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Silent Sunday: September 10, 2017
Post by @DawnMMiller.
September 10th is National Hot Dog Day!
Here are today’s five thing to know about Hot Dogs:
- It is estimated that over seven billion hot dogs will be eaten by Americans between Memorial Day and Labor Day.
- The term “hot dog” is credited to sports cartoonist Tad Dorgan. At a baseball game in New York in 1901, vendors began selling hot dachsund sausages in rolls.
- The most popular condiment for adults is mustard, while children prefer ketchup.
- The first words Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse ever uttered in a cartoon were “hot dogs” in “The Karnival Kid” in 1929.
- The average American is believed to eat approximately 60 hot dogs every year.
Today’s Food History
- 1859 Thomas Nuttall died. An English naturalist and botanist, he collected and studied plants around the Chesapeake Bay area in the U.S.
- 1898 Waldo Lonsbury Semon was born. Semon was an American Inventor who is credited with the invention of Vinyl. Vinyl is…
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This Is Your Life, Do What You Love #Quote
5 Awesome Wellness Epsom Salt Bath Benefits –
There are so many Epsom salt uses! Take a look at how these 5 Epsom salt bath benefits can help your blood, cure a migraine, your skin & immune system.
20 signs (aka some really good reality checks when you’re just too tired to nail this parenting thing)
“Most of the time, I am such a mom.
…I care about checking homework folders and attitudes, about making the team, the dental appointments, nutritious little snacks, and memories. I’m a multitasking mofo. I plan. I punish. I pin shit on Pinterest, and then sometimes,I actually make that shit, for chrissakes!Most of the time, I mom so hard, y’all. I’m on the ball. I read all 36 end-of-the-year emails from the PTA. I show up for all 36 special assemblies, on time, wearing a freaking bra and everything. I do. I’m a mom.
But sometimes? Sometimes I am simply a very tired person—a person too damn tired to juggle it all.”
Senseless Sunday Sarcasm : Sentinels of silliness
Dingo Mutt: Mom says there’s a hurry cane coming. I wanna chase it!
Other Brother Coon Cat: It’s a hurricane, not a fetch toy! See that string of clouds? They’re called rain bands.
Dingo: Rain?
OBCC: As in bath, only the wind is so strong it can pick you up and carry you away.
Dingo: I think I’ll go back inside, curl up on mom’s bed, and hope it doesn’t find me.
Mom: Awwww. Aren’t they cute.
Poor Dingo, whimpering at every gust of 15mph wind.
It makes me wonder if there’s anything good about a hurricane.
Here’s one:
The Native Floridian viewpoint
And yes, the insanity of buying bottled water.
I’ve mentioned this one before, but for those who missed the irony of it….
Once the power is out and one has to use the toilet, one must consider how many…
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Photo Of The Day!
Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you. – Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. – Albert Camus
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Evening In Milo Maine (Set 2)
This is the second set taken early evening in Milo, Maine. We had just enough light left for these photographs.
Evening In Milo Maine – Click To Enlarge
Evening In Milo Maine – Click To Enlarge
This is part of the Sebec river as it runs through Milo. Three rivers meet here a little further on. The area is known as Three Rivers.
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