Day 6 #100DaysOfThoseDays
Today is National Peanut Butter Lovers Day in the US
I’m definitely in this group. Lucy is definitely NOT in this group. She’s allergic to most varieties of nuts. So, I have to keep my jar of peanut butter well away from other foods.
Continue readingWritten for Charli’s 99-word story. February 27, 2023, prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less), write a story about a golden onion. Any golden onion. One planted or harvested. An onion chopped for a meal. How can you use an onion as a prop in a character’s hand? Go where the prompt leads! I have a TRUE story for this one!
Robin was fun at parties, until the night he did this!
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Today is World Spay Day
Dog and cat spaying wasn’t as common back in the 70s as it is now. I remember in those days, dogs roamed the streets and puppies and kittens were born in the hedges on the back lane. Not all the time of course, but sometimes!
Once, my father found a bag of newborn kittens at the foot of a steep hill. The person who got out of their car and threw the bag across the hill was aiming for the river, but they missed!
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Today is National Pistachio Day
(Lucy does not feel like being creative today.)
I was in my late teens when I first heard of pistachio nuts. In those days we had salted peanuts. When the notions set in, we then had dry roasted peanuts.
The dry roasted with their strong flavour were more for the hardened nut lovers in my opinion. They came in a bigger bag and they were a bit more expensive too. They weren’t for me to be honest. I missed all the salt.
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