Good Morning Guys and Dolls:
Here’s hoping all of you had a nice 3 day weekend if it was made available to you. Ours was spent doing a little bathroom renovation, some shopping and of course what would be a holiday without a doctor visit. Sorry to say, getting old is a bitch.
This morning was an extremely foggy day here in Central Florida driving to work. Now we have road idiots here and than we have super road idiots. As bad as the fog was early today I had to have Tonya Tailgate ride my butt as I was doing the speed limit of 55 mph. Upon reaching the divided highway portion, old Tanya zipped around me cell phone in hand giving me a dirty look; I immediately proceeded to give her the Polish up yours sign in full glory. Continuing onto work I noticed other idiots with no lights on making life miserable for normal drivers to see them. I gave up and made God my co-pilot for the rest of the journey to work.
Now on a lighter and sweeter note. We all know Sweetheart Candies, those little heart shaped Valentine’s Day candy notes. I never knew they were made by Necco; I love Necco wafers by the way. Printing on those hearts started in the 1860’s by Daniel Chase, brother of Necco founder Oliver Kasey Chase. The candy was often used for weddings and had such witty sayings as: “Married in pink, he will take a drink”, “Married in White, you have chosen right”, and Married in Satin, Love will be not lasting.” Of course the candies were a little larger then. As time progressed the candies became smaller and the sayings had to fit like “Be Mine”, “Love You” etc. In the 1990’s the sayings had to go along with the times like, “E-Mail Me”, “Fax Me” and even “Call Me.” All I can say to this is I’ll take a Candy Cigarette any day please.
Have a great day Speakies and be careful out there.
Here’s hoping all of you had a nice 3 day weekend if it was made available to you. Ours was spent doing a little bathroom renovation, some shopping and of course what would be a holiday without a doctor visit. Sorry to say, getting old is a bitch.
This morning was an extremely foggy day here in Central Florida driving to work. Now we have road idiots here and than we have super road idiots. As bad as the fog was early today I had to have Tonya Tailgate ride my butt as I was doing the speed limit of 55 mph. Upon reaching the divided highway portion, old Tanya zipped around me cell phone in hand giving me a dirty look; I immediately proceeded to give her the Polish up yours sign in full glory. Continuing onto work I noticed other idiots with no lights on making life miserable for normal drivers to see them. I gave up and made God my co-pilot for the rest of the journey to work.
Now on a lighter and sweeter note. We all know Sweetheart Candies, those little heart shaped Valentine’s Day candy notes. I never knew they were made by Necco; I love Necco wafers by the way. Printing on those hearts started in the 1860’s by Daniel Chase, brother of Necco founder Oliver Kasey Chase. The candy was often used for weddings and had such witty sayings as: “Married in pink, he will take a drink”, “Married in White, you have chosen right”, and Married in Satin, Love will be not lasting.” Of course the candies were a little larger then. As time progressed the candies became smaller and the sayings had to fit like “Be Mine”, “Love You” etc. In the 1990’s the sayings had to go along with the times like, “E-Mail Me”, “Fax Me” and even “Call Me.” All I can say to this is I’ll take a Candy Cigarette any day please.
Have a great day Speakies and be careful out there.
2 comments:
Hi JoeZ:)
I am 100% with you on bad drivers.
In snow or rain or fog so many
accidents would not happen if folks would just slow down.
I remember candy cigarettes:)
I also remember those caramel
candies with a cream center but
forget what they were called:)
I remember the chocolate cigarettes too. All that penny candy was great.
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