Tie A String Round My Body

Why would I tie a string on my body??
Back in the olden days, mothers would tie a string around a child's finger to help them remember something.  Tying the string is related to the previous olden days in which  people would tie a cloth around a part of the body which was painful to keep the pain from traveling to another part of the body.  This was called keeping the "spirit of life" in that area. 

The last days, I need both the remembering tool and the "spirit of life" to keep the stiffness pain from traveling to other body parts.  We  tend to forget things because we are simply not paying attention.....that's me!!!  A string on my finger would remind my subconscious mind that something's going on that I need to remember.  Unfortunately that string can't talk so I still need to remember what it is I'm supposed to be remembering. 

I think when you get old, the old brain gets big holes in it just like old socks.  The parts which were used the most, get the holes, again like old socks.  Out in space, there are big black holes which nothing can escape...things which fall in never reappear...yep that's my brain all right.

Then it comes to the cloth being tied on the body for the "spirit of life" and keeping the pain from travelling around the body.  I can relate to this, because when I have to get an intravenous drip, the nurse always ties tube thing around my arm and it sure doesn't let my blood go any place.....and my arm usually swells up and looks like a sausage.  If I'm going to tie a cloth around a part of body to keep the pain from travelling around, I have to make sure I don't get it too tight!!

I can void the need to tie a string around my finger to remember or around my body for pain relief......first of all I can start paying attention so I don't forget things....and for the pain, take a pain tablet....if I can remember where they are.

Old Tyme Greenview
Taken from the History of Menard and Mason Counties 1879

DAVID PROPST, farmer and stock-raiser, Sec. 1 ; P. 0. Greenview; was born in Greenbrier Co., W. Va., Jan. 26, 1818. His father, Nicholas Propst, was a native of Germany.  He came to the United States when he was a boy and located in Virginia, where he married. He was the father of eight children, three of whom are now living. In 1829, he removed to Illinois and settled in Sugar Grove, Menard Co.

Mr. Propst in his lifetime was a great help to the early settlers of Menard Co. He had considerable means and he furnished many a settler with money, at a low rate, to enter land with. He was an " Old Line Whig," as were his sons, until the organization of the Republican party, when they became identified with it. Our subject passed his youth on his father's farm ; received a limited education, as there were but few schools in that early days. He now owns and is living on the place settled by his father, in 1829. When he was yet a young man he purchased, with land warrants, 160 acres of land on Salt Creek, for which he paid 75cents per acre ; six years after, he sold the land for $20 per acre. This and like transactions are characteristic of his success in life. He now owns over 400 acres of well-improved land.

 He was united in marriage with Sarah Wilcox April 10, 1851. She was born in Menard Co., 111., Aug. 11, 1829 ; her parents came from Green County, Ky., in a very early day. From this union there are two children Ephraim, born Feb. 1, 1853, and Melinda, born March 26, 1855. Mr. Propst is a stanch Republican in politics and a firm believer and advocate of its principles.

LEVI PROPST, carpenter and joiner, Sweetwater; was born in Greenbrier Co., W. Va., Aug. 9, 1828. His grandfather, Nicholas Propst, was a native of Germany, and came to Sugar Grove in 1829. John, his eldest son and the father of Levi, came to Menard Co. in 1840. Here our subject passed his youth assisting his father on the farm. His father taught him to read and write, and this was all the education young Propst received. Later in life, however, he applied himself to his books and became quite proficient. At 20 years of age, he began to learn the carpenter's trade, a business he has followed all his life except eight years, when he was engaged in the drug business in the village of Sweetwater, during which time he was also village Postmaster. He was married to Miss Elizabeth J. Swank April 10, 1851. She was born in Putnam Co., Ind., July 1, 1829. From this union there were six children, three of whom
are now living Elzina, David E. and James A. The names of those deceased are Mary E., Annie E. and Clara E. Mr. Propst is a Democrat and a self-made man.

Recipe
I have posted this before, perhaps in 2009, but with fall upon us people like pumpkin recipes.  This is so good to take to a wiener roast or when you have guests.

PUMPKIN PIE CAKE BARS
1 large can pumpkin (made into pie as directed on the can)
1 yellow cake mix
1 cup chopped nuts
2 sticks margarine
Make pie as directed on can.  (Note:  you can use the Libby's Pumpkin Pie mix with the spices already in it, but the result will be thinner bar compared to the regular pumpkin without the spices).  Pour into greased 10 x 14 lasagna type pan or a jelly roll pan.  Sprinkle DRY cake mix over the pumpkin pie evenly.  Sprinkle nuts over dry cake mix.  Melt 2 sticks of margarine and pour over top of cake and nuts.  Bake at 350 for 60 to 70 minutes.  Test with toothpick.    Serve with cool whip on top....Yummy!


