Good morning!!!!

[Thomas]

32F cloudy mid 40's for high w/mix bag of weather.
Rain w/warm winds should free ice in the brooks/stream and make very interesting in some areas.

Enjoy the day all.

 

[daugen]

Quaker oats are one of my favourites for winter breakfast. It's one of those foods that brings back fond memories of childhood too.

Eric I agree with you totally and growing up in the far suburbs of Philadelphia, Quaker oats were in every home.

And I had to chuckle, here you are, enjoying this legacy food when it was the Brits who persecuted the Quakers so much they came to the US.
And William Penn was their crowning achievement as far as someone in high position. Been on a bit of a slide since then...
Of course your Quaker oats might be made in Northern Ireland.

 

[wngsprd]

44 going to 69 and rain coming in.

I didn't know the Quaker Oats I eat had such a storied past and international appeal.

I like mine thick and hot.

 

[daugen]

44 going to 69 and rain coming in.

I didn't know the Quaker Oats I eat had such a storied past and international appeal.

I like mine thick and hot.

I had to look this up, what we know as Quaker Oats is not a brand that goes "all the way back".
Nor was the original product made by Quakers, some miller read an article and liked the idea...
sigh

this is from their website:

The Quaker Mill Company was a 19th-century American oat mill company in Ravenna, Ohio.
After merging with three other companies in 1901, the company became the Quaker Oats Company, now a subsidiary of PepsiCo.
History

Henry D. Seymour and William Heston founded the Quaker Mill in Ravenna. On 4 September 1877
Seymour trademarked the Quaker brand after reading an encyclopedia article on Quakers,
who are officially called the Religious Society of Friends.[1] By 1888, the company employed 83 people,
and (in a tie with the Ravenna Glass Company) was Ravenna's largest employer.[2]

Who is the man on the Quaker Oats box? Is it William Penn?
The "Quaker man" is not an actual person. His image is that of a man dressed in the Quaker garb,
chosen because the Quaker faith projected the values of honesty, integrity, purity and strength.

 

[bakerg]

Good morning, woke up to a record temperature 0f 52F here in Southern Ontario for this time of year, not lasting as temp will drop to 39F this afternoon.

 

[ronjhall]

Poured first cup of coffee. 36° with clear skies this morning. Heading to 55° with lots of sun. Should be a good day for a bike ride.
RS, nice aquarium setup.
Drew, Quaker Oats was served every morning at our house during the winter when I was a kid. Wife does not like it. So it's never seen in our house for breakfast. But she does have a good cookie recipe that we enjoy couple times a year.
Good Morning All.

 

[txdon]

Good morning! 40˚ heading to 55˚ sunny. A day to get something done on the fence line or the bridge. The fence line is like painting the golden gate bridge - as soon as I finish clearing it up it's time to start again. The first time around took me 19 years and by then the first part needed Ron's expert grappling abilities to clear again, I'm about two miles shy of being complete. When you cut out the too cold and too hot days that leaves about 6 weeks a year.

Kyle, no foreign accent, really friendly, probably really good at what he does. I just noticed his reluctance to get into specifics which made the red flags come up. He approached us in with lots of other people around, also a good touch to catch us off guard.

Heading to the pantry for my morning bowl of Old Fashion Quaker Oatmeal with ground flaxseed and fresh frozen blueberries. I cover the oatmeal with water and microwave for 1minute 45 seconds and it's perfect.

I really don't know the difference between Quaker, Amish, or Mennonite, but I'm sure Drew does.

On the way home from Austin I saw a double cab pickup With a Pennsylvania license plate with ladders on the top and a little wood and six men in the cab. On the door of the cab was "Mennonite Disaster Services" they were heading to Bastrop. I thought they were a little late for the wild fires but on their web site I see they are still helping with the May 2015 flood.

 

[ronjhall]

Good morning, woke up to a record temperature 0f 52F here in Southern Ontario for this time of year, not lasting as temp will drop to 39F this afternoon.

Warmer back home than it is in Mesa, AZ. But next week we will have daytime temperatures in the 80°s.

 

[farmer2009]

48 this morning and headed to 51 today. 2.52 inches of rain yesterday afternoon and last night. Sunny but cooler this week.

Have a heater to repair today. Then one house of feedlines to run. Then need to run to a small farm supply on other end of county. Supposed to have the best protein tubs for the cows around. Although my cows liked the last ones I bought. Almost snubbed the first set. Did eventually eat them though. Also need some mineral. Will see what they have. It's a local guy selling this stuff out of his farm shop basically. Supposed to have everything you need for livestock. Need to check fences after yesterday's rain and wind.

 

[Larro Darro]

And I had to chuckle, here you are, enjoying this legacy food when it was the Brits who persecuted the Quakers so much they came to the US.
And William Penn was their crowning achievement as far as someone in high position. Been on a bit of a slide since then...
Of course your Quaker oats might be made in Northern Ireland.

The persecution didn't stop when they reached these shores. One of North Carolina's first civil wars was over Quaker political power.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cary%27s_Rebellion