An Escape from the Noise

Have you ever woken up in the middle of the night and realized how quiet it is? Or fled the city, suburbs, or farm and ranch and headed to a place outdoors where the only sounds competing for your attention came from nature?

In today’s world there are so many interferences that fight for our attention that it’s hard to carve out time to unplug from all the noise our busy lives and world create. Yet is in silences sometimes that we can truly enjoy our surroundings, nature’s beauty, and ourselves.

With each edition of the Farmers’ Almanac we publish, we offer you a natural escape from life’s noisy world. Within its pages you will always find our long-range weather predictions, valuable gardening and fishing calendars, helpful hints, and astronomical data, but you will also find articles that discuss ways to live in harmony with ourselves, our neighbors, and our natural surroundings.

If you haven’t ordered your copy of the 2008 Almanac yet, you really should. In addition to the weather, we have great tips and articles and trivia…for example:

• Hate the smell of bleach on your hands? Try pouring a little vinegar or a little lemon juice on your hands, then rinse. Bleach is alkaline, vinegar and lemon juice are acid, so they cancel each other out and balance the pH of your skin.
• What state’s flag has a bald eagle, a moose, and an elk? (Michigan)
• Did you know that a jackrabbit can leap as far as 15 feet in one leap!
• Or that in addition to potassium a banana contains a good amount of vitamin C?
• Corn on the Cob Trick. Buttering corn on the cob can be tricky for small kids. Next time you have corn, butter a piece of bread and have the child wrap the bread around the ear of corn and turn the corn until all sides are buttered.
• Best day to fish? A complete year’s worth of best fishing times is in this year’s Almanac.

And now thanks to a group of very talented professionals in Savannah, we’re also able to offer you TV and video that’s so much more than some of the “noise” that’s on the stations right now. If you haven’t had a chance to check out Farmers’ Almanac TV, check it out here and then find out what channel it’s playing on near you. And if it’s not playing by you, write to your local Public Television stations and let them know that this is the kind of show you’d like to watch.

Yes, the Farmers’ Almanac has weather, but it also has so much more. I hope you pick up a copy today.