SEPTEMBER 2020

Appleseed Fact and Fiction September Birthdays

On September 26, 1774, John In astrology, those born from September 1–22 Chapman was born, yet the world The Trumpeter are Virgos. Detail-oriented Virgos have a would come to know deep sense of humanity, a trait that makes Asbury Towers Retirement Community him as Johnny Appleseed and memorialize his life work them careful, tender, and practical. Since all in fantastic tales. For this that attention to detail is put into the service reason, September 26 is of others, Virgos make perfect humanitarians. Johnny Appleseed Day. Those born between September 23–30 balance the scales of Libra. Libra epitomizes Unlike the fictional tall-tale fairness and harmony in all dealings large and characters Paul small. Sincere, beautiful, and romantic, Libra Bunyan and John Henry, Johnny Appleseed was will work hard to keep all relationships on an a real man. His passion for apple trees began in his even keel with boundless grace and charm. teenage years, when he got a job working in an apple orchard. While the popular image of Johnny Lily Tomlin (comedienne) – September 1, 1939 Celebrating September Appleseed is that of a man wandering Buddy Holly (musician) – September 7, 1936 Birthdays the continent spreading handfuls of apple seeds, Sid Caesar (comedian) – September 8, 1922 Residents Johnny Appleseed was far more deliberate in his Jesse Owens (Olympian) – September 12, 1913 plantings. The law of the frontier granted land rights 02 Joan Williamson to anyone who developed a homestead, and a Prince Harry of Wales – September 15, 1984 03 Virginia Edwards nursery of 50 trees fit that definition. In this way, Johnny Greta Garbo (actress) – September 18, 1905 03 Donna Atkinson would raise his nursery and then sell the land to Stephen King (writer) – September 21, 1947 04 Warren Harlan settlers. In this manner, Johnny Appleseed came to Phil Rizzuto (ballplayer) – September 25, 1917 06 Janie Long own over 1,200 acres over 100,000 square miles of Enrico Fermi (scientist) – September 29, 1901 08 Don Jones frontier wilderness. Johnny Mathis (singer) – September 30, 1935 12 Beverly Parsons 16 Kathleen Lezotte Furthermore, Johnny’s apples weren’t for eating. He 17 Agnes Burroff planted the small, tart varieties of apples known as 20 Pat Rumley “spitters,” because that’s what you did when you tasted Slovenian Cow Belles 23 Frances Higgins them. These were the perfect apples for making hard In Slovenia’s Bohinj Valley, cider, which in Revolutionary America was a far more 27 Anita Hoffa cows are the real belles of the valuable commodity than edible apples. Water was ball on the third Sunday in considered unsafe for drinking due to harmful bacteria, September. After spending the whereas fermented, alcoholic cider was far safer. summer eating their fill in the Sadly, during the Prohibition Era of the 1920s, many fertile upland pastures, the of Johnny Appleseed’s original nurseries were axed, cows return to their winter Staff and the American tradition of cider making was homes in the valley below decimated. with great fanfare known as 01 Julie Dozier the Cows’ Ball. The cows are 01 Gale Medenwald Despite the government’s best efforts during decked out in beautiful 03 Christine Smith Prohibition, the legacy of Johnny Appleseed lives on. wreaths and paraded through 10 Christi Buker The image of Johnny, barefoot and wearing the village by local herders, cheese makers, and 10 Sierra Weddell threadbare clothes, is not fiction but fact. As a milkmaids. The cows don’t have all the fun— 11 Susie Bullington member of the New Church, he preached that nature humans enjoy live Slovenian folk music and 14 Vicki Jones-Rice and God were intertwined. As such, he lived a spare, dancing, as well as competitions in log sawing, nomadic life, loved animals, and was a vegetarian. 16 Taylor Young horseshoe-throwing, and shooting. The entire 24 Esta Hoover But that tin pot on his head? celebration is laid out at the edge of Lake Bohinj, a It most likely sprang from the rumor that he wore 27 Angel Butler beautiful alpine lake surrounded by snow-capped 28 Makayla Butler a tin cloth hat that he used as a dinner plate. mountain peaks reminiscent of The Sound of Music. These hills, too, are alive, but with the 28 Megan Frost sound of mooing. 29 Camrie Shelton

