HOW TO FIND OUR MEETING PLACE - HELLS CANYON GEMCLUB

BOULDER BUSTER Volume #51 Issue #5, 2016

HELL’S CANYON GEM CLUB Serving the Valley forP.O. BOX 365 64 YEARSLEWISTON, IDAHO 83501

PURPOSE OF HELLS CANYON GEM CLUB, INC.The purpose of this nonprofit, social club is to promote the rock hound hobby by providing opportunities for the collection, working and displaying

of gems and minerals, as well as educational programs in the field of geology.

MEETINGS: 2nd Friday of each month Business Meeting: 6:45 pmVISITORS ARE ALWAYS WELCOME

Dues: Adult [per person] $15.00; Junior [under 18] Free with a responsible adult membership.

2016 BOARD OF DIRECTORSPresident Bruce Borgelt 208-935-0806 1st Year Trustee Richard Pederson 208-276-7077Vice President Randy Squires 208-743-8812 2nd Year Trustee Kyle PrettymanSecretary Lola Collinsworth 509-254-7482 2nd Year Trustee Mel Wilks 208-301-3939Treasurer MaryLou Northrup 208-743-6944 Federation Director Jerry Northrup 208-743-6944Past President Linn Enger 208-746-4957 Federation Delegate MaryLou Northrup 208-743-6944 1st Year Trustee Teresa Stephenson 509-758-3880 WSMC Representative Dan Cease 509-254-1720

HELLS CANYON WEBSITE: http://www.hellscanyongemclub .comWEBMASTER: Rick Westerholm: [email protected]

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Meeting minutes April 8th , 2016Guests—Mark Olszko, Miles Olszko, Julie Olszko, Jeaneen Anderson, Don Anderson, Ron Graves, Ryan Galantuomini, Sara Smith.New Member---Ron CloquetLast months minutes were moved, 2nd and passed as written in the Boulder Buster.Treasurer's report – bank account is good & 6 dealer deposits.Reading of a letter about arrowheads for salePurchase of canopy for club use, motion 2nd , carried(H.C.G.C. 50th Anniversary Show) The name and theme for October Show-- moved, 2nd , passedRandy Squires to check on doublewide for the club.Was discussed to contact Gold Panning Club.Federations want donations for scholarship at Kennewick 16th and 17th of April. Mary Lou and Jerry Northrup will be attending.Walla Walla Club having a field trip to Saddle Mountain on 9th & 10th.Sign up sheet was passed for Opal dig before next meetingBruce lectured on feldspars and such after meetingOn Saturday May 7 the EAA Aircraft Open House. We will have a representative of our club with a table with samples of polished rock and a tumbler demo.Door prizes were drawn. Meeting adjourned

We are happy to announce the up-coming wedding of Mel Wilks and Glenna Brusven!The joyous occasion will take place: Sunday, May 15, 2016 at 11amAssembly Of God Church400 N. US Highway 95Lapwai, Idaho Club members are welcome. Please come and share in their happiness and wish them well!Click on the link below for directions! https://maps.yahoo.com/directions-app/directions/?lat=46.42886543856493&lon=-116.90980911254883&bb=46.56971852%2C-117.1698761%2C46.28812193%2C-116.65008545&o=Lewiston%2C%20ID&d=400%20N%20Us%20Highway%2095%20Lapwai%20ID%2083540

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Did you read the small print????

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2016 GEM SHOWS(Partial list, see http://www.amfed.org/nfms/newsletters.asp)

May 14 & 15Sat – 10 – 5Sun – 10 -- 4

Hatrockhounds Gemand Mineral Society

Hermiston Conference Ctr.415 Highway 395 South

Hermiston, Or

Mike Filarski, [email protected]

May 21 & 22Sat – 10 – 6Sun – 10 - 5

Bitterroot Gem andMineral Society

First Interstate CenterRavalli County Frgrnds 100 Old Corvallis Road

Hamilton, MT

Steve Vieth [email protected]

June 4 & 5Sat – 9 – 5

Sun – 10 - 4

North Idaho MineralClub

Kootenai County Fairgounds4056 North Government Way

Coeur d' Alene, ID

Dean Hutchinson 208-686-9156PO Box 1643

Hayden, ID 83835

July 29 – 31Fri – 10 -6

Sat – 10 – 6Sun – 10 - 4

Willamette Agateand Mineral SocietyAFMS and NFMS

MEETINGS

Linn County Expo Center,Albany, Oregon

Janice Van Cura [email protected]

www.wamsi.org

September 10 & 11Sat – 10 – 5Sun – 10 - 5

Marcus WhitmanGem and Mineral

Society

Walla Walla County Frgnds.Community Cntr. Bldg.

