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    AZDEBRA 5/27 & crew
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    #733325
    Jeankit
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    It’s Toosday June 12th! Yay, we are celebrating Rose month, Alternative Dairy month with Corn & Cuke month plus Peanut butter cookies today all during National Accordion Appreciation Month! Enjoy your day and shake your bootie to:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UV3kRV46Zs

    PBCookies:

    http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Best-Peanut-Butter-Cookies-Ever

    #733326
    Jeankit
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    Today we are celebrating June 13, 2012!

    Back in 1920 the USPS ruled you could Not send Children via Parcel Post!

    It is Sewing Machine Day and Kitchen Klutz Day USA!

    It is fresh fruit & veggie month so just pick & eat and avoid the

    kitchen today!!!

    TODAY IN TRIVIA:Today is Kitchen Klutzes of America Day!

    ~June 13th is National Kitchen Klutzes of America Day! This post is in honor of all those in the kitchen who try so hard yet fail so big.

    ~If you’re a mom who cut herself with a knife and learn to stop cutting yourself in the kitchen, then today is your day!

    ~This day is for the girl who couldn’t figure out why her challah dough wasn’t rising, later realizing she used salt instead of sugar.

    ~Are you aspiring pumpkin pie maker who dropped a pumpkin down the stairs as a last resort after unsuccessfully trying to slice it with a knife? Then today is your day!

    ~A klutz is a person who is clumsy, foolish, inept, or accident-prone. The term is perhaps derived from the Yiddish klots (‘wooden beam’), cognate with the German Klotz, meaning a “block” or “lump”. The British slang, pillock and the Australian slang, galah are used with similar meaning, particularly in terms of being foolish and inept

    Quote of Day: The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams…Oprah Winfrey.

    Enjoy your day kits wherever you roam!

    #733327
    sapphicat
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    Thanks for the fun facts and recipes! I was laughing at the 1920 ruling to not send children through USPS. I remember reading how people would put tags on their kids, hand them a cardboard suitcase and ship them off to grandma’s for the summer. Cheap easy solution for those too poor to buy a train ticket!

    #733328
    Jeankit
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    Today is June 14, 2012

    It’s Flag Day in the US

    Pop Goes the Weasel Day

    http://www.gardenofsong.com/popweasel.html

    World Blood Donor Day:

    Blood Type and RH: How Many People Have It?

    * O Positive: 40 out 100

    * O Negative: 7 out of 100

    * A Positive: 34 out of 100

    * A Negative: 6 out of 100

    * B Positive: 8 out of 100

    * B Negative: 1 out of 100

    * AB Positive: 3 out of 100

    * AB Negative:1 out 200

    We are celebrating with Strawberry Shortcake as treat today!

    http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Strawberry-Shortcake

    On Harriet Becher Stowe/Uncle Tom’s Cabin author birthday anniversary.

    Quip of Day: Life may not be the party we hoped for but while we are here

    we should dance!

    Quote of Day: Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen.

    Keep in the sunlight…Benjamin Franklin

    #733329
    Jeankit
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    Today is June 15, 2012!

    It is Global Wind Day with Fly a Kite Day!

    Plus A Friend in need is a Friend Indeed Day!

    We are celebrating with Lobster Today!

    TODAY IN TRIVIA: A lobster eater?

    ~Lobsters eat flounder, urchins, clams, mussels, and a variety of other items from the ocean. Lobsters usually eat after sunset (at night).

    ~Lobsters have 5 pairs of legs.

    ~The biggest recorded lobster is 43 pounds.

    ~A good rule of thumb to calculate a lobsters age is to multiply the lobsters weight by 4, then add 3 (this is a good estimate to the lobsters age).

    ~A lobster’s teeth are in its stomach.

    ~Lobsters swim backwards by curling their tale and can reach speeds of over 10 miles per hour.

    ~Over 200,000 tons of lobster is caught every year. This makes it a multi billion dollar industry.

    ~Lobster shells turn red when they are cooked because they contain astaxanthin. This is the same substance that makes wild salmon red.

    ~Lobsters have a trait called “negligible senescence” which means that they do not lose reproductive capability or organ function as they age. This means that under controlled conditions lobsters could live virtually indefinitely.

