JANUARY MEETING: POT LUCK DINNER

SPECIAL TIME: 6:30 PM at the PHOENIX LODGE

Our annual Pot Luck dinner Night. All “active” members should bring an appetizer, a main dish or side dish (most members are categorized as active members). The Hostess committee will supply beverages and the desserts. You may bring your own wine, if desired. Associate, life, honorary or sustaining members are not required to supply food items.

Louise Sironi will have a Power Point Presentation about our Hanover traffic islands. After that, the Gipsy Committee will present many of the photos in a slide presentation, highlighting our members pictures. IF YOU TOOK PICTURES AT ANY GIPSY MEETING PLEASE SEND THE IMAGES TO ROSEMARY SAMPSON OR SANDRA WOODWARD ASAP.

CAPTAIN: Linda Oman

HOSTS/HOSTESSES: Gloria Brightbill, Doug Litchfield, Suzanne Mahoney, Eva McNutt, Mary Koch, and Susan Rogers.

Trygve Swift will present Tropical Treasures for the whole family. Trygve will introduce you to creatures of the rainforests. You will learn about the importance of tropical rainforests and some of the problems that these critical habitats face. Raffle is for the children.

DO NOT MISS THIS MEETING

-STARTS EARLIER FOR THE KIDS-

CAPTAIN: Libby Ritchie

HOSTS/HOSTESSES: Christine Hoadley, Alexa Lewis, Sarah McGillvray, Brian McGinn, Adrianne Rafferty, Kaela Marie Curtis, Laura McFarland, and Jennifer Clapp

  Eva McNutt & Joyce Brown                                    Gina Kmito                                            Suzanne Mahoney

      Karen Korszeniewski                                            Mary Koch                                 Teri Mallory & Lynn Chandler

1.      Application Pending

NOTE: There is only one more membership space available after this application.

We are now making an “ERRATA SHEET” to list typographical errors or omissions/errors found in the cookbook.

Please check any and all of your recipes for accuracy.

BRING YOUR CORRECTIONS TO THE JANUARY MEETING IF YOU HAVE NOT ALREADY SENT THEM TO LOUISE SIRONI.

·         Pg 78 Cranberry Coffee Cake: add to ingredients – 3 cups flour

·         Pg 143 Chicken Cordon Bleu- add to ingredients 3 (1 oz.) slices ham

·         Pg 213 Lu’s Brownies- corn oil, not cornmeal

·         Pg 270 Mrs. Smith’s Cookies- 2 cups flour, NOT ½ cup

·         Pg 302 Maui Mist Punch- 1 (12 oz.) can frozen lemonade, not 1/2 cup lemon juice, and 1 pkg. Frozen sliced strawberries

You can still make purchases. We ordered more easels due to their popularity.

NEXT MEETING PENDING- watch for your Gipsy email if you signed up to be on the Gipsy email group mailing. If you want to be notified of the next meeting be sure to ask to be included in that mailing. Click here to be added (ADD ME TO THE MAILING). List your name, email address, and phone number. Or, call Rosemary Sampson to be added to the list.

Remember to charge your battery and bring an extra too.

GIPSY TIP: Blur, Swirl, and Zoom Those Christmas Lights
Tired of the same old Christmas tree photos? Try something new by setting your camera to a slower shutter speed - anywhere from 1/2 second to 2 or 4 full seconds or put it on "landscape mode." Then purposefully move the camera while taking the picture. The result: A colorful and abstract blur of Christmas lights.

WHEN YOU SIGN UP FOR THIS GIPSY GROUP YOU ARE NOT OBLIGATED TO GO TO ANY MEETINGS. WE NEED A LIST OF INTERESTED MEMBERS TO USE FOR THE GROUP MAILING DATABASE. PLEASE SIGN-UP WITH ROSEMARY SAMPSON (<click her name) WITH YOUR NAME, EMAIL ADDRESS, TELEPHONE.

Helen Mischler, Michelle Hardy

Drew&  Kelly Ewanich; Emma & Luke Hardy; Taylor & Hannah Kirby; Bryanna & Devyn Koch; Alex McFarland; Hannah & Matthew Mischler; Julia & Andrea Murphy; Melanie Oliveira.

NEXT JUNIOR GARDENERS MEETING

If you are a committee chair and do not have the guideline form please contact Sandra Woodward.

Empty nylon net onion bags needed.

Baskets needed

Glenda Larson needs donations of your left over baskets for their May basket projects. She would especially appreciate baskets 10-12” across and about 4” deep, with liners. If you work, please ask your workplace if you can save the containers left over after flowers have passed. Glenda will take liners separately to match with baskets without liners. Please check your garage and basement to see if you can donate anything. This happens every year so always save them for Garden Therapy. They don’t have to be perfect, we can use “Glossy Woodtone Creative Spray” to perk them up and make them look new again.

Also, the “teapot” containers used at the banquet could be recycled for the Junior Gardeners. If you won one of the centerpieces and no longer want the container please donate it.

Suzanne Mahler still has plant stakes. Contact Suzanne directly.

WHGC has special bar coded envelopes and boxes to send out used cartridges and cell phones to be recycled properly. We receive funds for this at the same time as we save the environment. These are displayed with our fundraising items. Take as many as you want, pass them to your friends and co-workers.

January 24^th at the Phoenix Lodge.

A note to those who are not familiar with what your duties consist of. Each club member is responsible for serving once during the club year as a member of the hospitality committee for a general meeting. When it is your assigned month, it is your responsibility to actively participate by contributing refreshments (size of one recipe) and assisting the Captain of that month and his/her other committee members for the setting up and cleaning up after the meeting. If you are unable to participate at the meeting assigned to you, it is YOUR responsibility to switch places with another club member and to notify your captain and the captain of the other person of the switch.

The same applies to at least one COMMITTEE.

GCFM- WALLACK LECTURE

The tickets have just come out for the famous Ruth Wallack fundraiser for GCFM scholarships. This “Dutch Treat” design lecture is by Els Teunissen, International Dutch designer.

Wallack events are usually every other year but we will be having a consecutive one this year. This event is a must see! If you intend to go please tell Suzanne Fox so we can set up carpools. Although it is in May, they sell out the 2,000 seats quickly so see Marie Sisk for tickets.

COST:  $15.00 before 2/1

DATE:   May 17 (Wednesday)

TIME:   1:00PM (please note time change from usual morning hour)

LOCATION: REGIS COLLEGE

January 24^th- Designing Principles, Espousal Center, Waltham. Snow date 25^th.

January 26-29- Flora in Winter, Tower Hill & Worcester Art Museum

LANDSCAPE VISIONS LECTURE SERIES AT THE ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM

January 21-- The Gardens of Islam: Mirrors of Paradise

February 15-- In Search of Fairy-Isle Fantasies: The Gardens of Meiji Period Japan

March 1-- Bedding Out in Paris & London: William Robinson as Catalyst for Horticultural Change

March 15-- Finding an Ottoman Garden

March 29-- The Gardens of the Italian Renaissance; Humanism and Rebirth

April 19-- Change, Continuity, and Civic Ambition in the Cultural Landscape

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