365 Orchard St.Walla Walla, WA

Keith Bacus 509-529-12481829 Howard St.

Walla Walla, WA 99362

Standing Committees Gemshow Committees1. Membership Chairman --- Linn Enger 1. Show Chairman --- Rock Club Officers

2. Juniors Chairman -- David Dabritz 2. Show Treasurer -- Marylou Northrup

3. Fieldtrip Chairman -- 3. Dealer Chairman -- Tiffany Kite

4. Program Chairman -- 4. Advertising Chairman -- Randy Squires

5. Show & Tell Chairman -- 5. Displays Chairman -- Joe Schacher

6. Claims Chairmen -- Rick Westerholm 6. Demonstrations Chairman -- Travis Heath Linn Enger

7. Historian Chairman -- 7. Floorplan Chairman -- Rick Westerholm

8. Library Chairman -- 8. Silent Auction Chairman -- Jerry Northrup

9. Hostess Chairman.--. 9. Kids Corner Chairman --

10. Bulletin Editor --- Ed Shoemaker 10. Admissions Chairman --

11. Security Chairman --

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A.F.M.S. ENDOWMENT RAFFLE

The 2016 AMFS Convention is being held in late

July of 2016. So what does that mean to you?

Hopefully, it means you will purchase your tickets

(yes, you need to be in it to win it!) before July for

the AFMS Endowment Fund drawing!

Why the raffle? The money collected is for the

AFMS Endowment Fund. The interest from the

monies generated is used for AFMS special

projects, such as, junior badges, judges training,

digitizing of slide programs, to name a few.

Before the clock runs out – why not purchase

tickets? You can also donate an item or two! Why

not both options! Donations for the raffle will come

from all over the United States.

Our club has donated two items for the raffle. An

Idaho star garnet by Linn Enger and a necklace by

Teresa Stephenson and Mary Lou Northrup.

The tickets are $5.00 a piece or $20.00 for five!

Contact Mary Lou Northrup at 208-743-6944 if you

would like tickets.

Follow this link if you would like to see a sample of the items to be raffled off:

http://www.amfed.org/2016_AFMS_Endowment_Fund_Drawing.pdf

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METEOR OF THE MONTH(used by permission, Meteorite picture of the day, http://tinyurl.com/MetPicDay)

Willamette meteorite. Henry A Ward in bowler, boy is Edward Hughes.

The Willamette Meteorite, officially named Willamette, is an iron-nickel meteorite discovered in Oregon. Itis the largest meteorite found in North America and the sixth largest in the world. There was no impact crater at the discovery site; researchers believe the meteorite landed in what is now Canada or Montana, and was transported as a glacial erratic to the Willamette Valley during the Missoula Floods at the end of the last Ice Age (~13,000 years ago).

The Willamette Meteorite was discovered in the Willamette Valley of Oregon near the modern city of WestLinn. Although already known and sacred to Native Americans, its "discovery" was made by settler Ellis Hughes in 1902. At that time the land was owned by the Oregon Iron and Steel Company. Hughes recognized the meteorite's significance, and in an attempt to claim ownership, secretly moved it to his own land. This involved 90 days of hard work to cover the 3/4 mile (1200 m) distance. The move was discovered, and after a lawsuit, the Oregon Supreme Court held that Oregon Iron and Steel Company was the legal owner.

In 1905 the meteorite was purchased by Mrs. William E. Dodge for $26,000 (around $680,000 in 2011). After being displayed at the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition, it was donated to the American Museum of Natural History in New York City where it has since been on display.

The Willamette Meteorite weighs about 32,000 pounds (15,000 kg). It is classified as a type III iron meteorite, being composed of over 91% iron and 7.62% nickel, with traces of cobalt and phosphorus.

