The Old Farmer's Almanac Engagement Calendar 2002: Useful Advice and Folk Wisdom from the Publishers of the Old Farmer's Almanac 157198206X, 9781571982063

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Useful Advice and Folk Wisdom from the Publishers of The Old Farmer's Almanac

Copyright 2001 by Yankee Publishing Incorporated Editor: Jeff Baker Art Director: Margo Letourneau

Daily text information by Martha White Selected illustrations by Beth Krommes Cover design: Margo Letourneau

Cover art: Bouquet of Chrysanthemums, hand-finished stipple engraving, Jean-Louis Prévost, Paris, 1804

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y good old neighbors tell me that in the first year of their married life (some sixty years ago), one of the main roads of the town was the now lovely, but impassable, lane behind our house. Outlined in towering maples and magnificent stone walls, it is a foot track only. Of the red brick schoolhouse that stood at the crossroads of the lane and the “winter road” that wound from the center of the town up the long valleys to the north, there is no sign, though an idle foot poking in the leaves may turn over an earthcovered brick, an epitaph to generations of farm boys who lived their lives out here at the corners. These thousands of acres were farmland once—fairly rich in flocks and grains and orchards. The four corners of yesterday are the haunts today of beaver, deer, and even an occasional bear. Such abandoned corners are to be found throughout New England—seemingly strange contradictions in an age of vastly increasing population and travel. Yet not contradictions, really, since our generations prefer to shrink

to the towns and seek elbow-to-elbow sidewalk living and their precious three freedoms of radio, television, and hotdog stands. As the ages see it, it is well for the land that the four

corners return to the wilderness. What is lost is the heritage of character, of courage and hardiness, that belonged especially to those who loved the soil and made it their own.

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Resolutions written by Woody Guthrie

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

7. 8. 9. 10.

Work more and better Work by a schedule Wash teeth if any Shave Take bath Eat good—fruit vegetables - milk Drink very scant if any Write a song a day Wear clean clothes— look good Shine shoes

12. Change bed clothes often 13. Read lots of good books 14. Listen to radio a lot 15. Learn people better 16. Keep rancho clean 17. Don’t get lonesome 18. Stay glad 19. Keep hoping machine running 20. Dream good 21. Bank all extra money

Me Change socks

22. Save dough

24. 25. 26. 27.

28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33.

Send Mary and kids money Play and sing good Dance better Help win war—beat fascism Love Mama Love Papa Love Pete Love everybody Make up your mind Wake up and fight —courtesy Woody Guthrie Archives

23. Have company but don’t waste time

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Monday

A different world cannot be built

by indifferent people.

To ensure abundance forthe coming year, eat well today. Wednesday

Push cloves into an apple, top with mistletoe, and set on

a tripod to welcome the New Year.

Thursday

January's birthstone isthe garnet, fortruth and constancy.

CAPRICORN

January 2002

February 2002

Watch for the

Quadrantid meteor shower now around 5:00 a.m. EST.

Last Quarter Moon

~ Saturday

Krommes —Beth

Time to get out the seed catalogs.

Twelfth Day (Epiphany)

Krommes —Beth

decorations down today to avoid bad luck.

JANUARY

Today is Distaff Day, when spinners resumed their work, and Plough Monday, when farmers returned to the fields.

A great deal of superciliousness Is based on biliousness. —Ogden Nash, American

writer (1902-1971)

Wednesday

Thursday

A chinook is a warm, dry wind in the Rockies, coming after a cold spell.

To cure warts, make

a paste of aspirin and water, apply to the wart, and bandage.

Renew daily.

January 2002

Listen carefully to mourning doves infight and youwillhear their Wings whistle.

Q. What’ the

February 2002

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Saturday

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Monday

Tuesday

Eat bananas or baked potatoes to help lower blood pressure.

When yougo to bed with aclear head, youwillnever risewith a headache.

Wednesday

Keep poinsettias in a sunny, cool, and humid location.

Krommes —Beth

Thursday

Benjamin Franklins Birthday

Anthony, today’s saint, was patron of basket weavers, brushmakers, and domestic animals.

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By one account, Daniel Webster’ last words (1852) were: “Life,

February 2002

Friday

life! Death, death! How curious it is!”

To remove rusty screws or bolts,

presoak them in lemon juice or cola.

“i Apropitous day birth ofmen.

fort

Saturday

JANUARY

First Quarter Moon

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Martin Luther King Jr’s Bir thday (observed)

Tuesday

Make perennial garden beds about twice as wide as the height of

the tallest plant.

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Wednesday

DfJaniveer’s calends be summerly gay, ‘Twill be winterly weather till the calends ofMay.

Thursday

Gold! at Sutter’s Mill, California, 1848.

January 2002

February 2002

Friday

Bring new flowers in during the darkest

days of winter.

Shake and shake

,

Saturday

the catsup bottle. None will come, and then a lot'll. —Richard Armour, American poet (1906-1989)

Winterfindswhat summer laysup.

Sunday

JANUARY o& FEBRUARY

Monday

Full Old Moon

2)" December without a Cold Moon; January takes the Old Moon.

Tuesday

fall the world were just There would be no

need ofvalor. —Plutarch, Greek biographer (A.D. 46-120)

Wednesday

Books cannot be killed byfire. —Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd

USS. president (1882-1945)

Thursday

Geese are great to have around. ... They are sagacious, contentious,

storm-loving, and beautiful. —E. B. White, American writer (1899-1985)

February 2002

Chickadees live

about nine years. (Don’t forget to feed the birds.)

Groundhog Day Candlemas

Colors seen by candlelight will not seem the same by day. —Elizabeth Barrett Browning,

English poet (1806-1861)

I swear to the Lord I still can’t see

Why Democracy means Everybody but me. —Langston Hughes, American

writer (1902-1967)

March 2002

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his is the month of good excuses. It’s too cold, too wet, too snowy, too blowy to get outside or into your barns—except for chores. But your farm business doesn’t have to be outside or in your barns or woodlot. There is a world of work, if you would get at it, inside the house and barns. And so we say February is as good a month for farm business as any other. How shall we advise you other than we have advised before? Look to what repairs you have to do and improvements within the house. Put up new pantry shelves, scrape and refinish the floors, and ifyou have had the time and the foresight to rig up a workshop in the basement, repair the screens and paint them, mend the rakes, sharpen the scythes and saws. Or go to your desk and work out in dollars and cents what your next farm year is coming to.

Your cows will relish the cold nip of winter if there is enough sunshine with it. Rain or shine, blizzard or cold, your horses should be out a bit each day. And if it is really warm for this time of year, let them have all the hay they want on the snow and stay out as long as they will—or as long as they eat the hay. If you have orchards, you should now be at the pruning of them. But do not touch your Baldwin trees till the first of March. Their fruit is sturdy and tough, but the trees themselves are as tender as a baby’s skin.

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When in cold weather the soot falls from the chimney, the weather will change.

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Ifsnails come out in February, theywill stay home inMarch.

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Wednesday

If you have trouble with hives, try vitamin C, a natural antihistamine.

Amethyst, February's stone, isfor sincerity and sobriety,

February2002.

Extend your welcome to the blue jays; they eat gypsy moths.

To restore a dented Ping-Pong ball, immerse it in very hot water.

Start assembling tax-related documents now, for the

April 15 deadline.

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February and March. Wednesday

Ash Wednesday

Lent begins today, 40 days before Easter, not counting Sundays. Thursday

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Susan B.Anthony's Birthday

March 2002

Friday

(Fla., Wis.)

Tfone is lucky,

a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities. —Maya Angelou,

American poet (b. 1928)

Saturday

Spread wood ashes around lilacs now for

better spring blooms.

Sunday

FEBRUARY

George Washington's Birthday (observed)

Labour to keep alive in your breast that little spark ofcelestial fire— conscience. —George Washington, first USS. president (1732-1799)

Cold rice and cold tea are bearable, but cold looks and cold words are not.

—Japanese proverb

Wednesday

First Quarter Moon

Rule for a Long Life One should eat to live,

and not eat to satiety. —The [Old] Farmer’ Almanac, 1793

Thursday

A white rooster willcrowall the mice out ofa house.

February 2002

March 2002

Well, it will be a new experience, anyway. —last words of George Bernard Shaw, British playwright

(1856-1950)

Hasten spring

rhubarb by placing a barrel over the

plants now.

Never letthe bottom ofyour purse or your mind be seen.

Saturday

FEBRUARY o MARCH

Monday

Q. How do you get

down from an elephant? A. You don’t; you get down from a goose.

