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500 Warner Robins St. • Robins AFB, GA 31098 Phone: (478) 225-9374 • Fax: (478) 225-9367 • www.robinsiifamilyhousing.com Good Works • Prizes! May 2011 Get involved in this month’s Contact Major Wade Cornelius: causes: (478) 222-3470 - Commercial Military Appreciation Month. This (478) 954-4892 - Cell month, take a moment to honor 472-3470 - DSN members of the U.S. military and Rain Date: Friday, June 3 recognize their sacrifices for our country. To find ways to help the Memorial Day Remembrance soldiers and their families, visit On Memorial Day, we honor the www.NMAM.org. men and women who have sacrificed “Stamp Out Hunger” Food Drive their lives for our country. We want to Your Friendly Staff (May 14). Mail carriers across the take this opportunity to recognize all Daniel Queen Community Director United States will be collecting our residents and their family Charles Arnold Maintenance Director nonperishable food items to be members and friends who are serving Jennifer Andersen Leasing Agent delivered to food pantries in all 50 or have served our country, both at Bess Cain Leasing Agent states. Details: www.NALC.org. home and abroad. So that our staff Rick Nall Asst. Maintenance Director can observe the holiday with friends Carl Burriss Maintenance Tech 2011 Robins AFB WR-ALC/CC and family, our office will be closed on Richie Mills Make Ready Tech Golf Tournament the holiday. Happy Memorial Day! Friday, May 20, 2011; Shotgun Office Hours Start at 8 A.M. Monday–Friday 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. 4-Person Team, Scramble Format Saturday and Sunday Closed Net & Gross Divisions Event Package • Golf Cart • Green Fee • Range Balls • Breakfast & Lunch • Beverages (on the course) Happy Mother’s Day! we wish all the moms who call our Honoring Nurses “A mother’s love for her child is like community home a very The important role of nurses in health nothing else in the world.”—Agatha happyMother’s Day! care is recognized during National Christie Nurses Week, beginning May 6. The Mother’s Day is set aside to honor annual celebration ends May 12, the and celebrate mothers, grandmothers birthday of Florence Nightingale, and mothers-to-be. Shower the founder of the modern nursing special women in your life with love, profession. hugs and maybe a card or a beautiful bouquet! From all of us in the office, Happy May Day daisies, hibiscuses and orchids. May Day, May 1, is a festive Vegetables. Leaf lettuces, spinach occasion to mark the peak of spring, and kale are easy to raise from seeds and many cultures celebrate with in a small window box. Root music and dancing. In some nations, vegetables such as radishes and May Day coincides with International small varieties of carrots and beets Workers’ Day, a day similar to our are container candidates, too. With Labor Day holiday. Here’s a bouquet adequate light, cherry tomatoes can of facts about May Day: yield a good harvest indoors. Select a Maypoles. Many historians believe high-quality potting soil, and don’t let it the tall wooden maypole is rooted in Dig Into Indoor Gardening dry out. German pagan traditions. The pole Think you need a plot of land to be Fruit. Indoor fruit trees need six to was thought to symbolize reverence a gardener? If you have a sunny spot eight hours of sunlight a day. Weekly for sacred trees. Maypoles typically in your home, you can enjoy fresh watering should suffice, but check the were trees cut from the forest and flowers, vegetables, fruits and herbs soil often to make sure it stays stripped of their branches. Colorful without ever touching a tiller. Start moderately moist. Reliable indoor fruit ribbons were attached to the tops, and plants from seeds, or purchase trees include Meyer lemon, key lime children would grab the streamers and seedlings from a nursery. and dwarf banana. dance in a circle. The winding of Flowers. Blooming blossoms need Herbs. These low-maintenance ribbons around the poles was a ritual lots of light, so you may need to plants are pretty and practical. Keep a aimed to help nature regain its supplement the sunlight with a few small pots near a kitchen window, balance after a long, harsh winter. fluorescent plant light, available at and fresh basil, chives, rosemary, May queens. In some European nurseries. Flowers that can thrive thyme and other seasonings will be villages, a May queen was selected indoors include zinnias, gerbera just a snip away. from among the young women of the community to preside over May Day festivities. May queens were crowned How to Get Just What politely ask for it again. Quickly