Sunday, October 4, 2015

World Animal Day OCTOBER 4,2015

DIANE'S CORNER ... Celebrate World Animal Day

While he may be rolling in his grave to discover that he was not the first person to be able to talk to animals, Doctor Doolittle would almost certainly be a keen advocate of World Animal Day which takes place on the Feast of St Francis of Assisi, October 4th. Started in 1931 in Italy, this annual celebration of all things furry is now a popular day in which we remember the important role that animals have to play in our world, as well as the people who devote their lives working to protect and care for them. To get into the festive mood on October 4th you are encouraged to ditch the fur fabrics, refuse to buy products tested on animals and – probably of greater concern to the majority of folk – convert to vegetarianism. Was St Francis a meat eater? Answers on a postcard…


Freebie: Pumpkin Time Digital Stamp

Word of the Day

confluence 


Definition:(noun) A gathering, flowing, or meeting together at one juncture or point.
Synonyms:meeting
Usage:He had long noted that the greatest disasters were rarely the result of one misfortune but were the result of a confluence of several of them.




History

First Run of the Orient Express (1883)


Synonymous with intrigue and luxury, the legendary Orient Express was a passenger train that ran from Paris to Istanbul for more than 80 years. Europe's first transcontinental express train, it covered over 1,700 miles (2,740 km), and its lavishly furnished cars became the symbol of glamour for Europeans. It was discontinued in 1977 and revived in 1982 to run between London and Venice as the "Venice Simplon Orient Express." 

Damon Runyon (1884)


Runyon was an American short story writer and journalist. He served in the Spanish-American War as a teenager and moved to New York in 1911, where he began to write humorous stories about the city's hoodlums, racketeers, bookies, and other underworld characters. The stories are written in a picturesque, slangy journalistic idiom often referred to as "Runyonese" or "Runyonesque."

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1535 - The first complete English translation of the Bible was printed in Zurich, Switzerland.

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1648 - The first volunteer fire department was established in New York by Peter Stuyvesant. 

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1881 - Edward Leveaux received a patent for the player piano. 

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1893 - The first professional football contract was signed by Grant Dibert for the Pittsburgh AC. 

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1915 - The Dinosaur National Monument was established. The area covered part of Utah and Colorado. 

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 1931 - The comic strip "Dick Tracy" made its debut in the Detroit Daily Mirror. The strip was created by Chester Gould.

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 1957 - "Leave it to Beaver" debuted on CBS-TV

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 1970 - Janis Joplin was found dead of a heroin overdose at the age of 27. She had just finished recording her second solo album "Pearl." 

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 1976 - Barbara Walters joined Harry Reasoner at the anchor desk of the "ABC Evening News" for the first time.


DAILY SQU-EEK


If You Were Born Today, October 4

Overall a responsible and practical person, you are not, however, a stick in the mud. Your interests are many and varied, and you are skilled at presenting your ideas to others in a unique way. You are both an interesting and interested person, always learning, ever curious, but also rather stubborn when it comes to your ideas and opinions. Under pressure, you might feel the need to make up stories, as your reputation is important to you, and you instinctively fear misrepresentation. Your slow yet steady approach to achieving your goals assures you success, even if it doesn't come early. Your ideas are ahead of their time, and others tend to respect your advice. Famous people born today: Charlton Heston, Jackie Collins, Anne Rice, Susan Sarandon, Alicia Silverstone, Rachael Leigh Cook, Buster Keaton.



Picture of the day
M-209
The M-209 is a portable, mechanical cipher machine used primarily by the US military in World War II, though it remained in active use through the Korean War. In this photograph, an intermediate gear unit (center) meshes with gears adjoining each key wheel. Visible to the left of the image is the type wheel that prints out messages and cipher text onto paper tape.


