#apples and beavers pattern

[mamaspark]

I pieced this quilt. The pattern is called Batty by Apples and Beavers. My friend Becky did the custom quilting. While the quilting was NOT cheap, it is incredible! It really brings the quilt to life! I could not be more thrilled! I’d love to know what you all think of it. The photos are Becky’s as I don’t have it back home yet. SPOOKTACULAR!!!

#Batty #Becky’s quilting again #halloween quilt #mamaspark makes #apples and beavers pattern

[cryptidclaw]

Cryptidclaw's WC Prefixes List!

Yall said you were interested in seeing it so here it is! 

This is a collection of mostly Flora, Fauna, Rocks, and other such things that can be found in Britain since that’s where the books take place! 

I also have other Prefixes that have to do with pelt colors and patterns as well!

Here’s a link to the doc if you dont want to expand a 650 word list on your Tumblr feed lol! the doc is also in my drive linked in my pined post!

below is the actual list! If there are any names you think I should add plz tell me!

EDIT: I will update the doc with new names as I come up with them or have them suggested to me, but I wont update the list on this post! Plz visit my doc for a more updated version!

Animals

Mammal

Badger

Bat

Bear

Beaver

Bison

Boar

Buck

Calf

Cow

Deer

Elk

Fawn

Ferret

Fox

Goat

Hare

Horse

Lamb

Lynx

Marten

Mole

Mouse

Otter

Rabbit

Rat

Seal

Sheep

Shrew

Squirrel

Stoat

Vole

Weasel

Wolf

Wolverine

Amphibians

Frog

Newt

Toad

Reptiles

Scale

Adder

Lizard

Snake

Turtle

Shell

Birds

Bird

Down

Feather

Albatross

Bittern

Buzzard

Chaffinch

Chick

Chicken

Coot

Cormorant

Corvid

Crane

Crow

Curlew

Dove

Duck

Dunlin

Eagle

Egret

Falcon

Finch

Gannet

Goose

Grouse

Gull

Hawk

Hen

Heron

Ibis

Jackdaw

Jay

Kestrel

Kite

Lark

Magpie

Mallard

Merlin

Mockingbird

Murrelet

Nightingale

Osprey

Owl

Partridge

Pelican

Peregrine

Petrel

Pheasant

Pigeon

Plover

Puffin

Quail

Raven

Robin

Rook

Rooster

Ruff

Shrike

Snipe

Sparrow

Starling

Stork

Swallow

Swan

Swift

Tern

Thrasher

Thrush

Vulture

Warbler

Whimbrel

Wren

Freshwater Fish 

Fish

Bass

Bream 

Carp

Dace

Eel

Lamprey

Loach

Minnow

Perch

Pike

Rudd

Salmon

Sterlet

Tench

Trout

Roach

Saltwater fish and other Sea creatures (would cats be able to find some of these? Probably not, I don't care tho)

Alge

Barnacle

Bass (Saltwater version)

Bream (Saltwater version)

Brill

Clam

Cod

Crab

Dolphin

Eel (Saltwater version)

Flounder

Garfish

Halibut

Kelp

Lobster

Mackerel

Mollusk

Orca

Prawn

Ray

Seal

Shark

Shrimp

Starfish

Sting

Urchin

Whale

Insects and Arachnids

Honey

Insect

Web

Ant

Bee

Beetle

Bug

Butterfly

Caterpillar

Cricket

Damselfly

Dragonfly

Fly

Grasshopper

Grub

Hornet

Maggot

Moth

Spider

Wasp

Worm

Trees

Acorn

Bark

Branch

Forest

Hollow

Log

Root

Stump

Timber

Tree

Twig

Wood

Alder

Apple

Ash

Aspen

Beech

Birch

Cedar

Cherry

Chestnut

Cypress

Elm

Fir

Hawthorn

Hazel

Hemlock

Linden

Maple

Oak

Pear

Poplar

Rowan

Redwood

Spruce

Willow

Yew

Flowers, Shrubs and Other plants

Berry

Blossom

Briar

Field

Flower

Leaf

Meadow

Needle

Petal

Shrub

Stem

Thicket

Thorn

Vine

Anemone 

Apricot

Barley 

Bellflower

Bluebell

Borage

Bracken

Bramble

Briar

Burnet

Buttercup

Campion

Chamomile

Chanterelle

Chicory

Clover

Cornflower

Daffodil

Daisy

Dandelion

Dogwood

Fallow

Fennel

Fern

Flax

Foxglove

Furze

Garlic

Ginger

Gorse

Grass

Hay

Heather

Holly

Honeysuckle

Hop

Hyacinth

Iris

Ivy

Juniper

Lavender

Lichen

Lilac

Lilly

Mallow

Marigold

Mint

Mistletoe

Moss

Moss

Mushroom

Nettle

Nightshade

Oat

Olive

Orchid

Parsley

Periwinkle

Pine

Poppy

Primrose

Privet

Raspberry

Reed

Reedmace

Rose

Rush

Rye

Saffron

Sage

Sedge

Seed

Snowdrop

Spindle

Strawberry

Tangerine

Tansy

Teasel

Thistle

Thrift

Thyme

Violet

Weed

Wheat

Woodruff

Yarrow

Rocks and earth

Agate

Amber

Amethyst

Arch

Basalt

Bounder

Cave

Chalk

Coal

Copper

Dirt

Dust

Flint

Garnet

Gold

Granite

Hill

Iron

Jagged

Jet

Mountain

Mud

Peak

Pebble

Pinnacle

Pit

Quartz

Ridge

Rock

Rubble

Ruby

Rust(y)

Sand

Sapphire

Sediment

Silt

Silver

Slate

Soil

Spire

Stone

Trench

Zircon

Water Formations

Bay

Cove

Creek

Delta

Lake

Marsh

Ocean

Pool

Puddle

River

Sea

Water

Weather and such

Autumn

Avalanche

Balmy

Blaze

Blizzard

Breeze

Burnt

Chill

Cinder

Cloud

Cold

Dew

Drift

Drizzle

Drought

Dry

Ember

Fall

Fire

Flame

Flood

Fog

Freeze

Frost

Frozen

Gale

Gust

Hail

Ice

Icicle

Lightening

Mist

Muggy

Rain 

Scorch

Singe

Sky

Sleet

Sloe

Smoke

Snow

Snowflake

Soot

Sorrel

Spark

Spring

Steam

Storm

Summer

Sun

Thunder

Water

Wave

Wet

Wind

Winter

Celestial??

Comet

Dawn

Dusk

Evening 

Midnight

Moon

Morning

Night

Noon

Twilight

Cat Features, Traits, and Misc. 

Azure

Beige

Big

Black

Blonde

Blotch(ed)

Blue

Bounce

Bright 

Brindle

Broken

Bronze

Brown

Bumble

Burgundy

Call

Carmine

Claw

Cobalt

Cream

Crimson

Cry

Curl(y)

Dapple

Dark

Dot(ted)

Dusky

Ebony

Echo

Fallen

Fleck(ed)

Fluffy

Freckle

Ginger

Golden

Gray

Green

Heavy

Kink

Knot(ted)

Light

Little

Lost

Loud

Marbled

Mew

Milk

Mottle

Mumble

Ochre

Odd

One

Orange

Pale

Patch(ed)

Pounce 

Prickle

Ragged

Red

Ripple

Rough

Rugged

Russet

Scarlet

Shade

Shaggy

Sharp

Shimmer

Shining

Small

Smudge

Soft

Song

Speckle

Spike

Splash

Spot(ted)

Streak

Stripe(d)

Strong

Stump(y)

Sweet

Tall

Talon

Tangle

Tatter(ed)

Tawny

Tiny

Tough

Tumble

Twist

Violet

Whisker

Whisper

White

Wild

Wooly

Yellow

#cryptidclaw's warriors au #? #Im tempted to use these in the au #some characters deserve some more fun names hehe #rise of change #warrior cats #warrior cats design #warriors #warriors names #warriors naming #warriors prefixes

[veeranger]

terfs on the cheating beavers post tagging it as north american politics is the funniest example maybe ever of how absolutely brain dead terfs are

#Apple Post #youre saying that beaver mating patterns are fucking political???

[cowboyjen68]

Rotten Apples & Frontier Justice

 Rotten Apples and Frontier Justice

By CowboyJen

My best friend Kendra had a small overbite that she grew into but there were a few boys who liked to tease her about it. One very hot summer day we were riding our horses in the old apple orchard down in what was soon to become a rural suburban development dubbed Woodland Estates. The two brick walls with cement lions on them already graced the entryway of our riding trail. 

I was around 11 and she was 10. A few of the boys were riding their bikes up and down the paved road which had been a dirt path a few weeks prior and the novelty of having blacktop was too much to resist. They basically rode up and down back and forth and the speed bumps were great to “get air”.

We ignored them, they ignored us, the way it was meant to be. One boy, and we will never know why, and perhaps he didn’t know either, suddenly  felt pretty brave and breached the unspoken boy/girl wall.  Maybe having his friends nearby to back him up or maybe to prove he was “a man” or If you believed my mom, it was “his way of showing us he had a crush”. No matter his reasons. He waited until we had dismounted to feed green apples to the horses Beau and Gypsy and veered off the smooth black top.  He stood on his pedals to gain speed as he approached and  he was bent forward over that K Mart bike’s handlebars as he got closer and closer. We saw him coming and sort of just watched the on coming flurry of feathered hair and Starsky and Hutch T shirt. 

This boy, thinking to spook the horses and cause us trouble passed us as close as he could and yelled “Bucky the Buck toothed Beaver!” 

