Duchess & Sadie's Mtn Domain

Bayfield, Colorado - Did you remember to set your clocks back an hour this last weekend, Saturday night, November 6, 2010? Did the extra hour add to your productivity in the days that followed? Is this whole Daylight Savings Time worth it?

I do not see why humans put so much energy in to this Daylight Savings Time. It really gets this Pug off of her schedule eating, sleeping times. It seems like I am either an hour early or an hour late. Bah humbug to daylight savings change-over.

The seven day forecast put out by the National Weather Service around Bayfield, Colorado says we have a possibility of 70% chance of rain/snow likely moving in here tonight with 60% chance of snow Tuesday.

A potent early season Winter storm will move across eastern Utah and Western Colorado tonight and Tuesday. A strong cold front will initially sweep through northeast Utah then push across Western Colorado tonight. Bringing a period of heavy snowfall as temperatures fall below freezing. Snow will diminish across the mountains of Eastern Utah on Tuesday morning and across the mountains of western Colorado by late Tuesday.

In addition to the snow and cold temperatures, strong southwesterly winds will develop ... with wind gusts 40 to 45 mph at times ... especially over the higher mountains passes. Hunters traveling or camping in the high country should be prepared for adverse winter conditions.

The Winter weather advisory remains infect from 6 PM this evening to 6 PM MST Tuesday.

* TIMING ... Snow will develop this evening and continue through Tuesday afternoon.

* SNOW ACCUMULATION ... 4 TO 8 inches by Tuesday evening with locally higher amounts.

* SNOW LEVEL ... Dropping to 6000 feet by Tuesday morning.

* WINDS ... Southwest winds 15 5o 25 mph with gusts to around 45 mph. Winds will switch to the northwest late tonight ... and then gradually diminish.

* IMPACTS ... Travelers should take extra precautions as mountain passes and roads will be icy and snowpacked. Hunters camping in the backcountry should plan on cold and snowy conditions and dress appropriately.

Do you know any hunters traveling, or camping in the back country of Southwest Colorado? This is this Pug's kind of weather!

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Home Comfort Cookbook (1934) - Methods of Cooking (cont.)

America - 1934 Methods of Cooking continued from the 1934 Wrought Iron Range Home Comfort cookbook. Last week we promised you more methods of cooking. This week we bring you boiling, stewing, steaming and frying.

Boiling -- Another modification of primitive roasting, the difference being that the heat is applied through the medium of boiling water. In fresh meats -- called pot-roasts -- sear, or harden the outer side by plunging into boiling water. Do not allow it to remain at this high heat very long, not more than five minutes, but allow it to finish cooking by simmering for the required period.

The pot should be but slightly larger than the meat, and only sufficient water to cover it used; but, the meat should be keep completely covered while cooking and precaution taken not to allow the water to entirely boil away.

In salt meats, the outer surface should not be closed by plunging into boiling water, but should be immersed in cold or lightly warm water and allowed to come to the boiling point, held there for about five minutes, then dropped back to simmering. Very salt meats should be soaked in cold water before boiling. BVegetable should be boiled in slightly salted water or with salt meats.

Stewing -- A modification of boiling, employed principally for small or cheaper cuts of meat, especially when it is to be served with its juices, or gravy, and after the ingredients are well blended, lay the meat into it, allow it to boil for about two minutes, then complete the cooking by simmering. The time required for stewing greatly depends upon the quality of the meat -- one and a half to two hours is usually necessary.

Steaming -- Cooking by steam, a method necessary for certain foods. Accomplished without special equipment by placing a small quantity of water in the bottom of a boiling pot and resting the food to be steamed upon a framework of wire (a perforated tin can inverted and resting on the bottom will do very well) above the water. covered and set to boil, the steam fills the pot and supplies the moist heat with an even temperature.

Frying -- Perhaps the most used of cooking methods, and one of the easiest to do well, and also badly. Proper frying is of the greatest importance to the household. Two methods are in practice -- deep and shallow frying.

Deep-fat frying -- far superior to shallow frying -- is done in a deep pan or kettle, of hot fat, such as lard, vegetable fat, or butter, referred to in "Home Comfort" recipes as cooking fat. The kettle -- a graniteware stew-kettle is ideal -- should be kept for this purpose, and provided with a woven wire frying-basket, or tray, suspended into the kettle to within about an inch of the bottom. The fat should be hot -- just under the snaking point -- before placing the articles to be fried into it. Drop them in one or two at a time to allow the fat to regain its temperature after being slightly cooled by their cold surface.

use plenty of fat, always sufficient to cover the articles, for there is very little waste, and no real economy in using too little, since by this method the surface of the articles are quickly crisp, the cooking fat does not penetrate far, nor does the fat absorb the juices or odor of the food to any great extent. View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

NW Okie's R & R

Bayfield, Colorado - With the return to Mountain Standard Time (MST) and an extra hour the beginning of November 2010, in the San Juans comes the Winter storm watches for the western slopes of Colorado.

