photo credit StuSeeger
Batter Up!
According to Hughesville Baseball Association, registration for t-ball, baseball and softball starts this Saturday January 17, 2009:
From the Hughesville Baseball Association Website:
GET READY FOR BASEBALL...
Registration for the spring 2009 baseball season will be held at the Hughesville Firehouse and Mechanicsville Firehouse according to the schedule below. The registration form can be completed and printed online. Click here to open the registration form.
Complete the registration form, print and bring it with you to one of the registration dates. Be sure to bring the form with you to the registration, along with your proof or residence and child's birth certificate. Check here often for up to date information prior to the scheduled registration date.
There will be two registration dates at the Hughesville Firehouse:
Saturday, January 17 from 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Wednesday, January 21 from 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
There will be two registration dates at the Mechanicsville Firehouse:
Saturday, January 24 from 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Wednesday, January 28 from 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Registration Donations:
T-Ball $75 per player
Baseball $85 per player
Maximum per family $160
Registration Notes:
1. For late registration, if teams are full, players registering during one of the regular registration dates will receive placement first. Late registrations unable to be placed on a team will receive a full refund.
2. This year, Senior League Softball will not start until mid –May to give High School time to finish, and Big League will start in June, however, all players should still register during one of the dates above.
Here Comes Santa Claus
Santa's coming and his elves have finished the schedule. Santa will arrive with a parade of fire trucks and ambulances at the locations listed below between the hours of 6:30pm and 9:00pm each night. Santa wants everyone to have a safe and enjoyable holiday season. Parents are reminded that it will be dark outside and difficult for Santa and his helpers to see everyone clearly. Please hold the children tight until the fire trucks stop moving.
Santa also wants to tell everyone that he can not get to every street because of the size of the fire trucks. Santa's elves have tried to identify streets that Santa can turn around on. GROUP MEETING PLACES have been established for those children that do not live in or near a subdivision and will be Santa's first stop. Have a great holiday and we'll see you soon!
NOTE: Santa runs will be cancelled due to weather and emergencies without notice.
SATURDAY DECEMBER 6
VILLAGE CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTING 4-6PM
(Corner of Old Leonardtown Rd & Prince Frederick Rd.)
STARTING AT 6:30PM
Hughesville Manor
Deborah Drive
Denise Lane
Westchester Drive
Langley Court
Scout Camp Road (to Juliette Low)
Oak Glen Drive
Oak Glen Circle
Wood Glen Drive
Juliette Low Lane
Homeland Drive
Merri A Lee Way
SUNDAY DECEMBER 7
HUGHESVILLE INDUSTRIAL PARK
Patuxent Woods Lane
Harvest Ridge Lane
Swanson Creek Subdivision
Ivy Hill Court
Carriage Crossing
MONDAY DECEMBER 8
James Lee Drive
Lake Jameson Subdivision
Cracklingtown Road
Beverly Drive
Randall Drive
Cindy Lane
Sandy Level
Bryantown Estates (Bittersweet Dr)
Paternoster Lane
Stiles Place
TUESDAY DECEMBER 9
Oaks Road
Poplar Street
Ash Drive
Arborview Subdivision
Tall Oaks Place
Kent Drive
Traleigh lane
Independence Village
Carrico Mill Lane
Bell Ridge Court
Cameron Ridge Road
Serenity Woods
WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 10
BRYANTOWN STORE
Langley Road
Bryantown Hills
Bryantown Drive
East Court
Sunnyside Drive
Huckleberry Drive
Finn Court
Huckleberry Court
FRIDAY DECEMBER 12
GILBERT RUN PARK
Chambord Court
Dents Lane
Old Home Place Drive
Paps Parkway
Rupert Drive
Elizabeth Lane
Amberleigh Lane
Crescent Run Street
SUNDAY DECEMBER 14
BRYANTOWN SPORTS COMPLEX
Maguire Place
Bryan Meadows Lane
Ogrady Place
Clayton Road
Clayton Court
Woodmount Lane
Green Springs Street
Gallant Lane
Bassford Road
Woodridge Drive
Racoon Run Court
Robbers Roost Court
Eagle Ridge
MONDAY DECEMBER 15
Truman Manor Lane
Stowe Lane
Woodgate Place
Truman Manor Place
Truman Manor Lane
Celestial Lane
Plumage Lane
Burreed Court
Young Road
Hens Rest Lane
Spikerush Court
Flatbill Court
Sorrel Ridge Lane
Christy Lane
Greenwood Lane
Prescott Court
Humbolt Court
Collins Court
Lockwood Place
Hunters Harbor Lane
Stillwater Lane
TUESDAY DECEMBER 16
Creekside Drive
Ridgeway Drive
Meandering Drive
Hilltop Drive
Wilkerson Road
Sarah Court
Ladysmith Court
Crawford Court
Woodlark Drive
Inheritance Drive
Beechnut Drive
Celestial Lane
Ginger Root Lane
Formosa Lane
Check out hvfdems.org for updates to the schedule.
