September
2008
Event Schedule
Sep
12 9:30-?? Garden Clean up
Sep
13 9-3:00 Book
Sep
24 7-8:15pm FOML Meeting
Oct
10 9:30-?? Garden Clean up
Oct
22 7-8:15pm FOML Meeting
Oct
26 2-5pm Wine Tasting at the Puget Sound Wine Cellar
Nov
11 9-3:00 Book
Fund Raiser Scheduled
Be sure to get your tickets to the FOML Halloween
wine tasting fund raiser, scheduled for Sunday, October 26, 2-5pm at the Puget
Sound Wine Cellar. Come dressed as your favorite literary character and compete
for the ”best costume”
prize. Tickets will be available at the library, at the wine shop, or
from FOML members starting September 20th. Each $20 ticket entitles you to 4 tastings. You may choose
from two white wines from River Aerie and three reds from Portteus
Wineries and enjoy them with appetizers.
This promises to be a very entertaining evening!
Remodeling in the Planning
Stages
We’re planning to expand (slightly) the meeting
room space by taking in the walkway along the north side of the building. The
meeting room door will be moved to the east side of the room, at the front of
the library. During construction the book store will have to shrink up or close
entirely for a time.
We’re also planning to enclose a small area as a
branch manager’s office. This is long overdue, as the staff’s “working
quarters” have always been very tiny.
We hope these changes will improve the library for
both customers and the staff who work there.
Book
The next special book sale will be September 13,
from 9 am to 3 pm. We’ll be trying to clear out the stock as much as we can, to
get ready for the remodeling, so the prices will be right! Be sure and come buy
your reading material for the coming winter months. If you’d like to volunteer
to help with the sale, please call Carol Campbell at 871-7820. We especially
need help during the afternoon shifts and to close down the sale (between noon
and about 3:30), so if you have an hour or two to contribute, please let us
know!
Quilt Raffle Continues
Georgia
Ovestrud’s quilt will be raffled off September 13
(during the next book sale). Be sure and get your tickets, so you get a chance
to win and support the library’s programs at the same time. FOML thanks
Salmon Bake Success
Thanks to the hard work of FOML volunteers, and
donations by community businesses and individuals, the annual Salmon Bake
generated profits of over $8,000 this year.
The FOML has been putting on the Salmon Bake for 40 years and it just
keeps getting better. It not only
provides funds for the library, but brings our community. together for a
great meal and a great cause.
Congratulations to all on a job well done.
There are two remaining opportunities to help with
the library’s gardens this year: September 12 and October 10, at 9:30. Come
prepared to weed and trim. Call Carol at 871-7820 if you have questions.
Earthquake Preparedness
Tips Available
The Kitsap Dept. of Emergency Management website
has a lot of useful information to check out, at http://www.kitsapdem.org. Here are some general tips:
• Create a Family Earthquake Plan.
• Know the safe spot in each room (under sturdy
tables, desks, against inside walls).
• Know the danger spots (windows, mirrors, hanging
objects, fireplaces, tall furniture).
• Conduct practice drills.
• Learn first aid and CPR.
• Decide where your family will reunite, if
separated.
• Keep a list of emergency phone numbers.
• Choose an out-of-state friend or relative you
can call after the quake to report your condition. Carry those phone numbers
with you.
• Develop a portable/auto survival kit for work and
travel.
Looking Up
- by
Norma Brady
Try looking up in your garden and visualize what a
blooming vine might add to a near-by tree, trellis or privacy fence. Eye level
(and above) gardening is not only beautiful but practical making the most of a
limited space. You will be adding color and interest where before there were
none. You will also be enhancing the beauty of the ground-growing plants by
planting a vine behind to carry out the same color scheme. Not all
vines can be used in the same way, however. A heavy, fast growing wisteria
should never be planted on a house or garage wall. It will lift a roof or
gutter right off a structure, as it is so strong. Instead, plant it growing up
a tree or on a well-secured trellis set in cement. Clematis, morning glory, virginia creeper, akebia, trumpet
vine, bittersweet, chilean glory flower, jasmine,
honeysuckle, passion flower, plumbago, thunbergia (black-eyed susan) are
all plants that vine and flower, and would grow up in a garden without heavy
support if kept in reasonable size. During the winter some of the vines are
hardy and will remain green to add a nice background to pots full of winter
plants and spring bulbs. Consider pyracantha with its
lovely bright berries or a small variety of cotoneaster coupled with pots of
winter blooming heather. The plant combinations are endless as you’ll see for
yourself when you visit a large nursery. This is where to go to get those
clever ideas for your own garden.
A Review of The Virginian by Owen Wister
- Bill Lounsbery
The Virginian tells of a cowboy who rides into the uncivilized
American West and defeats the forces of evil. (Sound familiar?) Set in
The novel’s narrator is a
tenderfoot who mediates between the alien culture of the frontier Old West and
civilized readers (like you and me). Throughout, The Virginian epitomizes the chivalric conduct of the eponymous
Southern gentleman, an uneducated but dignified cowboy who exemplifies Wister’s
faith in inherent nobility.
Wister was born in
The Virginian was written in 1902, when the American frontier
had “officially” vanished; its mythology was just beginning. It’s a good read.
For bonus points: What’s
the connection between Wister and our own
Answer: Wister spent his
honeymoon in