‘Over the moon’ has been part of the language for more than a century.
It has become more widely used in the past twenty or thirty years, since
it was adopted by English football managers when interviewed after
‘the boys’ managed a victory.
The increased use of televised post-match interviews and hours of studio
commentary during the 1970s brought many football managers before
the cameras. These days such men are likely to be cultured and
ex-footballers who had left schools in the English or Scottish back
streets early to play football. It’s fair to say that many of them have
little interest in the finer points of English grammar.
The actual origin of ‘over the moon’ is
much earlier and, although not widely used before the 1970s, it would
have been familiar to all who grew up in Britain in the 20th century.
Why, because the source was included, as High Diddle Diddle, in the
influential 16th century nursery rhyme collection,
Mother Goose’s Melody; or Sonnets from the Cradle, circa 1760:
High diddle diddle,
The Cat and the Fiddle,
The Cow jump’d over the Moon,
The little dog laugh’d to see such Craft,
And the Dish ran away with the Spoon.
As with most nursery rhymes, the first appearance in print may well
post-date the first use by years, centuries even – children didn’t write
their rhymes down. The text of such rhymes was subject to a
‘Chinese whispers’ effect over all of that time and, whatever the origin
may have been, the version passed down to us is quite probably nonsense
and isn’t easily interpreted. What is clear is that the ‘over the moon’ line
is a reference to excitement and energy. That’s evidenced by one of the
earliest allusions to the phrase in print –
Charles Molloy’s The Coquet, or, The English Chevalier, 1718:
"Tis he! I know him now: I shall jump over the Moon for Joy!"
Hey Diddle Diddle The Cat & The Fiddle, The Cow Jumped Over The Moon
The little dog laughed to see such craft, and the dish ran away with the spoon.
- Facts About the Moon
The moon is not a planet, but a satellite of the Earth.
- The surface area of the moon is 14,658,000 square miles or 9.4 billion acres
- Only 59% of the moon’s surface is visible from earth.
- The moon rotates at 10 miles per hour compared to the earth’s rotation of
1000 miles per hour.
- When a month has two full moons, the second full moon is called a blue moon.
Another definition of a blue moon is the third full moon in any season
(quarter of year) containing 4 total full moons
- From Earth, we always see the same side of the moon; the other side is
always hidden.
- The dark spots we see on the moon that create the image of the man in the
moon are actually craters filled with basalt, which is a very dense material.
- The first space craft to send back pictures from the moon was Luna 3
(built by the Soviet Union) in October 1959.
- The moon has no global magnetic field.
- The moon is about 1/4 the size of the Earth.
- On the moon, there is no wind or water.
MORE MOON FACTS
Distance From Earth: 225,745 miles
Length of a Day: 27.3 days
Radius: 1,080 miles
Diameter: 2,160 miles
Weight: 81 Quintillion Tons
Surface Temp (Day): 273° F
Surface Temp (Night): – 244° F
Gravity At Surface: 0.1667 g (1/6 Earth’s)
Orbital Speed 2,287 mph
Driving time by car (@70 mph): 135 days
Flying time by rocket: 60 to 70 hrs.
No. of Men Who Have Walked on Surface: 12
Age of Oldest Rock Collected: 4.5 Billions yrs.
Rocks Collected By Apollo: 842 pounds
Widest Craters: 140 miles (dia.)
Deepest Craters: 15,000+ (ft.)
Highest Mountains: 16,000+ (ft.)
Today is Saturday, the twelfth day of the month of September in the year 2009.
1609 Henry Hudson discovers Hudson River
1776 Nathan Hale leaves Harlem Heights Camp (127th St) for spy mission
1885 Highest score (35) recorded in any 1st-class soccer match is set
1928 Katharine Hepburn’s NY stage debut in "Night Hostess"
1953 Jacqueline Bouvier marries John F Kennedy
BIRTHDAY QUOTE:
Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
BORN THIS DAY IN HISTORY:
1818 Richard Jordan Gatling US, inventor (hand-cranked machine gun)
1829 Charles Dudley Warner Mass, newspaperman/author (Being a Boy)
1888 Maurice Chevalier Paris, thanked heaven for little girls (Gigi)
1902 Margaret Hamilton Ohio, wicked witch of the west (Wizard of Oz)
1913 Jesse Owens track star, spoiled Hitler’s 1936 Olympics with 4 gold
1920 Irene Daily actress (Liz-Another World, Grissom Gang)
1931 George Jones country singer (White Lightning,
He Stopped Loving Her Today, I Don’t Need Your Rockin’ Chair)
1934 Gunther Gebel-Williams lion tamer (Ringling Bros Circus)
1942- Linda Gray, actress, "Sue Ellen Ewing" on TV series "Dallas"
1977 James Louis McCartney son of Paul & Linda McCartney
1978- Ruben Studdard, "American Idol" winner
A Deeper, Quieter Part of Ourselves
For better or worse, much of the world we experience is dominated
and controlled by human beings. We spend our days in houses, cars,
and buildings, and inside these structures, we are in control. We assert
our wills and manipulate our environment. Within the context of the
human world, this is natural. However, we often carry this attitude
with us into the world of nature. We forget as we enter the forest, or
sit on the edge of a pond, that we are moving into another realm, one
that asks us to drop our baggage and surrender to a different sense of
order and meaning.