ASBURY TOWERS STAFF WELCOME NEW RESIDENTS Oh Dem Golden Slippers! Executive Director Rod Jackson, ED Betty Fox Hey, you guys – do you ever get the feeling that our “Golden Years” are tarnished? Now, I’m not Medical Director casting doom and gloom. There are some things about getting old that are good – I just can’t think Dr. John Savage of any right off-hand! Actually, the only time my age really bothers me is when I’m awake. See, here’s the thing – my mind seems ok, but my body is retarded. It must be or it wouldn’t do such Director of Nursing Amanda Hall, RN DON odd stuff. I’m sure some of you can relate to what I’m talking about here. Like – oh – when you get spots that look like bruises, but they are not. And they come and go, like they are not sure what Life Enrichment they are, or where they’re s’posed to be. Then there’s the red, rashey lookin’ spots that just appear Julie Dozier, QMCP for no reason, whatsoever. Oh, I could go on and on about all the weird stuff our bodies do with

age! Not the least of which are the aches and pains they offer us – free of charge! ‘Course, when I Business Office

Debbie White think of the ‘alternative’ guess I shouldn’t be so cocky! ‘Cause if they’re “getting’ up a bus load” WELCOME NEW STAFF now – I don’t wanna go! Nope – I ain’t ready to buy the farm, bite the dust, or push up daisies! Chaplain Sure, I’m 84, but I still got places to go and people to see – Ha! Big talk, huh?? Jim Staggers

Dining Services Kyle Estalilla Anita Onken, RD Matilda Taylor Thank you! Environmental Services Wade Walker Candy Price Felicia Whicker God Bless us everyone! Kayla Linville ~Sharon Sheridan Human Resources Kris Beck

Community Relations Vicki Jones Rice If you see anyone of these new Residents or Staff, MDS please take a moment and make them feel welcomed! Cecilia Tincher, MDS, RN Strong Mind Maintenance Supervisor Old age I decided is a gift. I am now probably for the first time in my life, the person I have always wanted to Jake Hodges be. Oh, not my body! I sometimes despair over my body, the wrinkles, the baggy eyes, the sagging butt and often I am taken aback by that old person in the mirror, but I don’t agonize over those things for long. I Social Services would never trade my amazing friends, my wonderful life, my loving family for less gray hair or a flatter belly. Gwen Tucker, MLD As I have aged I’ve become more kind and less critical of myself. I’ve become my own friend and don’t Front Office Reminder: chide myself for eating that extra cookie, or for not making my bed. I’m entitled to overeat or be extravagant. I have seen too many friends leave this world too soon; before they understood the great freedom that Please remember to give the front office a copy of comes with aging. Whose business is it if I choose to read or play on the computer until 4:00 a.m. and sleep your new Medicare card when you receive it. to noon? I will dance with myself to the tunes from the 50’s and 60’s and weep over a lost love. I will walk

“By all these lovely tokens September days are on the beach with a swimsuit stretched over my bulging body and dive into the wave with abandon, despite If you have any questions, please call Debbie the pitying glances from the bikini set. They too will grow old! I know I am sometimes forgetful but then here, With summer’s best of weather And White at Extension 104. again, some of life is just as well forgotten, and I eventually remember the important things. Sure, over the autumn’s best of cheer.” years my heart has been broken. How can your heart not break when you lose a loved one, when a child

Thank you suffers, or even a beloved pet gets hit by a car? Broken hearts are what gives strength, understanding and ~ Helen Hunt Jackson compassion. A heart never broken is pristine and sterile and will never know the joy of being imperfect. I am so blessed to have lived long enough to have my hair turn gray and have my youthful laughs be ever etched into deep grooves in my face. So many have never laughed, and so many have died before their hair turned silver. I can say, “yes” and mean it and I can say, “no” and mean it. As you get older, it is easier to be positive. You care less about what other people think. I don’t question myself any more. I’ve even earned the right to be wrong. I like being old. It has set me free. I like the person I have become. I am not going to live forever, but while I’m still here; I will not waste time lamenting what could have been or worrying about what will be. And I shall eat dessert every day.

~Author Unknown

WEEKLY EVENTS September Bingo Dates

Church Service every Sunday at 1:00 pm in the Lobby Join us in the Main Dining Room on Movies every Monday at 1:00 pm in the Lobby September 1st , at 6:30 pm for a White Don’t forget to look at the sign-up bullentin board by the Art/Craft every Wednesday at 2:30 pm Elephant Bingo. Don’t forget to bring Vespers are every Thursday at 6:30 pm in the Lobby Main Dining Room for trips scheduled outside of the your wrapped gift to exchange. building for the Month of September! Be mindful that trips Bingo every Saturday at 1:30 pm in Main Dining Room could be cancelled due to inclemental weather. If you have a suggestion or place you would like to go, please We will also have our monthly night bingo contact Julie at Ext. 117. on September 15th at 6:30 pm

September Food Committee will meet on September 7th at 10:30 a.m. in the Founder’s Special Events of the Month Weather or Not Lounge.