Kendra was unphased and so were our seasoned mounts. She took the apple that was meant for Gypsy and hit the boy right in the back of the head from about a 12 foot range. The rotten part splatted in his dirty blonde hair but the solid part made an audible “thud” as it connected to his thick skull. He screamed in pain “shit.. ouch!” and slid his bike sideways in the grass, staining his Sears Husky jeans no doubt.  He paused a second on the ground, probably debating if pretending to be really hurt might save him or hoping  his friends were on the way.  No luck either way so he stood  up, picked up his bike and faced us with green grass stains and what was likely sweat, apple juice and tears on his face. 

Before he could turn to mount his bike I took my shot. Wham, right in the knee, not as accurate as Kendra but it got his attention. The look in his face was that of a man who suddenly realized he had severely underestimated the enemies he decided to create. Kendra already had two apples in hand and I reloaded while she fired off another shot. One missed, hitting his bike as it dropped to the ground. The other caused him to holler out “stop!” when it hit him in the stomach. 

Two tween girls, who both had their own baseball gloves and killed long summer days throwing rocks at trees and golf balls at tin cans are formidable foes. Poor kid realized the error of his ways too late. There was no time for him to formulate a plan. The onslaught of rotten green apples put him squarely in survival mode and he ran to the nearest dwarf apple tree. He hid behind it and tried bargaining. “Stop it you guys!”  One, two, three apples whizzed by him and one hit the tree causing a satisfying splatter pattern. “Come on guys.. stop!”.  A few more hits and we began to flank him. Our horses calmly grazed the shaded grass and we loaded our arms and moved to flush him from his barrier. 

In a moment of what I am sure he thought was brilliance, he grabbed a low branch and swung up, taking a hit to the seat of his pants and one to the back. A hard, well aimed hit in the soft part of the small of his back. I heard it and Kendra said “ooo  nailed him”.

Like a squirrel in Traxx Tennis shoes he moved around the tree and climbed up to a more covered branch forcing us to back away to see him better. Kendra seemed satisfied that he was out of range and I followed her lead to walk backwards to the horses. She started to pile up apples and he yelled down “Knock it off you Ass holes, i need to go home”.   We bit into and chewed the bitter green apples while sitting on the ground next to our ammunition pile. The other boys had dropped their bikes by the Lion topped brick walls and were sitting on it, watching. The trapped boy noticed them and pleaded “Guys.. come help”.  They only responded with “they are just girls” but none of them jumped down to aid him. 

It was getting to be suppertime and he decided we had grown tired of watching him. He slowly descended but as he hit the last branch before the ground we pelted him with the squishiest apples we could pick up. The splatter was satisfying but watching him scramble back to his perch was even more so.

We ate snacks from our saddle bags and waited. He tried a few times to make an escape.  Once even jumping to the ground and trying to make a run for it. He was not fast enough nor tolerant of pain enough to get more than one step before  swiveling and scratching his way back to his previous perch.  The funniest attempt was when he tried something he had seen in the movies. “I will come down with my hands up” and as much as we wanted to see that Kendra and I bombarded the tree trunk.  Every time he would try the pain of the projectile apples kept him in his place.  

In the final stages before the street lamp came on (we had one now) he begged “I’m supposed to be home now. Mom is going to be really mad”.  We sympathized slightly, knowing the mom wrath of those kids late for supper or not home right after the darkness triggered the light to come on. But I guess he shouldn’t have hurled that insult. . 

The other boys had left, we were bored and. in desperation, and wishing he would not have hogged so much Kool Aid he yelled. “I gotta pee really bad guys.. come ON!”.  He had two choices, unzip and pee from the tree, which would expose him just enough that we would have future ammo about “what we saw” or well, not unzip. His body made the decision for him. Enough was enough and we rode past him with a final  apple lobbed over his head. We never spoke of that again. Not to him, not to each other, no one. He had done his time. Frontier justice had been served. Lesson learned. 

Lessons: Don’t be a bully. If you drink too much Kool Aid and decide to take on two tween girls, it  is  best to have an exit strategy. Girls can’t always throw as hard as boys their age but their accuracy can be scary good. Girls have more stamina and patience in a stand off than you want to test. Straight girls can and will take it to the next level. 

#story #tomboys #early 80's #summertime #kids

[jamesmith0246-blog]

Enlarged Reality in Education

Enlarged Reality in Education

With the present reception of portable advances and the ongoing advances in equipment, AR is getting progressively available and extensively utilized in training.

Customary strategies for instruction as we probably are aware it are turning into a relic of times gone by. They are getting progressively digitized and are being driven by innovation advancements. Indeed, the instruction innovation industry (purported EdTech) is to reach $252 billion by 2020, developing at a 17% yearly rate.

Among the most huge patterns in EdTech, increased reality legitimately takes a main position. With more than one billion clients expected to join the pattern by 2020, it opens a pool of chances for instructive foundations and organizations.

In this article Augmented reality app development, we will investigate this EdTech pattern in more detail just as give crisp thoughts and master exhortation on the most proficient method to utilize AR improvement in training.

Utilizing AR in Education and Training: The Opportunities and Challenges

Expanded reality in training can fill various needs. It helps understudies effectively secure, process, and recollect data. Moreover, AR makes learning itself all the more captivating and fun.

It is additionally not restricted to a solitary age gathering or level of instruction and can be utilized similarly well in all degrees of tutoring: from pre-school training up to school, or even at work.

Advantages of Augmented Reality in Education

Open learning materials: whenever, anyplace. Enlarged reality can possibly supplant paper course books, physical models, notices, printed manuals, and so forth. It offers versatile and more affordable learning materials. Accordingly, instruction turns out to be progressively open and versatile.

No exceptional gear is required. Not at all like VR, expanded reality doesn't require any costly equipment. Since 73% of all adolescents as of now claim a cell phone, AR advancements are promptly accessible for use for most of the intended interest group.

Higher understudy commitment and intrigue. Intelligent, gamified Augmented reality developers learning can have a critical positive effect on understudies. It keeps them connected all through the exercise and makes learning fun and easy.

Improved coordinated effort capacities. Increased reality applications offer tremendous chances to enhance and shake up exhausting classes. Intelligent exercises, where all understudies are engaged with the learning procedure simultaneously, help improve collaboration aptitudes.

A quicker and increasingly successful learning process. Augment technology solutions in training assists understudies with accomplishing better outcomes through representation and full inundation in the topic. Words usually can't do a picture justice, isn't that so? Along these lines, rather than perusing hypothesis about something, understudies can see it with their very own eyes, in real life.

Down to earth learning. Aside from tutoring, proficient preparing can likewise profit extraordinarily from the utilization of AR. For instance, exact generation of in-field conditions can help ace the down to earth abilities required for a specific occupation.

Protected and effective work environment preparing. Envision having the option to rehearse in heart medical procedure or working a space transport without placing other individuals in peril or gambling a large number of dollars in harm if something turns out badly. It is conceivable with AR.

Generally, material to any degree of instruction and preparing. Be it learning games for kindergarten or hands on preparing, AR isn't constrained to just one use case or field of utilization.

Difficulties of Augmented Reality in Education

In spite of the recorded advantages, there are sure entanglements you should consider when building EdTech arrangements with enlarged reality:

An absence of fundamental preparing. A few educators may battle to try these new advances, as their experience preparing doesn't give the important abilities. Just the most receptive instructors and imaginative instructive organizations are prepared to apply enlarged reality applications in training.

Reliance on equipment. Utilizing expanded reality in the study hall requires a specific asset base. For instance, not all understudies have cell phones equipped for supporting AR applications.

Content compactness issues. The AR application you fabricate requirements to work similarly well on all stages and gadgets. Be that as it may, it is for all intents and purposes difficult to give a similar nature of AR content on any gadget.

AR in Education, Examples, and Use Cases

Regardless of a typical skepticism, Augmented reality companies advancements offer far beyond pursuing pokemon around town. Here are some extraordinary instances of increased reality in training.

Enlarged Reality in the Classroom

Presumably, the most well-known application for expanded reality in instruction is the utilization of AR applications legitimately in the study hall. For this situation, they can enable the instructor to clarify a subject, give a visual portrayal of the material, and assist understudies with testing out their insight by and by.

In particular, you can discover a for practically any subject, including science, geometry, zoology, language structure, and in any event, programming.

Separation Learning

By utilizing increased reality, understudies can adapt even outside the study hall. Also, on the web or separation learning can be simpler and increasingly proficient with AR-supported instructive materials.

For instance, Modly, a language-learning application, has as of late coordinated an AR-based virtual educator to assist clients with rehearsing their abilities as though they were in a genuine setting.

Promoting in Education

There is immense potential in AR advancements for promoting and publicizing, even in the training field. Various colleges in the USA are as of now utilizing AR visits to expand enlistment and help new understudies discover their way around grounds.

For instance, the Community College of Beaver County, Pennsylvania, utilizes expanded reality to convey different kinds of substance, including video, sound, and advanced productions. Therefore, the application gives a fun and educational approach to investigate the grounds. The application likewise has gamification components to make the experience significantly additionally captivating.

The most effective method to Use Augmented Reality in the Education Field

With so much mammoths as Apple and Google driving AR advances forward, at the present time could be the best time to join the pattern. Committed designer apparatuses including ARCore and ARKit, combined with incredible equipment, for example, iPhone X, make it workable for organizations to manufacture fruitful AR-based EdTech arrangements.

In view of our broad involvement with this field, we might want to give you a fundamental guide for AR improvement in training:

Characterize your objective and target crowd. Contingent upon the age of your clients and the broadly useful of the application, the usefulness will vary.

Clean the thought through statistical surveying and suitability testing to comprehend its genuine potential.

Fabricate a POC to try out the capacities of the picked tech stack (it is a suggested methodology for creative advancements, including AR and VR).

Make a MVP — the fundamental application form, just to test the center usefulness.