When we move from our everyday world into the world of nature,
we may not even notice at first. We might continue talking loudly
into our cell phone or to a friend that is with us. We might walk
quickly as if we are on a busy city street, our eyes downcast, our
thoughts hectic and hurried. In the best case, if we are sensitive to
our environment, we will soon notice that it has changed. We may
hear ducks calling, or wind moving through the leaves on a tree.
If we notice the shift, we will naturally shift as well. If we don’t,
we may get all the way through a beautiful park without having
lowered our voices. Next time you find yourself in the presence of
wildlife—even if it’s just a duck pond in the midst of urban hustle—
try to move into a receptive state of openness and listening, no
matter how much or how little time you have. Allow yourself to be
captivated and calmed by the energy of the wildlife that covers this
earth. Teaching our children to be respectful of nature and to stop
and observe is a gift they can always cherish.
We preserve pockets of nature in our urban centers and large expanses
of nature in our national parks because of the magic we feel in its
presence. It reminds us of our smallness and calls us back to a deeper,
quieter part of ourselves. When we honor nature by being respectful
in its presence, we honor the mystery and wild beauty of our origin.
VINTAGE MEDICINES
A paper weight promoting C..F. Boehringer & Soehne (Mannheim , Germany ).
They were proud of being the
biggest producers in the world of products containing Quinine and Cocaine.
That’s why they called it “The Good Ole Days”.
EtC
- Your coffee machine begs for a rinse . . .
Pour a quart of white vinegar into the water chamber, put in a filter,
and run the machine through its brewing cycle. Put the vinegar in
again, but this time let it sit for half an hour. Run through the brewing
cycle again. Then run a pot of fresh water through the entire cycle.
Repeat with a second pot of fresh water.
- Your guests go home, but the white rings from their wet glasses remain . . .
Head to the kitchen and make a thin paste of salad oil and salt. Using
your fingers, gently massage this mixture into the ring. Let it sit for
an hour or so, then wipe it off with a clean cloth. Or cover the ring with
petroleum jelly, let it sit for a day, and then wipe it off.
Next time, remember the coasters!
- You want a great picture arrangement without extra holes in your walls . . .
Tape several sheets of newspaper together and lay them on the floor.
Arrange your frames on the newspaper until you like the grouping.
Outline the pictures, then gently affix the newspaper to the wall.
Drive your nails right through the paper where your outline indicates.
Remove the newspaper and hang the pictures.
- Your wicker wobbles . . .
Try misting it with water. The wicker will swell and then tighten up,
taking away the wiggles.
How Crafty Are you?
Celebrate Green This Halloween
Looking for ways to make Halloween healthier for your kids and for the Earth?
You’ll find the best, most creative, unusual and inspiring ideas for Halloween HERE
Look at the spinning woman and if she is turning right your right side of your brain
is working . If she is turning left your left side of your brain is working .
If she turns both ways for you then you have a 160 or better IQ
The house where Mitchell lived while writing her manuscript is known today as The
Margaret Mitchell House and located in Midtown Atlanta. A museum dedicated to
Gone with the Wind lies a few miles north of Atlanta, in Marietta, Georgia. It is called
"Scarlett On the Square", as it is located on the historic Marietta Square on Peachtree
street, the location of Aunt Pitty Pat’s house in the book. It houses costumes from the
film, screenplays and many artifacts from Gone With the Wind including Mitchell’s
collection of foreign editions of her book. The house and the museum are major tourist
destinations. The 1994 TV movie A Burning Passion: The Margaret Mitchell Story,
starring Shannen Doherty, told the story of Mitchell’s professional and personal life
through the time of the publication of "Gone With the Wind."
Clayton County, the area just south of Atlanta and the setting for the fictional O’Hara
plantation, Tara, maintains "The Road to Tara" Museum in the old railroad depot in
downtown Jonesboro.
For decades it was thought that Mitchell had only ever written one complete novel.
