Plush Animal Lovers Day is a day of celebration that is held every year to show your favourite stuffed toy some extra special love and appreciation. There’s an urban legend that says that the Teddy Bear, one of the worlds most popular plush animal pets, was invented when American President Theodore Roosevelt saw a baby bear on a hunting trip, and refused to shoot it.,
The original origins of the day’s creation are vague but there is an unconfirmed Urban Legend that the day first came about after a collectibles dealer named Royal Selangor came up with the idea of a Teddy Bears Picnic Day in the late eighties. Other stuffed toys became jealous that Teddy Bears were being singled out for their own celebration and demanded a special day all of their own! Not long after, Plush Animal Lovers Day quickly replaced Teddy Bears Picnic Day in popularity!
Word of the Day
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| Definition: | (noun) A low heavy horse cart without sides; used for haulage. | ||
| Synonyms: | dray | ||
| Usage: | An empty camion came bumping down the cobblestone street, pulled by two exhausted horses. | ||
Idiom of the Day
have (someone's) blood on (one's) head— To be the cause of (someone's) death; to bear the guilt or responsibility of (someone's) death or injury. |
History
Statue of Liberty Is Dedicated (1886)
| The Statue of Liberty, originally known as Liberty Enlightening the World, was proposed by French historian Édouard Laboulaye in 1865 to commemorate the alliance of France with the American colonies during the American Revolution. Designed by French sculptor F. A. Bartholdi, the statue is 152 ft (46 m) high and is possibly the tallest metal statue ever made. It was shipped to New York in 1885, assembled, and dedicated in 1886. |
Tokugawa Yoshinobu (1837)
| Tokugawa was the 15th and last shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan. The Tokugawa family held the shogunate and controlled Japan from 1603 to 1867. Beginning at the time of Yoshinobu's birth, there were numerous peasant uprisings and samurai unrest. Undermined by increasing foreign incursions, the Tokugawa were overthrown by an attack of provincial forces from Choshu, Satsuma, and Tosa, who restored the Meiji emperor to power. |
Cave-Dwelling Millipede Has 414 Legs and an Unusual Number of Other Appendages, Too
| Millipedes, the little blunt-headed invertebrates with a habit of coiling up like baby ferns, rarely live up their name. In Latin, millipede means "thousand feet," though the majority of the arthropods do not surpass the hundred-leg mark. |
Cave-dwelling millipede has 414 legs and an unusual number of other appendages, too
1636 - Harvard College was founded in Massachusetts. The original name was Court of Massachusetts Bay Colony. It was the first school of higher education in America.
1793 - Eli Whitney applied for a patent for his cotton gin.
1798 - Composer Henri-Jerome Bertini was born.
1904 - The St. Louis Police Department became the first to use fingerprinting.
1949 - U.S. President Harry Truman swore in Eugenie Moore Anderson as the U.S. ambassador to Denmark. Anderson was the first woman to hold the post of ambassador.
1956 - Elvis Presley's song "Love Me Tender" became the No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit. He became the first artist to follow himself into the No. 1 position. The song "Don't Be Cruel/Hound Dog" had been the No. 1 song for 11 weeks.
1965 - The Gateway Arch along the waterfront in St. Louis, MO, was completed.
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sheri is a foster parent for all the feral kittens that are caught in her florida neighborhood. she and her husband raise them and generally make them ready to be neutered, adopted or released into the wild. she volunteers for MEOWNow .. get involved in a shelter in your area.
some of their kitties, hard at work doing the accounts! lol
if you are interested, contact them to find out how to become animal foster parents, too.
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or contact:
i could go for a potato chip, too!
Pictures of the day
A portrait of a king vulture(Sarcoramphus papa) at Walsrode Bird Park, Germany. This species of vulture lives predominantly in tropical lowland forests stretching from southern Mexico to northern Argentina. Though its ruff, flight, and tail feathers are gray to black, the king vulture's head and neck are bald and with varying skin color.
knit, halloween
knit
thanks, sheri
knit, halloween
thanks, emily
knit
knit, halloween
crochet
crochet, halloween
crochet
crochet, halloween
RECIPE
CROCKPOT RECIPE
SWEETS, halloween
HEALTHY CARAMEL APPLES
ADULT COLORING
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Diy Sequin Pumpkins. | Gathering Beauty
With Halloween only a few days away why not add a little bling to your decorations this year and make these diy sequin pumpkins.
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Crawling Spider Soda:
Freeze rubber spiders in ice cube trays filled with orange juice
When cubes are frozen, fill drink cup with ice cubes, and then 7-up
Opt for Cherry 7-up for a bloody effect!
The fizz of the 7-up combined with the citrus of the orange juice creates a fabulous sherbet like flavor.
*Tip: The Dollar Tree has $1.00 bags of spider rings, simply cut off the ring portion, leaving the spider intact.
*Tip: The Dollar Tree has $1.00 bags of spider rings, simply cut off the ring portion, leaving the spider intact.
PUZZLE
QUOTE
CLEVER
thanks, clara
EYE OPENER
thanks, helen
Little Known Pumpkin Facts
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- The word ‘pumpkin’ comes from the Greek word, ‘pepon’, which means a ‘large melon.’
- Pumpkins originated in Central America.
- Pumpkins are actually a fruit. Many people think it should be our national fruit.
- Pumpkin is really a squash. It is in the Curcurbita family along with squash and cucumbers.
- The yellow-orange flowers that bloom on the pumpkin vine are edible.
- Pumpkin seeds taste great roasted and contain medicinal properties.
- Native Americans grew and ate pumpkins and their seeds long before the Pilgrims reached this continent. Pilgrims learned how to grow and prepare pumpkins from the Native Americans.
- Pumpkin was most likely served at the first Thanksgiving feast celebrated by the Pilgrims and the Native Americans in 1621.
- The earliest pumpkin pie made in America was quite different than the pumpkin pie we enjoy today. Pilgrims and early settlers made pumpkin pie by hollowing out a pumpkin, filling the shell with milk, honey and spices and baking it.
- Early settlers dried pumpkins shells, cut it into strips and wove it into mats.
- Pumpkin has been prepared in a variety of ways from soups to stews to desserts since the immigration of the first European settlers.
- The ‘Pumpkin Capital of the World’ is Morton, Illinois. Home of Libby’s pumpkin industry.
- The state of Illinois grows the most pumpkins. It harvests about 12,300 acres of pumpkins annually.
- Each year, growers compete for the title of having grown the world’s largest pumpkin. The largest recorded pumpkin grown was on October 1, 2005 at the Pennsylvania Giant Pumpkin Growers Weighoff. It weighed in at 1,469 pounds, breaking all previous world records. It was grown by Larry Checkon of North Cambria, Penn.
- Pumpkins were formerly considered a remedy for freckles and snakebites.
- Natural medicine practitioners have proven that consuming pumpkin seeds reduces the risk of prostate disorders in men.
Thank you so much Diane for using your wonderful blog to inform people about our wild kitties. If we get kittens we foster, like I do, then they can be placed for adoption. If the adult kitties are already out in the neighborhood they are trapped, brought to a vet, spayed/neutered, shots, wormed, flea meds, rehab for a couple of days in foster care, then released and taken care of by a "caregiver". The caregiver monitors food, if one is injured it is caught and taken to the vet for care. The end result is we have a population of non-producing happy cats who give us back in the way of rodent control...remember 1 pair of mice can reproduce 1 million offspring within 12-14 months so "community" (feral) cats do give us something in return. They get to retire and enjoy their lives! Kitty hugs!
ReplyDeleteDiane, I always enjoy your blog, but today was special. I laughed more than usual. Now I must grab my needles because you have inspired me. Again.
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