Acorn Kisses

" Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,

With conquering limbs astride from land to land;

Here at our sea-washed, sunset hates shall stand

A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame

Is the imprisoned lighting, and her name

Mother of Exiles. From her beacon hand

Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command

The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.

"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she

With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore,

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,

I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

TODAY'S SEEDS OF WISDOM

• JUST BLOOMED TODAY  
• AWKWARD PHOTO OF THE DAY
• TWEET TREATS
• DID YOU KNOW...?
• GARDEN UPDATE
• FAUNA
• GARDEN GIGGLE
• GARDEN GOODIES~SHARE OUR GARDEN RECIPE #0080 ACORN KISSES
• WHAT IN THE WORLD?  
• FEEDBACK

JUST BLOOMED TODAY 

Mint in Bloom

AWKWARD PHOTO OF THE DAY 

TWEET TREATS

bringing you the quirky, funniest and most interesting tweets from Twitter that we came across.  

MY NANA WAS A FREAK IN THE SACK. Now granted, we didn't stuff her in that sack often, but boy would she freak out when we did. @trumpetcake

DID YOU KNOW...?

Yesterday we shared animal group names. Today it is people group names! Did you know that it was called...

• A faculty of academics
• A troupe of acrobats
• A cast/company of actors/players
• A bench of aldermen
• A conflagration of arsonists
• A troupe of artistes
• A team of athletes
• A tabernacle of bakers
• A babble of barbers
• A promise of barmen
• A thought of barons
• A squad of beaters
• A bevy/galaxy of beauties
• A bench/psalter of bishops
• A blush of boys
• A troop of boy scouts
• A feast of brewers
• A pack of brownies
• A shuffle of bureaucrats
• A goring of butchers
• A sneer of butlers
• A slate of candidates

• A chapter/dignity of canons
• A company/syndicate of capitalists
• A congregation of churchgoers
• A school of clerks
• A cutting/drunkship of cobblers
• A hastiness of cooks
• A shrivel of critics
• A cowardice of curs
• A troupe of dancers
• A decanter/decorum of deans
• A board of directors
• An obstruction of dons
• A staff of employees
• A panel of experts
• A stalk of foresters
• A talent of gamblers
• A company of girl guides
• A galaxy of governesses
• A conjunction of grammarians
• A herd of harlots
• A melody of harpists
• An observance of hermits
• A gang of hoodlums
• A cavalcade of horsemen
• A blast of hunters
• A bench/sentence of judges
• A banner/rout of knights
• A bevy of ladies
• An eloquence of lawyers
• A colony of lepers
• An audience of listeners
• An illusion of magicians
• A bench of magistrates
• A riches of matrons
• A morbidity of majors
• A band of men
• A faith of merchants
• A diligence of messengers
• A troupe of minstrels
• A cortege of mourners
• An orchestra of musicians
• A tribe of natives
• A superfluity of nuns
• A crowd of onlookers
• A curse/illusion/misbelieving of painters
• A malapertness of pedlars/peddler
• A crowd/audience/congregation/mob of people
• A troupe/troup of performers
• A skirl of pipers
• A posse of police
• A converting of preachers
• A pity/gang of prisoners
• A band of robbers
• A crew of sailors
• A scolding of seamstresses
• A house of senators
• A subtlety of sergeants-at-law
• An obeisance of servants
• A posse of sheriffs
• A blackening of shoemakers
• A choir of singers
• An army/brigade/company/division/muster/
• platoon/troop of soldiers
• A class of students
• A simplicity of subalterns
• A disguising of tailors
• A glozing of taverners
• A den/gang of thieves
• A board of trustees
• A flock of tourists
• An unction of undertakers
• A prudence of vicars
• An ambush of widows
• A coven of witches
• A gaggle of women
• A gang of workmen
• A congregation of worshippers
• A worship of writers
• A fellowship of yeomen

GARDEN UPDATE
 Weather was definitely milder today so I took a chance and didn't water until the afternoon. It is still muggy but getting better and the heat isn't as intense.

Losing almost all my annuals now, sorry to see them go. Some are hanging in there, but it's a sure sign that summer is on its way out and Fall is almost here!

GARDEN GIGGLE

FAUNA

GARDEN GOODIES~SHARE OUR GARDEN RECIPE #0080 ACORN KISSES

These are the CUTEST little decorations or small treats for a Fall pot luck. Soooo easy to make as well!

You Will Need:

a pastry bag or ziplock bag

icing

Hershey's Kisses

mini vanilla wafer cookies or NutterButter bites

Reese's peanut butter chips or butterscotch chips

Put your icing in pastry bag or ziplock bag with small corner cut off. Remove wrappers from kisses.

Place mini wafers on cookie sheet with flat side pointed up. Squeeze small amount of icing onto bottom of kiss and immediately press onto cookie. Let icing set. Set icing bag aside for later.

Once the kiss is attached to the cookie and the icing has set, place a small dot of icing on top of cookie and attach the peanut butter or butterscotch chip to finish acorn.   

WHAT IN THE WORLD?  

On today in American history, people in gardens everywhere were talking about:
1788 First national elections held in the United States
1814 Francis Scott Key pens the Star Spangled Banner
1936 17-year-old Cleveland Indians pitching ace "Rapid" Robert Feller strikes out 17 batters in a game, setting a new American League record. Feller allowed just two hits in the game to help his team to a 5-2 victory over the Philadelphia A’s.
1948 Maine's Margaret Chase Smith elected to the Senate being the first woman to be elected to both houses of Congress
1971 Attica prison riot ends
1990 TV Show, 'Law & Order' debuts
1998  George Wallace, one of the most controversial politicians in U.S. history, dies in Montgomery, Alabama, at the age of 79.
2004 Oprah gives away 300 new cars
2012 US sends Marines to Libya after deadly attack 

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