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October 8, 2013

★~ Todays Quote:  “If you want something you never had, you have to do something you never did.” — Unknown

★~ Fluffernutter Sandwich Day: 

A Fluffernutter is a yummy sandwich made with bread, peanut butter, and marshmallow fluff.

Marshmallow candy can be traced back to ancient Egypt when people first began to harvest the marshmallow plant (Althaea officinalis). During the 19th century, French pharmacists extracted the juice from marshmallow plants and heated it with egg whites and sugar, creating a marshmallow cream.

Then, in 1917, Archibald Query of Somerville, Massachusetts created the special formula for the marshmallow fluff we know and love today. The city of Somerville celebrates with the famous “What the Fluff” festival every year!

Have a fluffernutter sammie for lunch and find out what all the fluff is about. Last year, I added chocolate to my fluffernutter sammie (Thank you El Morno friend Carol for the suggestion) and I will add it this year too!

★~ Touch Tag Day:

You Are It!

★~ Pierogi Day

Pierogis originated sometime during the 13th century and were a common peasant food. Probably the most popular variety is the potato pierogi, but you can also find them filled with cheese, sauerkraut, mushrooms and sometimes even fruit.

Most grocery stores carry good quality pierogi in their frozen foods section. If you have the time, however, here is the  traditional pierogi recipe to try out.

★~ Fluffernutter Sandwich Day: 

A Fluffernutter is a yummy sandwich made with bread, peanut butter, and marshmallow fluff.

Marshmallow candy can be traced back to ancient Egypt when people first began to harvest the marshmallow plant (Althaea officinalis). During the 19th century, French pharmacists extracted the juice from marshmallow plants and heated it with egg whites and sugar, creating a marshmallow cream.

Then, in 1917, Archibald Query of Somerville, Massachusetts created the special formula for the marshmallow fluff we know and love today. The city of Somerville celebrates with the famous “What the Fluff” festival every year!

Have a fluffernutter sammie for lunch and find out what all the fluff is about. Last year, I added chocolate to my fluffernutter sammie (Thank you El Morno friend Carol for the suggestion) and I will add it this year too!

★~ Today in History:

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♥~ 1871 – The story : Mrs. O’Leary’s cow kicked over a lantern in her barn, on DeKoven Street in Chicago, the barn caught fire. The fire spread, scorching almost four square miles, killing about 300 people and leaving a path of destruction valued at over two hundred million dollars. The city of Chicago was virtually leveled. But out of the ashes, a phoenix, in the guise of a steel and concrete Chicago, rose — all because of one cow.

Now, more than 125 years later, a history buff, Richard Bales, says it may not have been Mrs. O’Leary’s cow, after all. It seems that Daniel ‘Peg Leg’ Sullivan, a neighbor of the O’Leary’s, was in the barn feeding his mother’s cow. He either kicked over a lantern or dropped a match or pipe, setting the famous fire. Sullivan, who had been questioned about the fire, said he was across the street when he saw the fire break out. A two-story building would have blocked his view. So, Bales theorizes that Sullivan lied and was the cause of the fire, rather than Mrs. O’Leary’s cow.

A camp song from the good old days (Thank you, El Morno Friend Cynthia)

One dark night, when we were all in bed.
Old Mother Murphey put a lantern in her shed.
When the cow kicked it over, she winked her eye and said,
“It’ll be a hot time, in the old town, tonight!” FIRE! FIRE! FIRE!

(faster) One night dark, when all in bed we were,
Old Murphey’s Mother put a shed in her lantern.
And when the kick cowed it over, she eyed her wink and said,
“There’ll be a time hot, in the town old, night to!” ERIF! ERIF! ERIF!

♥~ 1952 –  The Complete Book of Etiquette was first published.

♥~ 1956 – Live from New York, baseball fans saw and heard history being made, when Game 5 of the World Series was broadcast from Yankee Stadium. Don Larsen of the Yankees became the first man to pitch a perfect game during a World Series, defeating the Brooklyn Dodgers 2-0.

♥~ 1984 – Anne Murray won the Country Music Association’s Album of the Year Award  for A Little Good News. Murray was the first woman to win this award.

★~ Famous Birthdays:

♥~ 1943 –Actor-comedian Chevy Chase (Cornelius Crane Chase)

♥~ 1943 – Author R.L. [Robert Lawrence] Stine,  R.L. quit his job as a social studies teacher to author books for young adults. By the early 1990s, hie books were selling about a million copies per month. To keep up with demand, he had to write 20 pages a day, finishing a book every two weeks. His Fear Street series was the first modern book series for children that sold equally well to both boys and girls. Stein answers critics that say his books are aren’t good for children by saying  “I believe that kids as well as adults are entitled to books of no socially redeeming value.”

♥~ 1949 – Actress Sigourney (Susan) Weaver actress

♥~ 1950 – Singer Robert “Kool” Bell of Kool: Kool and the Gang

♥~ 1970 – Actor Matt Damon actor

★~ Good to know:O’Canada….

They won’t share their Beer?  That is not very friendly!

Next time your off to Europe, it may be a good idea to take along your closest Canadian friend. You just might end up with all the free beer you’d ever want.

To bolster national pride, Canadian beer company Molson placed beer fridges across Europe, from the streets of London and Brussels to the pastures of Belgium. Inside those fire engine red fridges? A free stockpile of Canadian suds.

A public fridge chock full of free beer may sound like heaven to some, but there’s a problem: It’s locked. And there’s only one way to open it—you have be Canadian. The fridge will open only if you scan a Canadian passport. A webcam inside snaps a photo of the passport, unlocking the swill when it recognizes the document as 100 percent official maple leaf.

It’s an advertising stunt, of course (Molson recently reintroduced the old “I am Canadian” slogan), but the ad company in charge, Rethink, says that more fridges may be on the way—including at the winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.

Sigh–and we always thought Canada was the nice country.

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Check out Coles blog post for an update on the June Bug. I drove it yesterday afternoon – Far out. The drivers seat is all the way back (pull it forward? Hahahahah)  which works for Cole’s long legs, but was awkward for me. But you’ll never hear me complain. Nope. I just sat forward in the seat, worked the clutch pedal with one foot, pushed the brake all the way in with the other foot and used one hand to shift. I may not be as good as I once was, but I am as good once as I ever was. . .Now when I can accomplish all of this whilst drinking a coke they should name something after me.

Wishing everyone a Terrific Tuesday.

Odd Loves Company!