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December 8: National Brownie Day, Pretend To Be A Time Traveler Day, National Rhubarb Vodka Day, and Skywarn Recognition Day.

🍁Brownie Day! Brownies were created in the United States at the end of the 19th century. A cross between a cookie and cake, they soon became very popular across the country. With the chocolate brownie being the favorite, the blonde brownie runs a close second. A blonde brownie is made with brown sugar and no chocolate and is often called a blondie. There was a request for a dessert for a group of ladies that would be attending a fair in the late 1800s. They wanted a small cake-like dessert that could be eaten from a boxed lunch. A Chicago chef, working at the Palmer House Hotel, created the first brownie for the ladies, which featured an apricot glaze and walnuts. The Palmer House Hotel still serves their original recipe for brownies on their menu. The earliest recipes for brownies comparable to those familiar to us today are found published in regional cookbooks and newspapers around the turn of the last century. The 1904 Laconia, NH Home Cookery, the 1904 Chicago, IL Service Club Cook Book, and an April 2, 1905, edition of The Boston Globe are three early examples. In 1906, Fannie Merritt Farmer published a recipe in an edition of The Boston Cooking School Cook Book. Three myths that have gained popularity over the years, regarding the creation of the brownie: 1. A chef accidentally added melted chocolate to biscuit dough. 2. A cook forgot to add flour to the batter. 3. A housewife did not have baking powder and improvised with this new treat. The story tells that she was baking for guests and decided she would serve them these flattened cakes.

🍁Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day! Time travel has captured our imaginations for generations. Science and authors keep coming back to the topic again and again, so it should be no surprise there would be a day to pretend to be a time traveler. For more resources on how to be a time travel or at least act like one, we can explore the wide array of television and movies produced over the decades. For example, Doctor Who is in its 26th season. Some might say that might be plenty of resource material right there. But let's pretend somemore! We'll start with Television: Doctor Who of course, Quantum Leap, Outlander, Voyagers!, The Time Tunnel, Tru Calling, Continuum, 11.22.63 and Fringe. Now books: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle, The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, The Magic, Treehouse series by Mary Pope Osborne, The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams. Nice my on to movies: Groundhog Day, Back to the Future, The Terminator, Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, Midnight in Paris, Edge of Tomorrow, About Time, Peggy Sue Got Married. Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day began in 2007.

🍁National Rhubarb Vodka Day. This day celebrates the unique tartness that Rhubarb gives to Vodka. Rhubarb Vodka was originally introduced in the United States in 2010 by Maple River Distillery in historic downtown Casselton, North Dakota. Rhubarb is a local favorite so there was the idea of putting Rhubarb into Vodka. The idea was an instant hit and has become a popular distilled beverage across the U.S. Rhubarb, although known as a tart fruit to most, is actually a vegetable. It was decided in a New York court in 1947 that since rhubarb was used in the United States as a fruit, that it was to be counted as a fruit for the purposes of regulations and duties.

🍁SKYWARN Recognition Day! When the sky turns dark or the wind picks up, public service volunteers provide essential weather information as it’s happening. This is a day to acknowledge their contributions to their communities. The purpose of the observation is to recognize the vital public service contributions that Amateur Radio operators make during National Weather Service severe weather warning operations. It also strengthens the bond between Amateur Radio operators and the local National Weather Service. SKYWARN Recognition Day was created in 1999 by the National Weather Service and the American Radio Relay League (ARRL) to recognize the importance that amateur radio provides during severe weather. Many NWS offices acquire real-time weather information from amateur radio operators in the field. These operators, for example, may report the position of a tornado, the height of flood waters, or damaging wind speeds during hurricanes. All of this information is critical to the mission of the NWS which is to preserve life and property.

Yum brownies! My favorite! I would like to time travel to where this head cold is gone. I'll pass on the rhubarb vodka. I knew their were individuals that watch the weather but I did not they had a name for them.

Im glad they got your office roof fix, MD. Not a good time of the year for a leaky roof.

Do the pictures help on the states? I had to cut a few out of this one I had 20 pictures to start with and cut it down to those 12. Did the numbers help any? I put them to help me keep track of how many I have wrote down.

Sending yummy brownie hugs!🐶💕🎄💕