For Friday, May 27th, 2011

ON THE BRIGHT SIDE

MAY 27TH, 2011

If you can't see the bright side of life, polish the dull side

It's FRIDAY!

Sunscreen Protection Day!

Sun Screen Day educates and brings awareness to the importance of using sunscreens to protect yourself and your children from harmful UV rays from the sun. This day is held on May 27th, just in advance of the summer and vacation season.

Ultraviolet rays from the sun is a serious risk to your health. With the steady depletion of the ozone layer above the earth, more and stronger UV rays get through. Overexposure to the sun can cause a number of health problems. It can cause skin cancer, and sunspots. It can also result in premature aging of your skin.

Doctors and medical professionals advocate the use of sunscreens to guard against health problems. They recommend an Skin Protection factor(SPF) of 15 or more. Sunscreens should be used for all outdoor activities, including swimming. And yes, sun screens should be used on cloudy days. UV rays can penetrate through the clouds.

Now get out and celebrate Sun Screen Day in the sun...with your sun screen protection!

The best six doctors anywhere
And no one can deny it
Are sunshine, water, rest, and air
Exercise and diet.
These six will gladly you attend
If only you are willing
Your mind they'll ease
Your will they'll mend
And charge you not a shilling.

Nursery rhyme

NEW IN THE KITCHEN

National Grape Popsicle Day

Ah...the grape popsicle. A childhood favorite that left your lips and tongue the telltale shade of the treat you just consumed. Why not make some homemade popsicles for this fun holiday?

Fruit Juice Pops

1 envelope unflavored gelatin
1/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup water
3 cups fruit juice -- apple, grape, pineapple, orange, fruit punch or cranberry
6, 5 oz size, paper cups

In large bowl, combine gelatin and sugar. Heat juice to boiling; stir into gelatin mixture until completely dissolved. Add water.

Pour about 1/3 cup fruit juice mixture into each of paper cup; freeze until partially set, about 1 hour.

Insert 1 flat wooden ice cream stick into center of each of the partially frozen pops. Freeze until firm. To serve, peel paper cups from around pops

PRAYER FOR OUR TROOPS

Please pray for God's protection of

our troops and HIS wisdom for their

commanders.

Lord, hold our troops in

your loving hands.

Protect them as they protect us.

Bless them and their families for the

selfless acts they perform for us

in our time of need. I ask this in the

name of Jesus, our Lord and Savior.

AND bless our Police Officers, Firefighters

and Paramedics and EMT's

GOD BLESS YOU ALL!

AROUND HOME

The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

With all the rain we are having, I am appreciating and being thankful for the sunshine when we have it! Not only are we being deluged by rain, we have had some severe storms and flooding due to the storms too. Mr. Sunshine is everyones' hero at this point.

People are getting grouchy with all the rain. We had a long cold winter and now a long wet Spring. That makes for a great many days that we have to try and make our own sunshine for sure. Keep smiling everyone...it may be the only sunshine some people may see today!

COUNTING THE DAYS

I'm not a doctor and I don't know the technical terminology, but I do know that sunshine activates our happiness glands.

Jessi Lane Adams

26 DAYS UNTIL SUMMER!

Keep looking ON THE BRIGHT SIDE of things.

A little smile, a word of cheer,
A bit of love from someone near…

Love,

ma