Thought For The Day

Children are the living messages

we send to a time we will not see.

--Neil Postman

When you go to a Chinese restaurant, do you always look forward to the fortune cookie?  I know I do! (And the almond cookies too!)  Some people are drooling over the sushi or the sweet and sour soup, but those aren't exactly my cup of tea.  I love the fried rice and all of the dishes with shrimp and Mongolian beef is a favorite.  But I just can't wait to get the meal over with to open my fortune cookie....and I even like the taste of the fortune cookie.

Some of those fortune messages are so crazy and funny I just have to laugh.  One time I got one which said "That wasn't chicken".  I about choked on that one.....was someone being really funny or was it true!!!  Another one I got was "A good friendship is often more important than a passionate relationship" .... since when I would ask!!  Another one was "You will be hungry again in one hour."

One day I opened my cookie and there was the ultimate fortune cookie message which had me rolling on the floor laughing.  It said "Confusius say: if you think you are going to sum up your whole life on this little paper, you're crazy."

These messages on those little bits of paper can be a great conversation starter.  They can make you laugh from the bottom of your stomach.  When you think about it, it's the only food I can think of that is a lesson in literacy...all contained in that tiny little cookie. 

I can't wait for my next visit to a Chinese place .... just so I can get the fortune cookies......maybe they will give me two so I can have double the fun!  Too bad Greenview doesn't have a Chinese joint!!

To my readers, next week vacation week for us.  I will be back on October 10.  See ya!

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A Day In The Life Of A Greenviewanite

A Day In My Greenview Life

Get Up Early to Send Hubby To Work

Go Back To Bed

Get Back Up

Write Blog

Still Writing Blog

Still Writing Blog

Finish Blog

Post Blog

Make Corrections To Blog

(Most Of Morning Is Gone)

Drink Coffee

Eat Breakfast About 10am

Watch Price Is Right

Get on Internet To Check Emails

Check Snail Mail

Go To Greenview Casey's Just For Fun

Go Home and Watch TV

Still Watching TV

Take Nap

Get Up From Nap

Start Dinner

Eat

Go To Sleep Watching TV

The End.

And you thought being in

old Greenviewland was fun and lively!

Old Pictures

The Chicago Navy Pier 1965

1958 Sears Christmas Catalog, Page 438

Hall School, Athens, 1925

Another Picture of Hall School, 1925

Menard County Atlas Page

Events
Saturday, October 1 - Lawn Mower Fun Run, Greenview, sponsored by New Salem Shrine Club.  Collecting canned food and monetary donations for the Greenview Food Pantry.  Sign up at 11am Chilli Bear's on Rte 29 and will leave at noon.

Saturday and Sunday, October 1 & 2 - Rochester Fall Festival.  Music, craft vendors, raffle, food.  On South John Street...parking at Rochester Junior High, Rte. 29 and Rocket Drive...free shuttle from school.

Saturday and Sunday, October 1 & 2 and October 8 & 9 - Spoon River, Fulton County.  18 sanctioned places along 100 miles with fall beauty too!

Saturday, October 8 - Greenview Fall Town Wide Garage Sales

Recipe

This is a King Ranch Casserole, which is a kind of spicy Mexican type food.

King Ranch Casserole/Mexican Casserole

3 Chicken breasts .. cooked, boned , cut into bite sized pieces.
1 can Cream of Chicken Soup

1 can Cream of Mushroom Soup
1 can (10oz) Rotel or Red Gold (diced tomatoes & green chilies)
1 pkg corn tortillas (cut in quarters) a dozen is more than enough.
1 medium onion diced (chopped) 
1/2 lb or (a bit) more grated cheddar cheese 

Mix soups and Rotel  Tomatoes in a bowl.
In a greased 9x13 casserole dish layer chicken at bottom, soups , cheese, onions, tortillas. Layer again... until all ingredients are used. End with cheese on top with onions. Pre-heat oven to 350 F.  Place in oven for 1 hour. Enjoy!  (Note:  I put salt and pepper and/or creole or cajun spices on the chicken and bake it for a while so the chicken is more flavorful, then cut it up.  I use chicken breast for this).

