Good 29º foggy morning.
Yesterday we started foggy and frozen....
The fog came and went and finally we had blue sky and sunshine. We'll probably do the same today.
We topped at 61º.
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Interesting
Some facts about South Carolina...
The salamander was given the honor of official state amphibian.
The walls of the American fort on Sullivan Island, in Charleston Harbor, were made of spongy Palmetto logs. This was helpful in protecting the fort because the British cannonballs bounced off the logs.
South Carolina entered the Union on May 23, 1788 and became the 8th state.
The state dance of South Carolina is the Shag!
The first battle of the Civil War took place at Fort Sumter.
Tyler Brothers Work Shoe and Boot Company in Wagener produces 8 major brands of OSHA approved safety footwear, including such famous brands as Redwing, Georgia, Northlake, and Wolverine.
The Board of Public Works in Gaffney built an elevated water storage tank in the shape of a peach in 1981.
The first boll weevil found in South Carolina is on display at the Pendleton District Agricultural Museum.
Johnston is known as the Peach Capital of the World.
Sweetgrass basket making has been a part of the Mount Pleasant community for more than 300 years. Basket making is a traditional art form that has been passed on from generation to generation.
Bomb Island on Lake Murray each spring and summer is the home of a very unusual event. Each year thousands of Purple Martins return to this island to roost for the summer. The island has been declared a bird sanctuary and it is quite a sight to watch these birds return to Bomb Island each day around sunset.
On Nov 2, 1954 Strom Thurmond became the first US senator elected by write-in vote. Thurmond received 139,106 write-in votes to win his seat. He defeated Democratic nominee Edgar Brown, who received only 80,956 votes.
I posted this before...yummy and easy!
from Mr. Food...
"We've taken canned biscuits and laced them with bits of chopped veggies and shredded cheese for a pull-apart bread that's almost a meal in itself."
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1/2 cup chopped onion
- 1/2 cup chopped red or green bell pepper
- 1/2 cup chopped celery
- 3 (12-ounce) cans flaky biscuits
- 1 cup (4 ounces) shredded Cheddar cheese
- Preheat oven to 350º. Coat a 10-inch Bundt pan with cooking spray.
- In a large skillet, melt butter over medium-high heat. Add onion, bell pepper, and celery and cook until tender, stirring often. Allow veggie mixture to cool slightly.
- Cut biscuits into quarters. In a large bowl, toss biscuit pieces, veggie mixture, and cheese until well combined. Place in prepared Bundt pan.
- Bake 40 minutes or until golden. Cool in pan 10 minutes; invert onto a serving platter, and serve immediately.
Historically this date.....
1847 – John C. Fremont is appointed Governor of the new California Territory.
1942 – Crash of TWA Flight 3, killing all 22 aboard, including film star Carole Lombard.
1945 – Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, the so-called Führerbunker.
1979 – The Shah of Iran flees Iran with his family and relocates to Egypt.
2003 – The Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107 which would be its final one. Columbia disintegrated 16 days later on re-entry.
And births this date include.....
1634 – Dorthe Engelbrechtsdatter, Norwegian poet (d. 1716)
Glad I didn't have to learn how to spell that as a kid!
1878 – Harry Carey, American silent film actor (d. 1947)
(The father of Harry Carey Jr..)
1917 – Carl Karcher, founded the Carl's Jr. hamburger chain (d. 2008)
(The father of Harry Carey Jr..)1901 – Frank Zamboni, American inventor (d. 1988)
You only get one guess as to his invention!
1908 – Ethel Merman, American actress and singer (d. 1984)
1917 – Carl Karcher, founded the Carl's Jr. hamburger chain (d. 2008)
All I know. Nuff said. Have a good Sunday. Ciao.
xo Sue Mom Bobo
Each year on January 16th, people across the nation recognize National Nothing Day.
The observance was created as a day to provide Americans with one National Day when they can just sit without celebrating, observing or honoring anything. (National Day Calendar only reports the Days, sometimes they may contradict themselves.)
Martin Luther King Jr. Day falls on the third Monday of January which means that one-in-seven January 16th’s will fall on the same day as Nothing Day, effectively usurping the nature of Nothing Day.
While it may be a good day to celebrate nothing at all, we suppose putting nothing in a glass and setting it on a table might suffice for celebration. You might leave your diary page blank on every January 16th. Don’t mark anything on the calendar on the 16th, either. It would be interesting to see what would happen if you sent a blank email dated January 16th. How many replies would you get saying, “There’s nothing here.”
For people whose birthday lands on January 16th, wrap an empty box. That should elicit and a nothing response appropriate for the celebration.
When asked, “What are your plans, today?” your response should definitely be, “Nothing.” What else would your answer be on a day like today? Now that we think about it, “Nothing” works well as an answer when recognizing the day.
Q: What’s for supper?
A: Nothing
Q: What are you reading?
A. Nothing. (Even though you’re clearly reading something.)
Q. What’s your homework assignment?
A. Nothing. (As you’re working on your homework.)
Q. What are you drinking.
A. Nothing. (As you sip on the best non-fat latte ever.)
HOW TO OBSERVE
NATIONAL NOTHING DAY HISTORY
In 1972, columnist Harold Pullman Coffin proposed National Nothing Day. The day has been observed in all its nothingness since 1973. The observance is sponsored by Coffin’s National Nothing Foundation, registered in Capitola, California.
