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Hello!
I hope you have been able to enjoy the wonderful fall color during the sunny days that have punctuated our periods of rain and gray. Don’t you wish you could engrave those colors in your memory forever!
Our November issue of Greater Fort Wayne Family is now online at fwfamily.com.
Online you can read every word that is in print, plus see so much more — video, blogs, links to advertisers, past articles and more. But if you prefer to read in print, you can pick up a copy at one of several hundred area locations!
Here is a wonderful craft idea from the National Wildlife Federation. Creating this bird feeder uses free and/or inexpensive materials and also helps birds, which add so much joy to our life. For more great teachable moment ideas visit nwf.org and before5.org
BIRD FEEDER (you can see a picture of the bird feeder at fwfamily.com where this newsletter is posted)
1. For the main entrance to the feeder: Draw and cut out a large circle (about 2 1/2 inches wide) a few inches up from the bottom of an empty, clean gallon milk jug.
2. For the perch: Make a small twig-sized hole just below the large one, either with a nail or a hole punch. (See step 5 for adding the perch.)
3. Brush green acrylic paint on the outside of the jug and let it dry. Using any clear-drying craft glue, glue leaves onto the outside of the jug.
3. Hanger: Punch a hole through both sides of the top just below the cap and slip a wire through it.
4. Roof and final touches: Glue about a dozen or so five-inch twigs to each side of the jug’s top, as shown.
5. Poke another, thicker twig into the perch hole.
6. Glue on stones, pinecones, pine needles, more twigs, or any other decorations you like. Paint over the leaves with clear non-toxic craft glaze or finish.
7. Add birdseed and hang your feeder from a tree branch. (Be sure to put it where you can easily refill it.)
Now sit back and wait for the birds to discover the newest diner in town!
—Michele Reyzer
HUMOR HELPS
Each issue has “Humor Helps” stories contributed by people like you! Here is one from the Kidwarmers column I write. More great stories from people like YOU are at kidwarmers.com and fwfamily.com.
If you have a story to share please simply reply to this e-mail — thank you in advance!
Lark Amelia is 2 and 1/2, a very active little charmer, and she definitely has her own ideas about how things should be. Her brother, Koen, is 5. Lark and Koen were spending the night with Nanna and PawPaw, when a fairly loud disagreement was heard from the next room. Lark marched into the kitchen and very seriously announced, “Koen is talking back to me!” — Dennis Smith Dylan, Dalton, Koen and Lark’s PawPaw of North Carolina
FALL RECIPE FROM THE AMISH COOK
HONEY BARS
Makes 2 dozen bars
1 cup sugar
2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
1 egg, lightly beaten
3/4 cup vegetable oil
1/4 cup honey
1 cup walnuts nuts, chopped
Preheat oven to 350. In a large mixing bowl, stir sugar, flour, baking soda and cinnamon until evenly mixed. Then add in the egg, vegetable oil, honey, and nuts. Stir until mixture is smooth. Spoon into ungreased jelly roll pan or 9 x 13 pan. Bake 20 minutes or until toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Spread glaze on cake while it is still warm.
GLAZE:
1 cup powdered sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 tablespoon water
2 tablespoons mayonnaise
In a small bowl, stir sugar, vanilla, water, and mayonnaise until smooth and creamy. Spread onto honey bars.
THANK YOU
Thank you for reading this newsletter. Please forward it to friends who might enjoy it. And thank you to the “Friends of the Family” — the advertisers whose links you see below. Their support keeps FW Family free.
Enjoy your family!
Grace Housholder
editor
FRIENDS OF THE FAMILY
American Countryside Farmer’s Market
Caring About People
Clubz In-Home Tutoring Services
Dekko Foundation
Embassy Theatre
Holiday Gift Show
Indiana State Department of Health
Philip M. McKean, D.D.S.
Once Upon a Child
Parkview Health
Patterson Family Dentistry
Shelter Insurance
WBCL
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