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The approximate dimensions of the meteorite are 10 feet(3 m) tall by 6.5 feet (2 m) wide by 4.25 feet (1.3 m) deep.Most iron meteorites like Willamette have originated from asteroids that collided with another object. Willamette hasa recrystallized structure, the result of a significant impact-heating event on the parent body.

The Willamette Meteorite contains higher concentrations ofvarious metals that are quite rare in Earth's crust. Forexample, Iridium, one of the least abundant elements inEarth's crust, is found in the Willamette Meteorite at aconcentration of 4.7 ppm, thousands of times more than itscrustal abundance.

The deep crevasses of the meteorite resulted from both itshigh-speed atmospheric entry and subsequent weathering. Exposed to the elements for thousands of years, rainwaterinteracted with the mineral troilite , resulting in a form of sulfuric acid which slowly dissolved portions of themeteorite. This resulted (over a very long period) in thedevelopment of the hollows that are visible today.

A replica of the meteorite is in Eugene, Oregon, outside theUniversity of Oregon Museum of Natural and CulturalHistory on the University of Oregon campus. Anotherreplica stands near the Willamette Methodist Church inWest Linn, Oregon.

Salem-News.com Apr-14-2006 The Evergreen Aviation Museum willsoon display a portion of Oregon`s famous WillametteMeteorite. The meteorite, originally found on a West Linnhillside and sold to a New York City Museum in 1906, willreturn 100 years later, in part, to its Oregon beginnings.

With recommendation from Oregon Congressman DavidWu, Evergreen International Aviation owner and founderDelford M. Smith purchased a piece of the famed meteoriteat Bonhams Auction House in New York City on Tuesday

and donated the artifact to the Museumon behalf of the Evergreen family ofcompanies.

"We plan to showcase this wonderful artifact among other aerospace pieces in our second Museum building, which is in development," said Katherine Huit, director of collections. "The building, set to begin construction in early 2007, will house space artifacts including an Apollo Lunar Module Space Vehicle, a moon rock and a Titan II Missile."

The Museum`s 4.5-ounce, 7.5-inch piece is part of the 15 Â½-ton, 10-foot whole, the largest meteorite found in the U.S. and the world`s sixth largest. The remainder is on display at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

"Unsuccessful efforts have been made to bring the meteorite home to Oregon, making this even more momentous for our Museum," said Huit. "We feel privileged to have it in our collection."

More details on the history of the Willamette here: http://www.usgennet.org/usa/or/county/clackamas/MeteorTreasures.html

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By User:Dante Alighieri - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1354017


Clarkia fossil bedsThe Clarkia fossil beds (also known locally as the Fossil Bowl) near Clarkia, Idaho.

Summary Overview

The fossil beds were laid down in a lake roughly 15-million-years ago, when a drainage basin was dammed by the flood basalts of the Columbia River Plateau. Narrow and deep, thelake's cold, anoxic water and rapid sedimentation createdperfect fossil conditions. The basin itself has remainedtectonically stable, with little deformation since then. The fossilsindicate that the region's climate was much warmer and wetterthan today's, and similar to that of southern Florida.

Though a number of animal species have been found, theClarkia fossil beds site is best known for its fossil leaves. Theirpreservation is exquisite; fresh leaves are unfossilized, andsometimes retain their fall colors before rapidly oxidizing in air.

Checkout the YouTube link for a very good 13 minute explaination and pictures of the site. Skip over the first 60 seconds of the “Plants Are Cool Too” promo if you want. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfRXDbtkEi0&list=PLgwFWI3PC3Uoyfls9UsskodcPgssDrI4c

Location details

The Fossil Bowl location is 2 miles south of Clarkia(see the map at the end of article). A motocross track snugs up to the dig site. Park at the home to the right of the fossil site. The site is open all weekends andmost weekdays. A call ahead is a good idea, but not necessary. Now thru fall are all good times to go, this time of the year is cooler. The Kienbaums maintain a collection of prime specimens including fossilized leaves, fish, and flowers. A free handout is available identifying the most commonly collected fossils.

While there are legal and ethical issues surrounding fossil harvesting on public lands, this site is located on private property and there are no barriers impeding collection. The Keinbaum family currently charges$10 a person-per-day. Kids 5 years and younger are free. Special rates for large groups. The foot of thebluff is littered with deciduous leaf and evergreen needle fossil fragments, making Idaho fossil hunting a breeze for smaller kids.