Test the item and emphasize toward progress. Consider that you should refresh the application consistently with new AR content.

Augmented reality application development in Education: Lead the Way of Innovation or Get Left Behind

As should be obvious, enlarged reality in instruction has gigantic potential, which is still to be revealed. With the present appropriation of portable advances and the ongoing advances in equipment, AR is getting progressively available and comprehensively utilized. Along these lines, at the present time may be a decent time to make the initial phases toward this path. Else, you chance passing up the opportunity to win your piece of the overall industry.

#Augmented reality companies #augmented reality app development #augment technology solutions #augmented reality developers #augmented reality app development company #best augmented reality companies #augmented reality application development

[toongrrl-blog]

“The Mommy Myth”: Revolt against the MRS (Part One)

MRS: As explained, “Today we acknowledge that women inhabit many identities throughout the day, and they can be in conflict with each other, so we are constantly negotiating among them. But what the feminine mystique exposed was that all women, each and every one of them, were supposed to inhabit one and only one seamless subject position: that of the selfless, never complaining, always happy wife and mother who cheerfully eradicated whatever other identities she might have had and instead put her husband, her children, and the cleanliness of her house first. Once you grew up, you were supposed to encase yourself in this subject position as if it were a wetsuit, and never take it off. This asphyxiating and disciplining subject position might best be called Moms ‘R’ Us, or MRS, the wife/mother...”

The Women’s International Conspiracy from Hell (WITCH), Mother’s Day, Cleveland, 1969. Broadsides were posted on telephone poles reading:

Today, one day of the year, America is celebrating Motherhood, in home...church...restaurant...candy shop...flower store. The other 364 days she preserves the apple pie of family life and togetherness, and protects the sanctity of the male ego and profit. She lives through her husband and children. She is sacrificed on the alter of reproduction...she is damned to the dreary world of domesticity by day, and legal rape by night...She is convinced that happiness and her lost identity can be recovered by buying--more and more and more and more.

“Wages for Housework”

We clean your homes and your factories. We raise the next generation of workers for you. Whatever else we may do, we are the housewives of the world. In return for our work, you have only asked us to work harder...we are serving notice to you that we intend to be paid for the work we do. We want wages for every dirty toilet, every painful childbirth, every indecent assault, every cup of coffee, and every smile. And if we don’t get what we want, then we will simply refuse to work any longer. Now you will rot in your own garbage. We want it in cash, retroactive and immediately. And we want all of it.

Gloria Steinem’s hopes for the future in U.S. News and World Report, 1975

Responsibility for children won’t be exclusively the woman’s anymore, but shared equally by men--and shared by the community, too. That means that work patterns will change for both women and men, and women can enter all fields just as men can.

The late 1960s for women:

Men got paid more than women for the same exact job.

Women could get credit cards in their husband’s name but not their own.

Many divorced, single, and separated women found it hard to get credit cards at all.

Women could not get mortgages on their own and if a couple applied for one, only the husband’s income was considered.

Women faced discrimination in education, scholarship awards, and on the job.

The collective marriage property was legally the husband’s.

Women kept out of various jobs, like: doctor, college professor, bus driver, business manager.

Knocked out in the delivery room.

Birth Control options were limited (and abortion was illegal).

1960 statistics (it’s not all Leave It To Beaver)

40% of the work force were women, even with young children.

It was not reflected in the law or the media.

“Yeah flirting is fun. A man opens a door for me, I thank him, he smiles---and electricity ripples through us both. A year later I’m flushing out a diaper and he’s opening other doors.” Carold Hanish and Elizabeth Sutherland, Women of the World Unite--We Have Nothing to Lose But Our Men!

In March 18, 1970. Several feminists came into the offices of Ladies Home Journal to stage what would be an 11 hour sit-in to suggest changes to it (and after that, all women’s magazines) where they asserted as the magazine was a magazine for mothers and wives, they needed to establish an on-site childcare center for employees with young children and it’d be run entirely by women and that “the magazine seek out nonwhite women for its staff in proportion to the population”, then added minimum wage and worker participation in editorial decisions. The Editor in Chief, John Mack Carter agreed to an eight-page insert in the August 1970 issue.

The insert contained articles and sidebars entitled “Housewives’ Bill of Rights” (demands for paid maternity leave, paid vacations, free 24 hour childcare centers, social security benefits for years of labor in the home, health insurance”. “Help Wanted: Female. 99.6 Hours a Week. No Pay. Bed and Bored. Must Be Good with Children” talked about the inequities of homemaking and the less glamorous parts of homemaking and with all the work to make the home comfy they are greeted by smirking husbands asking what they have done all day. 

“Babies Are Born, Not Delivered”, the writer/new mom documented what happened in the maternity ward (to Susan Mayfield, Karen Wheeler, Mrs. Sinclair, Claudia Henderson): pubic hair shaved off, being wheeled into a room on her lonesome, being told by a resident when she would actually have the baby, being told her pains weren’t real and she’d have to wait for the doctor, when about to deliver an anesthesiologist appeared and gave her a spinal despite her protests, doctor pulled baby out with forceps.

The articles spoke to the readers like they are comrades together rather than “I am the expert and you’re not” tone. 

In 1972 (first appearing as an insert in the NYT in 1971), Ms. Magazine was born. Letters to the Editor had women of all ages and backgrounds flooding the section with letters about their grind with sexism. Jane O’Rielly wrote her famous essay “The Housewife’s Moment of Truth” with her “click” moments where she writes that:

I thought that most of my clicks were behind me, but tonight, as I cleared the table, I had a new one. I was complimenting myself (since no one else had) on a meal I’d gone to some trouble to prepare. I began to wonder why so many of us wait trembling for “the verdict” at every meal; why my mother and so many others risk antagonizing their families by asking outright if everything is okay.

I decided it’s not just neurosis. We really know they’re judging even when they don’t say so. Housewifing is an occupation in which every single waking act is judged by the persons who mean the most to you in the world. Is the house clean? Is the food good? Are the children well-behaved? 

A thousand times a day our contracts come up for renewal. No wonder our nerves are shot.

Here are some following article titles from actual Ms. articles:

1973 had “Job Advice for ‘Just a Housewife’” in the November issue and it’s May issue devoted to motherhood with Letty Cottin Pogrebin writing “We care deeply about children whether we have our own or not. We work to improve educational curricula, child-care facilities, health services, and the childbirth experience. We are saying that men are parents too; that fatherhood need be no less important or time-consuming than motherhood...Truly, feminists are talking about choice: about making the decision to become pregnant and choosing a motherly role that is right for ourselves and our children.”

1974 had articles titled “New Help for Mothers Alone” (February), “How the Economy Uses Housewives” (May), and “Surviving Widowhood” and “Must We Be Childless to be Free?” (October). 

1975 had “Kids in the Office, and What-Else-Is-New with Child Care” in March, “How Hospitals Complicate Childbirth” (June), and a special section on mothers and daughters in June. 

Earlier that decade, writer Alix Kates Shulman (of works like Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen, the ultimate Karen Wheeler book, and planned the 1968 demonstrations outside of the Miss America contest) wrote about that her previously equal companionship with her husband deteriorated when they had children. 

Now I was restricted to the company of two demanding preschoolers and to the four walls of an apartment. It seemed unfair that while my husband’s life had changed little when the children were born, domestic life had become the only life I had”

His work demanded more travel and late nights, so they wrote a marriage agreement where they asserted that “each member of the family has an equal right to his/her own time, work, values, and choices...The ability to earn more money is already a privilege which must not be compounded by enabling the larger earner to buy out of his/her duties and put the burden on the one who earns less, or on someone hired from outside” and that domestic jobs be shared 50/50 and any “overtime in any domestic job, she/he must be compensated by equal extra work by the other” and had a job breakdown that included childcare duties like: waking, getting clothes ready, making lunches, seeing notes and homework and money and passes and books must be collected, getting babysitters (hours of phoning), calling doctors and checking symptoms and filling prescriptions, staying home with sick kids, providing activities. Shulman and her husband became happier, she wrote more books for adults and children, and her husband after 4 months of the agreement heard their daughter say “You know Daddy, I used to love Mommy more than you, but now I love you both the same.”

Soon magazines started writing sample marriage contracts with even Glamour magazine featuring an article how to write your own contract. There were also men staying home as househusbands with one telling Time magazine in 1974: “I love my son Adam, but I can see how taking care of a kid can drive a woman up the wall.” Dr. Spock (and other childcare experts) were taken to task for assuming that whatever happened with kids was Mom’s fault and her responsibility. Gloria Steinem cited Department of Labor stats that put the value of a housewife’s work value to be around $8000-$9000 a year because that is what would cost her husband to pay for the services of a housewife, including prostitution (see Marital Rape and faking orgasms). Naturally people cried “Communism!” or “offensive to middle-class sensibilities”. McCall’s magazine citing a study from Chase Manhattan Bank economist noted that for a man to hire a cook, laundress, nursemaid, chauffeur, and gardener he’d be paying $10 grand a year back then and nuns did about the same work as housewives but were entitled to Social Security. Clare Booth Luce, in 1977 for The Saturday Evening Post, wrote that the work of housewives and mothers was now worth $20,000 a year. 

Childcare became a hot topic, even though President Nixon claimed there was no need for national child development programs and such a program was anti-family. Also the idea of artificial pregnancies became attractive sounding to some (hey think about it, maintaining dress size and drinking booze and eating whatever and riding roller coasters?). Shulamith Firestone, author of The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution, argued women will always be kept down until they were freed from “reproductive biology by every means available” and until artificial wombs were created, moms should be compensated for labor and dads be involved, Ted.......Also that children would benefit by being cut loose from dependency on parents who’d pass their issues on to their children and more kibbutz style households over the nuclear family model. In contrast, Jane Alpert, wrote “Mother Right” where she insisted motherhood was a source of female power and be harnessed in service for liberation and that mothers can pass on the values of empathy, pacifism, cooperation, intuition, protective feelings towards others to counter competition, individualism, and aggression.

