Nut meat
Nut crackers please
Hard shell and seed revealed
Aroma and textures delight
Crunchy
Inspirational photo by Pixabay
Category: Cluttered Closet
Golden Brodie softly barks: Get a dog and save your life?
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
History Nuggets: 1889 First White House Christmas Tree
President Benjamin Harrison and his family introduced the first indoor White House Christmas tree in the upstairs oval room, the family’s private parlor. The White House at this point lacked electrical power, so the family decorated their tree with candles…as many did. The People’s House received electricity in 1891.
Benjamin Harrison, (1833 – 1901), 23rd President of the United States and the grandson of the ninth president, William Henry Harrison, created the only grandfather-grandson duo to hold the office.
What was happening in 1889?…Eiffel Tower opens, commemorates French Revolution…Dakotas, Montana and Washington admitted to the union…Bayer introduces aspirin in powder form (Germany).
Inspiring photo by Pinterest
History Nuggets: White House snowball fight
Christmas in 1834 brought no snow to Washington, DC. However, that did not stop President Andrew Jackson from having a snowball fight inside the White House for his children and his friends children. The party was lively with dinner, games and singing…ending with throwing snowballs made of cotton on the ready for a friendly rumpus.
What was happening in 1834?…In August…Slavery abolished throughout the British Empire…In October…1st black to obtain a U.S. patent, Henry Blair, for a corn planter…In November… Delmonico’s, one of New York’s finest restaurants, provides a meal of soup, steak, coffee and half a pie for 12 cents.
Cinquain: Winter birds
Fluff up
Puff up feathers
Birds will ruffle feathers
Downy feathers insulating
Warming
Cinquain by PamelaWLucas 11/27/17
Inspirational photo by Tara McLaughlin 11/17
Uncomplicated: Good thoughts
“If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely. –Roald Dahl, Matilda
Inspirational photo by Pixabay
Uncomplicated thoughts: You can
“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it.” —J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
Inspiring photo by Tara McLaughlin
Cinquain: The journey
each year
weather changes
scarce summer crops signal
instinct sets the fall migration
safe home
Cinquain by PamelaWLucas 11/24/17
Inspiration photo by Pixabay
Uncomplicated thoughts: Magic
“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.” Roald Dahl
This quote is from Roald Dahl’s last children’s story, “The Minpins.” In fact it is the very last line of that very last story.
Inspirational photo by Pixabay
History Nuggets: Mayflower Pilgrims and home brew
Beer was key…beer was safer to drink than water especially aboard ship. So yes, the Mayflower Pilgrims carried their beer across the Atlantic…
William Bradford mentioned their need for beer when he recalled the day they set out for what would be known as Plymouth:
“So in the morning, after we had called on God for direction, we came to this resolution — to go presently ashore again and to take a better view of the two places which we thought most fitting for us; for we could not now take much time for further search or consideration, our *victuals being much spent, especially our **beer.”
Original source: William Bradford’s daily journal.
*Victuals – provisions, food
**Out of beer, the Pilgrims were forced to live off water. Beer was viewed as a health drink. It was fairly low on alcohol and didn’t make one sick like the water from many streams and wells in Europe. Cheers!
Inspirational photo by Pixabay
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