Happy Hall0ween!

  Some folklorists believe that Halloween goes way back thousands of years to the Roman festival of Pomona, the goddess of fruits and seeds, while others argue that it holds its roots in the Festival of the Dead, a holiday that has been celebrated all over the world for centuries as a way of honoring the dead after every harvest, the last one being in October. However, historian Nicolas Rogers believes that Halloween most likely owes its popularity to the Celtic festival of Samhain. The festival of Samhain celebrates the end of the "lighter half" of the year and beginning of the "darker half", and is sometimes regarded as the "Celtic New Year." It also closely coincides with the Catholic holiday All Soul's Day (Nov. 2) based on the doctrine that the souls of the faithful who at death have not been cleansed would be trapped in purgatory.

Homemade PIZZA

Day and Night

toothsome 

Apple picking

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I love animal cookies

***barbara's snackimals are the best tasting and most natural cookies around. 

Animal crackers are 100 years old ! 

It was back in 1902 that Nabisco took a cookie  yes, even they admit it's not really a cracker which had been popular in England for years and created Barnum's Animals as they're officially called.

Barnum's Animals was an instant success thanks to marketing Nabisco put them in a package that looked like a circus wagon and attached a string handle, the string was so the boxes could be hung on Christmas trees.

  

We all had a favorite animal whose head we preferred to bite off. Over the years 37 different animals have been depicted on the crackers, though at the moment there are only 17, To celebrate its 100^th anniversary, Barnum’s added the koala to the menage in September 2002.