The ORIGINAL 1000+ Posts Club

[MaineWriter]

Nutmeg Guy, you have just 9 posts to go to hit 4000...and Louise, you aren't very far behind, either!

L

[louisev]

we are neck and neck for the coveted 9th place here David.

[MaineWriter]

I have been to Schiopol Airport...

Lovely morning here, 80 degrees, beautiful sunny sky with a few puffy clouds. Sounds like top down on the convertible today!

L


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[MaineWriter]

C'mon, Nutmeg Guy! One more post for 4000...and then we get to bring out the champagne and stuff!

Another lovely day here. 73 degrees, beautiful blue sky. Ah, summer!

L

[louisev]

eh, I'm going to see if I can stretch out my 4000th post till end of the weekend! which wont be hard to do if i go out of town tomorrow, but my hoof is really smarting from the errand-running to the greengrocer, the chemist and the market... I cant believe I'm back in olde England! ai ai ai!

[opinionista]

eh, I'm going to see if I can stretch out my 4000th post till end of the weekend! which wont be hard to do if i go out of town tomorrow, but my hoof is really smarting from the errand-running to the greengrocer, the chemist and the market... I cant believe I'm back in olde England! ai ai ai!

Of course you can do it. You don't have that many post to go to make the 4000!

[louisev]

unbelievable.  And I didn't even plan it!

Congratulations David!  and what was your explanation about the nutmeg?

[MaineWriter]

Oh what a beautiful sight! Look at all those zeroes...

Congratulations David and Louise...the big 4-000!



L

[MaineWriter]

And because you can't live without the daily weather report....

66 degrees here, cloudy, chance of rain.

L

[MaineWriter]

Louise, I found this about Connecticut and the Nutmeg State

The Nutmeg State: Nutmeg, the powder used for seasoning foods, is ground from the seed of the fruit of the Nutmeg Tree, Myristica fragans. A couple of stories exist as to the origin of this nickname. One story has it that this nickname came about as a comment on the ingenuity and shrewdness of the citizens of the state. In a story, perhaps originated by Sam Slick, it is claimed that the people of Connecticut were so ingenious and shrewd that they were able to make and sell "wooden" nutmegs to unsuspecting buyers. A variation on this story maintains that purchasers did not know that the seed must be ground to obtain the spice and may have accused yankee peddlars, unfairly, of selling worthless "wooden" nutmegs. It may be that these wooden nutmegs were whittled by idle sailors on ships coming from the spice island and sold as souvenirs.

L