Legend In Her Own Mind (Six Sentence Story), Spooky (Good Fences), Brain Power (Sammy's Poetry Day), and Recipes (Brian's Thankful Thursday)

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"Who was Lilith in the Bible?" she asked.

"Lilith is a legend," he snapped, "not even really worth talking about, and not in the Bible.  Some claptrap someone made up about her being the first wife of Adam, before Eve was created, and she refused to be subservient so he sent her away. Others say she was one of the giants, or that she married one, or that she slept with an evil archangel and gave birth to the djinn, or genies.  Besides, she was a Mesopotamian story, none of those legends about her being with Adam date back to before the destruction of the Temple in 70AD, so it's not even from the same era as the Hebrew scriptures."

He snorted with disgust when she answered, "Thanks, I think that's what I'll dress as for Halloween, I'll wear a Bible era costume and tell everyone I'm Lilith, mother of the genies!"

Linking up with Denise at Girlie On The Edge Blog, where she hosts Six Sentence Stories, and the cue is Legend.          

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Gosia at Looking for Identity has taken over Good Fences, and it's now Good Fences Around The World.  Post a picture of a fence or gate, link back to her blog, and go visit other blogs to see what interesting fences there are out in this big world.    

It's time for a couple of haunted fences:

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It's Angel Sammy's Poetry Day!  This week's image and my poem:    

I love this game, it makes me think,

No time to let my brain cells shrink.

Keep my mind active every day

Age won't have the final say!

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Brian of Brian's Home hosts the Thankful Thursday Blog Hop.   It's time to share something for which i am thankful.  

This week i am thankful someone asked for my banana pudding recipe, and i tried to include metric but please double check because i'm not certain i got it right.

1 c (240ml) sugar (or less if you don't like it super sweet)

4 T (60 ml) cornstarch

1/2 t (2ml) salt

2 c (480ml) whole milk

2 c (480ml) whole whipping cream

1 stick (120ml) butter

1 t (5ml) vanilla flavoring

bananas 

vanilla wafer cookies (two bags because you will want to snack on some, or use some to keep kitchen snoops busy) 

fresh grated nutmeg

Note:  you can make this with any flavoring you like, and if you want chocolate pudding, use the full cup of sugar and 3 squares of baking chocolate.  Also, if  you have lots of people wanting to eat, double the recipe.

Mix the dry ingredients in the bottom of a heavy pot and pour in the cold milk and cream, and stir to get the cornstarch to dissolve.  Drop in the butter and vanilla (or other flavoring, and chocolate if you want chocolate pudding) and put over medium low heat.

Here's the hard part -- use a spoon to stir pretty constantly so the butter (and chocolate if using it) gets incorporated and keep stirring until it gets thick enough to be pudding.  This generally takes until your arm feels like it's going to fall off, so about an hour, maybe longer if it's being uncooperative.  (I've been known to get tired and speed the process a little by increasing the heat a smidge, but be very, very careful to stir constantly if you do and if it starts to stick on the bottom at all, turn the heat down immediately.)

Once it is thick, let it cool while you layer cookies and sliced bananas in a pan.  Spoon half of the pudding over the cookies/bananas, then do another layer, and top it all with fresh grated nutmeg and some crushed up cookies for looks.

Stick it in the fridge to set and then stand back when the appetites come.

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Today is:

Feast of Good & Plenty (the candies)

Food Day -- US (inspiring people to change their diets and our food policies)   

Hogeye Festival -- Elgin, TX, US (Road Hog Car Show, crowning of King Hog and Queen Sowpreme, Cow Patty Bingo, and more! through Saturday)

Independence Day -- Zambia(1964)

Lilith's Day -- Ancient Mesopotamian Calendar (date approximate)

Maladay -- Discordianism

National Bologna Day

Share a Pop Tart With Someone You Love Day -- internet generated, and how much do you want to bet the Kellog company may have had a hand in it?

St. Anthony Claret's Day (Patron of weavers; Catholic press; Claretians; Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary)

St. Crispin's Eve Celebration -- Tenby, Wales

St. Raphael the Archangel's Day (traditional date; Patron of health inspectors, druggists, happy meetings, leaving home, travelers; against blindness)

Suez Victory Day -- Egypt

Take Back Your Time Day -- Canada; U.S. (anniversary of the day in the US that the Fair Labor Standards Act went into effect, specifying a 40-hour work week as the standard, in 1938)

United Nations Day

    Disarmament Week begins

    World Development Information Day

World Origami Days -- held each year from today, the birth anniversary of Lillian Oppenheimer, founder of the first origami societies in Britain and the US, until Nov. 11, which is Origami Day in Japan; a couple of good sites are http://origamiusa.org/wod and http://www.japanese-city.com/calendar/events/index.php?eID=31502

Birthdays Today:

Monica, 1980

Kevin Kline, 1947

F. Murray Abraham, 1939

Bill Wyman, 1936

David Nelson, 1936

J. P. "Big Bopper" Richardson, 1930

Y. A. Tittle, 1926

Moss Hart, 1904

Melvin Purvis, 1903

Alexandra David-Neel, 1868 (first female foreigner to explore Tibet)

Belva A. Bennett Lockwood, 1838

Sarah Joseph Hale, 1788 (author of "Mary had a little lamb")

Antony van Leeuwenhoek, 1632

Domitian, Roman Emperor, 51

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"Dancing at Lughnasa"(Play), 1991

"Voices for Today"(Britten Op. 75), 1965

"Take Me Out to the Ball Game"(Single release), 1908

"Zibeunerbaron/The Gypsy Baron"(Strauss Opera), 1885

The first Transcontinental Telegram is sent, 1861

Today in History:

Cathedral of Chartres is dedicated, 1260

The Treaty of Westphalia ends the 30 Years War, recognized the independence of Switzerland, and marks the end of the Holy Roman Empire, 1648

Felix Mendelssohn, age 9, performs his first public concert in Berlin, 1818

The match is patented, by A. Phillips, 1836

The first US transcontinental telegram is sent, from San Francisco to Washington, DC, ending the need for the Pony Express after only 2 years, 1861

Levi P. Morton, US ambassador to France, drives the first rivet for the Statue of Liberty, 1881

Dr. Robert Koch discovers the germ that causes tuberculosis, 1882

Anna Taylor becomes the first woman to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel, 1901

The first NYC subway opens, 1904

Harry Houdini's last performance, 1926

The Hershey Company is incorporated, 1927

"Black Thursday", the start of the stock market crash, Dow Jones down 12.8%, 1929

Al Capone is sentenced for tax evasion, 1931

The George Washington Bridge, connecting NY to NJ, opens, 1931

US forbids child labor in factories, 1938

The United Nations Charter is signed by the first member nations, 1945

Eisenhower pledges US support to South Vietnam, 1954

Government of Poland legalizes Solidarity trade union, 1980

Launch of Deep Space 1 comet/asteroid mission, 1998

The Concorde makes its last commercial flight, 2003

Justice Rutherford of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice struck down the "motive clause", an important part of the Canadian Anti-Terrorism Act, 2006

"Bloody Friday" saw many of the world's stock exchanges experience the worst declines in their history, with drops of around 10% in most indices, 2008

The Northern Lights become visible over much of North America due to a coronal mass ejection, 2011

The E.U. plans to reduce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent compared to 1990 levels and increase renewables to 27 percent of all energy sources, 2014

Iditarod officials confirm that some dogs in the race have been doped after they tested positive for banned substances, 2017