Thought For The Day

A clever person solves a problem.

A wise person avoids it.

--Albert Einstein

Yesterday was an interesting day.  It featured birds and indians.  Each of those held a long piece of wood in their claws/hands and tried to hit a round thing flying through the air.  Every once in a while "smack" went the stick and the round thing flew through the air, landing sometimes in a leather clutch of another bird or indian. 

Sometimes the round thing landed on the ground and sometimes in far away places.   The birds were able to run around a bunch of places more than the indians, but those injuns gave it their all.  They were swinging and a runnin but the pretty little fillies, who live down by the pond, stomped their feet upon the injuns to beat them down.

Those fillies made those injuns go longer than was usually necessary so everyone was tired and it sure showed.  Long into the night, with both the indians and the fillies fighting it out.  The birds had an easier time so they were sitting on their branch watching and cooing on the fillies.

Now it comes to being wild.  It's well known that being wild gets you nowhere.  Since the birds don't have to mess with the injuns any longer, they better settle down on their skinny bird legs and start streaking and a beaking their way through or they will fly to the wild bird yawnder.

If you like birdies....clap once.  If you don't, stay quiet.  Birdies do better with lots of noise....so let's raise the branch and clap a lot.  And hope those birdies don't fly far from the perch. 

(in case you're not a baseball fan....this relates to the Cardinals run for the right to play for the pennant)

You take the "g" out of things, the whole thing becomes something else.  Perhaps an employee with a grudge, if the employee still works there!

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Hello....Do You Deliver Pizza??

Don't be surprised by who delivers your pizza!
Out in Greenviewland, we don't have to worry about who will deliver our next home delivery pizza.....because it isn't gonna happen.  Can you imagine calling up the local bar/lounge in Greenview or even the local Casey's and saying "I want that pizza delivered!"  "Sure you do....in your eye!"  Or "when pigs fly" would be a better response.

I remember living in Springfield and getting pizza delivery...I loved it.  It was so cool to be able to call in my order and in a short time, the delivery was at my door.  If I had only a big paper money bill, I would tell them on the phone so the delivery person could bring enough change for me to pay for the pizza and of course, give him a tip.  But a nice tip was worth it!

When I lived in Springfield I also remember that the local phone company assigned me a former Pizza Restaurant phone number that hadn't been used in years.  But..... people must have had that number written down from years before because I got all kinds of calls.  And, when I told the caller this number wasn't the pizza place number, they were rude and told me to take the dang order, so I started doing that....I took their pizza order, being polite all the time I was doing it.  I even gave some people a discount code so they would get $3.00 or $4.00 off the pizza.  I only did this when I ran across a really nasty person.....can you imagine what they did when they got to the pizza place....not only did they not have a pizza ready, they didn't get the discount price either.  A couple of times people would call me back and cuss me out, but I always told them that I tried to warn you this wasn't the pizza place number and that I was recording their call and have every intention to report them to the phone company.  After a while I stopped getting those pizza order calls....thank goodness.

Recently I ran across a new type of pizza delivery.  I imagine it's hard for this delivery entity to make change, so the right change would be essential.  Since our local establishments don't have pizza delivery available, perhaps the use of this type of delivery would be feasible.....long distance wouldn't be impossible...so rural people could maybe  take advantage of the new and streamlined pizza delivery.  Folks meet the newest and latest pizza delivery entity......

Old Tyme Greenview

1949 - The 1967 GHS graduation class members were born ..... YAY I'm here.  Fox Hunters was organized - hunter had drives and bagged as many as 29 a couple of times in order to drive the county of the pests.  The Linda Theater opened with the first show "On a Sunday Afternoon".  The theater seats 450.  The businessmen voted to close shop on Wednesday afternoons.  Bob Conkling bought the Sam Tapscott barber shop,  Claude Barnett was operating the locker.  In July the Markee Grill opened in the Linda Theater.  The contract work for the electrical work at the new high school was awarded the Durham Electric Co. of Springfield for $14,860.  The Never Grow Old, a group of women, none of whom was under 70 years of age, was organized for fun and fellowship.  July 5 was the new ground breaking for the new high school with the cornerstone laid on November 18.  Don Riley opened an insurance agency in his home and George Merrihew became associated with Harry Mathews' insurance business.  Schurman, Rodimer and Hughes were a new building contracting firm.

