Autumn Fire

Hello Friday. Are you ready for another weekend?

Here are some photos of firey skies. Autumn has nothing timid about her. She is flamboyant, bold and loud   Long live Autumn

The header today is one I painted about 6 years ago. It is called "Waterfall" and it is a painting of some boulders in the ocean where the sea was washing over and into a tide pool. I love painting water and rocks.  Of course I change headers constantly so in future if you see this there might be another picture at the top.

We are pouring rain tonight (Thursday late) .  I hope your weather is whatever you need it to be.

 . “October, the extravagant sister, has ordered an immense amount of the most gorgeous forest tapestry for her grand reception.”   -Oliver Wendell Holmes ("Autumn," The Atlantic Almanac, 1868)

Today's header:

Hodgepodge 678

Welcome friends,

1. Our  November Hodgepodges always include a question related to gratitude. What is one small thing you're grateful for today? 

The weather is very nice, sunny with a high of 50°F.

2. Chrysanthemums-pansies-burning bush-ornamental cabbage-camellias...your favorite in an autumn garden? Would we find any of these in your yard/garden this year? 

Growing up our house had a fire thorn growing up the side and it was spectaculr in autumn.   Chrysanthemum is my birthday flower and I love the football size ones.  Their colors are so lovely.  I also love to see sugar maples and Japanese maples in autumn in the garden.   In my back garden I have a ton of moss. Some remains green, some turns a bit yellow and a lot turns orange.  I think it's very pretty.   

3. If you could clear out or organize one physical space or mental habit before the year ends, what would it be?

The back bedroom.  It was fixed up but has since become a storage room and I despise how it looks.

4. Brussel sprouts...love 'em or no thank you? If you said love 'em how do you like them prepared? 

Love them! I like them any way they come. They are nice roasted with butter though.

5. It's reassuring to know that  

I don't know.  There are many things to say but I can't really put any of them into words. 

6. Insert your own random thought here. 

Sandwiches and Housewifery

 

Dagwood made his own sandwiches!

Happy Tuesday friends,

 Welcome to Toni Taddeo's Tuesday 4!

November 3rd is both national sandwich day and national housewife's day.

In the 1950s working married women outnumbered working single women , In a US  population of a little over 161 million, over  9 million married women worked, while only 5 million single women had jobs.

The Dagwood sandwich  based on the Chic Young comic 
" Dagwood", became very popular and men made them for themselves, the bigger the better.  

1. What is your favorite sandwich ? I would have to say a BLT with fake bacon is my favorite and if the fake bacon is not available  then sliced Jersey tomatoes on toast with mayo mixed with a bit of balsamic vinegar.  I could eat them by the dozen.

2. Do you have a favorite Sandwich shop?  We all know that soup and a sandwich is a great lunch but do you ever eat sandwiches for breakfast or supper?

Richard's Sub World and Deli is great for most subs.

Deisel's is good too.

The Roman Pantry in Penns Landing/Carney's Point makes the best Philly cheese steak ever.  They don't even make them this good in downtown Philly.

  It is Bruce Willis' favorite sandwich shop too.  The first time I had a cheese steak there I thought I'd gone to heaven.

Also there was a place in Kenilworth, NJ where they had the best Italian hotodogs known to
mankind.  (Italian hot dog is a deep fried hot dog on a sub roll, with fried onions and peppers, fried potatoes and sauce on it.  You ain't lived til you have one.

3. Growing up did your mother , grandmother, aunts have a job as well as being a housekeeper?

Of course.  My mom was a registered nurse but also worked with my dad.  My maternal grandmother worked with the ILGW (international ladies garment workers) , was a piano and organ  teacher and also was a baker.   My aunt was town clerk.

Of my friends, most of them had working mothers in the 50s-60's, 70s and 80s.

I laugh when they talk about "trad" wives.  Women have always worked and even the stay at home women worked hard at home.   

Then they quote Proverbs 31 wife as a trad wife proving they never read it.   She owned a business, bought and sold real estate and provided for her family.  She had vineyards... the woman was a workhorse! 

4. According to the United Nations, unpaid domestic labor is the number one most important driver of the entire global economy. 

78% of women shoulder all the domestic and child caring labor as well as holding down full or part tme jobs.  Without women the global economy would fail.

Did you juggle a family and a job ?

I sure did.  At one point I held down two full time jobs and still had 2 kids in school and a bed ridden mother to care for.  I worked one job from 8 to 4 and the other from 4:30 to 11:00.