Strange facts...

I like odd pieces of knowledge. Why... maybe because I'm odd. Yes I know it! Actually I'm a one of a kind. :)

Anyway:

Archaeologists excavated a fully equipped soap factory in the ruins of Pompeii, the Roman resort town destroyed by a volcano in 79 B.C.

In 1996, the average American spent $360.00 in Wal-Mart. That's more than the average person in Mozambique earns in three years.

In October of 1983, when Anheuser-Busch brought a Cleveland florist to court for using the Budweiser slogan "This Bud's for you" Federal Judge Ann Aldrich ruled in favor of the florist, claiming that it would be absurd for anyone to confuse flowers with beer.

The United States produces more than one billion gallons of ice cream, ice milk, sherbet, and water ice every year.

Armed robbers hit 7-Eleven stores more often than any other chain in the United States.

Derry Church, Pennsylvania, the home of Hershey's Foods, was renamed Hershey in 1906.

A slight delay... and the answer is...

Due to  an unforeseen wrong move of which made my back start to hurt like the dickens, yesterdays answer is late.

The answer is this or the best that I can find without having to sit here and type out the whole thing...

A while ago, at the West Point Academy's Jewish Chapel, there was a display about Hyam Salomon and the Revolutionary War. He died penniless, having used all his resources to aid the newly formed and poorly supplied American Continental Army.

This is a wonderful story sent to me by a lawyer friend that shares my interest in history. I hope you will find it of interest to you:

General Washington's financial advisor and assistant was a Jewish man by the name of Hyam Salomon. During the cold winter months at Valley Forge when American soldiers were freezing and running out of food, it was Hyam who marshaled all the Jews in America and Europe to provide money in relief aid to these stranded American troops and turned the course of history. Without this help, Washington's Continental Army, and the fate of the American Colonies would have perished before they could have defeated the British.

If you take a one dollar bill out of your pocket and look at the back at the Eagle, the stars above the Eagle's head are in the six point Star of David to honor Jews. If you turn the Eagle upside down you will see a configuration in the likeness of a Menorah....both at the insistence of George Washington who said we should never forget the Jewish people and what they have done in the interest of America.

Of course there are those who don't believe this. However the truth of the matter is without the help of Mr. Salomon and other Jews we won't not have a country.

Wouldn't it be nice if someone would ask Mr. Obama  if he know the answer. And also ask just how many Muslims have donated money that wasn't asked to be repaid in the defense of our country. AND NO I'm not against Muslims as a whole. Like with any man made religion and I do mean RELIGION there are those who are fanatic's.

Why is there a...

Star of David on the dollar bill? Can anyone answer this question?

I'll post the answer tomorrow... Prize? Well... it will be the satisfaction of knowing that you know! HA!

Warm Toes

As I sit here typing away, a fluffy not fat dog is warming my toes. Yup that's him up there. Isn't he a sweetie? Yes he is. Ranger and I have the same speed some days, the same don't touch me attitude some days, and the same I'm really in need of some LOVE here... some days. If I were a dog I would probably be him... in female form of course.

Well I made a cake today... I found the recipe off of a blog of follow from time to time. It looks promising. And I only made one change. It call for a white cake mix. First of do you know how much cake mixes are these days?! 1.99 here... sheesh... I remember when they were .50 or 75. Sheesh... SO I used a yellow one we had and that was needing to be used up. After all it was called a Heavenly Cake and the streets of Heaven are paved in Gold after all... that's my reasoning for using a "golden" cake mix. :) I'll let you know how it taste. I will say this...1. you can test the cake for being done and 2. it's takes longer than 42 minutes. More like over an hour.

On the milk front... Cheese is down again. I wish someone would tell me WHY. And why do we keep letting this go on? It's a short soap box today. The energy just isn't in me today to make a big rant. Don't get me wrong. It will happen... when I don't know. I'm working on it. :)

Amazon...

Is there anything you can't find on Amazon? I LOVE Corn Bran Cereal... and ta DA Amazon has it...

Why is it???

The trend is going to the twitters, face book and so for and so on... I'm just going around things backwards. Why is it when the trend is going one way I ALWAYS go and do the opposite. They say blogs are fading fast... then why is I keep finding so many that are so neat?! Why is it people always try to change others and what they think by putting out some article that has nothing to do with real life. Someone not knowing anything about the real world is trying to make their mark in the world not knowing just what they are doing, but they think and what they want it's all that matters.

OK on to the next thing... :) Yesterday was a busy day. 8 quarts of tomatoes done up between calling several vets for a cow who was sick. She lost her calf and had gotten a terrible infection. WHO KNEW! Anyway she is feeling much better and at least we saved her. Also made 3 gallon of cereal and a cheese ball. I even made spaghetti the day before for dinner... it was nasty though... No amount of "doctoring" would help, did help or is going to help.

The cereal turned out pretty well even if I do say so myself. I'll post the recipe on the recipe blog.

Another day...

Well it's September first and the flannel sheet were put on the bed last night. Chilly here and this is such odd weather for Missouri. E gads... does make one wonder what is in store for winter doesn't it?

Today the rest of the tomatoes have GOT to be done up. Oh joy and thrill divine. Don't get me wrong I'm glad we have them to do, I just don't like having to do it. Just being honest. I've got to get some things ready to send off. And if anyone feels the need to pray please do so... I don't want to get into the details, but right now we need all the prayers we can't get. And for the heck of it add all of the dairy farmers to your prayer list. We all need it...

Not much else is going on around here... I've done some sewing... a cute little bag! Oh it's so cute! pictures to come at a later date! off the subject but boy I wish I could spell and type today... every other word is wrong and I keep having to go back and change it. ARGH! :)