1950 - Band Parents organized.  They pay Mr Garlinger for summer teaching of the youngsters.  The hot lunch program was instituted in the Greenview schools with 278 meals served per day.

1951 - John Dirks and Edgar Eldridge embarked on a partnership with a trucking business.  Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Hudspeth opened a restaurant.  The Amvets Post was organized.  Service of two passengers trains though Greenview was discontinued, only two a day now.  The country schoolhouses were sold at auction.

1952 - New uniforms for the band were purchased at a cost of $2500.  Polio struck the thrice in the family of Elton Ennis.  Wardella Woodrum died of the bulbar type on September 13, Wardella's son David was in an iron lung for weeks and was left with a disability of the spine and Richard, Wardella's other son, recovered completely.  A new fire truck was purchased for the district at a cost of $10,050.  In October another polio victim, Norman Claypool died after one week's illness.  Mr. and Mrs. P.C. Carter was operating the locker which they took over from Robert Gaddie.

Girls Basketball Team 1911-12

Another Picture of the girls basketball

team 1911-12.  Note the school behind them, this is the school

which records show was torn down in 1915....see picture below of the school.

Greenview school torn down in 1915.

Recipe

Caramel Filled Chocolate Cookies

2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
16 tablespoons margarine, softened (2 sticks)
1 cup granulated sugar

1 cup packed brown sugar

2 large eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla
48 ROLO candies

2 Tablespoons of sugar for tops of cookies

1. Pre-heat oven to 350. (for when you're ready to bake them- they do need to chill first)

2. In a large mixing bowl, beat together butter, 1 cup granulated sugar and brown sugar until creamy. Mix in eggs, one at a time, until combined, add vanilla. Add in dry ingredients, beating until just combined. Cover and place bowl into the refrigerator to chill for at least 2 hours. (you need to chill or else it's too sticky)

3. Use a teaspoon and get it really full.... unscoop it onto your hand and create a hole in the dough...put the Rolo in and cover with the cookie. I usually added another 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon here just to get the Rolo completely encased in the chocolate cookie batter.

4. Roll the cookies round and dip the TOPs only in the 2 Tablespoons of sugar. Place on parchment paper lined cookie sheet and bake for 10-12 minutes.

Thought For The Day

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul

by making him hate me.

--Booker T. Washington

Have you ever wondered what was going on when you were born.  I did, so I used google and found some really cool things which went on in my birth year.

The best music was "Some Enchanted Evening"; "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer"; "Ghost Riders in the Sky"; "Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend"; and "Kiss Me Kate" soundtrack.

In the theater was South Pacific, Death of a Salesman, and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.

Federal spending was just at $38.84 billion with the Federal debt at $252.6 billion.  WOW!

Unemployment was at 3.8%.

Cost of a first class stamp was $.03

Harry Truman was the President and Alben W. Barkley was the Vice-President.  The population of the USA was 149, 188,130.  Life expectancy was 68 years.

There are some things I like.....the low spending and debt amounts, the low stamp price and the unemployment rate.  I'm sure glad life expectancy has gone up.  I remember hearing all of those songs as a kid and every once in a while, hear them on internet.   I firmly believe that it's a cool thing to know something about what was going on when a person's  parents brought the person into this world.  It gives you an idea of what your parents had to face back then.  Be it good or bad.

It had to have been good when they saw my sweet face! Chuckle-Chuckle!!

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Funny And Sometimes Stupid Headlines

Things newspapers print as headlines.....
All my life I've loved to read the newspaper headlines and laugh beyond control at some of the stupidity of persons in charge.  Not long ago I saw a headline which I thought was one of the best and most stupid headlines I'd ever seen.  It said "Tornado Rips Through Cemetery, Hundreds Dead".  What was the newspaper thinking when that one was written.  Of course there are hundreds dead in the cemetery but I doubt that the tornado killed them. 

Some of these funny headlines can be considered entendres that I've previously posted about.  A few more of my favorites are:  "Farmer Bill Dies in House"; "Smith Evades Noose, Jury Hung"; "Squad Helps Dog Bite Victim"; "Red Tape Holds Up Bridges".

Some headlines aren't entendres, they are just plain hilarious or downright stupid.  One I read was "Man Kills Himself Before Shooting Wife".  How the heck could that happen?????  Another one...."Gun Shop Raided, Weapons Found" .... are you kidding me????   Here 's a real ignorant one  "Couple Slain, Police Expect Homicide" .... I'm not a policeman and I know that!!!   The best one "Woman Improving After Fatal Crash"......what???????