Two Famous Paleobotanists at the Clarkia Fossil Site

Miocene of Idaho

Here are two famous paleobotanists hard at work at theClarkia Fossil Site in the Miocene of Idaho. This site isfamous for its excellent preservation of leaves. It hasbeen studied extensively both floristically and also forbiochemical fossil remains such as flavonoids. Peoplehave taken DNA in leaves from this site. Their results arestill in dispute.

On the left is Dr. Steven Manchester of the FloridaMuseum of Natural History, Gainesville, an expert inTertiary fruits and seeds of western North America. He iswell known for his work on fossil walnut family and otherhamamelids On the right is Professor Zlatko Kvacek ofCharles University in Prague, Czech Republic. He is an

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Fossil leaves from Clarkia fossil beds

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expert on the Miocene floras of central Europe, and has studied especially leaf cuticular remains. This photo was taken in July, 1998.

How it began---In September 1971, while Mr. Kienbaum was grading a portion of his land for use as a snowmobile racetrack, he noticed that the bulldozer was turning up a lot of black leaves, some even blowing around in the wind. Fortunately, it aroused his curiosity. Noticing that most of these leaves appeared to be from broadleaf trees not common in that part of Idaho, Kienbaum telephoned the University and eventually contacted Dr. Smiley. What Kienbaum had uncovered is now regarded as the best preserved Miocene plant fossil site in the world. Those black leaves were the organic remains of leaves that fell there at least seventeen million years ago. In the ensuing years Dr. Smiley and his team of researchers discovered more than 130 different plant species in the nine-meter-thick sediments.

Origin of the Flossil Bed---About twenty million years ago, during early Miocene time, widespread volcanicactivity was underway in the Pacific Northwest. One of the largest known lava flows overspread eastern Washington and is manifest today as the Columbia River basalts. Farther east, in the St. Maries River valley, similar volcanic activity occurred; one of the lava flows suddenly dammed the valley, creating a deep, narrow lake (Smiley and Rember 1979).

It is suggested that the fossils formed in a Miocene lake, dammed in the St Maries River Valley when the Columbia River basalts erupted to the west. The northern Rocky Mountains, are postulated to have been a terrestrial environment during the Tertiary. The idea of leaves falling into fine-grained lake clays appears to be a reasonable paleoenvironmental deduction—at first glance. However, such an interpretation is contradicted by a number of facts. There is even evidence of marine catastrophic inundation.

The remarkable preservation of the leaves extends even to microscopic structures within leaf cells that exhibit beautiful cellular detail. Just as interesting, the original colour of the leaves has been preserved within the laminated clays. The original green, brown, or red colours, suggestive of autumn, are retained, which upon exposure promptly turn black. The fossils are preserved within laminated clay, interspersed with massive clay, both containing ash beds that are barren of fossils.

Some investigators believe the laminated clays are annual layers and that each couplet represents one year of seasonal deposition. However, Charles Smiley believes the laminated clays represent event layers—a radical departure from the annual layer interpretation. Smiley’s deduction seems more reasonable since there are also fish fossils within the layers—one a trophy-sized extinct trout. All the fish had their mouths open, as if they died of anoxia. One would not expect such well preserved fish with littleor no sign of deterioration while paper thin annual layers were being deposited. The unusual condition of the leaves and the fish fossils points to rapid deposition, not slow typical lake accumulation.

Furthermore, the leaves are not stacked one on top of another as expected with autumn leaves dropping into a quiet lake. Instead, the leaves are separated by sediments, an indication of very rapid deposition considering the degree of preservation and the colour of the leaves. Many leaves even cut through several layers with no physical damage, another sign of rapid deposition.

There are signs that the water was not fresh, as typical of most lakes, but marine or brackish. For instance, abundant plankton, mysteriously all of one species, have been identified.

Sponge spicules are also an abundant constituent of the layers. It is interesting that the sponges also suggest that the bottom water temperature was unusually warm at 26–30°C, a paleoclimatic enigma. Furthermore, the high temperatures suggested are not conducive to the anoxic paleoenvironment neededto explain the excellent preservation. Altogether, there is an impressive amount of evidence that components from marine and terrestrial environments have been mixed together.

Basaltic extrusions give evidence of the Miocene lava flows in the roadcuts. These are often interbedded with clay-like layers known to geologists as the Latah sediments, which are sometimes fossil bearing.

