By John Hall for Blue Mountain Town & Country Gazette
Welcome to our first issue for the month of May. To start, I want to wish all mothers reading this a lovely and Happy Mother’s Day! Hopefully you will each receive the love and attention you deserve.
As a matter of fact, in one of this issue’s articles, “Mother’s Day: What Moms Really Want,” we look at what research shows moms really do want on Mother’s Day. Along the way we will also offer you helpful hints if you’re still trying to figure out what to give mom this year. By the way, Mother’s Day is Sunday, May 11.
We are also looking at camping in this issue and looking at it from an interesting angle. A lot of our readers go camping – it’s a great recreational activity that is heavily done in the coming months. If camping is your thing, you may have forgotten that camping can be intimidating for someone who has never done it. In “How to Make a First-time Camper Comfortable,” we give you five tips on how to help them overcome their concerns and make the adventure great for everyone.
In terms of exercise and fitness, we’re taking a look at how exercise relates to stress reduction – it’s a “direct connect.” I don’t know about you, but my days often involve stress of one kind or another. As a matter of fact, my shoulders are a little tight, so I’m going to take a 5-minute break to walk outside in my yard and do a few head rolls. Did that! Now I’m back. Be sure and read “Using Exercise to Manage Stress” to learn more about the connection between the two.
Of course with the soil warming up many of you, like me are starting the joyous spring ritual of getting plants into the ground. Some of what we’re putting into the dirt – in the ground or in raised beds – is for food, but not all of it. In this issue we will be looking at a number of plants that grow well on trellises, which of course can dress up a fence or bare wall, or, if trained correctly can even provide shade. See “Easy Trellis-Climbing Plants” to find out a good amount of information on six plants that fit the bill.
And finally we take a look at proper eye protection for summer sports and non-summer sports. In “Proper Eye Protection for Sports” we look at the range of eye protection utilized for racquet sports, team sports, precision shooting, cycling and more. We also include a few stats, including the fact that hospital emergency rooms treat 40,000 sports-related eye injuries annually. This article is a worthwhile read.
So that’s the issue! We hope you will join us next time when we shift our attention to Memorial Day and the unofficial start of summer (with a few recipes sprinkled in along the way). Until then…
