DIANE'S CORNER ..
Celebrate Fountain Pen Day
There is something utterly elegant about hand-writing a document, about taking pen in hand and transferring the contents of our hearts and souls to paper.
When working on something as dreary as the budget for the month or filling out paperwork, a ball-point pen will do. When you are taken to record the most important moments of your life, or turning words into poetry, only the elegance of a Fountain Pen will do.
Fountain Pen Day reminds us of this and encourages us to pick up a fountain pen and put it our souls to paper.
History of Fountain Pen Day
The tools used for writing have gone through some massive changes throughout history. To begin with, it was chisels used to mark stone, a bit of papyrus reed to mark out the shapes of cuneiform, or bits of charcoal used to mark words on pieces of Birch Bark or bits of leaf.
Eventually, the ink was created, using various types of plant matter, animals, and eventually iron and extract of Oak galls. Ink required a new tool, and that tool was initially the dip quill pen, a bit of feather (usual goose) with a carefully cut nib to draw up the ink and transfer it to paper.
This was such an amazing innovation that it stayed with us for a goodly long while, but ultimately a new creation was needed that didn’t require constant dipping, and that didn’t require constant recutting of the nib.
So it was that the fountain pen came to exist in 1636, combining a wonderful reservoir of ink with a metal nib that didn’t require being recut constantly. The world of writing was changed forever, and it took 300 years for an innovation to come along that overshadowed it.
Overshadowed, but not eliminated, the Fountain Pen is still the writing utensil of choice for those who prefer a more traditional, elegant, and beautiful method of writing. It also has the benefit of producing a cleaner and more consistent line. Fountain Pen Day honors this writing utensil with the long, and ongoing, history.
JOKE OF THE DAY
WORD OF THE DAY
caducous
MEANING:adjective: Tending to fall easily or before the usual time.
ETYMOLOGY:From Latin caducus (falling), from cadere (to fall). Ultimately from the Indo-European root kad- (to fall), which is also the source of cadence, cascade, casualty, cadaver, chance, chute, accident, occident, and decay. Earliest documented use: 1684.
USAGE:“It was a morning after storm ... the dishevelled lawn littered with a caducous fall of leaves.”
John Banville; The Sea; Knopf; 2007.
“Caducous ideas could set back any efforts to achieve unity.”
Carmen Madera; Enkindled: The Wild Scent of Desire; Xlibris; 2014.
John Banville; The Sea; Knopf; 2007.
“Caducous ideas could set back any efforts to achieve unity.”
Carmen Madera; Enkindled: The Wild Scent of Desire; Xlibris; 2014.
TODAY'S ARTIST
thanks, Natalie
Peder Henrik Kristian Zahrtmann, known as Kristian Zahrtmann, (31 March 1843 – 22 June 1917) 
IDIOM OF THE DAY
What does 'Beating a dead horse' mean?
Meaning: If someone is trying to convince people to do or feel something without any hope of succeeding, they're beating a dead horse. This is used when someone is trying to raise interest in an issue that no-one supports anymore; beating a dead horse will not make it do any more work.
DAILY SQUEEK
DAILY SQUEEK
If You Were Born Today, November 5:
If You Were Born Today, November 5:
You possess a rare balance between introspection and extroversion. You are able to look within for answers, and often do, yet reaching out to others and making social connections also comes fairly easily to you. You are quietly ambitious, and a strong sense that you will achieve can carry you far. You have an aptitude for the written word and/or you are able to charm others through your words. You are more adaptable than most Scorpios, yet you are determined in whatever ignites your passions. You perhaps appear to be more versatile than you actually are. You possess your own unique vision, and you are not a conformist. Driven by a quiet sense of a personal mission, if you follow your intuition, success is almost guaranteed. Famous people born today:
1913 Vivien Leigh, English actress (Gone With The Wind; A Streetcar Named Desire), born in Darjeeling, Bengal Presidency, India (d. 1967)
1959 Bryan Adams, Canadian singer (Heaven), born in Kingston, Ontario
1960 Tilda Swinton, British actress (We Need to Talk About Kevin, The Chronicles of Narnia), born in London, England
thanks, Renee
You possess a rare balance between introspection and extroversion. You are able to look within for answers, and often do, yet reaching out to others and making social connections also comes fairly easily to you. You are quietly ambitious, and a strong sense that you will achieve can carry you far. You have an aptitude for the written word and/or you are able to charm others through your words. You are more adaptable than most Scorpios, yet you are determined in whatever ignites your passions. You perhaps appear to be more versatile than you actually are. You possess your own unique vision, and you are not a conformist. Driven by a quiet sense of a personal mission, if you follow your intuition, success is almost guaranteed. Famous people born today:
(Not So) TOTALLY USELESS FACTS OF THE DAY
A Chinese millionaire named Xiong Shuihua decided to tear down old huts in the village where he grew up and replace them with luxury flats. Then he gave the keys to the residents for free.
