Posts Categorized: Quirky Stuff
Happy Halloween, everyone! In our neck of the woods, the trees are getting really pretty, there’s a nip in the air, and I’m scouring Pinterest for decor ideas and recipes to enhance the Halloween fun here at Casa Owen. Our cat Tora is starting to snuggle on my lap for longer stretches of time as…
Hurray, September 29th is National Coffee Day! I’d say the beverage was worthy of some recognition, don’t you? Fun facts about coffee: Coffee is said to have been first used by Sufi monasteries in Yemen in the 15th century Americans drink an average of 30 oz of coffee per day $40 billion (yep, that’s a…
Happy Equinox, everyone! Today is the day when the angle of the sun is straight on the equator, and the amount of day and night are nearly equal. In the northern hemisphere, this makes it our autumnal equinox (southern hemisphere has the vernal equinox). So for those of you who have been eagerly awaiting the…
Did you know that yesterday was National Tap Dance Day? The reason it’s designated as May 25th is because that’s Bill “Bojangles” Robinson’s birthday: May 25, 1878. Yep, it’s a real holiday, with the resolution being signed into law by President George Bush in 1989. Since we were busy with Memorial Day yesterday, I think…
Happy Wednesday! In putting together next week’s Mother’s Day post, the issue of the “5 second rule” came to mind. I thought I’d dig a little deeper. Where did it come from? How many people eat food they’ve dropped? In their decision to still eat the food, does it matter where they dropped it, or…
Hi everyone! Around our neck of the woods, we are dealing with “in-between-ness”: the snow is still strewn in melty-gray piles, it’s not quite spring, daylight savings time has started, Downton Abbey is over, and Easter is still weeks away. Oh, and Leonard Nimoy died. 🙁 Sigh. In other words, things are feeling kind of “blah” around…
…or “Fasnacht” Day, an old Pennsylvania Dutch tradition. It’s celebrated the day before Ash Wednesday, on the same day as Fat Tuesday, aka Mardi Gras. A fasnacht is a pastry deep-fried in lard, similar to a donut, often dusted with sugar. The fasnacht tradition has merged with the Polish paczki (a donut filled with jelly that…
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that Valentine’s Day is coming up. Yep, the holiday that keeps the greeting card, flower, and chocolate industries afloat until Mother’s Day. Usually the gifts are simple: chocolates, cards, flowers…maybe a diamond? But what about the special mystery lover in your life? The usual offerings just…