#Mad Men #Stranger Things #the marvelous mrs. maisel #Womens History #Women in Media #1970s #Womens Liberation #Feminism #Womens Magazines #gloria steinem #Alix Kate Shulman #Karen Wheeler #Midge Maisel #Joel Maisel #Trudy Campbell #Betty Draper #Mrs Sinclair #Terry Ives #Ladies Home Journal #Ms Magazine #Motherhood #Letty Cottin Pogrebin #Mothers in the media #Housewives #Working Moms #Jane O Rielly #equal marriages #1960s #Clare Booth Luce #Housewife pay

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Finally have all three of these tops finished, backing made and batting rounded up. Ready to head to my long arm quilter. I’m super excited to have these finished. I’ve chosen the binding too. Still need to make that. The 4th one is completely finished already. These will be gifted to my great nieces for Christmas this year!

I added the eyelashes to these. I feel kind of bad that the first one didn’t get eyelashes. But it did get a bird! This is the first one I did as a pattern test. This is before it was quilted.

I LOVE this pattern. It’s very easy and goes together quickly. Pattern is called Unicorn Garden by Apples and Beavers.

Which one is your favorite?

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Old-Fashioned Peanut Butter Cookies

My mother insisted that my grandmother write down one recipe for her when she got married in 1942. That was a real effort because Grandma was a traditional pioneer-type cook who used “a little of this or that ’til it feels right.” This treasured recipe is the only one she ever wrote down! —Janet Hall, Clinton, Wisconsin

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Gran’s Apple Cake

My grandmother occasionally brought over this wonderful cake warm from the oven. The spicy apple flavor combined with the sweet cream cheese frosting made this dessert a treasured recipe. Even though I’ve lightened it up, it’s still a family favorite. —Lauris Conrad, Turlock, California

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Pina Colada Icebox Cake

This icebox cake has all of the flavors of a piña colada. It takes just one bite to escape to a tropical island! —Rachel Lewis, Danville, Virginia

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Caramel-Pecan Apple Pie

You’ll love the smell in your kitchen—and the smiles on everybody’s faces—when you make this scrumptious caramel apple pie recipe. It takes me back home to Virginia and being at my granny’s table. —Jean Castro, Phoenix, Arizona

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Grandma’s Carrot Cake

My Grandma was very special to me. She had a big country kitchen that was full of wonderful aromas anytime we visited. This was one of her prized cake recipes, which continues to be a favorite from generation to generation. —Denise Strasz, Detroit, Michigan

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Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Zucchini Cake

Years ago, I added some zucchini to a peanut butter bar I had created, and this time I wanted to try it with a cake. The zucchini makes it super moist, but doesn’t get int the way of the chocolate and peanut butter goodness. —Marilyn Blankschien, Clintonville, Wisconsin

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  Cherry Coconut Treats

My great-grandmother created this recipe more than 100 years ago, so it’s made many appearances at family parties. Make the treats even more fun for the holidays by using both red and green maraschino cherries. —Anne Mullen, Windsor, Ontario

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Nana’s Chocolate Cupcakes with Mint Frosting

My Nana used to make these cupcakes at Christmas every year. Even though she is no longer with us, the cakes have special meaning and it brings me joy to bake them. For a more indulgent version, double the frosting and pile it high on top of each cupcake. —Chekota Hunter, Cassville, Missouri

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Apple Pie

I remember coming home sullen one day because we’d lost a softball game. Grandma, in her wisdom, suggested, “Maybe a slice of my homemade apple pie will make you feel better.” One bite, and Grandma was right. If you want to learn how to make homemade apple pie filling, this is really the only recipe you need. —Maggie Greene, Granite Falls, Washington

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Blackberry-Orange Cake

My grandmother made luscious fruit pies and cobblers using blackberries from her garden. I decided to follow her lead and create a blackberry cake that’s always lovely with a summer meal. —Lisa M. Varner, El Paso, Texas

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Fudge Nut Brownies

There’s no brownie recipe or mix I’ve ever tried that’s better than this! And it’s so easy—you can mix it in one bowl in just a few minutes. My husband’s grandmother passed the recipe on; now our son makes these brownies for after-school snacks. —Becky Albright, Norwalk, Ohio

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Carrot Cake

This wonderful recipe for carrot cake dates back to my great-grandmother! My family and I make sure to bake up a few of these carrot cakes for special occasions to make sure there’s enough to go around. You’ll love the texture this pretty, moist treat gets from pineapple, coconut and, of course, carrots! —Debbie Terenzini-Wilkerson, Lusby, Maryland

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Irresistible Coconut Cream Pie

My husband and I grow 500 acres of wheat on the farm his family homesteaded in 1889. I grind my own flour and love to use it in this recipe. The easy, pat-in crust has a rich grain flavor. It’s irresistible filled with old-fashioned coconut cream and topped with a fluffy meringue. —Roberta Foster, Kingfisher, Oklahoma

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Shoofly Cupcakes

These moist old-fashioned molasses cupcakes were my grandmother’s specialty. To keep them from disappearing too quickly, she used to store them out of sight. Somehow, we always figured out her hiding places! —Beth Adams, Jacksonville, Florida

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Cookie Jar Gingersnaps

My grandma kept two cookie jars in her pantry. One of the jars, which I now have, always had these crisp and chewy gingersnaps in it. They’re still my favorite cookie recipe. My daughter, Becky, used this recipe for a 4-H fair and won a blue ribbon. —Deb Handy, Pomona, Kansas

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Banana Bread Pudding

When I visited my grandmother in summer, I always looked forward to the comforting pudding she’d make. With its crusty golden top, custard-like inside and smooth vanilla sauce, this bread pudding is a real homespun dessert. Now I make it for my grandchildren. —Mary Detweiler, Middlefield, Ohio

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Sugar Cream Pie

I absolutely love Indiana sugar cream pie; especially the one that my grandma made for me. Here, we serve it warm or chilled and call it “Hoosier” sugar cream pie. —Laura Kipper, Westfield, Indiana

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7UP Pound Cake

My grandmother gave me this 7UP pound cake recipe. On top of being delicious, this 7UP cake represents family tradition, connection and love. —Marsha Davis, Desert Hot Springs, California

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Glazed Strawberry Cookies

I learned to bake with my grandmother and mother. I knew I was giving them a sweet new family tradition when I shared this recipe with them. —Andrea Zulauf, Livonia, New York

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Grandma’s Tandy Kake

My grandmother made this for all our family gatherings. Everyone loves it now I make it for every party we attend or host. —John Morgan III, Lebanon, Pennsylvania

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Italian Lemon Cookies

Christmas wouldn’t be the same without my grandmother’s cookies. A plate full of these light and zesty cookies is divine!—Elisabeth Miller, Broadview Heights, Ohio

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Buttermilk Pecan Pie

This is the treasured “Golden Oldie” that my grandmother made so often whenever we’d come to visit. Grandma grew her own pecans, and we never tired of cracking them and picking out the meat when we knew we’d be treated to her special pie! —Mildred Sherrer, Fort Worth, Texas

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Chocolate Cupcake Cones

I experimented with these cupcakes when my girls were young. Now, I’m a grandmother of nine, and these are still our favorites. They’re a great treat for kids to bring to school.—Betty Anderson, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin

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Banana Skillet Upside-Down Cake

My grandmother gave me my first cast iron skillet, and I’ve been cooking and baking with it ever since. Sometimes I add drained maraschino cherries to this banana skillet dessert and serve it with a ice cream. —Terri Merritts, Nashville, Tennessee

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Iced Orange Cookies

I usually make these bite-size cookies at Christmastime, when oranges in Florida are plentiful. Every time I sniff their wonderful aroma, I remember my grandmother, who shared the recipe. —Lori DiPietro, New Port Richey, Florida

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Apple Roly-Poly

Apple Roly-Poly isn’t very fancy, but it’s genuine Down East fare. It came from my grandmother. With 13 children plus the men at Grandpa’s sawmill, she had to do lots of cooking each day! —Megan Newcombe, Cookstown, Ontario

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Pinwheel Mints

Both my grandmother and my mom used to make these eye-catching confections as a replacement for ordinary mints. When I offer them at parties, guests tell me the candies are wonderful, and then ask how I created the pretty swirl pattern. —Marilou Roth, Milford, Nebraska

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Crisp Sugar Cookies

My grandmother always had sugar cookies in her pantry, and we grandchildren would empty that big jar quickly because they were the best! I now regularly bake these wonderful cookies to share with friends. —Evelyn Poteet, Hancock, Maryland

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Moist Chocolate Cake

This cake reminds me of my grandmother because it was one of her specialties. I bake it often for family parties, and it always brings back fond memories. The cake is light and airy with a delicious chocolate taste. This recipe is a keeper! —Patricia Kreitz, Richland, Pennsylvania

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Martha Washington Candy

Passed down by my grandmother and mother, this recipe is a cherished family tradition. We’ve even had each grandchild and great-grandchild take a turn stirring the candy mixture! —Cindi Boger, Ardmore, Alabama

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Lemon Custard Cake

This custard cake recipe comes from my grandma and is nice to whip up when unexpected company stops in. It’s a cool, creamy dessert that tastes like you fussed. —Sue Gronholz, Beaver Dam, Wisconsin

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Caramel-Apple Skillet Buckle

My grandma used to make a version of this for me when I was a little girl. She would make it using fresh apples from her tree in the back yard. I’ve adapted her recipe because I love the combination of apple, pecans, and caramel. —Emily Hobbs, Springfield, Missouri

