High Mesa Happenings

Earth Day Picnic

Thanks to Keep Ruidoso Beautiful, the Village of Ruidoso, and wonderful volunteers, the Earth Day Picnic is on!!! Bring your picnic supplies, friends and neighbors and join this free event geared towards strengthening our community and promoting stewardship and social responsibility. There will be music, entertainers, geocaching, games, prizes and surprises. Don't forget to bring your old clothes to exchange for new (used) ones at the clothing swap booth. It should be a blast so don't miss it. Volunteers still needed :>

Please help us get the word out on this wonderful event by taking a few minutes to see this exciting commercial created by the talented Phillip D. Collins using footage from last year's event.  This is a great way to get a visual of what fun we're going to have.  Please share with others!
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWzLW1Xsah4
 
Thanks for the support.  Hope to see you there! Sunday April 17 at Wingfield Park from noon-5pm for a picnic/potluck.  If you have ideas to make it better, please call Andrea Reed at 937-2725.

Super Brain Yoga

Sometimes, people walk back into our lives. Sometimes, things resurface after a while. Why now? is a question to be answered by ourselves. The video below popped-up in the HMHC mailbox; so, my answer to why now ? is to post it here on the blog.  

The energy principles working behind SuperBrain Yoga were known long time ago, especially in Oriental and Energy Medicine. Practitioners of Energy Healing have used these techniques for years.

I have asked Barbara to share her point of view. She says:

"I think that SuperBrain Yoga has great promise for anyone. It is so easy and simple and it can increase your intelligence ; an exercise to get smart well worth the effort and I am certainly willing to give it a go.

Blessings,

Barbara"

If you have not heard of SuperBrain Yoga, there is this video;

 

And then, there is the website  SuperBrain Yoga  who presents the book of the same name by Master Choa Kok Sui. You'll find also the link  About SuperBrain Yoga which explains origins, studies and benefits of practicing Pranic healing.

For fun, play Speed Match  offered by Luminosity.com , where a membership provides opportunities to train all the functions of the brain, a place to find tips and studies on the brain.

Posted by Nadette

They Used to What ?!!

Cindy W., a long time friend of HMHC sent this interesting and entertaining piece. Thanks Cindy for this edifying talk into the past!

They used to use urine to tan animal skins , so families used to all pee in a pot and then once a day it was taken and sold to the tannery. If you had to do this to survive you were Piss Poor.
But worse than that were the really poor folk who couldn't even afford to buy a pot.They didn't have a pot to piss in and were the lowest of the low.

Here are some facts about the 1500s:

Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May, and they still smelled pretty good by June. However, since they were starting to smell, brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odor. Hence the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting married.

Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the house had the privilege of the nice clean water , then all the other sons and men, then the women and finally the children. Last of all, the babies. By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it. Hence the saying: don't throw the baby out with the Bath water!

Houses had thatched roofs-thick straw-piled high, with no wood underneath. It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the cats and other small animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof. When it rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof. Hence the saying: it's raining cats and dogs.

There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house. This posed a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings could mess up your nice clean bed. Hence, a bed with big posts and a sheet hung over the top afforded some protection. That's how canopy beds came into existence.

The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt. Hence the saying: dirt poor. The wealthy had slate floors that would get slippery in the winter when wet, so they spread thresh (straw) on floor to help keep their footing. As the winter wore on, they added more thresh until, when you opened the door, it would all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was placed in the entrance-way. Hence: a thresh hold.

Getting quite an education , aren't you?

Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special. When visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off. It was a sign of wealth that a man could , bring home the bacon. They would cut off a little to share with guests and would all sit around and chew the fat.

Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with high acid content caused some of the lead to leach onto the food , causing lead poisoning death. This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400 years or so, tomatoes were considered poisonous.

Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of the loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or the upper crust.

England is old and small and the local folks started running out of places to bury people. So they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a bone-house, and reuse the grave. When reopening these coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized they had been burying people alive. So they would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the graveyard shift) to listen for the bell; thus, someone could be, saved by the bell or was considered a dead ringer.

And that's the truth. Now , whoever said History was boring ! ! !

Kids and Nature

Summer is here. Kids are home or grandchildren come and visit. 

There is now a new condition affecting our youth, and along a label for it: Nature Deficient Disorder. Click the link to find a NPR report and a book about this ailment.

Then, Nature lovers ! do with kids what you love to do yourself: go to a water park, go camping, find your favorite outdoor spot to read them nature and animal stories, draw and invent with them new flowers, animals, trees, places, etc. Just about anything that will inspire budding botanists!

And never mind that special bond and awe you inspire!

For more tips, visit The Green Life

Find fun printable Earth Coloring Pictures and Reading Activities at Love our Earth.

Written and Posted by NWH

Panthea's Create-a-Goddess

This is fun! Sent to HMHC by Cindy W.   Thank you!

 

What You Can Do

Not only can you play around and mix and match pretty textile-type patterns, but you can accessorize to your heart's content. Make yourself as Goddess and save the image to put on your blog or website. Or create your very own, brand-new Goddess. Give her a name and story then share it with the world.

Click Goddess Dolls to do so.

I did. Voila!

 

Posted by NWH