Duchess & Sadie's Domain

Bayfield, Colorado - When bedlam college football comes around this time of year, these pugs and other dogs out there might want to retire to another room other than the TV viewing room. Those humans can should get loud, excited when their favorite NCAA football teams battle it out, especially in Stillwater, Oklahoma.

Humans ain't so bad, though! We do get our little perks and treats! Our human counter parts regained their respect from us when they shared some small morsels of turkey with us Pugs on Thanksgiving! Sadie and I thought that was delicious!

NW Okie has been doing some website cleaning on her Family genealogy over at Paris Times Pioneers - powered by PhpGedView, which reads our GED files. NW Okie has her PARIS, MCGILL, WARWICK and WAGNER family genealogy updated on that site. So if you do not have a subscription to login into Ancestry.com - paristimes, then you can check out our genealogy at "Paris Times Pioneers."

This is the Duchess' stress reducing motto all us Pug dogs work under, "If you can't eat or play with it, pee on it and walk away."

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Home Comfort Cookbook (1934) - Divinity Fudge

America - Remember when your grandmother or mother would make Divinity and other sweet goodies over the Christmas Holidays? We have submitted another Candy recipe to our ParisTimes Cookbook. It comes from the 1934 Wrought Iron Range, Home Comfort Cookbook.

Recipe: Divinity Fudge
Source: 1934 Home Comfort Cookbook

Ingredients:
1 cup granulated sugar
1 cup water
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup corn syrup
2 egg whites
1 teaspoon flavoring

Instructions: Cook white sugar and water until syrup, tested in cold water, is crisp; in separate pan. Cook brown sugar and corn syrup until crisp in cold water. Have egg whites beaten to lightness; add gradually and beat in the white syrup; then, add and beat in the brown syrup, beating until very stiff.

Flavor. Pour, or spread, in a buttered pan to about three-quarters inch thickness; when half cold, cut into squares.

Granulated sugar maybe used instead of the brown sugar in second syrup.

Variations: Vanilla -- use white sugar and vanilla extract; Lemon -- white sugar and lemon extract; maple -- brown sugar and maple flavoring, or use maple syrup instead of water in first syrup; Caramel -- caramelize white sugar in first syrup before adding the water; Cherry -- use one cup juice from canned cherries instead of water and use white sugar in second syrup; Chocolate -- add two squares melted chocolate to second syrup and flavor with vanilla; Nut -- add one half to three quarter cup broken nut-meats during final beating; Fruit -- add choice of chopped fruit instead of nuts.

Description: This Divinity Fudge recipe is from the 1934 Home Comfort Cookbook, page 129, in the Candy and Candy Making section. View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

NW Okie's R & R

Bayfield, Colorado - Besides rooting for the Boomer Sooners and/or Pokes of OSU, did you get your daily dose of Thanksgiving turkey, starches, pies and cranberry sauces?

GO POKES! GO SOONERS! That is the shouts that a few Oklahoman's were shouting about this last Saturday when the Bedlam began between Oklahoma State University (OSU) and Oklahoma University (OU) at Stillwater, Oklahoma.



What a game! Especially the last three minutes! In case you did not watch it on the television or were not in the Stillwater, Boone Pickens Stadium, Oklahoma State cornerback Brodrick Brown's play during the Cowboys' 47-41 loss to Oklahoma will be remembered, played back on TIVO and DVR long after the 2010 Big 12 champion is crowned.

Brown, a redshirt sophomore, jumped into the air, out of bounds, to bat a Landry Jones pass back to teammate Shaun Lewis for one of the most improbable interceptions in recent memory. It was reported as the No. 1 play on ESPN SportsCenter's top-10 plays countdown on Saturday night.

No. 9 Oklahoma is headed back to the Big 12 championship game to face No. 13 Nebraska after winning a tiebreaker based on the Bowl Championship Series standings. The Sooners were ninth in the standings released Sunday, with Oklahoma State 14th and Texas A&M 18th. The three teams finished the regular season tied atop the Big 12 South with 6-2 records in conference play, and the BCS standings were used to break the tie.

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Historical Museums of Oklahoma - A History Guide

Oklahoma - Homer Hawkins sent us this link to Historical Museums of Oklahoma - A History Guide. It is a directory of Historical Museums in Oklahoma, categorized by county. If you are taking a trip to Oklahoma or just curious about the history of your state, then you might want to check out this site. You can click on the county museums, census home, census records, historical societies, county maps, genealogy news, and other links. Just to name a few county museums: Alfalfa County has the Sod House Museum; Carter county has the Healdton Oil Museum; Custer county has the Route 66 Museum. Then there is the Sharruck Windmill museum in Ellis county. If you are interested in northwest Oklahoma, you might check out the Cimarron River Log Cabin, Santa Fe Railroad Depot and Waynoka History Museum in Woods county. View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

This Day In History - November 29

America - It was on this day in 1942, WWII, that coffee rationing began. Coffee joined the list of items rationed in the USA, despite record coffee production in Latin-American countries. Scarcity or shortages were rarely the reason for rationing during the war.

Rationing was generally employed for two reasons: (1) to guarantee a fair distribution of resources and foodstuffs to all citizens; and (2) to give priority to military use for certain raw materials, given the present emergency.

On this day in history, 1864, during the Civil War, the "Sand Creek Massacre" took place at Sand Creek, Colorado, when peaceful Southern Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians were massacred by a band of Colonel John Chivington's Colorado volunteers.