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German Black Forest Cake

As far as I know, this cake recipe can be traced back to my German great-grandma. When I got married, my mother gave me a copy and I hope to someday pass it down to my children. —Stephanie Travis, Fallon, Nevada

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Date Swirl Cookies

My granddaughter nicknamed my mother Cookie Grandma because she made wonderful cookie—including these crisp and chewy treats. —Donna Grace, Clancy, Montana

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Winnie’s Mini Rhubarb & Strawberry Pies

Every spring, we had strawberries and rhubarb on our farm outside Seattle. These fruity hand pies remind me of those times and of Grandma Winnie’s baking. —Shawn Carleton, San Diego, California

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Grossmutter’s Peppernuts

Before Christmas, my grandmother would bake peppernuts and store them until the big day. When we came home from school, the whole house would smell like anise and we knew the holiday season was about to begin. —Marilyn Kutzli, Clinton, Iowa

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Apple Cornbread Crisp

With its hearty ingredients and quick prep time, this warm apple crisp makes a smart dessert for any fall night. It reminds me of the recipe my grandmother would serve after our big family seafood dinners. It’s absolutely wonderful topped with ice cream. —Julie Peterson, Crofton, Maryland

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Pennsylvania Dutch Funny Cake

I can still remember my grandma serving this delicious cake on the big wooden table in her farm kitchen. Every time I bake this unusual cake, it takes me back to those special days at Grandma’s. —Diane Ganssle, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

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Upside-Down Apple Cake

Baked in a bundt pan and drizzled with icing, this breakfast cake will be a highlight of your holiday menu. I adapted the recipe from one of my grandmother’s. —Shaunda Wenger, Nibley, Utah

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Peppermint Brownies

My grandmother encouraged me to enter these mint brownies in the county fair many years ago—and they earned top honors! They’re a chewy treat to serve during the holidays. —Marcy Greenblatt, Redding, California

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Oma’s Apfelkuchen (Grandma’s Apple Cake)

My husband’s German family calls this Oma’s apfelkuchen,, which translates to “Grandma’s apple cake.” They’ve been sharing the recipe for more than 150 years. I use Granny Smith apples, but any variety works. —Amy Kirchen, Loveland, Ohio

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Coconut Creme Chocolates

I’m a proud wife, mom of three and grandma of many. I’ve cooked many things over the years, including these marshmallowy chocolates. —Dolores Wilder, Texas City, Texas

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Apricot Pinwheel Cookies

My grandmother always made these cookies for the holidays. The recipe has been passed down through generations to me, and now from me to you. — Robert Logan, Clayton, California

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Nanny’s Fruitcake Cookies

My grandmother always made a holiday fruitcake. I turned her recipe into cookies that are perfect any time, especially with a cup of tea. —Amanda Digges, South Windsor, Connecticut

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Chocolate Pear Hazelnut Tart

As a teenage foreign exchange student in the south of France, I was horribly homesick. Then my host family’s grandmother Miette arrived and asked if I’d like to help her bake this nutty tart from scratch. It turned my trip around and inspired my lifelong passion for baking. Weighing ingredients, roasting nuts, kneading dough…the art of baking transcends language. —Lexi McKeown, Los Angeles, California

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Buttery Orange Sugar Cookies

My husband’s grandmother made a variety of cookies every year for her grandkids at Christmastime. She would box them up and give each child his or her own box. This crisp, orange flavored cookie is one of my favorites from her collection.—Heather McKillip, Aurora, Illinois

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Caramel Rhubarb Cobbler

I came up with this recipe after hearing a friend fondly recall his grandmother’s rhubarb dumplings. My son especially likes rhubarb, and this old-fashioned dessert lets those special stalks star. -Beverly Shebs, Pinehurst, North Carolina

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Mint Chocolate Wafers

My grandmother gave me a cookbook stuffed with recipes. This is a slight twist on one of the first—and best—recipes I made from the book. It’s best to store these in the refrigerator. —Mary Murphy, Evansville, Indiana

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Icebox Cookies

This cookie recipe from my 91-year-old grandmother was my grandfather’s favorite. She still makes them and sends us home with the dough so that we can make more whenever we want, I love to make a fresh batch when company drops in. —Chris Paulsen, Glendale, Arizona

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Apple Crumble Pie

The crumb topping of this apple crumb pie recipe is awesome, which may explain why dessert always disappears fast. Or maybe it’s the chunky apple filling. Either way, it’s a family tradition. —Vera Brouwer, Maurice, Iowa

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Chocolate Chip Red Velvet Whoopie Pies

Baking a fun treat is a must when my four grandchildren come for “Grandma Camp.” This year I’ll recruit the oldest, Henry, to help pipe the cake batter. —Linda Schend, Kenosha, Wisconsin

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Cranberry-Almond Apple Pie

My grandmother made this treat every year for Christmas. It’s much better than everyday apple pie. The recipe is a family treasure. —Maxine Theriauit, Nashua, New Hampshire

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Red Velvet Marble Cake

I watched my grandma prepare her red velvet showstopper many times for family get-togethers. The fluffy butter frosting perfectly complements the flavor of this gorgeous cake.—Jodi Anderson, Overbrook, Kansas

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Meringue Snowballs In Custard

My family has passed down this elegant dessert generation by generation. It started with my Russian great-grandmother, who traveled to America more than 100 years ago. I love continuing the tradition with her recipe. —Tonya Burkhard, Palm Coast, Florida

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Lime & Spice Peach Cobbler

This was my grandmother’s favorite recipe to make when they had bushels of peaches. Now I love to bake it whenever I can for my family and friends. —Mary Ann Dell of Phoenixville, Pennsylvania

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Gingerbread Meringue Bars

The best of both worlds, I combined my grandmother’s gingerbread recipe with my aunt’s special brown sugar meringue to make these lovable bars. —Eden Dranger, Los Angeles, California

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Granny’s Spice Cookies

Granny always had a batch of these delicious, crispy cookies waiting for us at her house. When I miss her more than usual, I make these cookies and let the aroma fill my house and heart. —Valerie Hudson, Mason City, Iowa

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Lebkuchen

It’s tradition for my family to make these German treats together. The recipe came from my great-grandmother’s cookbook, and judging from the amount of requests I get, it has certainly stood the test of time.—Esther Kempker, Jefferson City, Missouri

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Triple Ginger Cookies

My dad loved ginger cookies. I’ve tinkered with the recipe my grandma handed down by using fresh, ground and crystallized ginger for more pizzazz. —Trisha Kruse, Eagle, Idaho

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Six-Layer Coconut Cake with Lemon Filling

I found this recipe when going through my grandmother’s old files. It was originally made with an orange filling, but using lemon pudding in the filling makes it easier to prepare. It is simply the best. —Angela Leinenbach, Mechanicsvlle, Virginia

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Minty Chocolate Cream Cheese Bars

I always looked forward to my grandma’s gooey bars when I was growing up. This chocolate version includes mint, which is one of my favorite flavor add-ins. —Jill Lutz, Baldwin, Wisconsin

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Italian Pineapple Trifle

My grandmother made this rich, tempting trifle every year for our family’s Christmas Eve celebrations. Now I make it to carry on her special tradition. It’s an easy, delicious no-bake dessert everyone will love. —Ann-Marie Milano, Milton, Massachusetts

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Gingersnap Crumb Pear Pie

This basic recipe was one my grandmother used for making crumble pies from fresh fruit. She simply substituted oats, gingersnaps or vanilla wafers depending on the fruit. Pear was always my favorite. I added the ginger and caramel to give it a new twist. —Fay Moreland, Wichita Falls, Texas

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Banana Butter Pecan Kabobs

Desserts with bananas remind me of Grandma. She and my mom taught me to cook. I rarely measure. For this dish, I set out pecans and butterscotch with kabobs so everyone can customize. —Crystal Schlueter, Northglenn, Colorado

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Lemon Slice Sugar Cookies

Here’s a refreshing variation of my grandmother’s sugar cookie recipe. Lemon pudding mix and icing add a subtle tartness that tingles your taste buds. —Melissa Turkington, Camano Island, Washington

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Pumpkin Chip Cake with Walnuts

My grandmother gave me this family recipe. After a few changes, I made the treat even healthier and tastier. Holidays wouldn’t be the same without it!—Amy Bridgewater, Aztec, New Mexico

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Zucchini Cupcakes

I asked my grandmother for this recipe after trying these irresistible spice cupcakes at her home. I love their creamy caramel frosting. They’re such a scrumptious dessert you actually forget you’re eating your vegetables, too! —Virginia Lapierre, Greensboro Bend, Vermont

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Frosted Spice Cookies

This recipe has been handed down through many generations of my husband’s family. The cookies were always in his grandmother’s cookie jar when he’d visit. Today, he enjoys them more than ever—and so I do. —Debbie Hurlbert, Howard, Ohio

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Cherry Nut Cake

My grandmother made up this recipe for her children. Using Ozark-grown cherries and walnuts, she invented one they all liked. Granny always used cream from the dairy farm near her home, but the half-and half works well and is easier to find. —Diana Jennings, Lebanon, Missouri

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Mexican Chocolate Sugar Crisps

My grandma loved these so much, she would hide them from my grandpa! I think of her every time I make a batch. Like Mexican spice? Try stirring in a little chili powder. —Michele Lovio, Thousand Oaks, California

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Triple Berry Shortcake

My great-great grandmother handed down her shortcake recipe. I’m sharing it because it’s way too fabulous to keep it a secret! —Sara Kingsmore, Vadnais Heights, Minnesota

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Honey-Lime Almond Cookies

Decades ago my grandmother passed this buttery lime cookie recipe to me. Through years of baking, our cookie memories keep the family connected, although we’re miles apart. —Paula Marchesi, Lenhartsville, Pennsylvania

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Dipped Chocolate Logs

When my sister and I were little, we used to beg my mother and grandmother to make these buttery chocolate cookies during the holidays. Now, as moms ourselves, we get together every year to make Christmas cookies and the chocolate logs are always on the top of our list.—Deanna Markkos, Western Springs, Illinois

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Anise & Wine Cookies

My grandmother did not speak English very well, but she knew the language of great food. These wine cookies are crisp and best eaten after being dunked in even more wine.—Julia Meyers, Scottsdale, Arizona

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Raisin Pecan Pie

I remember my Grandmother Voltie and Great-Aunt Ophelia making this southern-style pie for Thanksgiving. It was always one of the many cakes and pies lined up for dessert. —Angie Price, Bradford, Tennessee

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Grandma’s Pecan Rum Bars

My grandmother handed down the recipe for these gooey bars, which we all love. The candied cherries are a must. —Deborah Pennington, Decatur, Alabama

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The Lossie Lane Quilt: A Testimony of Friendship Between Two Black Pioneer Settlers

By Lucie Heins, Assistant Curator, Western Canadian History

Since the writing of the Matilda Bailey-Day quilt story, a number of quilts made by early Black pioneers have been donated to the Royal Alberta Museum. One such quilt is the Lossie Lane quilt. Through a series of conversations with her granddaughter Christine Beaver, I am able to share the life of another Black pioneer and quiltmaker.

