… go a long way in this situation. Anybody have any dried hydrangea? Usual source didn’t bloom this year.
Louse Savage is coordinating this and if you are interested in working any other night the week of November 5 please call her. She answers questions too.
Then there will be “come and go sewing, gluing, stuffing assembling“
sessions at France Brent’s House on Fridays between now and Thanksgiving. Even an hour of participation over a lunch hour can be productive.
Those who have the wonderful “What We are Making” handouts from Kathy Hicks need to know that if they assemble any recipes for sale it has to be a donation as all her budgeted money is spent. Add to OHxmas section.
Our most important mission is always The Garden. Please, we need as many hands as possible for a compost making, havesting, spreading and put beds to bed session. If you have not been out for a time, please feel guilty and put in an hour or two. If you can make it, please call Frances or just come. This is very important and I want to lay a big fat guilt trip on you. Come – wearing gloves if possible.
Favorite Herbal Ornaments
Need a home project to do with the kids or a friend? Mixing up inexpensive jars of applesauce with lots of cinnamon makes a satisfying mess and smells wonderful. Keep on adding cinnamon until you get a paste thick enough to roll out with a rolling pin. Roll to about 3/8 inch thickness and cut with qookie cutters. Three to four inch size works very well. If you want to hang them poke a hole through the figure with a tooth pick. Let dry for several days until they can be easily handled. Then decorate with paint, or glitter, or herbs, or whatever pleases you. Hope somebody brings some to the sale. Larger cookie cutters for gingerbread boys and girls also work, but take longer to dry. Decorating is up to each artist. The applesauce-cinnamon ornaments will last several years of packed away carefully. However! Beware of mice! A tin container with a lid works gives good protection.
Chicken Coop and Pond
Some good elves have been hard at work getting the Chicken Coop Organized. Tools are there that we couldn’t find! The pond story moves slowly, but we keep trying!
