Celebrate! Holiday!

August 29 is Chop Suey Day. seriously. I think in honor of this totally American dish, we should honor all foods that seem from the country from which it is attributed, but in actually is just a colonized food stuff. E.g., chicken tikka masala, egg foo young, um, other stuff.

So celebrate!

if the dutch didn't decimate the native americans...

This is a picture of what my NYC block looked like in 1609. Cool huh? I got it from the Mannahatta Project. Check it out: www.themannahattaproject.org.

On my block in 1609, the mammal neighbors were meadow voles, white-footed mouse, deer mouse, beavers, southern flying squirrels, eastern gray squirrels, masked shrew, eastern cottontails, eastern chipmunks, raccoons, muskrats, among many other animals.

Today, we got yer ratz, ratz, masked shrews and ratz.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

My brother and his family (not pictured) are at the Iowa State Fair. I am so jealous I could screeeeeaaaaaaam!

Actually, not scream, but I am jealous. This is a picture of the Iowa State Butter Cow.