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We're in New York today for covered bridges and a waterfall.

🇺🇸NEW YORK ⛲️Grant Mills Bridge, officially the Millbrook Bridge, is a wooden covered bridge over Mill Brook in Hardenburgh, New York, United States. It is one of 29 covered bridges in the state. It was built in 1902. It was taken out of service in 1964 when Mill Brook Road was relocated a short distance to the south, but remains in excellent condition and is open to foot traffic. It is a single span, 691⁄2 feet (21.2 m) in length, supported by rough abutments of dry-laid fieldstone. Its superstructure incorporates the Town lattice truss design. Both chords and the diagonals, connected by wood pins at each intersection, are formed by heavy paired planks. Planks laid on stringers form the deck; alternating timbers protrude to create a series of four buttresses on the sides of the bridge. Vertical board sheathing on horizontal nailers constitutes the bridge's siding; the roof and buttresses are clad in wood shingles.

⛲️Hamden Bridge is a wooden covered bridge over the West Branch of the Delaware River in the hamlet of Hamden in Delaware County, New York. It was built in 1859, and is a single span, timber and plan framed bridge. It measures 128 feet long and 18 feet wide. A supporting center pier was added in 1940.

⛲️Perrine's Bridge is the second oldest covered bridge in the State of New York. Once located in the hamlet called Perrines Bridge between 1850 and 1861. It is located in the modern day town of Esopus-Rosendale, New York just a few hundred feet to the east of Interstate 87, crossing the Wallkill River in Ulster County, New York. Originally built to aid in the movement of trade between the towns of Rifton and Rosendale, the bridge is about 90 miles north of New York City. In May 1834 the State of New York authorized and provided money to Ulster county, NY to build the bridge. In 1835, the bridge was built. The one-lane wooden covered bridge has been closed to vehicular traffic since 1930.

⛲️Taughannock Falls' main cataract is a 215-foot drop (66 m), making it 33 feet (10 m) taller than Niagara Falls. It is the tallest single-drop waterfall east of the Rocky Mountains. The waterfall is located along Taughannock Creek, which flows through a long gorge with cliffs up to 400 feet (120 m) high in Taughannock Falls State Park in Ulysses, New York, USA.

🍁National Themes For August 12: National Julienne Fries Day, National Vinyl Record Day, and National Middle Child Day.

🥔National Julienne Fries Day! Cut into thin, uniform matchsticks, julienne fries tend to be crispier and are often called “shoestring fries”. The oldest written known reference to the julienne cut is the 1722 edition of Francois Massialot’s Le Cuisinier Royal et Bourgeois. Although the origin of the julienne cut is uncertain, Eneas Dallas in the book Kettner’s Book of the Table written in 1877, analyzes the origins of the julienne cut. He considers one recipe, Julienne Soup, which calls for all the vegetables, such as turnips, carrots, potatoes, to be cut into long strips or straws. The original Julienne recipe may have come from a woodsorrel soup which required two cuts to be made on each leaf. Not one or three, but two. By doing so would create a trefoil or a trinity, which would be significant to some Christian or superstitious cooks. According to Dallas, the woodsorrel was also known in Europe by many names. In France it was known as La petite oseille and surelle (among many others), in England it was known as stubwort, sour trefoil, cuckoo’s meat and most interestingly it was known as Alleluia or Allelujah. The word would often become corrupted or manipulated. For example, the scientific name for woodsorrel is Conserva Lajulce. Dallas carry’s this point to Italy where the name becomes Juliola. Dallas’s third suggestion is that when woodsorrel is cooked, the leaves cook away, leaving only the twigs or the representative julienne cuts.

📀National Vinyl Record Day! Vinyl records are also known as a gramophone record, phonograph record or a record. It is an analog sound storage medium consisting of a flat disc which has an inscribed, modulated spiral groove. Vinyl records are referred to based on rotational speed. The RPM’s, or revolutions per minute of the more popular vinyls are: 45s, 33 1/3, 78s. Other features of vinyl records included reproductive accuracy or “fidelity” (High Fidelity or Hi-Fi, Orthophonic and Full-Range), their time capacity (long playing or single), and the number of channels of audio provided (mono, stereo or quadraphonic). Vinyl records were also sold in different sizes such as: 12 inch, 10 inch, 7 inch. Vinyl records left the mainstream in 1991. They continued to be manufactured and have started to become increasingly popular with collectors and audiophiles. Gary Freiberg of Los Osos, California founded National Vinyl Record Day (commemorating the day Thomas Edison invented the phonograph in 1877) as a reminder of fond memories and the good things in life, especially vinyl records.

🙍National Middle Child Day! It is believed by many that birth order plays a pivotal role in the personalities of children. The “Middle Child Syndrome” states that the first-born is often the leader and the role-player while the youngest one is always considered the baby of the family, therefore, leaving the middle child without a special “role”. Birth order is known to contribute to the Big Five personality traits: extroversion, neuroticism, agreeableness, conscientiousness and openness to experience. One personality study claims that middle children tend to be artistic and creative. National Middle Children’s Day was created by Elizabeth Walker in the 1980s. In a newspaper article submitted by her grandson, Litton Walker, III, Walker stated that she wanted to create a National day to honor those children “born in the middle of families” who she felt were “left out.” The name was later changed to National Middle Child Day.

I love julienne fries and julienne scallop potatoes.

Warm quick hugs! Because it's hot and stuffy here.🐶💕🌤