GRUEL TIME KIDDIES

Happy Tuesday Guys and Dolls:

Here we are on a Tuesday morning celebrating “PECULIAR PEOPLE DAY.” This is a day to honor uniquely different people. I am talking about the un-ordinary, the extraordinary, unusual, strange, oddballs that walk the earth every day among us. These characteristics can be seen as good or bad, so today look for the good over the bad in your acquaintances. Chances being we will find something peculiar in ourselves today.

January is also “NATIONAL OATMEAL MONTH.” Hot oatmeal for breakfast on a cold winter’s morning as a kid was my favorite. It was easier when I was young I did not have to make it, Mom did and she made it with milk not hot water like they do today. Certain things have to be made with milk oatmeal is one and the other is hot chocolate. So Moms and Dads if you have time make those little tykes of yours a hot breakfast of oatmeal before they face that 4 block walk to school like Joey Z had to do in his younger days.

In olden days when knights were bold oatmeal was alive and kicking however it was called “GRUEL.” It was found cooking all day in a black cauldron and it was a preparation often made from millet, hemp or barley and in times of real trouble chestnuts or acorns. Yes, Speakies gruel was poverty food in those days. Oatmeal now is just not for breakfast, one can make cookies and even oatmeal bread to enjoy. So my Guys and Dolls get on the oatmeal train this month and enjoy.

Have a great day and I’ll see you soon.