    Happy Heavenly Birthday today to special TDK’r Ginger!

    Happy Heavenly Birthday to Reggie too!

    Have a great weekend too kits…get ready for tomorrow the 16th is Fudge Day!

    #733330
    Jeankit
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    Welcome to June 18th…although sometimes it feels as if life stands still in TDK Land. Today is already 170th day of year! We are celebrating Picnic Day, Go Fishing Day with Panic Day & Splurge Day. We are enjoying Cherry Tarts as noms today too!

    TODAY IN TRIVIA: Cherry, A Small Fruit

    ~Cherries have been enjoyed since the Stone Age — pits were found in several Stone Age caves in Europe.

    ~The Romans carried cherries throughout Europe and England along the routes of conquest.

    ~Michigan has over 35,000 acres of tart cherry trees and grows almost 75% of the tart cherries produced in the United States.

    ~Traverse City is called the Cherry Capital of the World. Eau Claire, Michigan, is known as the Cherry Pit Spitting Capital of the World.

    ~The earliest known mention of cherries is in Theophrastus (372-272 B.C.) ‘History of Plants’, in which he indicated that cherries had been cultivated for hundreds of years in Greece.

    ~The cherry is the state fruit of Utah.

    ~Kane, Pennsylvania, is the Black Cherry Capital of the World

    ~At one time it was against the law to serve ice cream on cherry pie in Kansas.

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    QUIP OF THE DAY: Friends are like stars… you don’t always see them, but you know they’re always there. – Hulali Luta

    My Quote Choice of Day: When in danger or in doubt run in circles, scream & shout! Robert Heinlein/Cat Who Could Walk thru Walls. (Fitting for Panic Day!)

    #733331
    SoxsMom
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    Jean I am on my way to Traverse City next month–it is a beautiful place!

    #733332
    Jeankit
    Participant

    Mmm…yummy cherry country! Are you going to join a cherry pit spitting contest after you sample some of the cherries? Than you can visit:

    Surrounding Wineries:

    Traverse City was named by USA Today among the Top Ten Places for Local Wine.[26] There are seven wineries on the Old Mission Peninsula and twenty-one wineries on the Leelanau Peninsula,[27] both just a few minutes drive from downtown Traverse City. Both peninsulas sit close to the 45th parallel, a latitude known for growing prestigious grapes. The two Grand Traverse Bays provide the ideal maritime climate and the rich glacial soil does the rest. Northern Michigan specializes in growing white grapes and is known for its Rieslings which grow well in the summer months and late fall which Traverse City is known for. Every October the wineries host a harvest fest. Some Riesling grapes are spared being picked in the fall to be picked when they freeze, from which Ice Wine is made. The wineries along the Old Mission Peninsula are Black Star Farms, 2 Lads Winery, Bowers Harbor Vineyards, Brys Estate Vineyard & Winery, Chateau Chantal Winery And Inn, Chateau Grand Traverse, and Peninsula Cellars. The wineries along the Leelanau Peninsula are Black Star Farms, Leelenau Cellars, Silver Leaf Vineyard and Winery, Gill’s Pier Vineyard and Winery, Raftshol Vineyards, Circa Estate Winery, Forty-Five North Vineyard and Winery, Good Harbor Vineyards, Chateau Fontaine, Boskydel Vineyards, L. Mawby Vineyards, Ciccone Vineyard and Winery, Willow Vineyards, Chateau de Leelanau Vineyard and Winery, Shady Lane Cellars, Cherry Republic Winery, Longview Winery, Boathouse Winery, Verterra, Brengman Brothers, and Bel Lago Winery. (Copied from Wiki source on yahoo.)

    #733333
    Jeankit
    Participant

    Welcome to Toosday June 19, 2012!

    Today is Juneteenth Day during Black Music Month.

    We are also celebrating World Sauntering Day!

    Plus it is Candy Month!

    It’s Garfield the Cat’s 34th birthday today!

    http://www.garfield.com/comics/todayscomic.html

    Quote of the day: No one can make you feel inferior without your consent, Eleanore Roosevelt.