Repeatedly hitting something until you get it to work is actually called “percussive maintenance”.
The longest single mail route in the U.S. is in Mangum, Oklahoma, where a carrier drives 182.75 miles (294 km) a day to serve 248 customers.
READERS INFO
1.
1930 -
Social critic Sinclair Lewis won the Nobel Prize for Literature, the first American to receive the honour.
2.Nov 6, 1860 -
On this day, Americans elected as their president Abraham Lincoln, whose victory led to the secession of Southern states and the long and bloody Civil War that lasted until 1865 and ended slavery in the U.S.
3.thanks for the Offbeat Holiday, Patty
7th November – Hug A Bear Day.
For the safety of all I’ll say this up front: DO NOT go out there today and try to hug a Grizzly Bear! Nope, today is all about cuddling your cute fluffy teddy bears. Regardless of how old you are, or what walk of life you come from, you’re going to have a teddy bear handy, so today give it a big hug!
4.Coronavirus Style by Sylvia, CAN DO Correspondent
PATTERN BOOK FRIDAY
COFFEE
thanks, Ella
PICTURES OF THE DAY
The green-crowned brilliant (Heliodoxa jacula) is a large hummingbird native to the highlands from Costa Rica to western Ecuador where it lives at altitudes of between 700 and 2,000 m (2,300 and 6,600 ft). It feeds at the large inflorescences of Marcgravia vines, which the male will sometimes defend, and will also feed at Heliconia and other large flowers. Unlike many hummingbirds, the green-crowned brilliant almost always perches to feed. This female, subspecies H. j. henryi, was photographed in the Mount Totumas cloud forest, Panama. |
Secret lives (Finland)
knit .. Christmas
thanks, Connie
knit
thanks, Dawn
knit
knit .. Christmas
CROCHET PATTERNS OF THE DAY
crochet
thanks, Helen
crochet
crochet
CROCKPOT RECIPE
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.
COPYCAT RECIPE
RETRO RECIPE
SWEETS RECIPE
COOKBOOK FRIDAY
ADULT COLORING
Trichopathophobia - Fear of hair
Pentheraphobia - Fear of mother-in-law
Aibohphobia - Fear of Palindromes
Doraphobia - Fear of fur or skins of animals
Logizomechanophobia - Fear of computers.
Onomatophobia- Fear of hearing a certain word or of certain names.
Answer
Aibohphobia is not a real, documented phobia; it is actually a joke started on the Internet. It has not appeared in any documented psychology journal. The joke, of course, is that the word Aibohphobia is a palindrome.The title is part of a quote on fear from the book Dune, by Frank Herbert.
CRAFTS
PUZZLE
WORD SEARCH
| arrangement basic bent break crease cyst dress | elation energy environment equipment exempt grant limit | mechanical mesa meteor money oasis obstruction operation | relax riles sent slice streak sunny | television their think tile travel waste water women |
SUDOKU .. easy
solution:
ICE BREAKER
What Chore Do You Absolutely Hate Doing?
QUOTE
CLEVER
They walk among us… 😓
My colleague and I were eating our lunch in our cafeteria,
when we overheard an admin girl talking about the
sunburn she got on her weekend drive to the beach.
She drove down in a convertible, but said
she "didn't think she'd get sunburned
because the car was moving.”
They walk among us!
------------------------------------They walk among us… 😓My sister has a lifesaving tool in her car
Which is designed to cut through a seat belt
If she gets trapped. She keeps it in the car trunk.
They walk among us!
OPTICAL ILLUSION
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