I imagine it's easy to let something slip through newspaper editing but weird headlines seem to be plentiful and pretty stupid in a lot of cases.  At least it keeps us in stitches and we all know a good laugh is good for our souls and health.....so I say keep on putting out those funky headlines.  And now that you know headlines can sometimes be strange as they get....I bet you will be watching more closely to find your own.....and I bet you find a bunch too! 

Just Some More Old Area Pictures
(click on the picture to get an enlarged view on most of these)

Springfield, south side of square on Adams

between 5th and 6th 1950's

When J. C. Penney's was downtown.

Springfield, same block as above, 1956

Springfield, north side of square, Washington, between

5th and 6th, 1950's

Pegwill Pete Show

Springfield, late 1950's - early 1960's

Lincoln, unknown date

1911 Middletown Postcard

GM&O #33 P&N Middletown, IL

Recipe

A friend gave me this recipe a long time ago.  It makes a hearty stromboli which can be served with a salad for a great supper/dinner.  It's almost like a cross between a calzone and a stromboli.  It takes a bit of work but these are good.  It  makes a big roll-like stromboli so slice them up to serve unless you are super hungry.

 Stromboli Roll

I take frozen bread dough (see my note below), thaw it out and roll out on the counter with a little flour until very thin but not thin enough for holes to break through....just enough so that you leave enough room to overlap a bit to close the stromboli to bake.

1st layer......generously put a layer of ham (capicola ham is good)
2nd layer a layer of provolone cheese
3d layer generous layer of genoa salami
4th layer of mozzarella cheese
5th a generous layer of pepperoni (sliced kind for sandwiches)
6th layer of swiss cheese

Bring ends together and close by bringing sides together to meet in the middle and close.  Seal with an egg mixture with a few drops of water and brush on.  After sealing, I usually carefully turn this over so seam is down and then brush on the egg mixture on the top.    Can sprinkle with poppy seeds or sesame seeds of leave plain.

Bake 350 oven for 30-35 minutes or until golden brown. Slice into about 1-2" inch slices and enjoy!

NOTE: I find that if you roll the whole loaf at one time.... after rolling them out these tend to be larger than the average cookie sheet so I usually cut the bread loaf dough in half and make two out of one loaf.   These go really fast so make a lot.  Kind of looks like below:

Thought For The Day

There is nothing worse than a brilliant

image of a fuzzy concept.

--Ansel Adams

Each morning I sit at my most uncomfortable computer chair writing at the speed of light....well almost!  My fingers fly over the keyboard at maximum speed for an old woman's fingers.

Speeding along on my keyboard sometimes gets me in trouble.  I misspell words, leave out punctuation and sometimes my written item generally looks like it was hit with a bomb when my fingers get on the wrong letters.  It's obvious to me that my mind works faster than my fingers.  I guess I'm lucky because when a lucky idea light bulb goes off in my head, I can expand on that idea or thought pretty rapidly....and need to get it written down as quickly as I can.  I just have to be in a really positive mind set to accomplish the best that I can do.  Old Greenview minds and fingers need oiling every once in a while.....the wheels turn slower in the slow pace of the town.

So what am I to do about slow fingers?  I could cut them off, but that would leave me holding a stick in my mouth trying to type one letter at a time.  I read somewhere there are "slow finger" exercises that can be done....maybe this is the answer.  I also read that by doing the Hanon exercises, which pianists use, your fingers will gain speed and agility....just what I need.  Unfortunately, I gave my piano to my daughter so I guess that's out. 

In these days of internet, email and social networking, we must all type fast so we can move on to the next mind boggling fast paced piece of our day.  The world moves at a staggering rate and I stagger just trying to keep up.... but if you want a big piece of the action, you have to try to be speedy.  Most of the time I can't keep up with writing, reading facebook (can't even figure it out these days), and looking at emails,  so I just do my own thing at sometimes less than the speed of light speed.

If you are reading this blog, excuse the misspellings and left out words.  Usually I do the post and then re-read it and go in and make corrections.....so if you're fast in pulling up my blog right after I post it, you might see some really weird and crazy words in my latest post.

I guess I have to put up with these crazy slow fingers.  But I will always give it my best shot....and be unique.  Keep on reading and I'll keep on writing! The rest is left to fate!!