On this day in 1929, Byrd flies over the South Pole -- Richard Byrd, American explorer, and three companions made the first flight over the South Pole, flying from their base on the Ross Ice Shelf to the pole and back in 18 hours and 41 minutes.

Richard Evelyn Byrd learned how to fly in the US Navy and served as a pilot in WWI. An excellent navigator, he was deployed by the navy to Greenland in 1924 to help explore the Arctic region by air. Enamored with the experience of flying over glaciers and sea ice, he decided to attempt the first flight over the North Pole. View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

The Apron

America - Ellis sent us this little memory jogger about the Apron. Notice that a "medium" is a size 14 - 16. Remember making an apron in Home Ec? Do our kids know what an apron is?

The principal use of Grandma's apron was to protect the dress underneath because she only had a few. It was also because it was easier to wash aprons than dresses and aprons used less material. But along with that, it served as a potholder for removing hot pans from the oven.

The Apron was wonderful for drying children's tears, and on occasion was even used for cleaning out dirty ears. From the chicken coop, the apron was used for carrying eggs, fussy chicks, and sometimes half-hatched eggs to be finished in the warming oven.

When company came, those aprons were ideal hiding places for shy kids. And when the weather was cold Grandma wrapped it around her arms. Those big old aprons wiped many a perspiring brow, bent over the hot wood stove.

Chips and kindling wood were brought into the kitchen in that apron. From the garden, it carried all sorts of vegetables. After the peas had been shelled, it carried out the hulls.

In the fall, the apron was used to bring in apples that had fallen from the trees.

When unexpected company drove up the road, it was surprising how much furniture that old apron could dust in a matter of seconds. When dinner was ready, Grandma walked out onto the porch, waved her apron, and the men folk knew it was time to come in from the fields to dinner.

It will be a long time before someone invents something that will replace that "old-time apron" that served so many purposes. Remember when Grandma used to set her hot baked apple pies on the window sill to cool? Her granddaughters set theirs on the window sill to thaw.

They would go crazy now trying to figure out how many germs were on that apron. Have you ever caught anything from an apron other than ... Love? View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

Question - Pearl Harbor Resources

Pearl Barbor, - We received an interesting letter from Megan, who is doing research and putting together some Pearl Harbor resources. Megan Bates, a teacher, says, "Hi, I wanted to provide some feedback on your page OkieLegacy, Vol. 6, Iss. 49. I wanted to let you know that as someone putting together some Pearl Harbor resources for my students, your page was really helpful. Thanks! "I also wanted to suggest another addition for your resource list: www.gettysburgflag.com. A colleague of mine pointed it out to me, I found it to be great and thought it might make a nice addition to your page." I like the quote Megan had at the end of her email that read, "A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others." ~ Author Unknown. View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

Perry OK - Christmas Village Is Open

Perry, Oklahoma - Roy of Perry, OK shared this with us, "In the big room of the First Christian Church of Perry, Oklahoma (701 Holly Street) the CHRISTMAS VILLAGE will be recreated for three nights. It's all happening on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday from 6 pm until 8:30 pm, on December 3, 4, and 5, 2010. There is no charge! It is all FREE as a gift to the community in honor of our Savior's birth. More information is available daily at (580) 336-4576.

The entertainment schedule is as follows:
Friday, December 3
6:00 pm - Perry Elementary Honors Choir directed by Mary Weinkauf
6:30 pm - Brenna Brand, Soloist
6:45 pm - Lenita Kennedy, Soloist
7:30 pm - The Hunt Family (locals who also perform frequently at Branson, Missouri)
8:00 pm - Potter's Clay (a local gospel group)

Saturday, December 4
6:00 pm - Perry's BIG BAND directed by Bill Rotter
6:45 pm - Beverly Alexander
7:30 pm - Melanie Williams
8:00 pm - Stillwater Community Singers
8:15 pm - First Christian Bell Choir

Sunday, December 5
6:00 pm - Matt Lumbers and First Christian Praise Band
6:45 pm - Sue Klingaman, Soloist
8:00 pm - First Christian Chancel Choir

It all takes place in the "big room" at the west end of the church. The room has already been transformed into a New England style village with a town square complete with small shops dispensing cookies, hot cocoa, free haircuts and more. For those who wish to contribute 'something', canned goods and other non-perishable foods will be accepted at the 'general store' to be distributed to local needy families, but otherwise, there is no charge. It is all FREE. View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

Colorado Trivia & Tidbits

Colorado - I found this little tidbit concerning Colorado interesting, because of the mention of Alva Adams. You see, some historian's back in northwest Oklahoma think Alva, Oklahoma was named for Alva Adams.

In 1904, three men held the governor's post in one day. Incumbent Republican James Peabody was defeated by Democrat Alva Adams, but both sides were accused of voter corruption during a turbulent time of striking mine workers. Peabody sent the militia to aid mine owners. The Republican-controlled Legislature voted to unseat Adams, then pronounced Peabody the winner upon condition that he immediately resign. Republican Lt. Gov. Jesse McDonald then became governor.

On a clear day, six states can be seen from the 60-foot Wonder View Tower built in 1926 in Genoa (pop. 211) on the highest point between Denver and New York City. Charles W. Gregory, the P.T. Barnum of Colorado, created the one-stop restaurant, gas station, motel, and oddities museum. When Interstate 70 bypassed the tower, traffic dwindled, but the famous attraction remains open. View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe