Month: December 2017

walnuts (tree nuts) and peanuts (legumes) on a cutting board with a nut cracker

Cinquain: Holiday Nuts

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Nut meat

Nut crackers please

Hard shell and seed revealed

Aroma and textures delight

Crunchy

Inspirational photo by Pixabay

Good news for people with nut allergies.  

Golden Retriever Brodie featured in a snowflake

Golden Brodie softly barks: Get a dog and save your life?

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My golden retriever self wants to share this researched finding!  Yep…get a dog and possibly live a longer and healthier life…so if your life fits this research go immediately to your local animal shelter and find yourself “your life-saver/furry friend”.  Pups of all shapes & sizes are waiting for you…oh what a great giver you would be…and my four-legged friends would bring joy…continued love and happiness in return.

Go save a life…get life…what a winning combo!  Golden paws up during this holiday season.

Inspirational photo of Golden Brodie by PamelaWLucas 11/17

President Franklin D Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill light the US National Christmas Tree in 1941

History Nuggets: FDR lights White House Christmas after declaring war

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“President Franklin D. Roosevelt (standing) and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (right) speak from the south portico of the White House while lighting the official tree on Christmas Eve, 1941.”  Imagine the heavy hearts and trepidation for the world at this time.

Although the war began with Nazi Germany’s attack on Poland in September 1939, the United States did not enter the war until after the Japanese bombed the American fleet in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941.  The United States declared war against Japan the next day, December 8, 1941.

Inspirational photo by White House Archives

 

Official 2016 White House Ornament - Fire Truck Pumper

History Nuggets: 1929 Christmas Eve Fire in the White House

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In 1929 a fire broke out on Christmas Eve in the White House during a party for staff and their children.   As flames licked the walls of West Wing offices, 130 firefighters arrived and extinguished the blaze. The next year, President Herbert Hoover sent toy fire trucks to some of his young guests.

The 2016  Official White House Christmas Ornament was a replica of the many “pumpers”that worked furiously from hydrants up to five blocks away from the White House to supply the water necessary to combat the flames.

Photo by the White House Historical Society