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Roof Roof Is Here To Stay

A New Roof To Shelter Us....
We have plenty of shade out in the country.  Trees totally surround us.....and those trees mean lots of shade.  After years of shade, algae can grow.  It grows on the sides of the trees, on the rocks, on the mailbox and on the roof for Pete's sake.  For the last few years we had noticed that the algae or moss of whatever it was called was building up on the roof.  We bought everything we could find to remove it, and even power washed the roof many times.....but to no avail.  I was hoping it wouldn't grow tall so I would have to somehow mow the algae on the roof.

When the black mold stains and streaks start running down the roof, it made the house look like it belonged in the ghetto.....it looked bad!  That algae stuff is horrible.....especially when the shingles aren't necessarily worn out, but with the algae, the shingles might as well have been worn out!

So away we went to the roof store.  We spent  a little extra and got really good quality dark brown shingles, which were lifetime warranty and algae resistant.  We loaded up a few of the shingle bundles (and decided to have the rest delivered), stacked them, and attempted to do the roof..................yikes....what a job.  The carrying of the 80 pound shingle packages was almost enough to put hubby in the grave.   It didn't take long to discover that we needed to hire it done....the roof had a 7 point roof slant and that made it scary....especially on the back side which was about as tall as the Sears building.

After calling many roofers and getting enormously high cost bids due to being in the country as well as a steep roof, we found a reasonably priced and licensed roofer.   This weekend the two roofers came. On Saturday they got all of the old shingles torn off and the felt replaced and started shingling.  Sunday morning they were here early and worked almost non-stop.   They had to work with lights for the last hour or so but the roof got done.   Just in time for the rain coming in. 

I guess the moral of my story is .....  when you get old, attempting to do a roof  installation yourself is just plain silly.  It will make you old fast.....and your joints will hurt for days.  Don't be a tight-wad....spend the money and get it done by someone who does it for a living.  It will save your sanity and you can sit back in a lawn chair and watch!

From ugly stained roof........ (you can click on pictures for detail)

And the scary back side drop-off.....

To the Roof Process......tearing off the shingles and felt

New Felt on and starting shingles on the back, scary side.....

This morning.....mission accomplished....new roof with leaves already on it.......fall is here....let her come!

Old Tyme Greenview

1947 - B. C. Armeling sold his hardware and implement business to Harold Baugher of Fancy Prairie.  A contract was let to Hayes and Sons for a new well for Greenview, the well to be 153 feet deep, cost to be $1792.  Vertus Barnett   perfected a gadget to save gasoline on farm machinery, specifically tractors.  It was called the EconoCap and was first patented in 1952.  Lova Estill purchased the barber shop and building from Webb Madison.  William Davision began a new enterprise as a bulldozer contractor.   Andrew Fitzgerald was appointed the acting Postmaster and later confirmed as the postmaster.

1948 - Gerald Meehan bought the Corner Cafe from Clinton Lance.  Later his brother Bimmie and his wife, Emma, purchased the business.  Bimmie also operated the recreation hall.  William Beauchamp opened a garage in the Korah Roberts building.  Richard Ratliff opened a welding  shop.  Jack Luscher and Clyde Grizzel purchased the Greenview Review form Mr and Mrs. Claude Petrie.  Soon Jack bought out Clyde Grizzell. He than ran it with the help of his assistant Ralph Teter.  Construction began on the new Linda Theater.  Carl Miller presented chimes and a Solovox to the Presbyterian Church in memory on his mother Sophia Hallberg Miller.  Leo Garlinger came to Greenview as the band instructor.

Anyone Remember???

I remember seeing this type of wiener mobile when I was a kid.

First constructed in 1936

Gene Autry (with the white hat) and the Holsum Ranch on the Springfield tv station.

One time at the Fort Madison Iowa Rodeo, Gene Autry picked me from the crowd to ride around the arena with him on his horse.  :>)

Recipe

With fall in the air, it makes me want to make all of my pumpkin recipes.  Here's a crowd favorite....a little work involved but worth it!!!  I'm making this for Thanksgiving!

Pumpkin Roll

3 eggs
1 cup sugar
2/3 cup pumpkin
1 tsp lemon juice
3/4 cup flour
1 tsp baking powder
2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup chopped pecans

Beat eggs on high speed for 5 minutes. Gradually beat in sugar, stir in pumpkin and lemon juice. Mix together flour, baking powder, salt and spices in a bowl and then fold into the egg/ pumpkin mixture.  Spread on a greased 15x10x1 pan, top with nuts and bake at 350 F. for 15 minutes.