As to switching from Daylight Savings Time (DST), did you know that between 2/9/1942-9/30/1945, the government extended daylight saving time and it was observed year-round. During WWII the United States made daylight saving time mandatory for the whole country, as a way to save wartime resources.

In the late 1990s (1999) I had the honor to transcribe a "Father's Legacy" written by the Honorable State Senator Ernest D. Martin and place on one of my websites. Senator Ernest D. Martin (1921-2010) died at the age of 89, November 2, 2010, on election day, in Ardmore, Carter county, Oklahoma.

My only regret is, I never got to meet Ernest Martin in person. Because I had the honor and privilege of transcribing his notes and emailing over the last 10 or 11 years, it feels as though I have known him all my life. He was a loving son, husband, father, grandparent and Oklahoma State Senator (1964-1982). His memory will remain alive for many whose path he has crossed.

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Obituary: Senator Ernest D. Martin (1921-2010)

Ardmore, Oklahoma - Funeral Services for Senator Ernest D. Martin were held 10:00 A.M. Friday at the First Baptist Church with Dr. Alton Fannin officiating. Interment followed to Rosehill Cemetery with military honors.

Ernest was born April 13, 1921 to James Edgar and Maude D. Estes Martin in Hugo, Oklahoma. He passed from this life on November 2, 2010 in Ardmore at the age of 89. He was preceded in death by his parents, wife Nita Hegwood Martin in 1994, brothers James Martin, T.J. and R.E. Martin, Calvin Martin, Edgar Martin and a sister Ruthelle Hartsell.

When Ernest was 19, he attended the Commercial Art School in Chicago, Ill for two years and worked in commercial art in Houston for two years, he later decided to join the Army Air Corp for 3-1/2 years during WW II, this is where he meet Nita Hegwood. He and Nita were married March 12, 1946 in Lucedale, Mississippi. He was a graduate of Ardmore High School and University of Oklahoma School of Pharmacy in 1950, which he completed in three years. After Pharmacy school he and Nita moved back to Ardmore and he went to work for his father in Martin's Drug Store.

In 1976 he was awarded the Bowl of Hygeia Award, was recognized for "Outstanding Community Service in Pharmacy" by A.H. Robins and served in the Senate from 1964-1982 where he was majority leader. In office he served as chairman of the Public and Mental Health Department Committee for 16 years and also co-authored a bill to make it possible for Interstate 35 to pass through Ardmore.

Other accomplishments include the Southern Oklahoma Vo-Tech Center, The Ardmore Higher Education Center, Oklahoma Highway Patrol Headquarters Troop F, The Ardmore Veterans Center and many more. But he always said that his greatest accomplishment, the one that made his eyes glow and his posture straighten was the picture of his wife Nita.

He is survived by two sons Terry Lee Martin and his wife Valerie of Ardmore, Larry Martin and his wife Carol of Orlando, Fl., one daughter, Susan Harkins and her husband Jimmy of Ardmore. He is also survived by his grandchildren, Shawn Harkins and his wife Lori and their children Kaylie and Cade Harkins, Jeremy Harkins and his wife April and their child Kasson Harkins, Brandon Martin, Brent Martin, Jayci Martin and Kerry Martin.

For more memories and information on Senator Martin please visit wwwpubco.com/FathersLegacy.

A family visitation was held Thursday (Nov. 4, 2010) evening from 7-8 P.M. at the Craddock Funeral Home. On-line condolences may be made at Craddock Funeral Home. View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

This Day In History - November 8

America - * 1861 -- Trent Affairs (Civil War) Begins - The USS San Jacinto stops the British mailship Trent and arrests two Confederate envoys, James Mason and John Slidell. The incident turned into a major diplomatic crisis between Great Britain and the United States until the diplomats were released nearly two months later.

* 1887 -- Doc Holiday dies of tuberculosis - Doc Holliday was a noted gunslinger, gambler, and occasional dentist. Remember the OK Corral in Tombstone, Arizona? His full name was John Henry "Doc" Holliday and he earned his bad reputation well before that famous feud at the Ok Corral. Doc Holliday was born in Georgia and raised in the tradition of the southern gentleman. He earned his nickname when he graduated from the Pennsylvania college of Dental Surgery in 1872. Shortly after embarking on a respectable career as a dentist in Atlanta, he developed a bad cough. Doctors diagnosed tuberculosis and advised a move to a more arid climate. So ... Holliday moved his practice to Dallas, Texas.