—Beth Kromme

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The bloodstone is March’s birthstone, offering mental

acuity and courage. Is yon strange creature a common chickadee, Or a migrant alouette

from Picardy? —Ogden Nash, American

writer (1902-1971)

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o quote The Old Farmer’ Almanac of March 1898, “As the sun mounts higher toward the zenith, the farmer is reminded that the growing season is approaching, and that the earth

will soon change its winter coat for its beautiful summer garb of ever-changing hues; and that the ground will soon be in condition to receive the seed for the reproduction of those crops which furnish food to both man and beast.” Amen, say we—and 50 shall it allbe. . . we hope. Unfortunately, we cannot today approach the bursting world of spring with the same smug sense of wellbeing and satisfaction. We know that what we plant may grow as well as the seed planted in the spring of 1898, and probably a lot better. And there will be for us the same satisfaction in our growing crops. But beyond that, we don’t know. If we grow potatoes, apples, cotton, just for example, what is our assurance? We may have subsidy on these—from a paternal government—or we may not have subsidy. Whatever we grow, subsidy or not, will be grown with asense of insecurity. We farmers, subsidized or not, have the feeling that we are part of a juggling act, and we wonder when the act is going to end— Or just scatter.

Our advice for March, as ever: spread your manure, prune your fruit trees, pay your taxes, slaughter your pigs, and get ready to prepare your ground “to receive the seed.”

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OCTOBER

Horses sweating inthe stableisasign ofrain,

Good bargains empty our pockets. —German proverb

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Keep a can of cooking oil spray in your toolshed to spray onto tools to keep them rust-free.

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nce ina while,” Clara J.Hallett of Hyannis,

Massachusetts, tells us, “I like to roam around in some of the old cemeteries. They are about the only quiet, peaceful spots left to us now. When we realize that all these people lived day to day and from year to year,

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we get a different, broader view of what eternal life means.

“How strange, and amusing, and pathetic the old stones seem. Some express such faith in celestial bliss, others foreshadow eternal doom. Here area few of the epitaphs I have saved from these visits: ‘Hannah Green, Spinster—Died at the age of 92: God takes the good, too good, On earth to stay, And leaves the bad, too bad, To take away.’ Added by a wag: ‘And that’s the cause of Hannah’s long delay.’

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“Mary Ann lies here to rest, With her head on Abraham's breast; It’s very nice for Mary Ann, But it’s rather hard on

Abraham.’ “Under this stone a lump of clay, Lies Annabelle Young, Who on the 24th of May, Began to hold her tongue.’ “In one church yard, a Mr. Church buried four wives. In burying the fourth, he had to move the other three with the result that their bones became hopelessly mixed. Consequently, the following was given as an inscription to the last one, Emily: “Stranger pause and drop atear, For Emily Church lies buried here, Mixed in some perplexing manner, With Mary, Matilda, and probably Hannah.”

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Monday

Child Health Day

Have you checked your home for lead

paint? Tuesday

The squirrel gloats on his accomplished hoard. —Thomas Hood, English

—Beth Krommes

Wednesday

LeifEriksson Day

Thursday

oldest form of social security.

October 2002

November 2002

Cut yourfingernails on Friday, cut them forwoe.

Friday

Dream ofa pumpkin and you dream ofplenty.

Saturday

Use a stamp pad and fresh herbs to make prints for personalized stationery or wrapping paper.

OCTOBER

Columbus Day (observed)

Thanksgiving Day (Canada)

Turn off the TV. Put a fire in the fireplace, make popcorn, or crack nuts. To cure “the piles,” apply warm treacle or a

bruised onion, skinned. —John Wesley, English religious leader (1703-1791)

Wednesday

Plunge the water out of the toilet bowl before you clean it;

otherwise, your cleanser is diluted.

Thursday

Only the mediocre are always at their best. —Jean Giraudoux, French writer (1882-1944)

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Alaska Day

St. Luke’s “little summer’ carries a

reputation for~ unseasonably warm” weather.

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Let your flowers and rosebushes be protected

against the frost by straw and coarse dung. —The [Old] Farmer’ Almanac, 1801."

It works! Say “Nine sups from a cup cures the hiccups” three times without taking a breath.

Saturday

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If migratory birds arrive early and in great numbers, it will be a cold winter. Harvest the last of the fragrant herbs now and make potpourri for winter gifts.

Wednesday

Rinse milk bottles and empty onto houseplants as a mild liquid manure.

United Nations Day

Governments

never learn. Only people learn. —Milton Friedman, American economist (b. 1912)

October 2002

November 2002 SMTWTF

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Friday

Chicago were electric.

Saturday

The first and last frosts are the worst.

Sg season and rise early; this will save your health, as well as wood and candles. —The [Old] Farmer’s Almanac, 1794

Daylight Saving Time ends at 2:00 A.M.

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Weather, wind, women,

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The covetous man is ever in want. —Horace, Roman poet

(c. 65-8 B.C.)

Thursday

Halloween

A snail leftto crawl through the ashes on the hearth tonight willdraw the initials ofyour future spouse.

s November 2002

November's birthstone, the topaz, protects from poisons and infidelity.

December 2002

Friday

Saturday

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