Grays River Grange #124

Grange Songbook II: Maid

Maid is the designation for the lady in the 1st Degree. Laborer is for a man. The Grange song "Maid" (by James L. Orr) is performed by the Spencer Grange Singers.

Maid

 

(For more music, click the link -Music- on the left.) Click image for larger view.

Building Committee Meeting

There will be a building committee meeting Tuesday at 6:45pm - prior to the regular Grange meeting.

A SEEDY CHARACTER #3: Triploid Apple Cultivars

You are probably aware of the fact that some apple cultivars are triploid (see explanation below) but what does it really mean and how does it affect apple cultivation? Triploid apple cultivars do not produce acceptable fruit, and sometimes no fruit at all, when planted alone because they cannot produce fertile pollen (see explanation below under triploid). Pollination is required for fruit development in most plants and pollen load (the amount of pollen transferred) is also often important. So do not buy them if you plan on having only one apple tree unless you have a neighbor or neighbors nearby that grow apple trees or you also plant one or two diploid pollinator apples. The fruits of triploid apples tend to be large, but there are also a number of diploid apples that genetically produce large fruit such as Wolf River (2n). There are over 160 cultivars of triploid apples, here are a few:

HYDROLOGIC OUTLOOK

HYDROLOGIC OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORTLAND OR
1251 PM PDT TUE MAY 17 2011

...HIGH FLOWS ON THE COLUMBIA RIVER DOWNSTREAM OF BONNEVILLE DAM
THIS WEEK...

HEAVY RAINS AND SNOW MELT THROUGHOUT LARGE PORTIONS OF WASHINGTON
AND OREGON DURING THE PAST SEVERAL DAYS ARE LEADING TO INCREASING
WATER FLOWS ALONG THE COLUMBIA RIVER DOWNSTREAM OF BONNEVILLE DAM
THIS WEEK.

CURRENT RIVER FORECASTS FOR THE COLUMBIA RIVER NEAR LONGVIEW
INDICATE THAT RIVER LEVELS WILL EXCEED BANKFULL LEVELS DURING THE
HIGH TIDE CYCLE THROUGH AT LEAST THURSDAY...BUT STAY BELOW FLOOD
STAGE. FLOOD STAGE AT THE LONGVIEW GAGE IS 13.5 FEET...BANKFULL IS
12.0 FEET. THE COLUMBIA RIVER MAY REACH JUST OVER 13 FEET DURING
THE HIGH TIDES AROUND 7 AM ON WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY.

THE GAGE NEAR THE INTERSTATE 5 BRIDGE IN VANCOUVER IS FORECAST TO
GET CLOSE TO 15.5 FEET DURING THE HIGH TIDES AROUND 7 AM THROUGH
AT LEAST THURSDAY. FLOOD STAGE AT THE GAGE AT VANCOUVER IS 16
FEET.

THESE ARE HIGHER THAN NORMAL SPRING TIME RIVER FLOWS FOR THE LOWER
COLUMBIA. THESE TYPE OF FLOWS WILL LIKELY INUNDATE SOME NORMALLY
DRY LOW LYING AREAS...INCLUDING AREAS USED FOR CAMPING SUCH AS ON
GOVERNMENT ISLAND. NOW WOULD BE THE TIME TO TAKE ANY MITIGATING
ACTIONS SHOULD THESE TYPES OF FLOWS CAUSE ANY PROBLEMS TO LOW
LYING PROPERTIES.

$$

FOR ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION...VISIT OUR WEB SITE AT
WWW.WEATHER.GOV/PORTLAND

 

A SEEDY CHARACTER #2: Scarlet Runner Beans

Scarlet runner beans and the various related cultivars, in addition to being great ornamentals and hummingbird flowers, are one of the tastiest green beans out there. Just pick them as the pods just begin to swell or soon thereafter for best flavor and tenderness.They are also a delicious nutty-flavored dry bean, and cook up to be quite large to make an interesting bean dish - chili with giant beans for example.

The interesting botanical fact is that scarlet runner beans and the related cultivars are all members of a perennial bean species, Phasolus coccineus ('coccineus' refers to red) (Most commonly cultivared beans are cultivars of Phasiolus vulgaris.) Since they are perennials, this means that they can be kept alive over winter and this allows you to get a a real headstart on bean growing the next year as they re-establish rather quickly (they don't have to go through seed germination and seedling growth process).

Spring Shearing

Homegrown fiber in Western Wahkiakum County. These are Pygora and Angora goats.

Grange Meeting Tuesday - May 10th.

Regular Grange meeting at 7:30

Grange Songbook: Sifting

Our Grange sister Cora Irving is sharing a cassette tape titled MUSIC FOR THE GRANGE: Spencer Grange Singers / Spencer NY. 

We did a word search and little can be found about the Spencer Grange at this time. The tape looks 1970's era. It plays great and was digitized.

The Spencer Grange Singers perform music for Grange rituals found in the Grange songbook. Offered here is "Sifting", a song used for the Exemplification of the Second Degree.

Enjoy! (For more free music, click the link MUSIC on the left)

Image - Dudley W. Adams, Second Master of the National Grange.

Sifting

Sifting (For Second Degree)

Words - Mrs. R.W. Hinkley          Music - James L. Orr

Sift well the seed that you may sow, Sift clean-ly as you may, Sift out the bad and save the good, To scatter by the way; Sift all the books you chance to read, Sift thoroughly and well,And at the fi-nal summing up, This sifting work will tell.

Sift out fair vir-tue, love and truth, From envy, hate and strife, Write deeds of love and char-i-ty, On each fair page of life; Sift to the right, Sift to the left, Sift back-ward, too as well, Sift up and down and for-ward sift, And make your Sift-ing tell.

Sift ev-'ry word and act of yours, Sift ev-'ry thing complete, Sift all the dirt and chaff a-way, And save the sol-id wheat; Sift out the gold, re-fined and pure, From dross to sor-did pelf, And while you're sift-ing don't for-get, To always sift your-self