National Apple Pie Day

Hey, hello there. It’s National Apple Pie Day! Hattingdon doesn’t have an apple pie hat, but she has one featuring apples. It just so happens it is a ballcap celebrating New York City.

Apple Hattingdon.

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Oh, well we were close, kinda, sorta . . . !

Fun Facts

•  National Apple Pie Day, America’s favorite dessert, is observed annually on May 13th.

•  The first apple pie recipe printed was in England in 1381. The list of ingredients included good apples, good spices, figs, raisins, pears, saffron and cofyn (a type of pastry crust).

•  While the apple pie existed well before the Pilgrims landed on the eastern shores of what is now The United States, Americans wax poetic about how American apple pie is.

•  The phrase “as American as apple pie” has been around for more than 100 years.

Source: National Day Calendar »

Celebrate!

Use #NationalApplePieDay to post on social media. And by all means enjoy a wholesome slice of apple pie. Vegan Apple Pie Recipe here (pdf, 2 pp). Yummmm.

Hugs and kisses, and millinery blisses!

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©Vivian J. Grant.

Spring Equinox

Hey there hat wearing, cartoon horse loving, darlings you.

It’s a bit nippy our part of the world but Hattingdon opted to wear a large black fascinator anyway, embellished with a very substantial bloom in a luscious pink along with a touch of sweet greenery. What’s it all about? Spring Equinox! Ain’t she sweet?

Fleur Hattingdon

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We didn’t even know for sure what Spring Equinox was. It’s been a long time since we were in school. We know. If we watched the Weather Channel we would know all this. Or even the local news! We noticed it of course because of social media. How “today” of us all.

Anyway, it goes like this:

The word Equinox comes from Latin and means “equality of night and day” . . . . In the northern hemisphere, the spring, or vernal equinox happens around March 21, when the sun moves north across the celestial equator. The autumnal equinox occurs around September 22nd, when the sun crosses the celestial equator going south. (Dictionary.com)

So on March 21, 2019, you will see approximately 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of night. Sounds perfectly reasonable!

Why do we have an Equinox?

Brian Resnick writes:

The equinox, the seasons, and the changing length of daylight hours throughout the year are all due to one fact: The Earth spins on a tilted axis.

The tilt — possibly caused by a massive object hitting Earth billions of years ago — means that half the year, the North Pole is pointed toward the sun. For the other half of the year, the South Pole gets more light. It’s what gives us the seasons. (vox.com)

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