If you have any questions, please see either Summer ends and autumn begins on September 23, 2019, in the northern half of the world. Anita in Dietary or Doris Smith. Please see your calendar for the monthly events. Some Good Health Tips During Cold/Flu Season However, September days can still be very warm. To Avoid Or Spreading Sickness The average September temperature in Miami, Florida, is 82 degrees. In Acapulco, Mexico, it is Also, if you would like to schedule Patio Visits with your Get vaccinated. about 89 degrees in September. If you want a loved ones please contact Julie at Extension 117 to According to the CDC, influenza vaccination is “cool” place to visit this month, Quebec City, on schedule them. safe and effective and is the single best way to average, is 67 degrees, and Oslo, Norway, is a help protect yourself and your family from the chilly 53 degrees.

flu each year. Since the virus and the vaccine changes every year, it is important to get a Look for more activities on your calendar and on TV channel 2 for additional activities throughout the month of vaccination annually. September. Wash your hands.

Frequent hand washing keeps lots of germs out The week of September 13th through September of our bodies, including the influenza virus. If th 19 is National Housekeeper week. Remember soap and water are not available, use a hand to thank our Asbury Housekeeper’s as they keep sanitizer. us all neat and tidy!

Stay home if you don’t feel well. Should you become infected or just coughing a

lot, keep the germs from spreading by staying home – and don’t forget to take care of Thank you for all you do! yourself! Your nurse can see to you getting a

September, in Old England, was room tray delivered to you during this time. called Haervest-monath (Harvest Month). Do the elbow cough. This is the time to gather up the rest of the Cough into elbows, not hands where it’s more harvest and prepare for the winter months. likely to spread bacteria and viruses through There are flowers enough in the touch. summertime, Avoid touching your eyes, nose, or mouth. More flowers than I can remember— Germs spread this way. If you do remember to But none with the purple, gold, and red wash your hands afterward. That dye the flowers of September! —Mary Howitt (1799-1888) Any questions please see your Floor Nurse!

Hitting the Century Mark Calling All Rock Hounds A Consequential Cup Plenty to Appreciate