Although he was considered a competent dentist, cards interested him more than teeth. Holliday earned a reputation as a skilled poker and faro player. In 1875, Dallas police arrested Holliday for participating in a shootout. Thereafter, the once upstanding doctor began drifting between the booming Wild West towns of Denver, Cheyenne, Deadwood and Dodge City, making his living at card tables and aggravating his tuberculosis with heavy drinking and late nights.

We all know from books, movies that Holliday was famously friendly with Wyatt Earp, who believed that Holliday saved his life during a fight with cowboys. Holliday was a loyal friend to Earp, and stood by him during the 1881 shootout at the OK Corral and the bloody feud that followed.

Holliday fled Arizona and returned to the life of a western drifter, gambler, and gunslinger in 1882. By 1887, Holliday's hard living had caught up to him, corking fin to seek treatment for his tuberculosis at a sanitarium in Glenwood Springs, Colorado. He died in his bed at only 36 years old. View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

1918 Standard Time Act

America - Standard time in time zones was not established in U.S. Law until the Act of March 19, 1918, sometimes called the Standard Time Act (a.k.a. Calder Act, (15 USC 264)). The act also established daylight saving time, itself a contentious idea.

Daylight saving time was established by the Act of March 19, 1918, sometimes called the Standard Time Act. The Act was intended to save electricity for seven months of the year, during World War I. DST was repealed in 1919, though, but standard time in time zones remained in law, with the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) having the authority over time zone boundaries. Daylight time became a local matter.

Original U.S. law, 40 Stat. 450 & 56 Stat. 9, The first two acts establishing DST in the United States.

40 Stat. 450 & 56 Stat. 9 -- What does that mean? 40 Stat. 450 is the Statutes at Large citation: 40 is the volume, and 450 is the beginning page number. These are the published laws from the U.S. Government Printing Office.

An Act To save daylight and to provide standard time, for the United States reads as follows:

"Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, for the purpose of establishing the standard time of the United States, the territory of continental United States shall be divided into five zones in the manner hereinafter provided. The standard time of the first zone shall be based on the mean astronomical time of the seventy-fifth degree of longitude west from Greenwich; that of the second zone on the ninetieth degree; that of the third zone on the one hundred and fifth degree; that of the fourth zone on the one hundred and twentieth degree; and that of the fifth zone, which shall include only Alaska, on the one hundred and fiftieth degree. That the limits of each zone shall be defined by an order of the Interstate Commerce Commission, having regard for the convenience of commerce and the existing, junction points and division points of common carriers engaged in commerce between the several States and with foreign nations, and such order may be modified from time to time."

During World War II, Congress enacted the War Time Act (56 Stat. 9) on January 20, 1942. Year-round DST was reinstated in the United States on February 9, 1942, again as a wartime measure to conserve energy resources. This remained in effect until after the end of the war.

The Amendment to the War Time Act (59 Stat. 537), enacted September 25, 1945, ended DST as of September 30, 1945. During this period, the official designation War Time was used for year-round DST. View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

Daylight Saving Time

America - It was February 9, 1942, when Congress pushes ahead standard time for the United States by one hour in each time zone.

Daylight saving time, suggested by President Roosevelt, was imposed to conserve fuel, and could be traced back to World War I, when Congress imposed one standard time on the United States to enable the country to better utilize resources, following the European model.

The 1918 Standard Time Act was meant to be in effect for only seven months of the year. It was discontinued nationally after the war. Individual states continued to turn clocks ahead one hour in spring and back one hour in fall.

The World War II legislation imposed daylight saving time for the entire nation for the entire year. It was repealed September 30, 1945, when individual states once again imposed their own Standard time.

It was not until 1966 that Congress passed legislation setting a standard time that permanently superceded local habits. View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

Old Pitts Family Photos

Seminole, Oklahoma - Here is Terry's mother's grandmother. They called her Big Mama. Her real name is Mattie Green Pitts. Green is her Cherokee Indian name. She was born on Indian Territory, Oklahoma.

Some of you might remember Terry Kent, in California. John & Terry Kent's paternal grandmother, Thelma Evelyn DeGeer Lippincott, celebrated her 100th Birthday in 2004.

Back to today and the old Pitts family photos that Terry received from her mother's cousin awhile back. Terry says her mother was born in Seminole, Oklahoma and believes that is where her family is from. Terry told me she does not know much about her mom's side of the family, but hopes to learn more since she has connected via email with her mother's cousins.

Here are more Pitts family photos that Terry Kent shared with us showing her mother's great-grandfather, Ruben Pitts (on the left). He fought in the Civil WAr Confederate Army.

The photo on the right shows Terry's mother's grandfather, Chester Franklin Pitts, who was killed during a fight in the late 1920's. View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe