National Peanut Day
Today is National Peanut Day, and guess who happens to love peanuts? <raises hand> Etsy shop is HandmadebyRileyRose.
This bow stems from the Missouri-themed summer reading program that the library did a few years ago (just like my big Minnie Mouse bow did). We were discussing George Washington Carver that day, and to commemorate I wore this bow, an Etsy find with a peanut in the center. I also have some PB&J earrings somewhere, and when I wear the bow again I'll dig those out.
Fun fact about Newton County-born George Washington Carver: he didn't actually invent peanut butter. If what I read is true, peanut butter had already been invented by the time Dr. Carver started his work. But he did a LOT of other things that were way more important than peanut butter. Don't get me wrong, peanut butter is awesome, but rotating crops so that they don't wear out the soil is even more important. For the uninitiated, rotating crops means that you might plant cotton in a field one year and soybeans in the same field the next year. Cotton is kinda hard on soil; it tends to strip all the nutrients. Soybeans, by contrast, are nitrogen fixers, meaning that they put nitrogen back into the soil. So are peanuts. Dr. Carver encouraged southern farmers to plant stuff like peanuts and soybeans instead of cotton, for the duel purpose of repairing the soil and growing a foodstuff. And from what I can tell, the farmers listened! Dr. Carver was a black man born into slavery and preaching to southern farmers, but the farmers apparently listened. George Washington Carver was a brilliant man, one that I look up to, and one that I place a lot of emphasis on when Black History Month comes around. I want ALL the kids to know who he is, regardless of skin color. Since the Bootheel is an agricultural area Dr. Carver's findings are particularly relevant. I also revere Dr. Carver because he was both a scientist and a devout Christian. It CAN be done, y'all! One can love and follow science and still retain one's faith.
As for me, I have an odd relationship with peanuts. I like 'em, but I've gotta be in the mood for 'em. I especially like them roasted, or straight from the shell with their little red jackets still on. I also like 'em in chocolate, and I love the old classic peanut butter sandwich. My brother-in-law, on the other hand, is deathly allergic to peanuts. It's weird; he wasn't BORN that way. He slowly developed the allergy as he grew, and in the span that I've known him he's gone from merely eschewing peanuts to asking restaurants what foods were cooked in or near peanuts. It's sad, because he LOVED his mom's homemade peanut fudge! Can't have it anymore!
Gotta fly! That bag of peanut M&M's is calling my name.
Love and peanuts,
RagingMoon1987
Fun fact about Newton County-born George Washington Carver: he didn't actually invent peanut butter. If what I read is true, peanut butter had already been invented by the time Dr. Carver started his work. But he did a LOT of other things that were way more important than peanut butter. Don't get me wrong, peanut butter is awesome, but rotating crops so that they don't wear out the soil is even more important. For the uninitiated, rotating crops means that you might plant cotton in a field one year and soybeans in the same field the next year. Cotton is kinda hard on soil; it tends to strip all the nutrients. Soybeans, by contrast, are nitrogen fixers, meaning that they put nitrogen back into the soil. So are peanuts. Dr. Carver encouraged southern farmers to plant stuff like peanuts and soybeans instead of cotton, for the duel purpose of repairing the soil and growing a foodstuff. And from what I can tell, the farmers listened! Dr. Carver was a black man born into slavery and preaching to southern farmers, but the farmers apparently listened. George Washington Carver was a brilliant man, one that I look up to, and one that I place a lot of emphasis on when Black History Month comes around. I want ALL the kids to know who he is, regardless of skin color. Since the Bootheel is an agricultural area Dr. Carver's findings are particularly relevant. I also revere Dr. Carver because he was both a scientist and a devout Christian. It CAN be done, y'all! One can love and follow science and still retain one's faith.
As for me, I have an odd relationship with peanuts. I like 'em, but I've gotta be in the mood for 'em. I especially like them roasted, or straight from the shell with their little red jackets still on. I also like 'em in chocolate, and I love the old classic peanut butter sandwich. My brother-in-law, on the other hand, is deathly allergic to peanuts. It's weird; he wasn't BORN that way. He slowly developed the allergy as he grew, and in the span that I've known him he's gone from merely eschewing peanuts to asking restaurants what foods were cooked in or near peanuts. It's sad, because he LOVED his mom's homemade peanut fudge! Can't have it anymore!
Gotta fly! That bag of peanut M&M's is calling my name.
Love and peanuts,
RagingMoon1987
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