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Looking at the dig site where others had worked, you can see pieces of shale containing black leaves, mostly bald cypress with dawn redwood, sweet gum, chestnut, and Magnolia also found. Better specimens can be had by digging them fresh from the sediment.

Digging is typically done with a pulaski, a kind of pickax, to chop out blocks of the soft shale sediment. Individual bedding surfaces are then split off with a pocket knife. Each bedding surface usually reveals one or more fossil leaf compressions, many of which still show original pigmentation for a short time before turning black. Sometimes fruits and twigs are also present.

If your quest is focused on finding a more elusive fossilized fish, locate the barren layers of gray or yellow prehistoric volcanic ash. The fish fossils are more prevalent in the layers immediately above and below the ash.

To protect your finds, wrap in newspaper, place in a plastic bag and allow one to two months of drying time in a cool, dark environment for best durability.

Facilities are limited in Clarkia. There is a convenience store/bar/restaurant/gas station with a few deli sandwiches, an assortment of chips, soda pop, bungee cords, matches, and homemade cookies. Fernwood, ten miles north of Clarkia, has a grocery store and gas station. Public restrooms are available at the Fernwood grocery and there is a portable toilet at the dig site. The area has no cell phone service.

For additional Information: Find them on Facebook, Phone: (208) 245-3608, OR Write them at: Fossil Bowl, 85th & Plum, 52450 Hwy 3, Clarkia, ID, 83812. Email= [email protected]

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Link to butterfly exhibit that has a section of a rockdisplayed beside, that matches the color and pattern of thebutterfly.

http://www.ba-bamail.com/content.aspx?emailid=2623

(copy and paste these links to your browser for morephotos)

Link to beach sand under a microscopehttp://www.ba-bamail.com/video.aspx?emailid=9908

river rocks transformed with colored paint designs http://www.ba-bamail.com/content.aspx?emailid=18922

Photo's of the Birth of an Islandhttp://www.snopes.com/photos/natural/maiken.asp

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I have some important questions to ask, and I'd really like an answer if you've got one, because they havebeen haunting me all my life. For example...

How important does a person have to be before they are considered assassinated instead of just murdered?

Once you're in heaven, do you get stuck wearing the clothes you were buried in, for eternity?

Why does a round pizza come in a square box?

How is it that we put man on the moon before we figured out it would be a good idea to put wheels on luggage?

Why is it that people say they 'slept like a baby' when babies wake up every two hours?

Why are you IN a movie, but you're ON TV?

Why do people pay to go up tall buildings and then put money in binoculars to look at things on the ground?

Did you ever notice that when you blow in a dog's face, he gets mad at you, but when you take him for a car ride, he sticks his head out the window?

Why do we press harder on a remote control when we know the batteries are getting dead?

Why do banks charge a fee on 'insufficient funds' when they know there is not enough money?

If people evolved from apes, why are there still apes?

Is there ever a day that mattresses are not on sale?

Why do people constantly return to the refrigerator with hopes that something new to eat will have materialized?

Why is it that no plastic bag will open from the end on your first try?

In winter why do we try to keep the house as warm as it was in summer when we complained about the heat?

How come you never hear father-in-law jokes?

The statistics on sanity is that one out of every four persons is suffering from some sort of mental illness.

Think of your three best friends -- if they're okay, then it's you. Now send this on to your friends and make them smile too!

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FOOD FOR THOUGHTThe Center for Biological Diversity http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/about/ & http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/public_lands/

As the coming century of global warming threatens to accelerate the extinction crisis, we believe the highest and best use of wild lands is to provide safe harbor for species by protecting the ecological systems upon which they and we ultimately depend. To this end, our advocacy directly confronts land uses that harm species and ecosystems — from off-road vehicle use and livestock grazing to industrial logging and uranium and fossil fuel extraction— while advancing precedent-setting litigation, policies, and strategic collaborations to usher in a hopeful new era of biodiversity conservation for our wildlands. We work toward a future in which species and ecosystems are finally afforded primacy among public lands priorities.(emphasis added)

WORDS AND PHRASES REMIND US OF THE WAY WE WERE By Betty Cain-SCRIBE, viaThe Rock it

Words are gone as fast as the buggy whip! The other day I said something to my son about driving a jalopy. He looked at me quizzically and said, "What the heck is a jalopy?" He had never heard of a jalopy!! If you Google “jalopy”, the first thing that pops up is a site asking where you read the word – they want to know!

