A Tradition to Honor Who We Love with a Tree – Sign 42

When jogging in the city park, we saw a new planting little tree with an honor sign under its.

Fig 01- A sign to honor someone

Other days, we found some trees with honor signs in other public parks. The, we try to find out what the meaning of this.

By searching through internet, we understand that planting a tree to honor, commemorate and celebrate someone life is a tradition in America since WW I, about a hundred year ago.

Actually, this tradition had been “copied” from European tradition. Then, the American Forestry Association (now, called as “American Forest”) campaigns it across USA.

Fig 02- A growing tree with a sign

There are plenty of trees as a candidate for a memorial tree to plant. Sure, depend on regions where we live.

Fig 03- A building in the corner, illustration

As suggested by Grief and Sympathy (2023: The Top 10 Best Memorial Trees to Plant) that there are 10 goods trees as memorial trees to plant for love ones.

The trees are: Blue Spruce, Red Maple, Sargent Cherry, Weeping Willow, Rose Shrub, Magnolia, Oak, Gardenia, White Crape Myrtle and Olive tree.

Fig 04- A little tree with an honor sign.

Have you experienced with “planting a tree to honor, commemorate and celebrate someone life?”

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The Swag as Decoration for Easter – Sign 41

We may familiar with the word wreath than swag. My guess, the difference that wreath is more symbolic and generally used in daily life.

Fig 01- A sign of Happy Easter

On the other hand, swag is less formal and free form in style. Both have the same goal that is for decoration of celebrations, either for specific celebrations such as Christmas and Easter or for any occasions.

Swags for Easter decorations attach several symbols, decorations and symbols may include these:

- lilies and flowers

- candies and baskets

- Easter bunny, eggs, carrots, and crosses

Fig 02- A carrot swag for happy Easter

Many of my neighbors have designed their own beautiful handmade Easter swags with the Happy Easter sign.

Fig 03- Crochet bunnies on the lawn, just illustration

Some of them have accepted handmade custom orders of swags and wreaths, not only for Easter but also for any seasons and occasions.

Fig 04- Happy Easter to you all

Happy Easter to who celebrates its.

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What is Negative Interest Rate Mean? - Part 2

You may read previous post (Part 1):

- What is Negative Interest Rate Mean? - Part 1 | Tanza Erlambang Update

Fig 01- Chocolate covered strawberry

Moreover, the Bank of England, the British central bank was planning to have negative interest rate, then the rate was negative few years ago or by February, 2021.

We may wonder: what are the purposes of negative interest rate?

The main purposes that banks (the central bank) want or encourage people to:

- spending their money instead of saving in the banks

- investing more into the markets

- borrow money from the banks for any purposes, include consumption.

Fig 02- The Monte Carlo Aster Purple flower

These encouragements will boost the economy, the fact is based on economic experiences in Japan, Denmark, Switzerland and Sweden.

Fig 03- The Yellow Rose, taken from garden

Have you experienced with negative or close to zero interest rate in your places?

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The Butterfly Milkweed Plants - Gardening and Hobby 31

The milkweed plants belong to the genus of Asclepias which have plenty species, about 140 kind of plants.

Fig 01- Butterfly milkweed plants.

The 140 species of milkweed plants are found mainly in the areas of North America, Africa and South America.

I have known just two species grow beautifully in our neighborhood, Baton Rouge, LA: Common butterfly milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) and Mexican, also well known as Tropical butterfly milkweed (Asclepias curassivica)

As reported by USDA (2023: Which Milkweeds Do Monarch Butterflies Prefer?) that the Common butterfly milkweed plant is preferred by Monarch butterfly to lay their eggs.

Fig 02- Unidentified butterfly, illustration

However, we always find Monarch butterfly drinking nectar of Mexican (tropical) milkweed flowers in our neighborhood areas during Spring times.

Wisconsin Horticulture (2023: Tropical Milkweed, Asclepias currasavica) suggested that Monarch butterfly prefer Mexican Milkweed than other Milkweed plants in Wisconsin state areas.

Fig 03- A Monarch butterfly landing on the Milkweed flower

Do you recognize both Common butterfly milkweed and Mexican (Tropical) butterfly milkweed? What do you think?

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Drug, Smoke and Alcohol Free Campus – Sign 40

We posted the sign of firearms free zone, then a sign about homeless and drug addiction in our city, Baton Rouge, LA.

Fig 01- The sign of Drug, Smoke and Alcohol Free campus.

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- Firearms Free Zone – Sign 12 | Tanza Erlambang Update

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A couple days ago, we found the sign of Drug, Smoke and Alcohol Free Campus hang on the side wall of our city community college entrance. The campus has about 8,500 students enrollment in recent years.

What make me wonder is the word “smoke!”. Is it a problem for young generation in our state or America?

Fig 02- Flowers, just illustration

Louisiana is the third higher rate of smoking in the USA. National smoking rate is 15.5%.

The top 3 states with higher smoking rate for adults in 2023:

1) West Virginia, 23.8%

2) Kentucky, 23.6%

3) Louisiana, 21.9%

Fig 03- The sign of a weapon free zone.

Louisiana state government prohibits smoking on properties belong to the state since 2014, then revised in 2015.

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The Reasons Your Dogs have Eaten Grass – Part 1

We might wonder why a dog eating grass, is it just natural or habit? The answer, actually is yes and no. Yes, it is just a dog habit or its natural behaviors, happen to every dogs, if dogs just eat here and there while they are going out.

Fig 01- A dog is eating grasslands.

As suggested by Jaime Milan (2022: Why Do Dogs Eat Grass? Is This Normal?) that if a dog eats grass a lot, then it is signs of nutrients deficiency and even medical problems.

There are several reasons why dogs eat grass, they are:

- stressed, bored, sick

- nutritional deficiency such as fiber.

- treating intestinal worms

- improve digestion

Fig 02- Magnolia, illustration only

How about if dogs eat grass and sometimes followed by vomiting?

PetCheck (2020: Why Do Dogs Eat Grass and Vomit?) recommend:”If she vomits a lot—more than just once after eating grass—or she is having watery, frequent diarrhea, it’s time to schedule a vet visit.”

Fig 03- A nice dog on the street

Since eating grass is bad signs for dogs, it is suggested to find good ways to avoid dog from eating grass. Then, how?

# To be continued to Part 2

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List of Foods with Low Glycemic Index – Diabetes 30

We talked about important of Low Glycemic Index (GI) for diabetes patients. Index may relate to spike of blood sugar level when eating certain foods. The index has scale from 0 to 100.

Fig 01- The long bean in the grocery

You may read the previous post about Low Glycemic Index: Why is Low Glycemic Index Important? - Diabetes 29 | Tanza

Then we might wonder about which foods have Low Glycemic Index. As suggested by Mayo Clinic (2023: Low-glycemic index diet: What's behind the claims?), there are 3 levels of index scales:

- low Glycemic Index, scale between 1 to 55

- medium Glycemic Index, scale between 56 to 69.

- high Glycemic Index, scale between 70 to 100

Fig 02- Broccoli, Low Glycemic Index

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Fig 03- Cassava, Low Glycemic Index

Some examples of foods based on their Glycemic Index (GI) levels

1) Low GI levels include:

- most fruit, peas, beans and green vegetables

2) Medium GI levels may include:

- multigrain, whole-grain, corn, pineapple and bananas

3) High GI levels are:

- white bread and white rice

Fig 04- Corn, medium Glycemic Index

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