- JUST BLOOMED TODAY
- AWKWARD PHOTO OF THE DAY
- TWEET TREATS
- DID YOU KNOW...?URBAN LEGENDS
- DOG CONFESSIONS
- GARDEN UPDATE
- DOG HALLOWEEN COSTUMES
- FAUNA
- GARDEN GIGGLE
- GARDEN GOODIES~SHARE OUR GARDEN RECIPES #0104 PUMPKIN CHEESECAKE
- WHAT IN THE WORLD?
- FEEDBACK
JUST BLOOMED TODAY
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AWKWARD PHOTO OF THE DAY
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TWEET TREATS
bringing you the quirky, funniest and most interesting tweets from Twitter that we came across.
DID YOU KNOW...?URBAN LEGENDS THE GLAWACKUS
The glawackus is one of the fearsome critters, a group of legendary creatures in the folklore and traditions of lumberjacks during the 19th and early 20th centuries in North America. The Glawackus is described as looking something between a bear, panther, and a lion. It was seen in 1939 in Glastonbury, Connecticut and again in Frizzelburg, Massachusetts, where it is said to have attacked livestock.
Sightings Of The Creature: From the newspaper, the Cape Codder:
I was working as a young reporter on the Hartford Courant that year when World War II was in the wings. But we were preoccupied with the developing story about this Glastonbury creature that howled at night, slipped in and out of view and caused dogs, cats and small farm animals to disappear. As the sightings grew in number, so did the variety of descriptions. First it was a huge cat. Then some people reported what looked like a dog in back and a cat in front. Others saw it vice-versa. One man called to say he had seen a big animal in the pitch dark with eyes that glowed like embers. It was clear to us that this weird, unknown animal needed a name. One editor coined the word, Glawackus. "Gla" for Glastonbury; "wack" for wacky; and "us" as a proper Latin ending. It caught on like magic.
A safari was organized with two Ozark-trained hounds. The search came back empty-handed. The event, however, was memorialized in verse:
"Say did the fearless hunters, Pick up the beastly spoor, While trekking through the jungle, With steps alert and sure?" DOG CONFESSIONS
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Sightings Of The Creature: From the newspaper, the Cape Codder:
I was working as a young reporter on the Hartford Courant that year when World War II was in the wings. But we were preoccupied with the developing story about this Glastonbury creature that howled at night, slipped in and out of view and caused dogs, cats and small farm animals to disappear. As the sightings grew in number, so did the variety of descriptions. First it was a huge cat. Then some people reported what looked like a dog in back and a cat in front. Others saw it vice-versa. One man called to say he had seen a big animal in the pitch dark with eyes that glowed like embers. It was clear to us that this weird, unknown animal needed a name. One editor coined the word, Glawackus. "Gla" for Glastonbury; "wack" for wacky; and "us" as a proper Latin ending. It caught on like magic.
A safari was organized with two Ozark-trained hounds. The search came back empty-handed. The event, however, was memorialized in verse:
"Say did the fearless hunters, Pick up the beastly spoor, While trekking through the jungle, With steps alert and sure?" DOG CONFESSIONS
GARDEN UPDATE
A balmy but warm 75F today. A small breeze but warm first thing when I got up. Had to take photos and video of the mums and garden, so amazingly in bloom with this warm weather. Cut down the dead branch that has been bugging me for months...yeah!
DOG HALLOWEEN COSTUMES
A balmy but warm 75F today. A small breeze but warm first thing when I got up. Had to take photos and video of the mums and garden, so amazingly in bloom with this warm weather. Cut down the dead branch that has been bugging me for months...yeah!
DOG HALLOWEEN COSTUMES
GARDEN GIGGLE
FAUNA
GARDEN GOODIES~SHARE OUR GARDEN RECIPE #0104 PUMPKIN CHEESECAKE
You Will Need:
(2) (8 ounce) packages cream cheese, softened
(1/2) cup white sugar
(1/2) teaspoon vanilla extract
(2) eggs
(1) (9 inch) prepared graham cracker crust
(1/2) cup pumpkin puree
(1/2) teaspoon ground cinnamon
(1) pinch ground cloves
(1) pinch ground nutmeg
(1/2 cup frozen whipped topping, thawed
Instructions:Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. In a large bowl, combine cream cheese, sugar and vanilla. Beat until smooth. Blend in eggs one at a time. Remove 1 cup of batter and spread into bottom of crust; set aside.
Add pumpkin, cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg to the remaining batter and stir gently until well blended. Carefully spread over the batter in the crust.
Bake in preheated oven for 35 to 40 minutes, or until center is almost set. Allow to cool, then refrigerate for 3 hours or overnight. Cover with whipped topping before serving.
WHAT IN THE WORLD?
On today in American history, people in gardens everywhere were talking about:
1797 U.S.S. Constitution launched
1805 Battle of Trafalgar
1910 Bomb explodes in the Los Angeles Times building
1921 Harding publicly condemns lynching
1929 HenryFord dedicates the Thomas Edison Institute
1941 Germans massacre men, women and children in Yugoslavia
1959 Guggenheim Museum opens in New York City
1967 Thousands protest the war in Vietnam in Washington, D.C.
2012 Stunning meteor lights up California sky
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