Picture of Lake Hollingsworth in Lakeland, Florida

Serendipitous Scene

Photograph by Dennis Ramos, National Geographic 
It seems that Mother Nature was in a collaborative mood, helping Dennis Ramos snap an unusual shot of Lake Hollingsworth in Lakeland, Florida. “I was walking with my wife,” he writes, “when we noticed this one duck [fly] to the top of the young tree. As we were taking shots, I noticed this cloud very slowly [move] into my camera frame.” A long-exposure photographer, Ramos was prepared to capture the moment. “I always have my neutral-density filter in my camera bag,” he explains. “I set up my tripod and [dialed] in a 90-second exposure—just enough to blur the water and still have the cloud above without too much motion blur.”





knit halloween

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La Boheme Neck Warmer (Free)
 
 
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crochet halloween

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RECIPE,  halloween
 
 
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Double Pumpkin Poke Cake
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CROCKPOT RECIPE
stephanie o'dea

CrockPot Apple Butter Recipe


Day 275.

Finally! I made apple butter! This beats the lid off of store-bought apple butter. 

The Ingredients.--apples. 14 large apples fit in my 6.5 quart crockpot
--2 tsp cinnamon
--2 cups white sugar (see note below)--1 cup brown sugar (see note below) 
--1/2 tsp cloves
--1 T vanilla 

The Directions. 

This is a 2-day process. Quarter the apples and take out the core. I did not peel, and picked out the skin later. If you enjoy peeling, or have one of those cool apple tools that peels easily, you should peel.
Although my picking out the skin later idea worked, it was kind of a pain. But (for me) it was easier than peeling all of the apples by hand.

Put all of the quartered apples into your crockpot. Add 1 tablespoon of vanilla. Cover and cook on low for 8 hours. 

When the cooking is done, mash the apples with a fork. Pick out the skin with the fork. Stir in the sugar, cinnamon, and cloves. 

NOTE: I think this was too much sugar. It's good, and my kids really like it, but I feel I went too heavy with the sugar. Next time I will use 3/4 cup of each kind. My mistake came from reading other recipes that called for 3 cups of sugar, instead of going with my gut. 

Cover again and cook on low for 6 hours. Pick out more apple skin. If you prefer your apple butter to be velvety-smooth, blend with an immersion blender, or blend in small batches in a traditional blender. I did not do this.

The Verdict. 

Very very good. Very sweet, but the sweetness did mellow after a night in the refrigerator. This made enough for 3 jars of apple butter. We gave a container to my mom and grandma. It tastes wonderful with peanut butter on an apple rice cake.




CRAFT, halloween (i do these heads every year, fun, odd looking and takes time to get the 'right look')
 
 
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CHILDREN'S CORNER ... halloween craft





PUZZLE


thanks, sylvia
  
Why did she have the eerie feeling she was being watched?


QUOTE
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow. - Helen Keller







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"Welcome" in Danish (Denmark) - Velkommen





CLEVER
what is your greatest strength?
my greatest strength is spreading happiness .. you?
I got Forgiving Others. What is your greatest strength?


An atheist was walking through the woods. 
‘What majestic trees!'
‘What powerful rivers!' 
‘What beautiful animals!’ He said to himself.
As he was walking alongside the river, he heard a rustling in the bushes behind him. He turned to look. He saw a 7-foot grizzly bear charge towards him. He ran as fast as he could up the path. He looked over his shoulder and saw that the bear was closing in on him. He looked over his shoulder again and the bear was even closer. He tripped and fell on the ground. He rolled over to pick himself up but saw that the bear was right on top of him, reaching for him with his left paw and raising his right paw to strike him…
At that instant the Atheist cried out, ‘Oh my God!’ 
Time Stopped. 
The bear froze. 
The forest was silent. 
As a bright light shone upon the man, a voice came out of the sky. ‘You deny my existence for all these years, teach others I don’t exist and even credit creation to cosmic accident. Do you expect me to help you out of this predicament? Am I to count you as a believer?’ 
The atheist looked directly into the light, ‘It would be hypocritical of me to suddenly ask you to treat me as a Christian now, but perhaps you could make the BEAR a Christian?’ 
‘Very well,’ said the voice. 
The light went out. The sounds of the forest resumed. And the bear dropped his right paw, brought both paws together, bowed his head and spoke: ‘For what I am about to receive, may the Lord make me truly thankful, Amen.’


EYE OPENER
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Did you feel any of these today?


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1 comment:

  1. PattyOctober 4, 2015 at 2:29 PM

    Wow, I'm definitely sticking to applesauce. Apple Butter has way too much sugar in it and our applesauce has none;) We've taking various animals to Church for the blessings of the animals--and enjoyed watching our grands do the same.

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