Above: The Wagon Wheel quilt hand-pieced and hand-quilted by Lossie Lane

Lossie (Barksdale) Lane made a quilt for her dear friend Ivy Beaver. Although it was their experiences as early Black pioneers to Canada that solidified their friendship, they did not actually meet until their adult children married each other on April 8, 1950. The union of Ollie Lenora Lane and James Willis Beaver, Christine’s parents, planted the seed that blossomed into a lifelong friendship.

Above: Lossie Lane and Ivy Beaver, best friends forever

Lossie and Ivy lived different lives in different communities but both had moved far away from what had been their home in the United States to a new home in Canada. Lossie’s Friendship Quilt is a testimony of that friendship as noted in the inscription on the quilt:

To Ivy Beaver Remember Me From Lossie Lane 1960

Above: The inscription on the quilt

The Lane family came from Oklahoma, USA. Christine’s maternal great-grandfather Julius Caesar Lane (age 59) and great-grandmother Emma (Bruce) Lane (age 42) had both been born into slavery. They made their way to Maidstone, Saskatchewan in 1909, two years after Oklahoma and the Indian Territories merged to form the State of Oklahoma. Within a short period of time new segregation laws were introduced, making life difficult for the African American community. Many began to look to Canada for refuge; free homesteads were available in Western Canada. In the article “The Shiloh People: Maidstone, SK” author Leander K. Lane writes that a “Canadian border entry record show that at least seventy-five individuals representing 12 different families arrived at Emerson, Manitoba in the spring of 1910. They all stated their destination as Maidstone Saskatchewan.” In 1912 Julius and Emma Leotis’ son Leander Lane Sr., his wife Lossie and their eldest son, Leotis, traveled to Maidstone to join them. They came at a time when Alberta and Saskatchewan sentiments against African American immigration encouraged the Government of Canada Order in Council to bar such immigration. Although the law was never passed, it would appear that Leander and Lossie almost never made it into Canada. The family lore suggests that Lossie Lane had said, “They didn’t have to be so mean to us” in reference to the border officials of the day. Despite encountering racism, many hardships and cold winters, the Lane family were able to find contentment in their new home.

Above: Leander and Lossie Lane c. 1940s

The Beaver family also came from Oklahoma. Christine’s paternal great-grandfather James Moses Beaver (age 45), great-grandmother Hattie Miller (age 40) and their two sons James “Edward” (age 17) and Walker Miller (age 13) were the only Beavers to cross the Canadian border at Emerson, MB.  In 1911, they further travelled to the city of Strathcona by train. In May 1912 when their household effects and basic farming tools arrived in Edmonton on a freight train, the Beavers made the three-day, 138-km journey to the smallest Black pioneer settlement of Campsie, 16 km west of Barrhead, AB. According to Christine’s granddad, Walker, his mother rode in a horse-drawn buggy while he, his brother and father walked and led a team of oxen pulling a cart full of their possessions. On their way to their homestead in Campsie they had to unhitch the oxen several times to pull the buggy through the mud holes, the muskeg and the underbrush. Walker Beaver said the mosquitos were fierce.

Above: The Beaver Homestead in Campsie, AB

In March 1920 Walker Beaver married Ivy Belle Bowen in Amber Valley, AB. Ivy was born in Evergreen, Alabama and eventually moved with her family to Amber Valley. Once married, she moved to her husband Walker’s homestead in Campsie where they raised their family. Christine’s father, James Willis, his brother and two sisters attended the Benton School of District #3319, officially recorded by the government of Alberta as the only designated “segregated” or “blacks only” school district in Alberta. Despite this designation, many parents of white students opted to send their children there because it was closer than the school for “whites."

Life was never easy on the farm, but Ivy’s tenacious character coupled with her “waste not” attitude made her a formidable farmwoman. She raised chickens and turkeys, selling their eggs. She also planted enormous gardens. Ivy had a reputation for having one of the most beautiful flower gardens in the community. Her foundation plants included rose bushes, lilacs and apple trees creating a backdrop for the hundreds of seedlings she planted each spring. Every January the dining room table became a plant nursery. She started her seeds in tinned cans she’d saved all year just for this purpose.

Above: Walker and Ivy Beaver, 1920

After Lossie’s husband, Leander Lane Sr., died of prostate cancer in 1947, Lossie left Maidstone to live with her eldest daughter Rosie (Lane) Walker in Edmonton. Christine remembers that every summer her grandmother came to stay with her family on the farm in the community of Tiger Lily, eleven km northwest of Campsie. Christine’s father James Willis had moved from Campsie in the early 1940s to the second homestead registered to his grandfather James Moses. Lossie took residence on the top floor of the house. There she would spend six to eight hours a day, except for Sundays, hand-stitching quilts. According to Christine, her grandmother “pieced everything together by hand…She had the patience of Job”. By the end of the summer, Lossie would have completed a batch of brand new quilts. Christine remembers that “every quilt on the beds at home was made by my grandmother.”

Above: Lossie Lane took residence on the top floor of Christine’s family home to quilt. Christine is second from the left.

It was during these summers that Christine learned to sew and make quilts. When Christine was six years old her Grannie Lane instructed her in the art of threading needles. She would thread five to 10 needles at a time and leave them within reach of her grandmother’s hands. Christine remembers her grandmother calling her in a booming voice, “Christmas!” as this was her nickname and “she would give me two squares to stitch together.” She sewed quickly so she could go out and play but Grannie Lane would take one look at her stitches and tell Christine to rip it out and start again. Christine says that to this day “if it doesn’t look right I rip it out.” Christine has become an accomplished quilter due to spending so much of her formative years with her grandmother.

Above: A Bargello quilt made by Christine Beaver.

Above: Rob Peter to Pay Paul quilt by Christine Beaver.

Having experienced economic challenges, Lossie was always frugal and resourceful. She always used what was readily available to make her quilts. After a fire at the local variety store located on Hastings Street in Burnaby, B.C., Lossie rescued and cleaned smoke-damaged blue and yellow shirts, then took them apart and used them for the blocks, border, and backing of the friendship quilt (below). Although Christine is not sure where the other fabrics came from, it is likely to have been other scraps of clothing, flour sacks, and old curtains.

Above: The Wagon Wheel quilt.

The pattern used for this quilt is called Wagon Wheel. It is not certain if Lossie specifically chose this pattern for Ivy or whether it was what she had on hand. According to Christine’s grandmother, this quilt pattern was once used to signal wagons heading north to Canada as part of the Underground Railroad. In a radio interview with NPR News Station in Washington D.C., professor of art history at Howard University Dr. Raymond Dabard talks about how quilts were embedded with coded messages using traditional American quilt patterns. One such message was “The Monkey Wrench turned the Wagon Wheel toward Canada on the Bear’s Paw trail to the Cross Roads”. The Monkey Wrench, the Wagon Wheel, the Bear’s Paw and the Crossroads are all quilt patterns. This code was imparted by Ozella Williams known as the quilt lady in Charleston, South Carolina to Dr. Raymond Dabard and Jacqueline Tobin, co-authors of the book Hidden in Plain View: The Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad. She was also the keeper of stories in the African Tradition. When a quilt with these patterns was put out to be aired, the hidden message was that wagons (Wagon Wheel) were headed north, to stay close to the mountains (Bear’s Paw) until you get to Cleveland, Ohio (Crossroads).

Above: The Wagon Wheel Block Pattern is believed to have been used historically as a code for the Underground Railroad.

Christine also remembers her grandmother telling her that the colours used in the quilt would indicate whether you would be traveling in a box in the wagon or traveling under the wagon. According to Dr. Dabard, Ozella Williams also mentions the importance of colour in the quilts but did not share examples of how the colours were used. It must be noted that there has been some controversy on the topic of quilts and the role they played in the Underground Railroad. It is not surprising as there is little physical evidence since the making of these quilts was part of a covert operation. Only the stories passed down from generation to generation provide us with a glimpse of this practice. As more of these quilt stories surface, these overlapping oral histories much like the story passed down from Lossie to Christine in the late 1960s, will be hard to ignore.

The Lossie Lane quilt pattern reflects an earlier history of the Underground Railroad while the quilt itself embodies the friendship of two women, two friends, both early Black settlers, who left one home behind on their own terms to make their way to a new home on the Canadian prairies, surviving harsh winters and sometimes harsh words.