Turn onto a paper towel that has been sprinkled with powdered sugar. Start with narrow end of cake and roll towel and cake together, let cool completely. While cake is cooling make the filling.

Filling

1 cup powdered sugar
4 tbsp butter
1-8 ounce cream cheese
1/2 tsp vanilla

Combine and beat until smooth. Carefully spread on the cooled cake (be careful and not break the cake) and roll cake back up without paper towel. Roll in powdered sugar. Wrap in foil and chill or freeze to make easy to cut. Slice and serve. You can get 2 of these from a large can of pumpkin.

Thought For The Day

Intelligence is the ability

to adapt to change.

--Stephen Hawking

I love trivia information.  Some of these trivial pieces of information are so unbelievable, but they supposedly are true.  When I find something that's so unbelievable, I usually try to tell it to someone to get their reaction....they usually don't believe me.

Here's a few things which I have found over the years.....unbelievable but true.  I have many so in later posts, I will do more.

1.  A donkey can sink into quicksand but a mule can't. The reasoning I found is that the donkey will struggle and sink but the mule will remain calm and will just be partially stuck.

2.  The words, facetious and abstemious contain all of the vowels and in the correct order. (a-e-i-o-u).

3.  The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating its letters is uncopyrightable.

4.  The longest English word without any vowels is twyndyllyngs (means twins).

5.  Albert Einstein never word socks.

6.  All babies are color blind when they are born.

7.  The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

8.  There is cyanide in apple pipps.

9.  Hummingbirds are the only creatures which can fly backwards.

10.  If you save one penny and double it every successive day  ( on day two you have two pennies and  on day three you have four pennies, etc), by the end of 30 days you will have $5, 368, 708.

Just trivia.....but fun.  My last piece of trivia is.... there are 118 ridges on the circumference of a dime.  See you ..... from Trivia Greenview to wherever you are!

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If I Ate Like Subway's Jared

Jared and his sandwiches ....

Every time I see a Jared The Subway Guy commercial, that man has a huge subway in his hand.  Sure it has only a small number of fat grams, but my body functions on calories and if the bread is there, the pounds go on.  Last year when I saw an article that Jared had died, I thought  "I can believe that"....he must have had one too many subway sandwiches.  But his death notice was a hoax and Jared was still alive, eating his half of a footlong sub....and probably is eating one as you read this.

Yesterday I saw a Weight Watcher's commercial with American Idol contestant Jennifer Hudson.  That girl not only can sing, she can really lose weight and look good!  It makes me want to go enroll in Weight Watchers.  Especially if I can lose weight and also sing like her by enrolling in their plan.  I've had a few of their recipes and they actually aren't bad but it seems like the recipes call for ingredients no one has on their pantry shelf.  Who in the heck would have fresh ginger, rice wine and wasabi  paste or powder on their pantry shelf as everyday ingredients?    Of course a person can make wasabi slaw, wasabi tuna, wasabi salmon, wasabi cucumbers, wasabi shrimp, wasabi deviled eggs, and on and on.....  I bet some weight watchers even eat wasabi right out of the jar.   Since so many of their recipes use wasabi, is it the wasabi that makes you lose weight???  Hmmm.....a trip to the store is necessary today for some wasabi because I'm going to do the weight watchers at home without enrolling.  I have a couple of their books and I can read, so it should be an easy thing.

Next on my weight loss commercials is Jenny Craig.  I saw Queen Latifah and really believed she was the victim of Jenny Craig.  They later admitted they lied and she really lost but it wasn't due to Jenny Craig.  Of course Valerie Bertinelli at age 48 and after Jenny Craig, looks hot in her bikini....but somehow I don't think I would look as good at my age.  HA HA HA  Jennifer Hudson first was on the commercial for Jenny Craig and all at once she's on Weight Watchers....somehow I think it's whoever lines the pockets the most.


Kirstie Alley is the most impressive, because Jenny Craig fired her for gaining weight....then Kirstie went on Dancing with the Stars and lost weight....she went on to develop her own Organic Liason which helped her lose....and now she has lost 100 pounds since Dancing With The Stars.  I need some of that Organic Liason stuff I guess.

Last is the NutriSystem program.  Talk about expensive!!!  And the meals they send to you have so much sodium, you must retain fluid in your stomach and think you're full.  This was the only diet my daughter tried and said "it's the only program I've tried and gained weight while on it".  I know someone else who lost massive amounts of weight but, as soon as they went off the purchased meals, the person gained all of the weight back plus some more.

