DIANE'S CORNER: Play-Doh Day - September 16, 2020

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Celebrate Collect Rocks Day

Why not be a geologist for the day in celebration of Collect Rocks Day? If you’re the type of person who can’t resist picking up a pebble or two at the beach, or is always on the lookout for shiny minerals when they dig the garden, then this is a chance to make time for finding attractive stones and crystals. People of all ages can use Collect Rock Day as a chance to search for precious and beautiful rocks.

On this day, schools may wish to combine rock collecting with some learning around different rock types and how they are formed. For adults, Collect Rocks Day is the perfect opportunity for a trip to a fossil filled beach in search of rocky treasures, or why not experience something a little different and try panning for gold? There are endless exciting possibilities for celebrating Collect Rocks Day in a memorable way.

thanks for the amazing braids, Bev

Joke of the Day

Explanation:
A clever wordplay with the words “vein” and “vain”.

Word of the Day

votive

Votive candles at Notre-Dame

MEANING:
adjective: Relating to a vow, wish, desire, etc.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin votum (vow), from vovere (to vow), which also gave us vow, vote, and devote. Earliest documented use: 1582.

NOTES:
If you have ever tossed a coin into a wishing well, you have made a votive offering: giving a coin to the wishing well god(s) in the hope they fulfill your wish. More often, a votive offering takes the form of lighting a candle in a church. These offerings could be made in fulfillment of a vow or in devotion. In an extended sense, the word votive is also used as a noun to refer to those candles.

USAGE:
“Prehistoric reverence for watery places might suggest that the shield was deposited there as a votive gift to the gods -- potentially after a successful battle.”
David Keys; Ancient Celtic Warriors Perfected Bouncy Shields; The Independent (London, UK); May 24, 2019.

Idiom of the Day

Add insult to injury
When people add insult to injury, they make a bad situation even worse.

This Day in History

1620 - The Mayflower departed from Plymouth, England. The ship arrived at Provincetown, MA, on November 21st and then at Plymouth, MA, on December 26th. There were 102 passengers onboard.

1630 - The village of Shawmut changed its name to Boston.

1782 - The Great Seal of the United States was impressed on document to negotiate a prisoner of war agreement with the British. It was the first official use of the impression.

1908 - General Motors was founded by William Crapo "Billy" Durant. The company was formed by merging the Buick and Olds car companies.

1940 - U.S. President Roosevelt signed into law the Selective Training and Service Act, which set up the first peacetime military draft in U.S. history.

1953 - "The Robe" premiered at the Roxy Theater in New York. It was the first movie filmed in the wide screen CinemaScope process.

1963 - "The Outer Limits" premiered on ABC-TV.

1966 - The Metropolitan Opera opened its new opera house at New York's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. The opening performance was Samuel Barber's "Antony and Cleopatra."

1970 - Jimi Hendrix made his final public appearance. He appeared with Eric Burdon and War at a club in London.

1972 - "The Bob Newhart Show" premiered on CBS-TV.

1976 - The Episcopal Church formally approved women to be ordained as priests and bishops.

1998 - Meryl Streep received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

2014 - The George Strait live album "The Cowboy Rides Away: Live from AT&T Stadium" was released. The show was the last of George Strait's last tour.

thanks, Tina

DAILY SQU-EEK

If You Were Born Today, September 16
You have a great facility with words–for good or for bad! While you can be highly entertaining and witty, sometimes your words bite, and you may come across as too opinionated. However, you are exceptionally kind and helpful to people you love. Security is extremely important to you, and you resist change as a result, preferring the tried and true. You are at once determined and emotional, so that there is a distinct tough side to your nature, yet a deeper, more sensitive and intuitive side as well. You love to learn, and will constantly seek out experiences that add to your knowledge throughout your life. Famous people born today:

1822 Charles Crocker, American business tycoon and railroad executive (Central Pacific Railroad, Southern Pacific Railroad), born in Troy, New York (d. 1888)