Join me next time as we discover Alberta’s history…one quilt at a time.

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IS THIS ART?

Countless figures throughout history have tried to explain this incredibly complex question: What is art? And more importantly, what isn’t art?

But still the institutions have no real answer, no common ground upon which they could define a normative of what defines art. Brut art is a problem, so are other outsider artists, and home schooled creatives that defy or just never become part of the institutional system. 

It’s the carpenters that put more than the usual love and attention to detail in building their “consumer objects”. It’s the iPhones and iPads and other designer products that always walk the thin line between art and function.

Then you have others that do not agree with the institutional idea that one needs to even be part of the system to be considered an artist. You only need to have ideas and communicate them with the world via your production.

And in the philosophy of aesthetics — the field that studies this question ontologically — there is even more confusion. A materialist philosopher that believes all reality is only material and no immaterial reality can ever exist, will tell you art is pure matter, pure reciprocity between the object and its perceiver.

But they might also say that art doesn’t even need spectators to exist — like the whole status of art is somehow imbued inside the object that it is representing. Almost comically, some believe art is a magical aura (but of course physical, never metaphysical or non-material) that lives in an object, a special part — almost like an extra organ of the body of that object — that pumps pure artistic energy through it and makes us instantly experience art, if we indeed are knowledgable and receptive enough to perceive it.

But it’s all a load of incoherent and over-theorised bull if you ask me.

For me, all of this began with Descartes, when he decided to divide reality into two connected but distinct realities: the material and immaterial world.

There are even jokes about how the common person in the street is always a cartesian — a follower of Descartes — even if they themselves don’t know it; all average people believe in a body and in a soul as two distinct entities.

Now, I won’t go into the fallacies of such beliefs too much as this is an art channel not a philosophy discussion, but just to give a bit of context, I’d like to present three interesting and extremely precise arguments for the contrary — that art is not an object, but an experience.

Because if art is an experience, we surely can come to understand that truly it is impossible to create a functional theory, a list of checkboxes that anything considered art has to tick to really become art, or even fine art.

The first is by Thomas Nagel, the author of the story titled What It Is Like To Be A Bat, who posed an interesting proposition: 

While humans can understand and imagine the behaviours of creatures, in this case a bat; merely being able to imagine how it would feel to be able to fly, navigate by sonar, hang upside down and eat insects, would never really be the same as a bat’s perspective. 

Nagel claims that even if we were able to gradually turn into bats (think Kafka, but more uplifting), our brains would not have been wired as a bat’s from birth; therefore, we would only be able to experience the life and behaviours of a bat, rather than their mindset.

To behave as something isn’t equal to being something, regardless of how much it looks, swims and quacks like a duck, the shocker is, it might just be a rubber ducky. 

And this goes for our language and communication problem too; I could paint a picture of an apple being picked by a woman somewhere in a forest. Some would see a nice lady picking apples, others would see the highly complex concept of Ancestral Sin. Same painting, same communication, immensely different results.

The next story, written by Frank Jackson is also about a woman who’s life is changed because of an apple — not because of eating it but merely by looking at it! Titled What Mary Didn’t Know, it describes a very curious lady who loved natural sciences — the field of colour theory especially. 

She knew everything there was to know about colours; their wavelengths, the numerous psychological effects colours have on us, the various types of receptors that are utilised in our bodies to see them … just about everything. But she had one issue. She had been educated about all of this in a black-and-white room.

Black-and-white books, TV screens, and furniture — for some weird reason even Mary herself is black-and-white, but it is a story and if it was OK for Little Red Riding Hood to be red, I guess Mary can be colourless too.

So Jackson argued: Even though Mary had all the same information about colours that we do, she had never really experienced them and was therefore missing one crucial piece of information; one important bit of quaila, as philosophers like to call these magical bits of subjective experience, namely actually seeing red.

Jackson proposed that when Mary stepped out of her room and saw a red, juicy apple, she not only saw colour for the first time, she in fact learned something new. Something that she couldn’t have learned through any text book or black-and-white YouTube video. 

She gained a new emotional and preceptorial experience — seeing red. (Remember all those people who told us that we can’t learn everything from books, well they were right in a way!)

And the last, and my personal favourite story curiously also evolves around red (philosophers love it for some reason). One of the greatest minds of the 21st century, John Searle wrote a wonderful tale about a talking room.

Titled The Chinese Room, this wonderful tale of speaking Asian walls stirred the lines of cognitive scientists when first presented in 1980. It describes a room, where one would input a piece of written-down information — be it a question, a statement or just a remark about the weather — and the room, after a period of time, would answer back. All in Chinese for some weird reason, probably because Searle himself said he’s awful at speaking Mandarin (The man speaks more than 6 languages fluently though!).

Well, the room wasn’t some magical artefact from a forgotten time, it was operated by one person. And the interesting fact was, that parson had no idea how to speak or write Mandarin. What he did have though was an assortment of instructions and guidelines on what to do and a giant library of cards with Chinese signs, decorating the walls of the room.

Whenever text was slid through the opening in the main wall, he would open the instruction books at the appropriate page depicting the combination of symbols (he was obviously really efficient at what he did and compensated generously for his job, probably owned a villa and a few Ferraris too).

After locating the right page in the manual, he would then find the appropriate cards on the shelves of the room, align them in the order depicted in the instructions and return the answer back though the slit in the wall. And the person on the outside would be absolutely amazed of how wonderful a computer this contraption was!

But the point of Searle’s work wasn’t to explain away computers by using miniature librarians living in our processors and memory units, he wanted to point out a simple yet profound truth about communication, computation and the mind. One that we have heard twice before, albeit in different iterations and with slightly different points.

Syntax (that is the assortment of signals; be it voice signals, written words or electric currents going to the processors of our computers) does not equal semantics (that is the name we give to meaning; the meaning of a word, a picture, a sign … anything that has some symbolical value to anyone).

The only true way to experience art is to, well, experience it. It’s impossible to not experience something if we wish to even try to comprehend it, let alone understand fully what it is about.

It’s like dreaming about something you have never experienced — I know, dreams almost never look like reality, but to be honest, our dreams don’t just appear as a beam of light from god or some bored alien on Mars that decided to give us a transcendental experience because we’re the chosen one to guide human kind into onto the next level of existence.

It’s all just pieced together by everything we experience during our waking days. Every bit of information was consciously or unconsciously experienced and internalised. It’s the same with art.

You need to be present, you are indeed the key to the question of: What art is? Without anyone to view the Mona Lisa, there is no art, just a peculiar object. 

Because to know what art is, we also need to know what art isn’t. 

But when does art stop to be? Or what if it never even become perceivable to us as art?

In the moment where there are no more men, no more women, and no more children.

And what happens to art then?

It is, like all that is created from an ego, bound to its creator. When he perishes, so does the essence of all his children, leaving behind a heap of empty material shells. But the intricate architectural dams of beavers, the beautiful patterns of various animals and the chirping and poems of all the beautifully performing singing birds. These don’t perish. 

Even if there is no man to hear the song, see the pattern and enjoy the complexity of animal life and their creations they still serve an immediate function. 

If there is a female Nightingale around, the song is heard, if there are beavers, they will enjoy and understand the dams and the tigers will comprehend their intricate skin patterns — each species forming its own personal language. 

And when they’re gone, so are all their features, all their creations.

And you know why? 

Because even if today the thought of a non-sociocentric universe is impossible for most, some things in the world actually weren’t made by us. Neither to amuse or to teach. And because of that, they can last quite a bit longer than our concept of art ever will.

Art is an experience, not an object. But it isn’t only a material experience — and no, I’m not saying it’s magic that makes us live and die, because the last time I checked nobody wrote Emet on my head and magically made me a real boy the way the golem becomes alive in Jewish folklore.

But the point to take home is, the more you know, the more you understand about the world around you, the more things will give you the same experience of art, of the sublime.

Because while surely not any object can produce the same power of artistic pleasure — for me it’s a mid-late Rothko painting, for you it might be a conceptual piece with hay and neon or a realistic portrait of Loui XV or just a nice handmade drawing of your child about how much they love you.

The object is only as important as our understanding of it. That’s why learning is paramount. To be a good artist, and even a good spectator we need to constantly expand our horizons. Because the day we stop learning is the day we create a canon in our life.

And as with every determinate belief that only so and so is an artist and the others are imposters, we inevitably become blind to the ineffable vastness of what art really is. 

Art is everything. But to the inexperienced and blind, it is less than nothing, because even nothing takes something form us, whereas a foreign object to a closed mind doesn’t even register. It is like it never even existed.

So to truly experience reality — at least a much of it as we possibly can — we need to stay humble, open and childlike in our awe towards the world. If nothing else, we owe it to either God or our parents or ourselves or just to the lovely abyss that the nihilists of us enjoy staring down.

We owe it to whatever makes us stand-up in the morning to give everything the world has to offer a chance. Maybe we will find a new thing we like, but it’s much more likely we’ll discover a previously completely hidden part of reality that was really just hiding in plain sight.

What is art then?

Everything for those of us that aren’t afraid to look.   

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[gigglesndimples]

Celebrate Legalization with These Infused Canadian Sweets

These layered bars made their debut in a 1950s cookbook from the Vancouver Island city of Nanaimo. They’ve been growing in popularity ever since. (Photos by Mitch Mandell)

GNARLY NANAIMO BARS 

Crust

2 tbsp. cannabis-infused butter (melted)

2 tbsp. butter (melted)

5 tbsp. unsweetened cocoa

1 egg

2 cups graham cracker crumbs

1/4 cup sugar

1 cup flaked coconut (sweetened or unsweetened)

1/2 cup walnuts or pecans, finely chopped

 Filling

1/4 cup instant vanilla pudding mix

1/4 cup milk

1 cup butter (softened)

4 cups confectioner’s sugar

1 tsp. vanilla extract

Icing

1 1/4 cups chocolate chips

1/3 cup heavy cream

Preheat oven to 350°F. Lightly grease a 9-inch square baking pan. Place all of the crust ingredients in a food processor bowl and pulse until thoroughly combined. Press the mixture in an even layer in the bottom of the prepared pan. Bake for 10 minutes. Let cool completely before proceeding. In a small bowl, stir together the pudding mix and milk. In a large bowl, use an electric mixer and beat the softened butter until light and fluffy. Add vanilla and pudding/milk mixture until smooth. Slowly add confectioner’s sugar until smooth. Use a rubber spatula to smooth the filling over the cooled crust. Chill for at least an hour. Prepare icing by combining the chocolate chips and cream in a small saucepan over medium heat. Stir constantly until chocolate is melted and mixture is smooth. Spread icing over chilled bars. Chill until cold, then cut into squares. Store covered in the refrigerator up to a week or wrap individually and freeze for longer storage. Makes 18 bars.

Classic Butter Tarts date back to the pioneers who settled the Canadian prairies. This maple-enhanced version gives a nod to Canada’s east coast.

BLAZED BUTTER TARTS

Crust

2 1/2 cups flour

2 tbsp. sugar

1 tsp. salt

1/4 cup cannabis-infused butter (cold)

3/4 cup butter (cold)

1/3 cup ice water

 Filling

1/2 cup brown sugar

1/4 cup butter (melted)

3/4 cup real maple syrup

2 eggs (beaten)

2 tsp. apple cider vinegar

1 tsp. maple or vanilla extract

Mix flour, sugar and salt in a food processor bowl. Cut cannabutter and butter into small chunks, add to the processor and pulse 8 to 10 times. Add ice water a few tablespoons at a time until the dough just holds together; don’t overmix. Shape dough into a disk, wrap in Saran and chill for at least an hour. Place chilled dough on a lightly floured surface (or between two sheets of plastic wrap) and press to about 1/3-inch thickness. Use the bottom of a glass to cut out 12 rounds (a little larger in circumference than the size of a muffin tin cup). Gather scraps and re-roll as needed, trying to use up all the dough. Press the dough circles into the bottom and up the sides of 12 muffin tin cups. Chill for at least 30 minutes. While crusts are chilling, preheat oven to 400°F. Prepare filling by stirring together the brown sugar and melted butter until well combined. Add maple syrup, eggs, cider vinegar and extract; beat well so mixture stays emulsified. Divide the filling between the prepared chilled crusts, filling them to about a 1/4-inch from the top. Bake for 10 minutes, then reduce temperature to 350°F and bake until pastry is golden brown and filling is starting to set, about 10-12 more minutes. Let cool completely before removing tarts from the muffin tin and serving. Makes 12 tarts.

Named for Canada’s national animal, you’ll find variations of these oval-shaped donuts throughout the country.

BODACIOUS BEAVER TAILS

Dough

2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour (plus extra for dusting)

1 package (2 1/2 tsp.) active dry yeast

1/4 cup warm water

1/2 cup milk (warmed)

2 tbsp. cannabis-infused butter (melted and slightly cooled)

1 egg

2 tbsp. sugar

1/2 salt

1/2 vanilla

3 cups vegetable oil

Topping

3/4 cup sugar

1 tbsp. cinnamon

Mix water, milk, yeast and 1 tsp. of sugar in mixer bowl. Let sit for about 10 minutes or until foamy. Warm the water and milk to just above lukewarm in order for the yeast to grow; too hot or too cold, and this recipe won’t work. Add cannabutter, sugar, salt, vanilla and egg. Using the mixer’s dough hook, add flour and mix until the dough no longer sticks to the sides of the bowl. Increase mixer speed to knead dough for about 5 minutes until it’s smooth and elastic. If dough is sticky, add a little extra flour. Transfer to a lightly oiled bowl and cover with a clean kitchen towel. Let rise until it doubles in size, about one hour. Punch down dough and transfer to a lightly floured surface. Cut into eight equal-sized pieces and shape so that they’re oblong. Use a rolling pin to flatten and roll out each piece of dough into an oval. Use a knife to score a crisscross pattern in the top of the dough. Transfer donuts to a lightly floured baking sheet, cover with a kitchen towel and let rise for 30 minutes. Mix cinnamon and sugar together in a bowl. Fill large skillet with 2 inches of oil and heat to 350°F or until a small bit of dough dropped in the oil floats to the surface sizzling. Keep an eye on the oil during the cooking process and be sure to lower the temperature if it starts to smoke. Fry each tail for about 30 seconds per side or until golden brown. Coat with cinnamon/sugar mix. Serve immediately. Makes 8 beaver tails.

Canada produces 71% of the world’s pure maple syrup. No tribute to Canadian sweets would be complete without maple candy.

MARIJUANA MAPLE CANDY

1/2 cup pure maple syrup

1/4 cup heavy cream

1 tbsp. cannabis-infused butter

Combine syrup and cream in a small saucepan. Add butter and cook over high heat. Make sure to not stir it. Clip a candy thermometer to the side of the pan (it shouldn’t touch the bottom of the pan). Cook, again without stirring, until the mixture reaches 235°F. The mixture will be deep amber and form a soft ball when a little is dropped in a glass of cold water. Gently pour the hot mixture into a medium bowl, taking care to avoid splattering. Beat until smooth with an electric mixer. Roll the mixture into a ball and place between 2 pieces of parchment paper. Using a rolling pin, press to about 1/4-inch thickness. Place on a baking sheet and chill for about 15 minutes. Cut into squares or, for a more decorative look, use cookie cutters to make shapes. Store covered in the refrigerator. Makes 4 servings.

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This old-fashioned dish of fluffy dumplings steamed in sweet blueberry sauce originated in the Maritime Provinces. Its unusual name supposedly comes from the sound the biscuits make while steaming in the sauce.

BLUNT BLUEBERRY GRUNTS

Sauce

4 cups blueberries (fresh or frozen)

1/4 cup water

2 tbsp. lemon juice

2/3 cup sugar

1/4 tsp. cinnamon

Dumplings

2 cups flour

1/4 cup sugar

2 tsp. baking powder

1/2 tsp. salt

1/4 cup cannabis-infused butter (cold)

1 cup milk

Combine blueberries, sugar and water in a large cast-iron skillet and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to a simmer and cook until blueberries have softened and mixture resembles whole-fruit jam, which takes about 10 minutes. Reduce heat to warm and add lemon juice and cinnamon. Prepare dumplings by combining flour, sugar, baking powder and salt in a food processor bowl. Pulse about 10 times until butter is evenly incorporated. Remove to a mixing bowl and stir in milk until just combined. Increase heat under the blueberry pan to medium. Drop spoonfuls of dough into the simmering fruit. Cover and simmer for about 15 minutes without lifting the lid. Serve warm as is or with whipped cream or ice cream. Makes 12 servings.

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The Bill That Legalized Cannabis in Canada

The History of Cannabis Prohibition in Canada

More Cheri Sicard Recipes

Cannabis-Infused Butter and Oil

High Holidaze Pot Cookie Party

Five Marijuana Munchies

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5 Apps for Teaching Your Child to Tell Time

How hard can it be to learn how to tell time?

For some kids, it’s a difficult concept to grasp. After all, time itself is an abstract concept.

It’s even harder to teach someone how to tell time, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Technology makes teaching how to tell time a breeze.

Let’s look at five apps for teaching your child to tell time.

Jungle Time

As you’d expect, Jungle Time teaches children how to tell time by using engaging jungles animals. When the learner gets the answer correct, the clock face responds with a roar or a smile. This app is a multi-lingual and highly interactive tool for teaching time in 12-hour and 24-hour formats.

Jungle Time has earned recognition from Parenting Magazine, Apple, and the New York Times, and Common Sense Media has given it a 5-star rating. This app is from Jungle Education, a company making iOS apps for iPhones, iPads and iPod Touch. It is $2.99.

Tic Toc Time

In Tic Toc Time, a family of beavers teaches time in series of scaffolded lessons. Learners must unlock the lessons in order before completing the series and moving on. The app incorporates day and night in the graphics by showing patterns of sun and shadow to help children learn how to tell time.

Best of all, the app offers a secure gaming environment. Children won’t be asked to make purchases or travel to other sites during play. This Android app is available in eleven languages, and you can purchase it for $4.49.

Todo Telling Time

The app teaches time and also tells the days and months. Learners will see the changes in the sky as the sun and the moon move across it. The app will also help you teach your child about developing a schedule and sticking to it, and the content is aligned to the Common Core Standards. It’s an excellent choice for kids with learning differences.

The app is the “Best Design Winner at the 2013 Launch Education Conference,” and the company has been recognized by Mashable as a pioneering startup for kids.  Produced by Enuma, Inc, the app costs $4.99 and is available for iPhone and iPad.

Quick Clocks

When reinforcement of learning concepts is vital, try Quick Clocks. This app is clean and straightforward, and its beauty lies in its simplicity. Learners work through three skills levels as they try to beat their previous scores when telling time in 12-hour and 24-hour formats, as well as digital and analog time.

This app was known originally as Sakura time and can be purchased for $1.99

Zcooly Ranch

Developed by teachers for their own students, Zcooly Ranch present adorable animal characters while helping kids learn to tell time. Children help to care for the ranch animals, and they can earn points to help decorate the pens. Kids will learn digital and analog time formats, and they’ll also become familiar with abstract phrases like “half past.”

The Educational App Store gives this software a 5/5 rating, and you can buy it for Android or the iPhone/iPad for $1.99.

With apps like these, your child will learn time-telling quickly.

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