Daily Factoid

How To Find Your Perfect Mate

Wash a handkerchief tonight and hang it over a rosebush. In the morning, after it has dried, the initials of your true love will appear in the wrinkles.

- The Old Farmer's Everyday Almanac Calendar; Tue 30 Apr 2013

Daily Inspiration

The path of duty lies in what is near, and men seek for it in what is remote.

- Mencius

Wisdom of The East daily calendar; Tue 30 Apr 2013 

 

We suffer because we come in contact with so many things that are not in harmony with our real nature.

- Paramananda

Wisdom of The East daily calendar; Tue 16 Apr 2013

Daily Factoid

Color Coordinated

The state cat of Maryland isthe calico. Its orange, black, and white coat shares the same colors as the state bird (Baltimore oriole) and state insect (Baltimore checkerspot butterfly).

- The Old Farmer's Everyday Almanac Calendar; Sat/Sun 27/28 Apr 2013 

Do not forget the family garden. Vegtables aid very much in maintaining the health, happiness, and well-being of the family and materially reduce the cost of supplying the family table.

- The Old Farmer's Almanac, 1916

- The Old Farmer's Everyday Almanac Calendar; Mon 29 Apr 2013

Daily Inspiration

To forget one's ancestors is to be a brook without a source, a tree without a root.

- Chinese Proverb

Wisdom of The East daily calendar; Mon 29 Apr 2013 

The good I meet with goodness, the bad I also meet with goodness. For virtue is goodness throughout.

- Lao-Tzu

Wisdom of The East daily calendar; Mon 15 Apr 2013

Daily Inspiration

Self-realization is nothing but seeing God literally.

- Ramana Maharishi

Wisdom of The East daily calendar; Sat/Sun 27/28 Apr 2013

I am imperfect and want to be perfect - this alone is the starting pont of my nonviolence.

- Acharya Mahaprajna

Wisdom of The East daily calendar; Sat/Sun 13/14 Apr 2013

Daily Factoid

When the peacock loudly bawls, 

Soon we'll have both rain and squalls.

- The Old Farmer's Everyday Almanac Calendar; Thu 25 Apr 2013

The Meanings of Trees

Beech . . . . . prosperity

Elder . . . . compassion

Hawthorn . . . . . . hope

Oak . . . . . . hospitality

Sycamore . . . curiosity

- The Old Farmer's Everyday Almanac Calendar; Fri 26 Apr 2013

Daily Factoid

Only believe half of what you hear. Then get it in writing.

- The Old Farmer's Everyday Almanac Calendar; Tue 23 Apr 2013

Founding Father

On This Day in 1766, Robert B. Thomas was born in Grafton, Massachusetts. The first of 13 editors of The Old Farmer's Almanac, he published 54 editions before he died in 1846, while reading page proofs fro the 1847 Almanac.

- The Old Farmer's Everyday Almanac Calendar; Fri 5 Apr 2013

Daily Inspiration

No one is wise by birth, for wisdom results from one own's efforts.

- Krishnamacharya

Wisdom of The East daily calendar; Fri 26 Apr 2013

Whoever interrupts the conversation of others to make a display of his fund of knowledge, makes notorious his own stock of ignorance.

- Sa'di

Wisdom of The East daily calendar; Fri 12 Apr 2013

Daily Factoid

Do You Know Your Queens?

Match each queen with the fact about her.

1) Queen Elizabeth I

2) Queen Elizabeth II

3) Queen of the West

4) Queen Hippolyta

a)  born on April 21

b) Wonder Woman's mother

c) Daughter of Anne Boleyn

d) Dale Evans

Answer (highlight with mouse): 1-c; 2-a; 3-d; 4-b

- The Old Farmer's Everyday Almanac Calendar; Sat/Sun 20/21 Apr 2013

Hot Spot

Place dark stones around (but no touching) the base of heat-loving plants. The rocks will absorb heat from the sun and transmit it to the surrounding area.

- The Old Farmer's Everyday Almanac Calendar; Fri 5 Apr 2013

Daily Inspiration

Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and sorrow come and go like the wind. To be happy, rest like a giant tree, in the midst of them all.

- Buddha

Wisdom of The East daily calendar; Thu 25 Apr 2013

Death is extraordinarily like life, when we know how to live. You cannot live without dying. You cannot live if you do not die psychologically every minute.

- Krishnamurti

Wisdom of The East daily calendar; Thu 11 Apr 2013