Hmmm… Useless Knowledge Soldiers Delight

Eline Funeral Home
Spring 2016
A quarterly publication
for the extended
family and community
of
Owner/Funeral Director: Jeffrey B. Eline
Manager/Funeral Director: Stephen M. Jenkins
Office Manager: Rose M. Jenkins
Funeral Director: J. Wayne Osterling
Funeral Director: Justin P. Britcher
Soldiers Delight
Food Drive
Month of
April 2016
Inside this issue:
Accepting a Loss
2
Spring Craft
2
Recipe
2
B & O Railroad
3
Food Drive
3
Lincoln’s Funeral
3
Inspiration
4
Soldiers Delight Natural
Environment Area (NEA) is
comprised of 1,900 acres of
serpentine barren. The land
surface over serpentinite is
stony, unfertile and sparsely
vegetated - hence the term
"serpentine barren."
Serpentinite is a rock that
contains very little quartz and
aluminum-bearing minerals
and consists mainly of
serpentine. Serpentine is
valued as a decorative building
stone, road material, and for
this area in Maryland, a historic
source of chromium ore.
The mining of chromite
here began in 1827. During
the 19th century Soldiers
Delight and the Bare Hills
district of Baltimore County
were the largest producers of
chrome in the world. Several
old mines and quarries are still
visible in these serpentine
barrens.
is open Saturdays from 11 a.m.
to 3 p.m. (weather permitting).
Sunday through Friday, the
Visitor Center will be open
only when staff is available.
Call ahead at 410-922-3044 if
you would like to have access
to the Visitor Center outside
our normal hours.
www.soldiersdelight.org/
The area has over 39 rare,
threatened, or endangered
plant species as well as rare
insects, rocks and minerals.
There are seven miles of
marked hiking trails.
Equestrians and cyclists are
prohibited due to the sensitive
nature of the area.
The visitor center is
located at 5100 Deer Park
Road in Owings Mills, Maryland, 21117. The Visitor Center
Of Special Interest…
 Soldiers Delight
 B & O Railroad
 Comfort Food Recipe
 An Entangled Whale’s
Gratitude
Hmmm…
Donald Duck comics were
banned from Finland because
he doesn’t wear pants!
Camels have three eyelids to
protect themselves from blowing sand!
Dolphins sleep with one eye
open!
Useless Knowledge
A jellyfish is 95 percent water!
A cat has 32 muscles in each
ear.
A horse can look forward with
one eye and back with the
other.
The average lifespan of an
eyelash is five months.
Oak trees do not produce
acorns until they are fifty years
of age or older.
The most common street name
in the U.S. is Second Street.
Walt Disney was afraid of
mice.
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A quarterly publication for the
extended family and community of
Coping with Grief and Loss...
What is Grief?
Grief is a natural response to loss. It’s the emotional suffering you feel when something or
someone you love is taken away. The more significant the loss, the more intense the grief will
be. You may associate grief with the death of a loved one—which is often the cause of the
most intense type of grief—but any loss can cause grief, including:
Losing someone or something
you love or care deeply about
is very painful.
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Divorce or relationship breakup
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Death of a pet
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Loss of health
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Loss of a cherished dream
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Losing a job
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A loved one’s serious illness
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Loss of financial stability
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Loss of a friendship
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A miscarriage
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Loss of safety after a trauma
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Retirement
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Selling the family home
Spring Craft Idea….Colander Planter
Colander Planter
Here is an inexpensive way to add color
to your table, walkway or the entrance way
of your home.
You only need a few items:
 Colander (old or new)
 Fabric Liner (burlap or paper coffee
filters will work too)
 Potting Soil
 Flowers (marigolds, petunias, etc.)
 Link Chain and “S” Hooks (if hanging)
Colander Planter
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Place the Liner in your colander
Place about an inch of potting soil on the
liner
Place your plants inside the colander
Continue to fill the colander with soil to top
Measure, Cut and Attach Chain
Water and you’re done!
Enjoy your Colander Planter!
Comfort Food...Cheesy Amish Breakfast Casserole
Ingredients
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Cheesy Amish Casserole
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1 pound sliced bacon, diced
1 sweet onion, chopped
4 cups frozen shredded hash brown potatoes, thawed
9 eggs, lightly beaten
2 cups shredded Cheddar cheese
1 1/2 cups small curd cottage cheese
1 1/4 cups shredded Swiss cheese
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease
a 9x13-inch baking dish.
Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat; cook and
stir bacon and onion until bacon is evenly browned,
about 10 minutes. Drain. Transfer bacon and onion to
a large bowl. Stir in potatoes, eggs, Cheddar cheese,
cottage cheese, and Swiss cheese. Pour mixture into
prepared baking dish.
Bake in preheated oven until eggs are set and cheese is
melted, 45 to 50 minutes. Let stand 10 minutes before
cutting and serving.
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B & O Railroad Museum, Baltimore, MD
Located among Baltimore
City's historic southwest
neighborhoods, at the original
site of the historic Mt. Clare
Shops, the B&O Railroad
Museum is recognized universally as the birthplace of American railroading. It was here
within the Museum's 40-acre
campus that Baltimore businessmen, surveyors, and engineers set about building the
B&O Railroad in 1829, laying
the first commercial longdistance track, building the first
to early American railroading,
particularly the Baltimore & Ohio,
Chesapeake & Ohio, Western
Maryland, and other mid-Atlantic
railroads to the delight of over
200,000 visitors a year.
passenger station, and inventing America's unique railroad.
A National Historic
Landmark, Affiliate of the
Smithsonian Museum, and
independent educational
resource, the B&O Railroad
Museum collects, preserves
and interprets artifacts related
The B & O Railroad Museum
comprises the collection of the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Museum, the oldest, most
comprehensive American railroad
collection in the world.
website: www.borail.org/
Food Drive….April 2016
It’s that time again….Eline
Funeral Home is holding a
Food Drive.
During the month of April we
encourage our community to
drop off non-perishable food
items to the Funeral Home.
All items collected will be donated to our local Crisis Center. As in years past, Jeff Eline,
owner of Eline Funeral Home
Reisterstown, has agreed to
match all donations.
So please help us make our
drive a huge success for your
neighbors in need.
Hours of Drop Off:
Monday – Friday
9am to 5pm
Saturday & Sunday
9am to 12pm
Two Interesting Facts About Abraham Lincoln’s Funeral
1. Lincoln’s funeral route
retraced his original journey as
president-elect in 1861. Public
viewings were held in 13 cities,
including Washington, D.C.,
(at the White House and U.S.
Capitol). Lincoln’s casket left
D.C. on April 21, with public
viewings soon to follow over the
next 20 days in Maryland, as well
as in Pennsylvania, New York,
Ohio, Indiana and finally, in
Springfield, Illinois. In all, the
train carrying Lincoln’s remains
traveled through 180 cities and
seven states before reaching
Springfield, where as many as
150,000 people gathered for
the funeral (Springfield’s
population at the time was just
15,000).
2. Lincoln’s remains were
re-embalmed at every city stop.
Following his assassination,
Lincoln’s casket remained unsealed for the next 19 days,
requiring constant embalming
to accommodate the series of
public viewings. Embalming
had risen in use during the
Civil War, as deceased soldiers
were prepared for shipment to
distant relatives. The task of
embalming Lincoln’s remains
fell to Dr. Charles Brown; three
years before, the same doctor
had embalmed the remains of
Lincoln’s young son, Willie.
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An Entangled Whale's Gratitude…..author unknown
A female humpback whale
had become entangled in a spider web of crab traps and lines.
She was weighted down by hundreds of pounds of traps that
caused her to struggle to stay
afloat. She also had hundreds of
yards of line rope wrapped
around her body, her tail, her
torso, a line tugging in her
mouth. This is her story of giving gratitude. A fisherman spotted her just east of the Faralon
Islands (outside the Golden
Gate) and radioed for help.
Within a few hours, the rescue
team arrived and determined that
she was so badly off, the only
way to save her was to dive in and
untangle her…. a very dangerous
proposition. One slap of the tail
could kill a rescuer. They worked
for hours with curved knives and
eventually freed her. When she
was free, the divers say she swam
in what seemed like joyous circles.
She then came back to each
and every diver, one at a
time, nudged them, and
pushed gently, thanking
them. Some said it was the
most incredibly beautiful experience of their lives. The
guy who cut the rope out of
her mouth says her eye was
following him the whole
time, and he will never be the same.
May you be so fortunate … To
be surrounded by people who will
help you get untangled from the
things that are binding you. And,
may you always know the joy of
giving and receiving gratitude