I hope you are Hunky Dory after this. A while back, I mentioned some old expressions that have been lost to the inexorable march of technology: phrases like "Don’t touch that dial", "carbon copy," "You sound like a broken record" and "Hung out to dry". Here are some more. Back in the olden days, we had a lot of moxie. We'd put on our best bib and tucker and straighten up and fly right. Hubba-hubba! We'd cut a rug in some juke joint and then go necking and petting, smooching and spooning, billing and cooing, or pitching woo in hot rods and jalopies in some passion pit or lovers’ lane. Heavens to Betsy! Gee Whillikers! Jumpin’ Jehoshaphat! Holy Moly! We were in like Flynn, living the life of Riley, and even a regular guy couldn’t accuse us of being a knucklehead, a nincompoop or a pill. Not for all the tea in China!

Back in the olden days, life used to be swell, but when’s the last time anything was swell? Swell has gone the way of beehives, pageboys and the D.A.; of spats, knickers, fedoras, poodle skirts, saddle shoes and pedal pushers. Oh, my aching back. Kilroy was here, but he isn’t anymore. Like Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkle, we wake up from what surely has been just a short nap, and before we can say “I’ll be a monkey’s uncle!” or “This is a fine kettle of fish!”, we discover that the words we grew up with, words that seemed set in stone, have vanished from our tongues, our pens and our keyboards. Poof, poof, poof go the words of our youth, words we’ve left behind. We blink, and they’re gone, from the landscape and wordscape of our perception, like Mickey Mouse wrist watches, hula hoops, skate keys, candy cigarettes, little wax bottles of colored sugar water and an organ grinder’s monkey.

Where have all those phrases gone? Long time passing. Where have all those phrases gone? Long time ago. Pshaw. The milkman did it. Think about the starving people in China. Bigger than a bread box. Banned in Boston. The very idea! It’s your nickel. Don’t forget to pull the chain. Knee high to a grasshopper. Turn-of-the-century. Iron curtain. Domino theory. Fail safe. Civil Defense. Fiddlesticks! You look like the wreck of the Hesperus. Cooties. Going like sixty. See you in the funny papers. Don’t take any wooden nickels. Heavens to Murgatroyd! And awa-a-ay we go! Oh, my stars and garters!

There are more lost expressions than Carter had little liver pills, fading words of our youth, lodged in our heart’s core. Just as one never steps into the same river twice, one cannot step into the same language twice. Even as one word enters, other words are swept into the past, ever making a different river of words. We of a certain age have been blessed to live in changeful times. For a child, each new word is a shiny toy that has no age. We at the other end of the chronological spectrum remember words that once did not exist, words that once strutted their hour upon the earthly stage and are no longer heard except in our collective memory. It’s one of the perks of aging. We can have archaic and eat it, too!! See ya’ later, alligator!

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SOUR CREAM RHUBARB COOKIES

COOK TIME:35 minutes, PREP TIME:25 minutes, SERVINGS:40

Bright pink bits of rhubarb peek out from these pretty cookies, which are tangy, tart, and lightly sweet all at once. The sour

cream adds a smoothness that makes each bite a pleasure. With their soft, light-as-air texture, they practically melt in your

mouth.

Ingredients• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour• 1 teaspoon baking powder• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda• 1/2 teaspoon salt• 1/2 cup butter, softened• 3/4 cup sugar• 1 egg• 3/4 cup sour cream• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract• 2 cups rhubarb, diced

PreparationPreheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper.

In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.

In a large bowl, beat the butter and sugar together with an electric mixer at medium speed until light and fluffy. Add the egg and beat to combine. Beat in the sour cream and vanilla, making sure all the ingredients are well combined.

Add 1/3 of the flour mixture and beat until combined. Add another 1/3 of the flour mixture and repeat until all the ingredients are combined. Stir in the rhubarb.

Drop rough tablespoons of batter onto the prepared baking sheets, spacing them about 2 inches apart. Bake 10 to 12 minutes,until the edges of the cookies start to brown and the tops of the cookies get a little color. Let cool slightly, then remove to a rack to cool completel

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