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  Shoo Fly Pie (and Apple Pan Dowdy) Welcome to Saturday: 9. What we've committed to our readers is that we will post 9 questions every Saturday. Sometimes the post will have a theme, and at other times the questions will be totally unrelated. Those weeks we do "random questions," so-to-speak. We encourage you to visit other participants posts and leave a comment. Because we don't have any rules, it is your choice. We hate rules. We love to  answer the questions, however, and here is today's questions! Saturday 9: Shoo Fly Pie (and Apple Pan Dowdy) – 1946 Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it  here . This month Saturday 9 will be tasty, featuring songs with food in the title. 1) Shoo fly pie got its name from Shoo Fly the Boxing Mule. After the Civil War, the mule who could box was such a popular circus attraction that a molasses manufacturer started featuring him on their packaging. Since molasses is the key ingredient of this pie recipe, homemakers just ...

  I’m not sure what this meeting is about, but clearly Duchess is not happy  But Shadow won’t be intimidated

 From our trip to Long Island’s North Fork. #skywatchfriday

 I’m still working from home.  Building management has no idea when the HVAC will be fixed. Thank goodness for laptops.   Shadow jumped into my lap during a Zoom meeting.  My coworkers got a good look at her tail.  Just the tail.   We’ve been streaming a lot of TV the last few weeks.  Finally got to see the last of the  Dr. Who  series, just in time to learn the show has gone on an indefinite hiatus. The last episode was …unsettling. We’re moving on to the various  Star Trek  series now.   Another appearance by front yard bunny: Look at that tail!

 Working from home today.  I didn’t plan to.  Got to work this morning and found out there’s no air conditioning in the building.  In August.  Thank goodness for laptops.  Someone small and furry is enjoying having mom home today. That’s her, hiding under my very messy desk. I have to stop buying clothes!  Buying clothes has become fun again now that I no longer need to shop in the plus size department.  And I really did need to build an office wardrobe.  But I have enough now … (she said, while adding a new skirt to her closet…). Seriously,  I’ve been on a bit of a shopping spree, and I really did need the clothes, but I do have to stop for awhile.  I like “Memories”, the feature on Facebook that shows you your posts and photos from previous years, Anazon photos sends me reminders, and I also use an app called “Timehop”.  Today’s memories feature my activities on this date in various years — a baseball game, a Broadway show, t...

 So the solar eclipse wasn’t visible here, and we had cloud cover for the meteor shower.  I’m hoping for clear skies  the night of August 27-28, a total lunar eclipse.  Laugh out loud time.  We ordered a new dining room table and chairs,  it was delivered Tuesday, right on schedule.  So imagine our surprise when we got a phone call Wednesday to expect delivery of our new table in Thursday…  so different from our experience with the grill last year.  Way back in 2014 I was kind of into subscription boxes.  You know, you get a new box each month filled with merchandise the company selected for you.  It’s like getting a gift every month.  I stopped subscribing after a few months.  So I was very surprised to receive an email from Ipsy asking me to come back to their subscription service.  After all this time?  Well, why not?  I updated my profile and I’ll give it a try.  The last day to use the community po...