MONDAY 23 March 2009

 

 

Hope your weekend was all you wised it to be.

Mine was productive in that I completed the

task of laundry in one day! 

 

March 23, 2009 is going to be a good day all day!

If your birthday is today, I hope you get lots of

presents and laugh a lot.

 

                 To

     DONNA

the bookeryter.

 

Here’s a few other celebrating a March 23 Birthday

1976 Keri Russell (actress)
1957 Amanda Plummer (actress)
1953 Chaka Khan (Yvette Marie Stevens) (singer)
1933 Monique Van Vooren (actress)
1929 Roger Bannister (athlete, neurologist)
1926 Martha Wright (Wiederrecht) (singer)
1923 Doc Watson (folk singer, guitarist)
1912 Wernher Von Braun (scientist)
1910 Akira Kurosawa (film director)
1908 or 1906 Joan Crawford (Lucille LeSueur) (actress)
1900 Erich Fromm (psychoanalyst)

Born Keri Lynn Russell
March 23, 1976  (age 33)
Fountain Valley, California
Occupation Actress/Dancer
Years active 1991–present
Spouse(s)

Shane Deary (2007 – present) 1 child

Awards won
   Golden Globe Awards
     Best Actress in a Television Drama Series
     1999 Felicity

Keri started out at Star Struck Dance Studio in a suburb of Denver,

and it was her dancing, not her acting that earned her a spot on the

Mickey Mouse Club subsequently starting her a career.
Currently:
2006 Russell and Shane Deary, a carpenter she met through

                 mutual friends, became engaged.
2007 married on February 14, 2007 in New York.
2008 Russell gave birth to a boy, named River Russell Deary,

on June 9, 2007 in New York. The family lives in Brooklyn, NY.
2008 Bedtime Stories as Jill – Movie
2009 Wonder Woman as Wonder Woman/Diana Prince – Animated Film
2009 Leaves of Grass – TBA Movie

 

 

Featuring Artist

   Chrissy

 

and one I put together Sunday

Betty Boop TIDBITS:

No longer a carefree flapper, from mid-1934 on, Betty became a husbandless

housewife/career girl, wearing a fuller dress or skirt. For a few entries,

she was given a boyfriend, "Freddie," who was introduced in

She Wronged Him Right (1934) and appeared in five more cartoons.

 

Next, Betty was teamed with her cute puppy, "Pudgy", beginning with

Little Pal (1934). The following year saw the addition of the eccentric

inventor Grampy, who debuted in Betty Boop and Grampy (1935).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                    Snow Shovel Wax

  Coat a snow shovel with floor wax to keep snow from sticking to it.

 

 

 

Fact: A Strawberry Is Not A Fruit
In botanical terms, a fruit consists of the ripened ovary and

seed of a flowering plant. What most people consider the strawberry

   "fruit" is not technically a fruit.

The strawberry is considered an "accessory fruit".

The fleshy part is derived from the peg at the bottom of the hypanthium

that held the ovaries, and not from the ovaries themselves which form

the "seeds". So from a technical standpoint, the seeds are the actual fruits

of the plant, and the flesh of the strawberry is modified receptacle tissue

 

 

 

 

 

Strawberry Pancake Topping

1 pound fresh strawberries, washed and hulled
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 cup freshly squeezed orange juice
1 teaspoon orange zest

Instructions:

Slice strawberries in 1/4-inch slices and place in mixing bowl.

In a saucepan combine sugar, orange juice and orange zest;

bring to a boil over medium heat. Stir with a wooden spoon to dissolve sugar.

Once syrup is at a rolling boil, remove from heat and pour

over sliced strawberries. Let sit while cooking cakes.

Serve over pancakes or waffles.

 

                            

 

 

                     

                       

 

 

         

 

 

          

                  

 

 

 

                           

 

 

       

 

 

               

 

When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves

the ground from beneath your feet. – Stanislaus Lec

 

 

 

Phrase of the Week

 

A stitch in time saves nine

Meaning

A timely effort will prevent more work later.

Origin

This is nothing to do with rips in the fabric of the space-time continuum,

as some have ingeniously suggested. The meaning of this proverb is

often requested at the Phrase Finder Discussion Forum, so I’ll be explicit.

 

The question usually asked is "saves nine what"? The stitch in time is simply

the sewing up of a small hole in a piece of material and so saving the need

for more stitching at a later date, when the hole has become larger,

Clearly, the first users of this expression were referring to saving nine stitches.

 

The Anglo Saxon work ethic is being called on here. Many English proverbs

encourage immediate effort as superior to putting things off until later;

for example, ‘one year’s seeds, seven year’s weeds’, ‘procrastination is the

thief of time’ and ‘the early bird catches the worm’.

 

The ‘stitch in time’ notion has been current in English for a very long time and is

first recorded in Thomas Fuller’s Gnomologia, Adagies and Proverbs,

Wise Sentences and Witty Sayings, Ancient and Modern, Foreign and British, 1732:

"A Stitch in Time May save nine."

 

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