(In fact, periodically claims are made that she never wrote it at all due to the lack of
any other published work by her). But in the 1990s, a manuscript by Mitchell of a novel
entitled Lost Laysen was discovered among a collection of letters Mitchell had given in
the early 1920s to a suitor named Henry Love Angel. The manuscript had been written
in two notebooks in 1916. In the 1990s, Angel’s son discovered the manuscript and sent
it to the Road to Tara Museum, which authenticated the work. A special edition of
Lost Laysen — a romance set in the South Pacific— was edited by Debra Freer,
augmented with an account of Mitchell and Angel’s romance including a number of her
letters to him, and published by the Scribner imprint of Simon & Schuster in 1996.
Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell Marsh
Born November 8, 1900, Atlanta, Georgia
Died August 16, 1949 (aged 48)
Internal Injuries Auto Accident
Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia,
Pen name: Margaret Mitchell
Occupation novelist
Genres Romance, Historical novel
Burial:
Oakland Cemetery, 248 Oakland Ave SE
Atlanta, Georgia
American author, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937 for her novel Gone with the Wind.
The novel is one of the most popular books of all time, selling more than 30 million
copies (see list of best-selling books). An American film adaptation, released in 1939,
became the highest-grossing film in the history of Hollywood, and received a
record-breaking ten Academy Awards. Its record of eight non-honorary Academy Awards
stood until 1958.
TRIVIA:
Under the name Peggy Mitchell she wrote a weekly column for the Atlanta Journal’s
Sunday edition, thereby making her mark as one of the first female columnists at the
South’s largest newspaper.
Mitchell is reported to have begun writing Gone With the Wind while bedridden with
a broken ankle. Her husband, John Marsh, brought home historical books from the public
library to amuse her while she recuperated. After she supposedly read all the historical
books in the library, he told her, "Peggy, if you want another book, why don’t you write
your own?"
WRITING THE BOOK
She originally called the heroine "Pansy O’Hara", and Tara was "Fontenoy Hall". She also
considered naming the novel Tote The Weary Load or Tomorrow Is Another Day.
Mitchell wrote for her own amusement, and with solid support from her husband, kept
her novel secret from her friends. She hid the voluminous pages under towels, disguising
them as a Divan (furniture), hid them in her closets, and under her bed. She wrote the
last chapter first, and skipped around from chapter to chapter. Her husband regularly
proofread the growing manuscript to help in continuity. By 1929, her ankle had healed,
most of the book was written, and she lost interest in pursuing her literary efforts. The
bulk of the work was written between 1925 and 1930 in an apartment Mitchell called
"The Dump" the Crescent Apartments are now listed on the National Register of Historic
Places and are operated as a museum to Mitchell’s memory. (photo above)
While Mitchell used to say that her Gone With the Wind characters were not based on
real people, modern researchers have found similarities to some of the people in her
life, and people she knew or heard of. For example, the character Rhett Butler may
have been modeled after her first husband. The last thing he said to her (supposedly)
was, "My dear, I don’t give a damn", which Rhett says to Scarlett before he leaves her
in the book. "Frankly" was added for the movie. Other sources report Rhett Butler may
have been patterned on the life of George Trenholm, a prominent politician in the
Confederate States of America.(Civil War).
PUBLISHING THE BOOK
Mitchell lived as a modest Atlanta newspaperwoman until a visit from Macmillan editor
Harold Latham, who visited Atlanta in 1935. Latham was scouring the South for
promising writers, and Mitchell agreed to escort him around Atlanta at the request
of her friend, Lois Cole, who worked for Latham. Latham was enchanted with Mitchell,
and asked her if she had ever written a book. Mitchell demurred. "Well, if you ever do
write a book, please show it to me first!" Latham implored. Later that day, a friend of
Mitchell, having heard this conversation, laughed. "Imagine, anyone as silly as Peggy
writing a book!" she said. Mitchell stewed over this comment, went home, and found
most of the old, crumbling envelopes containing her disjointed manuscript. She arrived
at The Georgian Terrace Hotel, just as Latham prepared to depart Atlanta. "Here," she
said, "take this before I change my mind!"
Latham bought an extra suitcase to accommodate the giant manuscript. When Mitchell
arrived home, she was horrified over her impetuous act, and sent a telegram to Latham:
"Have changed my mind. Send manuscript back."
But Latham had read enough of the manuscript to realize it would be a blockbuster.
He wrote to her of his thoughts about its potential success. MacMillan soon sent her a
check in advance to encourage her to complete the novel—she had not composed a first
chapter. She completed her work in March 1936. She was paid $50,000 in increments
of 2—a lot then—a pittance now.