photo credit: chippenziedeutch
Fresh Cut Christmas Trees
Zekiah Farms has beautiful Fraser Fir fresh cut Christmas Trees, fresh roping and wreaths. They are selling now and until supplies last. The trees are displayed undercover in the barn, so there is no need to worry about the outside weather.
Enjoy a Visit to the Farm
While you're there, see the farm animals or take a tractor ride (weather permitting). Stop in the store for gift ideas. They have unique arts and crafts, fresh apples, greens, winter squash and Zekiah Farms own naturally raised, antibiotic and hormone free meats.
Directions and Hours of Operations
In Bryantown, MD at the traffic light on Route 5 (Leonardtown Rd) turn onto Bryantown Road. Proceed approximately 1.0 miles and the farm will be on your left. You will see two white barns with greens roofs.
Their Street Address is:
5235 Bryantown Road, Waldorf, Maryland 20601
About Zekiah Farms
Nestled in historic Bryantown with the environmentally rich Zekiah Swamp running through it, Zekiah Farms makes the perfect place for family, school, youth, or corporate outings. Zekiah Farms has developed programs to help educate and give memorable farm experiences. These programs will not only be educational, but entertaining and fun as well. Our goal is to share an understanding and love for agriculture and the environment.
Please remember this is a farm, please wear appropriate clothing and shoes.
Photo Credit: Dominic's pics'
When Nature Goes Nuts
According to the National Wildlife Federation:
The acorn crop in an oak forest can reach 700 pounds per acre in a good mast year, when one ancient tree with an immense trunk and a spreading crown could yield 15,000 nuts. Yet by the end of November, most of them will be gone. Packets of energy that are easy to open and digest, acorns are a significant food item for some 150 species of birds and mammals and typically make up at least 25 percent of the diets of black bears, raccoons, gray and fox squirrels, wild turkeys and white-footed mice, to name a few. White-tailed and black-tailed deer, meanwhile, eat oak foliage along with bushels of acorns.
But yet, there weren't any, or very few, acorns on the ground in the Mid-Atlantic region in November.
Couldn't Find any Acorns Anywhere
Rod Simmons, a field botanist, couldn't find any acorns. He got spooked when he was teaching a class on identifying oak and hickory trees late last month. For 2 1/2 miles, Simmons and other naturalists hiked through Northern Virginia oak and hickory forests. They sifted through leaves on the ground, dug in the dirt and peered into the tree canopies. Nothing.
Simmons and other Arlington Naturalists called around the region and heard similar reports. No acorns on an Audubon nature walk in Maryland. Same reports in Fairfax, Falls Church, Charles County, and as far away as Pennsylvania and Nova Scotia. No acorns falling from the oaks in Arlington Cemetery.
An Over Abundance of Resources
Last year was a mast season. It was a good year to be a squirrel. No worries of starvation, plenty of protein to nourish the newly born babies. It was an exuberant time. A mast year occurs when the number of nuts that trees produce in a given year is exponentially higher than the average.
All Things Cyclical - Even Acorns
The spacing of bumper acorn crops about three or four years apart is no accident either.
"The evolutionary response of oaks to seed predation is to produce more acorns than the sundry forest animals could possibly eat," says animal ecologist Rick Ostfeld at the Institute of Ecosystem Studies (IES) in New York´s Hudson Valley.
But he notes that if there were large crops every fall, populations of squirrels, mice and deer would increase until no amount of acorns could satiate them. So the oaks intermingle good mast years with poor ones, during which many of the seed predators starve. "Trees aren´t as stupid as they look," he says.
Seems There's a Lesson Here
A zero acorn production year, from what I can research, is rather extraordinary and unheard of. The implications of how it will affect the forest animals is not known. It's assumed to be far reaching. Because of the complexity of the relationships between the plants, animals, weather, and pollination, etc... no one really knows why this extraordinary event has happened.
Seems to be a parallel between the Global credit crisis and the zero acorn production. Both are extraordinary events and both had previous years of an over abundance of resources. When times are good, pay down your debts, save discretionary income, budget your time, money and resources. Because there might be a day when the acorns may not come.
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