M&Ms an Acronym or a name?

In 1941, he struck a deal for the chocolate with Bruce Murrie, 

son of Hershey president William Murrie.

They named the candy M&M, which stood for “Mars & Murrie.”

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U love pets, they need your voice.

 

There really is a place that works to make all states no-kill sanctuaries for critters by 2025. 

Of course it’s a wonderful premise, and I wish them the best mostly because I wish it was true. 

  

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Have a Happy Easter Month..!

 

  

There is so much to know about Easter, it can’t be contained! 

It’s actually quite a long holiday, taking up Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and of course, Easter Sunday. 

Christians are supposed to fast during this time. 

So there’s some sort of fasting days in there somewhere. 

All I know for sure is that Good Friday and Passover occurred on the same day this year. 

Does that complicate things or make it easier? I don’t know enuf about the history of Easter to say.  

It’s not surprising that a common bunny rabbit (who lays Easter eggs?!?) has come to represent Easter. 

So I’ve included only a couple of paragraphs copy/pasted here from Wikipedia for partial info;  

Easter

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article is about the Christian and cultural festival. For other uses, see  Easter disambiguating.

 It is the culmination of the Passion of Jesus, preceded by Lent (or Great Lent), a 40-day period of fasting, prayer, and penance.

Easter-observing Christians commonly refer to the week before Easter as Holy Week, which in Western Christianity begins on Palm Sunday (marking the entrance of Jesus in Jerusalem), includes Spy Wednesday (on which the betrayal of Jesus is mourned), and contains the days of the Easter Triduum including Maundy Thursday, commemorating the Maundy and Last Supper, as well as Good Friday, commemorating the crucifixion and death of Jesus. 

 In Eastern Christianity, the same days and events are commemorated with the names of days all starting with "Holy" or "Holy and Great;" and Easter itself might be called "Great and Holy Pascha", "Easter Sunday," "Pascha" or "Sunday of Pascha." 

In Western Christianity, Eastertide, or the Easter Season, begins on Easter Sunday and lasts seven weeks, ending with the coming of the 50th day, Pentecost Sunday. 

In Eastern Christianity, the Paschal season ends with Pentecost as well, but the leave-taking of the Great Feast of Pascha is on the 39th day, the day before the Feast of the Ascension.

Easter and its related holidays are moveable feasts, not falling on a fixed date; its date is computed based on a lunisolar calendar (solar year plus Moon phase) similar to the Hebrew calendar.

 The First Council of Nicaea (325) established only two rules, namely independence from the Hebrew calendar and worldwide uniformity. No details for the computation were specified; these were worked out in practice, a process that took centuries and generated a number of controversies. It has come to be the first Sunday after the ecclesiastical full moon that occurs on or soonest after 21 March. Even if calculated on the basis of the more accurate Gregorian calendar, the date of that full moon sometimes differs from that of the astronomical first full moon after the March equinox.

Easter is linked to the Jewish Passover by its name (Hebrew: פֶּסַח pesach, Aramaic: פָּסחָא pascha are the basis of the term Pascha), by its origin (according to the synoptic Gospels, both the crucifixion and the resurrection took place during the Passover)and by much of its symbolism, as well as by its position in the calendar. 

In most European languages the feast is called by the words for passover in those languages; and in the older English versions of the Bible the term Easter was the term used to translate Passover. 

 Easter customs vary across the Christian world, and include sunrise services, midnight vigils, exclamations and exchanges of Paschal greetings, clipping the church (England), decoration and the communal breaking of Easter eggs (a symbol of the empty tomb). 

The Easter lily, a symbol of the resurrection in Western Christianity, traditionally decorates the chancel area of churches on this day and for the rest of Eastertide. 

Additional customs that have become associated with Easter and are observed by both Christians and some non-Christians include Easter parades, communal dancing (Eastern Europe), the Easter Bunny and egg hunting. 

There are also traditional Easter foods that vary by region and culture.  

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Bluebonnets abound..!

 Before such a thing as responsibility and working for a living, whenever I used to meditate in my younger days, this is exactly what I’d see; 

     

Gently rolling hills of green grass, blue skies and fields of bluebonnets, nary a street curb in sight anywhere! 

So since it’s there, let’s take a look at the reality of this curb, call it Curbology101. 

No tire tread skid marks. Why not? Because cars can see the grass and know to avoid the curb of grass, even at night. 

When there is unpainted curb and then immediate sidewalk concrete, THAT’s where u will see tire treads all over those poor unpainted curbs.

 Why? Because at night, sometimes during the day if u aren’t paying attention, and especially just after dusk when all contrasting colors tend to be washed out a bit, look again, skidmarks all over the place! The street briefly looks like there’s another lane, Bam! Oops, nope, that was sidewalk! 

