June
2008
Event Schedule
Jun 13 9:30-11am Garden Clean up
Jun 15 12-4:00 Salmon Bake/Bk
Jun 25 7pm Board meeting
Jul 11 9:30-11am Garden Clean up
Jul 23 7pm Board meeting
Aug 8 9:30-11am Garden Clean Up
Sep 13 9-3:00 Book
Nov 11 9-3:00 Book
Get Ready for the Salmon
Bake!!
The annual Father’s Day festivities are planned
for June 15 from 12 noon to 4pm (note the earlier ending time). Gigi Weixler and John Winslow and
a small supporting cast of volunteers have been busy planning, and it promises
to be a great day. Cost is $12 ($10 for kids under 11). There’ll be home-baked
cookies for sale, and we’ll have books for sale in the meeting room. Be sure and
bring the family! If you’d like to volunteer for an hour or two, call John
Winslow at 871-7115.
This year’s Salmon Bake
Donors include:
Airport Diner Amy’s on the
Bay
Don & Linda
Creech Edward Jones (Ron Rada)
Family Inn at
Hi-Joy Bowl Kitsap
Bank
Waste
Management, Inc Wiley’s
Body Shop
Georgia Ovestrud Donates Quilt
If you haven’t seen the new quilt hanging over the
computers yet, be sure and stop in to the library and take a look. Georgia Ovestrud has donated another hand made quilt for this
summer’s raffle event, and it’s a beauty! It’s obvious she put in many hours on
this project, so be sure and buy your chance to win! A
drawing will be held in September for the lucky winner; tickets are $1.
Summer Volunteer
Remember, we could use your help to keep the
gardens looking good. Come prepared for light weeding and trimming. Call Carol
871-7820 if you have questions or would like to volunteer. (See the Event
Schedule for dates and times.)
Plant
The FOML plant sale held April 22 did very well!
Profit so far is right at $3,900. Sales continue, since the Radas
have graciously set the remaining plants in their driveway, with an honor
system payment box available. Stop by the new blue house at the corner of
April Book
The April book sale netted just over $1,060,
thanks to the wonderful, mostly anonymous donors who continue to bring their
books to the Friends for resale!
2007 Contributors Honor
Roll
We are very pleased to recognize the following
people and businesses who contributed financially to the FOML in 2007:
Benefactors
Fred Meyer Foundation John and Joan Winslow
Sustainers
Amy's
on the Bay Family Inn at
Patrons
Airport Diner Bev & Don Cheney Rosemarie
Nelson
Carol Slater Cornelius Kucius Kitsap
Bank
Don Creech Fred Meyer HDC
Kitsap Credit Union Lynn Fisher
Olympic Fitness Club Ron and Joyce Rada
If you would like to
contribute to keeping the library open, please check out our new brochures at
the library, or contact Carol Campbell at 871-7820, or just drop a check
(marked “donation”) in the book store cash box. It’s tax deductible!
The Two Universes
musings by Bill Lounsbery
Around fourteen billion years ago a teensy tiny
cosmic egg rapidly expanded outward, creating our universe (The Big Bang).
(What was it like before then? I like Stephen Hawking’s
answer: God was reserving a special place in hell for people who posed such
questions.) About five billion years ago our solar system coalesced out of a
mass of dust and gas, becoming part of the Milky Way galaxy. Each galaxy
contains billions of stars, and there are billions of galaxies. (Is there life
out there? You do the math.) The sun, fueled by hydrogen atoms that fuse into
helium, is only an average star on the third arm of a mediocre spiral galaxy.
Thus, we’ve learned humility.
Our universe is filled with weird phenomena like
red giants (large stars like Antares), white dwarfs
(tiny stars like Sirius B), planetary nebulas (stars in the middle of gas
shells), novas (exploding stars), supernovas (larger explosions of more massive
stars), neutron stars (stars that consist only of neutrons), pulsars (pulsating
stars), quasars (quasi-stellar radio sources), and Seyfert
galaxies (with compact cores that are bright, hot and very active). And that’s
not to mention MACHOs (weakly interacting massive
particles: specs of invisible matter left over from the Big Bang), black holes
(space containing matter so dense it retains light), wormholes (space that
facilitates the rapid transfer of matter over distances measured in millions,
if not billions, of light-years), and white holes (matter that emerges from
wormholes).
Astrophysicist Kip Thorne has even suggested that
the universe is itself a black hole. Frankly, the whole thing’s getting
completely out of hand, so let’s consider our bodies (in a wholesome manner) since
the universe without created the universe within.
The human body contains around sixty thousand
billion task-specific cells that percolate along in a multitude of chemical
reactions. Biologists explain all of this activity in a language that uses
terms like endoplasmic reticulum and chromosome-separating fibers – about as
easy to learn as Uzbek. So instead we’ll focus on
We’re caught between an ever-increasing list of
enigmatic sub-atomic particles and cosmic objects whose distances we’re not
sure of – Lounsbery’s infamous Uncertainty Principle.
We’re interested in a myriad of topics from planets to politics, while subject
to the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to. Eventually we die; a fact
that many of us despise. Frankly, the only talent nature honors is
reproduction. After year 30 – despite toupees, girdles and cosmetic surgery –
we begin to deteriorate as the biological processes of cell division and
reproduction falter.
So ---- grow old gracefully and take good care of
your atoms – they are the stuff of which dreams are made.
Heucheras for Foliage Color
by Carol Campbell
If you’re looking for something different in
foliage that will add color to your garden year round, try one of the recently
introduced varieties of heuchera. This perennial is
one of about fifty species in the saxifrage family, and is native to