scan on flower-covered thrones and drawn You Ordered the table to see if your friends need through town in decorated carts. A dinner out with friends could be refills, napkins or other items so you Some May queens wore white gowns ruined by incorrect food preparation, a can mention it when you have your to symbolize purity. meal mix-up or inattentive service. server’s attention. Morris dancing. Traditional May Knowing how to handle sticky Even if you’re OK with eating food Day celebrations in England include situations can turn a dud of a dinner that wasn’t prepared exactly as you morris dancing, where a dance troupe date into a knockout night on the expected, you should still let the steps rhythmically and forms town. Here’s how to get the most out server know your order wasn’t correct choreographed figures. Dancers often of your meal: so he can tell the kitchen. Restaurants carry sticks or handkerchiefs and wear Speak up. If the food isn’t up to need feedback on what they’re bells in a display of movement your expectations, tell your server serving, since keeping customers and music. politely. Specify exactly what is wrong: happy will keep them in business. And It’s overcooked, it’s too salty, or it’s don’t be shy about mentioning if your Lost in America? not what you ordered. Don’t be afraid food or service is superb—everyone Europeans still celebrate May Day, to send your order back if it loves a compliment. but in the United States, even the is incorrect. tradition of surprising neighbors with a Mind your manners. The server will May basket of flowers seems to be not be offended by your complaint as slipping away. The early English long as you remain polite. You can be settlers frowned upon May Day assertive without being rude. celebrations, so the holiday never Offer reminders. If you asked for became as popular in the U.S. as it something and didn’t receive it, stop was in their mother country. your server when you see him and Wit & Wisdom “People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.” —Iris Murdoch Mystical, Magical Full Wheat Berry Tuna Salad Ingredients: Moon Names “Flowers are restful to look at. They • 1 cup wheat berries The next time you gaze longingly have neither emotions nor conflicts.” • 4 cups water at the perfect wonder of the moon, —Sigmund Freud appreciate your cosmic connection to • 1/2 teaspoon salt • 1 cup cherry tomatoes, diced people of ancient cultures who did “If your heart is a volcano, how shall • 1/2 cup celery, diced more than stare in wonder—they gave you expect flowers to bloom?” • 1/2 cup cucumber, diced meaningful names to each month’s —Kahlil Gibran full moon. • 2 cans Albacore tuna packed in water, drained North American moon names “It’s so nice to get flowers while you • 2 eggs, hard-boiled, chopped come mainly from Native American can still smell the fragrance.” (optional) Algonquin tribes whose settlements —Lena Horne ranged from New England to Lake • 2 tablespoons flat-leaf parsley, coarsely chopped Superior. Although full moon names “A cynic is a man who, • 1/2 cup Italian dressing can vary, here’s one version of how when he smells flowers, looks • 1/8 teaspoon salt the Algonquin people saw it: around for a coffin.” • 1/8 teaspoon fresh ground January: Wolf Moon—named for —H.L. Mencken hungry packs that howl at night. pepper Directions: February: Snow Moon—for “Weeds are flowers too, Place wheat berries, water and massive winter storms. once you get to know them.” 1/2 teaspoon of salt in a sauce pan March: Worm Moon—when —A.A. Milne earthworms and robins reappear, and simmer for 60 to 90 minutes or until tender when you bite down on heralding spring. “Big doesn’t necessarily mean better. them. Drain well and allow to cool. In April: Pink Moon—for widespread Sunflowers aren’t better than violets.” a large bowl, toss wheat berries phlox flowers. —Edna Ferber May: Flower Moon—for spring’s together with the remaining ingredients. Serve chilled. proliferation of blooms. “Where flowers bloom, so does hope.” For more recipes, visit June: Strawberry Moon—for the —Lady Bird Johnson berry’s peak season. www.WheatFoods.org. July: Buck Moon—when bucks “Flowers leave some of their fragrance that have shed their antlers sprout soft in the hand that bestows them.” and velvety new growth. —Chinese proverb August: Sturgeon Moon—for the late summer abundance of this fish. “I named all my children September: Harvest Moon—for after flowers. There’s Lillie and Rose staple crops of corn, pumpkins, and my son, Artificial.” squash and beans. —Bert Williams October: Hunter’s Moon—prime Wheat Berry 101 season for deer, fox and other game.