It doesn't matter if you're Jared the Subway Guy, Jennifer Hudson, Queen Latifah, Kirstie Alley or a plain person from podunk Illinois, weight loss is difficult and especially so when you gain a bit of age. 
Weight and age...two of life's archenemies! 

I'm trying.....and hungry to boot, but ready to go get my wasabi .... and make some cool things....and be a skinny minnie one of these days!


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Greenview In Olden Days

From the book History of Menard and Mason Counties - 1879:

The winter of the "deep snow" (1830-31) is an era of the past that is
vividly remembered by the few survivors of that gloomy period. The snow began to fall about the middle of December, continued until nearly four feet deep on a level, and remained on the ground until the following March. Much of the game in the country starved to death, and many people came near sharing the same fate. We were informed by Joseph Walker that, in his father's family, the snow caught them without meal or flour. They had laid in their
winter's supply of meat, and this, with corn pounded into hominy, sustained them for six weeks. Their corn was standing in the field in shocks, and everyday they would shovel away the snow to a shock of corn, in order to procure their supply of hominy and to feed their limited amount of stock. The sudden freeze of 1837 is another event that will be remembered by all who were of a sufficient age to note such an occurrence. It was in the month of November, and several inches of snow had already fallen. The weather had become rather
warm, the snow was melting, and. aided by a drizzling rain, it was a perfect mass of slush, when, without premonitions of its approach, a great " Manitoba wave" swept over the country, and apparently in the twinkling of an eye, the slush congealed, and, in the language of the Song of Hiawatha : " As hard as stone became the waters."

The suffering was great. We have heard of no loss of human life in this section; but in other localities where our duties have called us, people were not so fortunate. In this " cold snap " much stock perished from the sudden change and the intensity of the cold. Another event of the past history of this part of the country, was the great hailstorm of 1851. It came in the month of May, and we were informed by one old settler that they had plenty of it to cool
their mint-juleps on the 4th of July. In its course, it left the trees with the appearance (in their nakedness) of midwinter, and all vegetation was literally beaten into the ground. It was destructive to stock, where exposed to its fury, and many animals, hogs particularly, were killed outright. 

Recipe

Since the cold is coming, soup sounds mighty good.  This is my recipe for Broccoli Cheddar Soup which I think tastes similar to Panera Bread's soup. 

Broccoli Cheddar Cheese Soup

1 Tablespoon melted margarine (saute the onion)

1/2 cup chopped onion

1/4 cup melted margarine

1/4 cup flour

2 cups half and half (cream)

2 cups chicken stock

3/4 pound fresh broccoli - chopped

1/2 cup grated carrots

1/4 teaspoon nutmeg

8 ounces grated sharp cheddar cheese

salt and pepper to taste

Saute the onion in 1 tablespoon of margarine and set aside.  Cook rest of margarine and flour using a whisk over medium heat and cook for about 3 minutes.  Stirring constantly, add the half and half.   When it begins to look a bit thickened, add the chicken stock.  Simmer on low for 20 minutes, stirring frequently.  Add the broccoli, carrots and onions and salt and pepper.  Cook over low for another 20 minutes, stirring frequently.  Put in a blender and blend for just a few seconds.  Return to the heat and add the cheese and nutmeg.  Enjoy!

Thought For The Day

Sometimes the best way to convince

someone he is wrong is to let him have his way.

--Hugh Roe O'Donnell

Autumn came this morning.  It's cool and crisp out in Greenviewland.  Looks like summer went away quietly.....she was probably tired from all of the heat and drought she fed to us. 

When the trees unselfishly begin to relinquish their hold on the leaves, nature is telling us that it's time for nature's "things of life" to rest for a few months, so a glorious spring can be presented to the world after that short rest.  As Autumn deepens, nature's "things of life" await the snow of winter, which will replenish  the essence of life.

Soon the colorful trees will be bare, but you will see the bright sun better through the bare branches.  You will feel the warmth of the sun better now than when winter's harsh cold comes to the land.  When you stand among nature's finest, change is in the air.  You can feel the underlying currents of cool air creeping in.  It won't be long and autumn will be gone, replaced by the next season of cold.

 

Some of us like fall and some of us don't.  I personally like it better than winter but not as well as spring and summer.  But it's here and we cannot change that.  So we will get out our rakes, jump in the leaves for fun and hope that the seasons of rebirth won't be long coming.

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Have a good weekend....see you Monday.