When there are curbs and then some grass and then sidewalk, u immediately detect that it is not concrete and u rarely see tiremarks on the curbs by grass unless it’s at the corner of entry/exit driveways, especially when they are skinny driveways, u can see where the corner curbs have been run over so much that big chunks have chipped off! 

The chunks of concrete falling off the tips of concrete medians didn’t do that from age, they do that because: 

1) they weren’t painted, much less reflected, and; 

2) they were run over so much, the corners were chipped into powder. 

Poor curbs, such a mixed blessing..! 

That being said, enjoy the springtime bluebonnets in bloom just in time for Easter holidays, too.  

     

There, that’s better… 

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Snacks Suggestions

 Every time I turn around, there’s a new M&M style and I try each and every one of them at least once. 

 The most recent one is perplexing. It’s a new style (I call it a style because it’s more than a flavor or ingredients, it’s marketing, and the new style explains what I mean). 

 It’s called Snowball. Is it a mint? No. Does it have some sort of cooling affect? No. Is it coconut or icing or anything resembling snow? Sort of. It’s white chocolate. Okay. 

Now here’s the same difference. There is already an M&M mint, white chocolate, and pretzel. 

The M&M pretzel is the absolute tops for travel snacks by the way. 

It’s the chocolate u expect, doesn’t melt right away, and then a salty pretzel interior makes for a larger than usual M&M, not too filling, and no sugar-dump effect, the best design in my opinion long-lasting for the road. 

I just didn’t understand why it was called snowball. The packaging is blue with a snowman holding a snowball. Hard-packed snowballs have ice in the middle, maybe that was the intention? Except pretzels 🥨 are sort of a summery item. Pretzels and mustard at baseball games comes to mind. 

At any rate, despite the juxtaposition of winter and summer packaging, the new style of white chocolate M&Ms are delicious and satisfying. If u enjoy salted caramel, you’d like the salted white chocolate pretzel M&Ms, they’re very good 😋

     

         

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Tired of Chocolates?

 

Skittles are fun for a brief change :-)

  

Claim Responsibility for your animals I say…

 Know animals for safety

  A 22-year old pet-sitter was nearly torn part by 2 big dogs she had already met once before. 

  They had a baby in the house who the dogs understood were part of their pack, the girl was probably seen as an intruder, not part of the family, they protected their home and attacked the girl. 

  They said she had pet-sit for 6-years, but there’s no way a 22-year old could understand the finer details of animal behavior such as trigger points, much less the potential danger of dogs. 

  She probably walked right in thinking they were going to be the sweet dogs they were before, and was blind-sided. 

The owners didn’t seem to understand trigger points either. 

  It’s such a dichotomy to think of the thousands of animals who are neglected, abandoned or abused, and not realize that tho dogs can be protective, affectionate, and entertaining, they all have basic instincts and behaviors to one degree or another that should be understood. 

Sometimes I think Mr Dave Ramsey and Mr Cesar Milan should be required reading courses in schools. They both teach safety.

  Dave Ramsey teaches financial safety and Mr Milan teaches physical safety. Do they still have police officers and firemen talk at schools? Or career days? Or Home Economics? Caring for a home while raising a family is no easy task! 

   Anyway, the girl is receiving the best of care and kudos to her boyfriend for sticking by her. I’ll try to follow up the story after years and hope it’s a blessed one. 

Who is St Patrick..?

From Wikipedia;  

 -Saint Patrick was a 5th-century Romano-British Christian missionary and Bishop in Ireland. 

Much of what is known about Saint Patrick comes from the Declaration, which was allegedly written by Patrick himself. 

It is believed that he was born in Roman Britain in the fourth century, into a wealthy Romano-British family. 

His father was a deacon and his grandfather was a priest in the Christian church. According to the Declaration, at the age of sixteen, he was kidnapped by Irish raiders and taken as a slave to Gaelic Ireland. 

It says that he spent six years there working as a shepherd and that during this time he found God. 

The Declaration says that God told Patrick to flee to the coast, where a ship would be waiting to take him home. After making his way home, Patrick went on to become a priest.

According to tradition, Patrick returned to Ireland to convert the pagan Irish to Christianity. The Declaration says that he spent many years evangelising in the northern half of Ireland and converted thousands.

Patrick's efforts were eventually turned into an allegory in which he drove "snakes" out of Ireland, despite the fact that snakes were not known to inhabit the region.

Tradition holds that he died on 17 March and was buried at Downpatrick.

 Over the following centuries, many legends grew up around Patrick and he became Ireland's foremost saint. 

       

 

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Fun Candy Facts

 Fun Facts: Candy

• Less than two percent of the calories in the American diet are supplied by candy.
• In Europe during the middle ages, the high cost of sugar made sugar candy a delicacy available only to the wealthy.
• Candy is simply made by dissolving sugar in water. ... 
• Germans consume twice as much candy as Americans

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