    Thought for the day:

    Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart’s position. You wear your life like a garment from the mission bundle sale ever after — lightly because you realize you never paid nothing for it, cherishing because you know you won’t ever come by such a bargain again. – Louise Erdrich

    #733334
    Jeankit
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    Happy Summer Solstice in Northern Hemisphere today!

    We are celebrating with Ice Cream Sodas & Vanilla Milkshakes as today’s treats!

    It is also National Smile Month with International Surf Music Month!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhuWooSAiRc

    Quote of the day:

    If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and

    worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep. – Dale Carnegie

    Thought for the day. . .

    Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution. – Anthony J. D’Angel

    #733335
    Jeankit
    Participant

    It’s June 21, 2012…what’s going on today?

    Holidays for Today:

    * World Music Day

    * Go Skateboarding Day

    * Aimless Wandering Day

    * National Peaches & Cream Day

    TODAY IN TRIVIA: SKATEBOARDING

    My neighbor hood has many students that use their skateboard as local means of transportation…they even walk their dog while riding it!

    ~Of all active skateboarders in the United States of America, more than half live in the state of California.

    ~Skateboarding is the sixth more popular sport on the planet in terms of total participants.

    ~Approximately 100,000 people every year require some sort of medical treatment for skateboard-related injuries.

    ~Can you guess which body part is injured more than any other during skateboarding? If you answered the wrist, give yourselves a prize.

    ~When skateboarding first began, it was referred to as sidewalk surfing.

    ~You could never tell by the naked eye, but most common or popular skateboard decks are actually made from seven separate pieces of plywood maple.

    ~Between 1978 and 1989, skateboards were banned in Norway.

    ~Duke McCallister has one philosophy when it comes to skateboards: and that’s to go skate or go home!

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    QUIP OF THE DAY: You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.

    Plus 2 more for the Road to celebrate:

    *Baby Boomers Recognition Day

    *Cuckoo Warning Day

    #733336
    Jeankit
    Participant

    Today is June 22, 2012!

    It’s TDKr’s GD’s Birthday!

    Yup, she is also celebrating this day w/fellow bday peeps as:

    Bill Blass, John Dillinger, Kris Kristofferson, Lindsay Wagner, Meryl Streep,

    Cyndi Lauper & more!

    Today in history back in 1990 FL Passes the no thong law as to not be able

    to wear your thong bathing suit on FL State Beaches!

    (?thong…aaaak…how about a tankini folks!)

    Today’s treat is the Chocolate Eclair!

    TODAY IN TRIVIA: National Chocolate Eclair Day

    ~An éclair is a delicate, individual pastry made with chou paste (choux paste, pâte à choux, cream puff pastry dough).

    ~The dough is piped from a pastry bag in an oblong or log shape on baking pans, and baked until it is crisp and hollow inside.

    ~As an English language word, its first appearance was in the 1706 edition of Edward Phillips’s New World of English Words: ‘Petits Choux, a sort of Paste for garnishing, made of fat Cheese, Flour, Eggs, Salt, etc., bak’d in a Pye_pan, and Ic’d over with fine Sugar.‘ It did not really come into general use until the late 19th or early 20th century.

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    QUIP OF THE DAY: Time, the subtle thief of youth. – John Milton

    Quote of the Day: We don’t see things as they are. We see things as We are.

    Talmud.

    #733337
    Jeankit
    Participant

    Today is June 25, 2012.

    We are celebrating Log Cabin Day plus 1/2 way to Christmas with Catfish and Strawberry Parfaits today! Easy & Healthy w/Greek Yogurt:

    http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/food-network-kitchens/strawberry-parfaits-recipe/index.html

    Quote of the Day: The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You don’t blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the President. You realize that you control your own destiny. –Albert Ellis

    ~Catfish are found nearly everywhere in the United States and in much of Mexico and Canada.

    ~Catfish live on the bottom of lakes, rivers and ponds – often in areas with hard sand bottoms, though flatheads are known to prefer muddier locales.

    ~Catfish are immediately recognizable by where they are found and their scaleless skin.

    ~The smallest are about 1 inch long and the largest, the European Wels (Silurus glanis), can exceed 15 feet in length and weigh over 650 pounds.

    ~June 25 was proclaimed as National Catfish Day by President Ronald Reagan in 1987.

    ~The record size for a blue catfish is 124 pounds, caught in Illinois.

    ~Belzoni, Mississippi is known as the Catfish Capital of the World.

    ~Paris, Tennessee is home to an event that claims to be the “world’s biggest fish fry.”

    #733338
    Jeankit
    Participant

    Today is June 27,2012

    We are celebrating Sunglass Day with Orange Blossom day!

    Not sure if it’s a cake, flower or drinkie poo we are celebrating but just in case:

    http://www.drinksmixer.com/drink5686.html

    http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Orange-Blossom-Cake

    http://www.50states.com/flower/florida.htm

    TODAY IN TRIVIA: Celebrate Sunglasses Day!

    ~This is a shady day for your eyes.

    ~There’s lots of reasons why we should wear sunglasses, including:

    â– You want to be a movie star and they all wear sunglasses.

    ■You’re looking to hide behind a big, dark pair of sunglasses, and travel unseen through the streets.

    â– A little espionage, eh!?

    â– You want to make a fashion statement.

    ■And, Oh yes…. A few of us wear sunglasses to protect our eyes from the harmful rays of the sun.

    ~Did you know? Sunglasses protect your eyes from harmful UV rays. Your Optician will tell you that sungalsses with UV protection, will help to avoid cataracts. They also report that UV rays can be stronger in the winter, as the sun’s rays hit you on the way down.

    ~A pair of UV protection sunglasses is definitely in order for the eyes.

    ~In 1752, the first tinted sunglasses were made. Then in 1929, the entrepreneur Sam Foster mass-produced the modern version.

    ~Since then, sunglasses have been worn everywhere from major league baseball fields to outer space.

    #733339
    Jeankit
    Participant

    June is winding down to the 28th already!

    Today we are celebrating Paul Bunyan Day with Beans & Bacon as Noms of Day and

    Original Bomb Pops as a treats!

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombpop

    ~Paul Bunyan was a gigantic lumberjack of American Folklore. He is best known for his logging feats.

    Paul Bunyan is “credited” with many deeds. Among his more legendary feats:

    â– He created logging in the U.S.

    â– He scooped out the great lakes to water Babe, his ox.

    â– He cleared the entire states of North and South Dakota for farming.

    â– He trained ants to do logging work. They were, of course, Carpenter Ants.

    ■Babe’s large footprints created Minnesota’s 10,000 lakes.

    ~French Canadians were believed to have originated Paul Bunyan during the Papineau rebellion of 1837.

    ~ Paul Bunyan quickly became a huge American legend. Many of the tales of Paul Bunyan originated in lumberjack industry and logging communities.

    ~Bunyan is featured in the 1958 Disney animated short Paul Bunyan. Paul (voiced by the late Thurl Ravenscroft) is described as being “63 ax handles high”. As the average ax handle is about eighteen inches long (45.72cm), that would make Paul about 94.5 feet (about 29 meters).

    ~He is mentioned in The Magnetic Fields song “Grand Canyon” from their album 69 Love Songs.

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    QUIP OF THE DAY: You may have a heart of gold, but so does a hard-boiled egg.

    #733340
    Jeankit
    Participant

    Well we are on day 29 of June 2012!

    We are celebrating Beans & Bacon Days ’til 07-07!

    During fish are our friends not food week, yeah, tell it to your kits!!!

    It is hug day today, yay…hug your kit, friend…?computer!!!

    Funny ones for you computer for today:

    ONE-LINERS: What Those Computer Acronyms Really Mean

    ISDN = It Still Does Nothing

    APPLE = Arrogance Produces Profit-Losing Entity

    IBM = I Blame Microsoft

    DEC = Do Expect Cuts

    CA = Constant Acquisitions

    CD-ROM = Consumer Device, Rendered Obsolete in Months

    OS/2 = Obsolete Soon, Too.

    SCSI = System Can’t See It

    DOS = Defunct Operating System

    BASIC = Bill’s Attempt to Seize Industry Control

    WWW = World Wide Wait

    MACINTOSH = Most Applications Crash; If Not, The OS Hangs

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