Herschel Brickell, a famous literary critic for the New York Evening Post, reviewed
Mitchell’s book in an article titled " “Margaret Mitchell’s First Novel, ‘Gone With the Wind,’
a Fine Panorama of the Civil War Period.” His review helped launch Mitchell’s career by
calling attention to what would become one of the best novels of the Southern
Renaissance. Over time, Brickell and Mitchell became extremely close; much of their
correspondence has been published and is available in the archives at the University
of Mississippi. Brickell was also a correspondent, friend, and adviser to other southern
writers including Eudora Welty, Truman Capote, William Alexander Percy, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Zora Neale Hurston, Stark Young and Allen Tate
Gone With the Wind was published on June 30, 1936. The book was dramatized by
David O. Selznick, and released three years later. The premiere of the film was held
in Atlanta on December 15, 1939.
"Gone with the Wind" was such an overnight success that its publisher George Platt
Brett, President of Macmillan Publishing, gave all its employees an 18% bonus in 1936.
10 Easy Organizing Tricks For The Kitchen
1-Use plastic bins or tubs to hold all pouches of dry soup mixes,
seasonings, etc. Keeps them neatly contained in one place, store in the
pantry or cupboard.
2-Insert kitchen reference charts and favorite recipes in clear plastic
sleeves then hang on the inside of kitchen cupboard doors for easy
access. They can easily be wiped clean as well as keeps often used
info at your fingertips
3-Use a large crock or container to hold your most used kitchen utensils
and set it on the counter for easy access (wooden spoons, spatulas,
large soup ladles, etc.). Also helps to keep the large utensils drawer
better organized since less is packed inside (use drawer dividers or
shallow baskets in these drawers, helps keeps things better sorted).
You could also hang a hanging wall basket to stash lightweight larger
items
4-Pack lids for plastic containers or Tupperware in a clear plastic tub or
large ziploc bags, you’ll be able to see easily just where the lid you
need is. Keeps them contained instead of rampaging foot loose and
fancy free through your cupboards.
5-Spices can take up a lot of precious pantry or kitchen cupboard space
–get them off the shelf and up on the wall. Mount a spice rack inside
the pantry on a wall or hang a narrow basket shelf inside the pantry
door (not over the stove, heat isn’t good for herbs and spices).
6-You can get the knife block off the counter by installing a magnetic
bar along a back counter wall–will hold your knives securely. You
could also install a magnetic bar on the wall of your pantry to hold
small tools you like to keep close at hand (screwdriver, pliers, etc.)
or make a hanging tool organizer.
7-Plastic lazy susans are a great organizing help in the pantry or small
kitchen cupboard. Store like things together and you’ll know just
where to grab what you need.
8-Use cup hooks: Affix to the inside of cupboard doors and on pantry
walls. They’ll hold things like measuring spoons, large bbq & kitchen
utensils (with straps or holes for hanging), potholders, etc.
9-Use small ziploc bags to hold small like-items together (like twisty
ties, corn cob holders, etc.) then store all the bags together in a small
plastic basket or tub.
10-Utilize the space underneath hanging cupboards, you can install a
paper towel holder, plastic wrap holder, knife holders, etc.
The Apollo Command/Service Module stationed over the moon’s surface
during the Apollo 11 mission, 20th July 1969. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Watch as the stone above while it turns to about 20 different colors –
This is available at BJS, Inc. in Sterling Silver for $39.00 or 14 K Gold for $399.00
Over-the-Moon Banana Pudding
Yield: Makes 12 to 15 servings
Ingredients
2 (4.6-ounce) packages cook-and-serve vanilla pudding mix
4 cups milk
1 (8-ounce) container sour cream
8 (2.75-ounce) chocolate-marshmallow sandwiches, cut into eighths
3 bananas, sliced
1 (8-ounce) container frozen whipped topping, thawed
Preparation
Cook pudding mix and 4 cups milk in a saucepan according to package
directions. Remove pan from heat; let stand 10 minutes.
Whisk in sour cream; let stand until pudding thickens.
Pour half of pudding into a 2-quart baking dish. Layer about 40
chocolate-marshmallow sandwich wedges evenly over pudding.
Top evenly with banana slices and remaining half of pudding.
Top with whipped topping. Arrange remaining sandwich wedges
around outer edge of dish. Cover and chill at least 2 hours or overnight.
Note: For testing purposes only, we used Moon Pies for
chocolate-marshmallow sandwiches.
Southern Living, JUNE 2003
What could be more Florida than being the rocket capital of the world.
This is Space Shuttle flight STS-126 with Space Shuttle Endeavour.
The full moon that night is framed perfectly along the rocket’s path.
WebShots-Space Shuttle Endeavour Jumps Over the Moon/rthomson88
Be always kind for you never know what another might be facing.
A kind word unsolicited is priceless.
family starts to walk away
!!!SPARKY3!!! 
September 14, 2009
into the pot they went. If potatoes were scare,
Aunt Pitty Pat Hamilton in GWTW 
Janey's Space 