While you may enjoy Flowers. Perfume. Jewelry. Clothing. These are What is the secret to living September 16 offers a holiday for all the a morning cup of coffee just some of the ways you can show your wife a long life upward of 100 rock hounds, from the professional geologist every day, there is only you love her on Wife Appreciation Day, the third years? Perhaps the residents of to the casual collector at the beach. It’s Collect one Coffee Day, and it’s Sunday in September. But what do wives really Acciaroli, Italy, know the secret. Rocks Day! What’s the attraction to collecting September 29. No other want? Romance doesn’t necessarily have to This small coastal hamlet south rocks? For many, it’s the incredible diversity drink is as revered as mean a $100 bouquet. A surprise $10 bouquet of Naples has the highest of rocks in the natural world. Not only do many coffee. After oil, coffee is of flowers from the supermarket on a weeknight concentration of rocks look different but they are formed by the second-most sought can sometimes be even more romantic. centenarians—that’s people different geological processes that give us after global commodity, with an estimated trade Another show of appreciation is to create living to 100 years of age—in clues to the geologic history of the area they value of $100 billion and employing a workforce a sweet routine. Does your wife like a cup of the world. No doubt, the residents of Acciaroli will are found in. Half the fun of rock collecting is of 25 million people. That’s one powerful cup of coffee in the morning? Prepare it just the way be rocking on September 22, Centenarians Day. identifying and cataloging your rocks by kind, where you found them, and why they’re special morning joe. she likes it and bring it to her. The advantage What is Acciaroli’s secret? Mayor Stefano Pisani to you. Minerals, crystals, and gemstones are of being her husband is that you know things thinks the longevity is due to his town’s relaxed, often admired for their brilliant colors, shapes, The powerful jolt of caffeine that comes with about her that no one else does. Is her cell low-stress lifestyle. Researchers credit the diet and structures. But many of the best rocks in a cup of coffee may be what makes it so special phone on the verge of becoming obsolete? of locally caught fish and locally grown fruits a collection are judged valuable not because and sought after, but before coffee was served Get her a new one. Does she hate doing the and vegetables. One cardiologist believes there they are gemstones or minerals but because as a drink, it was eaten. Tribes in Africa dishes? Step up and empty the dishwasher may be a genetic component attributed to small, they were found someplace meaningful: on a supposedly mixed coffee berries with fat and then load all the dirty dishes. Not only are efficient blood vessels. Luigina Vigiconte, aged vacation, perhaps, or on a trip with someone into edible energy balls. So, who made this you being helpful but you’re showing her that 101, believes that one must “always be optimistic, special. Whether you adore igneous, discovery? Legend states that around 850 AD, you are paying attention to her needs. Of course, never bitter, and always be polite with people.” sedimentary, or metamorphic, you’ll never an Ethiopian goatherder named Kaldi observed if all else fails, there is absolutely nothing wrong Vincenzo Barrata, at 103, has a different theory: grow tired of the amazing diversity of rocks his goats acting strangely after eating the fruit with getting your wife jewelry and shoes. Just “A lot of women in my life.” out there just waiting to be found. of a certain bush. Kaldi knew his goats to be make sure it’s jewelry and shoes that she wants, ill-tempered, but here they were frolicking and not that you want her to have. Must we all move to Acciaroli to become a dancing like never before. Kaldi decided to try “super-ager,” with less Alzheimer’s, fewer Tiny Tee Time the berries, and he, too, felt a rush of energy. cataracts, fewer bone fractures, and a stronger At that moment, edible coffee was discovered. Septemberfest heart? Or are there real lifestyle changes we can No one is exactly sure why make to live to 100? Doctors have been trying to Garnet Carter invented the So who decided to brew it into a drink? Another The confusing thing about decipher the secret to longevity for a long time. first miniature golf course in legend tells of how a wandering monk observed the German celebration of Weight control, they believe, is a big factor to the 1920s, but thank Kaldi and his dancing goats. This monk, who Oktoberfest is that it begins living a long, healthy life. People should not only goodness he did or we had terrible trouble trying to stay awake during in September! Five o’clock consume fewer calories but maximize the nutrition wouldn’t be able to celebrate his prayers, tried the berries as a method to stay in the morning in Germany of each calorie. Also, eat a lot of fiber, which Mini Golf Day on September alert. Needless to say, that monk did not doze on September 16, to be reduces heart disease and bad cholesterol and 21. Carter owned off. It was this resourceful monk who first dried exact. While many consider increases weight loss. Of course, activity such a hotel outside of Chattanooga, Tennessee, the berries and boiled them into a beverage. Not Oktoberfest to be a 16-day- as walking and running is a plus, just as spending called the Fairytale Inn, which strove to only did it keep him awake and alert, but it tasted long beer festival, its roots time with others keeps our brains happy and create an atmosphere as magical as its good, too. Soon, his fellow monks were drinking have nothing to nimble. But what do the doctors really know? name. Carter’s tiny golf course, complete coffee and praying right alongside him. do with beer. The first Oktoberfest was held After all, centenarians rarely give medical advice with hollowed-out tree trunks and gnomes, in Bavaria on October 12, 1810, on the when they talk about the secret to their long lives. became an instant hit with visitors. Ask While these legends may be fun to relate, occasion of the marriage of Crown Prince Centenarian Haruo Ito advises, “Sleep well.” Carter’s wife, Frieda, why he invented the mini coffee is still a serious business in Ethiopia Ludwig to Princess Therese von Sachsen- Justina Sotomayor says, “Be loveable.” Frieda golf course, and her reply is that it was to distract and throughout the Middle East. Since drinking Hildburghausen. It was so much fun that Falk believes that “learning new things makes and occupy the “golfers’ widows,” the women left alcohol is forbidden amongst Muslims, coffee has Oktoberfest became an annual celebration, you happy and keeps your mind active.” The truth behind by husbands taking an entire afternoon always been the next best thing. In fact, the word yet it wasn’t until 1818 that beer halls were is most likely to be a mix of lifestyle and luck, and off to golf. In this way, Carter’s invention was kahve, from which we get our word coffee, means added to the live music and horse racing. any added stress you suffer worrying about how no different from the Ladies’ Putting Club at St. “wine of Arabia.” Today, coffee’s reach extends Then, in order to extend the celebration to live longer is bound to be counterproductive. Andrew’s in Scotland, the precursor to the well beyond the Middle East, and if you’re lucky, it and take advantage of better weather,

modern mini golf course. even reaches as far as your own kitchen counter. Oktoberfest was moved to September.