Not really, we just like the name…
Ace is a title given to a fighter pilot with at least five air-to-air combat kills. Although Gunston the Jack Russell Terrier doesn’t know how to fly, he qualifies as a “Doggy Ace,” since he has eight confirmed kills of various small rodents so far this year.
Yesterday morning, a crew appeared and erected this sign in the front yard of the new house next door. A few hours later the builder’s site supervisor showed up and said the sign was being removed. The town had called the homeowner and informed him that the sign was illegal and had to be removed; otherwise he would be subject to a fine.
The wheels of the town’s bureaucracy seldom turn this rapidly…I suspect that one of the neighbors called and complained about the sign.
Update -August 31… at 1430 local time today, the sign was taken down.
There is an old saying about the depth of knowledge one must have to become a plumber that goes something like this…
“Hot on the Left, Cold on the Right, and Crap Flows Downhill”
Right now, there are two plumbers in our basement installing a new set of laundry tubs. I sure hope that their plumbing knowledge and skills are way beyond the basic requirements stated above… 🙂
The weather is great here this morning. The temperature is 78° F and the humidity is 54%, which is unusual this time of year. It is usually in the high 90’s with unbearable humidity this time of year.
I’m sitting on the deck watching the two Jacks running around the back yard keeping our little piece of the world safe from rampaging squirrels and other miscellaneous small rodents.
I’m typing this on my trusty Dell Inspiron 8500 laptop running on battery power…and hoping the battery doesn’t burst into flame. My battery is not on Dell’s recall list so maybe I’m just being paranoid!
I just published a new “About HR” page which is probably too long and too boring for most to read, but it’s there if you have the stamina to slog through it.
Well, that’s about it for now…the battery is running low and I have a bunch of stuff to get done today…see you all later.
Have a nice day in your part of the world…
Did you know that Hershey’s was once the sole supplier of milk chocolate to just about all the other candy companys in the United States? The company’s founder, Milton Hershey, was the first to figure out how to make milk chocolate in the U.S. Although milk chocolate had been manufactured for years in Europe, the formula was a closely guarded secret. Hershey experimented for years and finally came up with his own formula for milk chocolate. He of course, kept his formula a secret for years. So if one wanted to produce candy with milk chocolate content, they had to buy from either Hershey or European manufacturers. And, since Hershey’s milk chocolate was produced in the U.S., it was much less expensive than importing milk chocolate from Europe.
As a result, to this day, most milk chocolate produced in the U.S. has a slightly different taste than its European counterpart. It seems that Hershey’s process for producing milk chocolate caused the milk to sour slightly, giving it a unique taste.
I became aware of this interesting piece of trivia while watching the History Channel . They have a series called “America Eats” that explores the history of popular food products in the U.S.