1875 James Cash Penney, American department store founder (J C Penney), born in Hamilton, Missouri (d. 1971)

1923 Lee Kuan Yew, Founding father of modern Singapore and 1st Prime Minister of Singapore (1959-90), born in Singapore (d. 2015)

1925 [Riley B.] B.B. King, American blues guitarist and singer (The Thrill is Gone), born in Itta Bena, Mississippi (d. 2015)

1956 David Copperfield [Kotkin], American magician, born in Metuchen, New Jersey

1971 Amy Poehler, American comedian and actress (Saturday Night Live, Parks and Recreation), born in Newton, Massachusetts

READERS INFO
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(Not So) Totally Useless Facts of The Day:

Library books are commonly stacked vertically and with the spines out. That was not always the case. During Medieval Times, books would be chained to the bookcase and they were kept with the spine of the book facing in.

The biggest documented weight loss took place in 1980. A man from Washington went from weighing 1400 lbs to 476 lbs. That's a loss of 924 lbs.

Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960, classic film, PSYCHO became the first film in movie history to feature a toilet flush. This momentous toilet flush takes place right before the famous shower scene death. There may have been previous films that showed a toilet, but this was the first time a flush was seen AND heard.
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thanks for the Offbeat Holiday, Patty
SEPTEMBER 16: WORLD PLAY-DOH DAY

Today's the perfect day to do something with your favorite childhood clay! It's OK with us if you mostly just smell it.

3.
Coronavirus Style by Sylvia, CAN DO Correspondent
FRESH DILLS
I took these to a fellowship potluck last year and the men raved about these pickles (?!?). So now whenever little cukes are available, I take this quick dish, and there are never any left.

Pictures of the day

Graziella is an 1852 novel by the French author Alphonse de
Lamartine. It tells of a young French man who falls in love with
the eponymous character, a fisherman's granddaughter, during
a trip to Naples, Italy; they are separated when he must return
to France, and Graziella dies soon afterwards. The novel
received popular acclaim; an operatic adaptation had been
completed by the end of the year, and the work influenced
paintings, poems, novels, and films. This 1878 oil-on-canvas
painting by the French artist Jules Joseph Lefebvre shows
Graziella sitting on a rock, fishing net in hand, gazing over her
shoulder at a smoking Mount Vesuvius in the distance. The
painting is now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of
Art in New York.

FINE ART AND CREEPY MONSTERS

Japser St Aubyn West, an Australian artist who draws all sorts of fun cartoon monsters that he adds into real-world scenes, has hilariously inserted similar monsters into works of fine art.

knit
thanks, Wendy

Purlieu pattern by Myrrhia Resneck

knit
thanks, Connie

Like, Totally pattern by Lynsey Mitchell

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Tiny Parlor Cat Knitting pattern by Sara Elizabeth Kellner

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Changing Leaves Shawl pattern by Susan Gressman

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Knook Piggy Pattern pattern by Amy Gaines

Knit Patterns of the Day:

thanks, Valerie, Canadian Correspondent

{FREE} CARING : Heirloom Blanket

Chunky Pumpkin

crochet
thanks, Helen

The Adirondack Wrap Crochet Pattern

crochet
thanks, Tara

Cotton Candy II

crochet

Vandyke Cosy in Crochet

crochet

Calico Flowers Crochet Scarf

crochet, vintage

Rustic Afghan

Quarantine Cooking Recipes

thanks, Debbie

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bread

RECIPE

thanks, Shelley, New York Food Correspondent

Cheddar Meatball and Pasta Skillet

CROCKPOT RECIPE

thanks, Tina

"1 Million Dollar" Vegetable Stew

VEGAN/ VEGETARIAN RECIPE

Both vegetarian and vegan diets may provide health benefits, including reduced body weight, lower cholesterol levels, and decreased risk of cardiovascular disease. However, it is important for vegetarians and vegans to ensure that they are meeting all of their nutritional requirements.

thanks, Alice