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What celebration did I miss?
June 9, 2015This first Friday in June is doughnut day. I hope you did not miss it. We celebrated by taking a small road trip to the town of Wooster. Wooster is a small college town in Ohio. It has lots of trees, fine old buildings, good restaurants, two great bookstores, and donuts!
The key to this post is that Lerch’s donuts is located just a little north of town. Lerch’s donuts are unlike any other.
They are made on site. They melt in your mouth. They come in three flavors – plain, sugared, or cinnamon.
The donuts are made in a little food truck parked in a defunct shopping plaza (and at select locations around the area.)
Their website says:
Lerch’s Donuts was founded in 1933 by John Lerch, Sr., when he developed a method of frying soft cake donuts that are not greasy at his downtown Wooster bakery.
In 1934, he began producing Lerch’s Donuts at the Wayne County fair, soon becoming the #1 food vendor at the fair. Many things have changed since the 1930s; the bakery has closed, but not the recipe or popularity of Lerch’s Donuts.
Mobile concession trailers are located at the former Hawkins Market (Portage Square Plaza, Wooster, Ohio) and other various locations in season (spring – fall).
Wooster – come for the books, stay for the donuts.
Remember:
What am I reading?
June 8, 2015On a Semi-annual basis Japanese pharmacy company Aisei publishes a magazine called Health Graphic Magazine. The issues, which come out usually three times a year, are focused on a specific topic. They’re not long – usually around 23 pages – but utilize a wide array of creative methods that make it a joy and pleasure to learn about lack of sleep, sinus infections, stress, or whichever topic they happen to be focusing on.
This issue on constipation features a peach that looks like a butt
a waterfall of mucus humorously graces the cover of this issue on sinus infections
traditional face painting creates an intriguing cover for this issue on high blood pressure
This polar bear just can’t. Cover for issue on summer lethargy
an issue focused on stress.
What cheesy holiday am I celebrating on tattoo Tuesday?
June 2, 2015Smile and say, “Velveeta!”
On this day in 1928, Velveeta Cheese was first introduced. This is the same year Mickey Mouse was introduced to the world. Coincidence . . .?
Velveeta is that yellow brick of cheese food that melts smoothly over everything. Food.com describes it as,
“… a blend of colby and cheddar cheeses with emulsifiers and salt. The ingredients are heated until liquified, packaged in aluminum foil, then cooled.”
Is there a Velveeta tattoo? I could not find one, but I did find these cheese tattoos, including a GALLERY of tattoos from a wildly successful local restaurant chain, MELT, that will give anyone a 25% discount on meals (forever) if they get a tattoo of one of Melt’s approved logos.
This restaurant features huge sandwiches heavy on the grilled cheese with names such as:
Parmageddon / potato & onion pierogi, fresh napa vodka kraut, sautéed onions, sharp cheddar
The Dude Abides / homemade meatballs, fried mozzarella wedges, basil marinara, roasted garlic, provolone & romano
Lake Erie Monster / crispy battered jumbo cod, sweet slaw, jalapeno tartar sauce, american
More cheese tattoos:
What am I sappy heron blogging?
May 29, 2015
We thought the herons did not return. We have not seen them at the duck pond. Here they are enjoying the lovely weather at a lake just a little further away.
No cat photos on this Friday, but my cats would like the herons. They taste like chicken.
This photo was shamelessly ripped off borrowed from my sweet patootie.
What am I celebrating on tattoo Tuesday?
May 12, 2015
Today is Limerick Day, the birthday of Edward Lear (1812) who popularized this poetic form, although limericks have been traced back to the 16th century.
Lear was also an author, illustrator, artist and musician. He was the youngest surviving of twenty-one children and, although he suffered from a variety of physical afflictions, remained productive throughout his life. Skilled as a draftsman, he began selling his drawings to support himself as early as sixteen years of age. (Wikipedia)
Lear’s painting of Butrinto, Albania
Limerick expert Don Marquis identified three types of limericks: “limericks to be told when ladies are present; limericks to be told when ladies are absent but clergymen are present; and LIMERICKS.”
I do have a book of the naughty ones, but here are a few limericks which can be told when ladies and clergy are present:
There once was a lady, Ilene,
Who lived on distilled kerosene,
But she started absorbin’
A new hydrocarbon
and since then she’d never benzene.
There once was a lady from Hyde,
Who ate a green apple and died,
While her lover lamented,
The apple fermented,
and made cider inside her inside.
The limerick packs laughs anatomical
Into space that is quite economical.
But the good ones I’ve seen
So seldom are clean
And the clean ones so seldom are comical.
Since it is tattoo Tuesday, here is a tattoo depicting Lear’s poem about the Owl and the Pussycat.
What am I knitting?
May 11, 2015
Okay – it is not knitting, it is crocheting. And it is in Japanese, but you get the idea.
Youtuber betibettin recently created a tutorial on how to make ramen. The final product looks so yummy that you can’t help but feel hunger pains. The only thing is, he’s not a chef and his ramen isn’t edible. Try and you’ll end up with a mouth full of yarn. Betibettin is a power crocheter and his latest creation is a bowl of ramen created entirely from yarn. The only thing that’s not yarn is a thin piece of cellophane place over the noodles for added soup-effect.
Rice noodles
Roast pork, egg, scallions, bamboo shoots
Gunsmoke and Knitting 