In Case You Missed It, This Just In May...

In This Issue

Mother's Day

Your Warmer

Movie & A Meal

Chillin

Art for May

FOW

Leave 'em Laughing

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May 2015

Dear Daniels Customer

May is here and with it all the things we love about the spring. Warm breezes and flowers and it just seems that people are nicer to one another.

Which reminds us that each month about two thousand of you Daniels customers read our little epistle. We do hope that it provides a few minutes each month when you can escape from the rigors of the day to enjoy something that illuminates or amuses.

This month we'll sprinkle flowers and sunshine with a dollop of pure capitalism. But, as always, only a dollop.

Have a great month.

Mother's Day

It's Sunday, the 10 ^th . Just as a reminder. And if you're wondering why you are running around trying to find flowers or candy or a great card we offer this info -direct from Wikipedia...

propane heat ct The modern American holiday of Mother's Day was first celebrated in 1908, when Anna Jarvis held a memorial for her mother in Grafton, West Virginia. Her campaign to make "Mother's Day" a recognized holiday in the United States began in 1905. Anna's mission was to honor her own mother by continuing work she had started and to set aside a day to honor mothers, "the person who has done more for you than anyone in the world".

Anna's mother, Ann Jarvis, was a peace activist who had cared for wounded soldiers on both sides of the Civil War and created Mother's Day Work Clubs to address public health issues.

Due to the campaign efforts of Anna Jarvis, in 1914 Woodrow Wilson signed the proclamation creating Mother's Day, the second Sunday in May, as a national holiday to honor mothers.

Although Jarvis was successful in founding Mother's Day she soon became resentful of the commercialization and was angry that companies would profit from the holiday. By the early 1920's, Hallmark and other companies had started selling Mother's Day cards. Jarvis became so embittered by what she saw as misinterpretation and exploitation that she protested and even tried to rescind Mother's Day. The holiday that she had worked so hard for was supposed to be about sentiment, not about profit.

Jarvis's intention for the holiday had been for people to appreciate and honor mothers by writing a personal letter, by hand, expressing love and gratitude, rather than buying gifts and pre-made cards. Jarvis organized boycotts and threatened lawsuits to try to stop the commercialization.

She crashed a candymakers' convention in Philadelphia in 1923. Two years later she protested at a confab of the American War Mothers, which raised money by selling carnations, the flower associated with Mother's Day, and was arrested for disturbing the peace. C'mon, don't you just love this woman?

Petre Koczkas

Q 1

Where On Earth Are We?

It's so wet and rainy here that wooden bridges rot. So villagers have trained a rubber tree's roots to grow across the river and it now acts as a easily passable bridge. Think you know where this is? Tell us here and perhaps win a trip there. No. Wait. Just a $25 Target gift card

What Does Music Look Like?

David Bowie's Life ON Mars

Melissa McCraken is an artist with Synesthesia...we'll let her explain:

"I paint music.

Until I was 15, I thought everyone constantly saw colors. Colors in books, colors in math formulas, colors at concerts. But when I finally asked my brother which color the letter C was (canary yellow, by the way) I realized my mind wasn't quite as normal as I had thought.

Jimi Hendrix's Little Wing

Basically, my brain is cross-wired. I experience the "wrong" sensation to certain stimuli. Each letter and number is colored and the days of the year circle around my body as if they had a set point in space.

But the most wonderful "brain malfunction" of all is seeing the music I hear. It flows in a mixture of hues, textures, and movements, shifting as if it were a vital and intentional element of each song. Having synesthesia isn't distracting or disorienting. It adds a unique vibrancy to the world I experience."

(more info here: http://www.melissasmccracken.com) and here (http://www.boredpanda.com/i-paint-music/)

John Lennon's Imagine

You're Getting Warmer...

If it's May, it's only a matter of a few days before you are going to want some cool air in the house. So now is the time to check out your AC system. Make sure it will be working when you need it.

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Hanabi

Q 2

Just Who Might This Be?

OK, smarties....you guys have been beating us every time with these quizzes. So, we decided to make it a little bit harder. Who is this young lady. Tell us here and you too may win a $25 Target gift card.

Movie & A Meal

This month's movie is something different. Something imaginative and as different and as endearing as any film you are likely to see this year. You may have missed it. From 2001 - it's Amelie!

Here's what imdb has to say about it:

Amélie is a story about a girl named Amélie whose childhood was suppressed by her Father's mistaken concerns of a heart defect. With these concerns Amélie gets hardly any real life contact with other people. This leads Amélie to resort to her own fantastical world and dreams of love and beauty.

Enjoy. Now for an equally delightful meal.

Food 52.com's Chicken Marsala

This Chicken Marsala recipe uses sweet Marsala wine and heavy cream for a velvety, luscious sauce that's a twist on the traditional. This is an elegant entrée that can be served with Parmesan risotto or a side of linguine.

Ingredients:

* 8 ounces fresh button or cremini mushrooms, stems removed and sliced

* 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil, divided

* 2 boneless, skinless chicken breats

Salt and pepper, to taste

* 1/2 cup plus 1 splash sweet Marsala wine, divided

* 3 garlic cloves, minced

* 1/2 cup heavy cream

* 1/2 cup chicken broth

* 2 tablespoons unsalted butter

Directions:

In a small pan, sauté mushrooms in 1 tablespoon of the olive oil until lightly caramelized. Remove mushrooms from heat and set aside in a small bowl.

Carefully slice each chicken breast lengthwise, making four thinner pieces of chicken total. Lightly salt and pepper the chicken breasts.

Heat remaining olive oil in a 10- to 12-inch skillet and brown chicken breasts on each side until almost done (They will continue to cook in the sauce in Step 6.). Remove from skillet and keep warm.

Deglaze the pan with the 1/2 cup Marsala wine. Add the garlic. Continue to cook until wine is reduced to be thick and syrupy

Add cream and reduce slightly.

Nestle chicken breasts into the skillet, add the mushrooms and broth and spoon sauce over top. Simmer, uncovered, until chicken is cooked through, about 5 minutes.

Transfer the chicken to a serving platter and keep warm. Swirl butter into the sauce remaining in the skillet, season to taste with salt and pepper, and allow to reduce slightly. Add a splash of Marsala wine to the sauce and pour over the chicken. Call us and we'll be right over.

Hideaki Yoshida

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Please...NO!

Somebody said these were "in fashion." Please, please, do what Nancy Reagan would have wanted. Just say, "no."

Jose Antonio

Last Month's Winners

Ellen D - and 32 others recognized Peter O'Toole in his salad days. Frank B recognized that the pix of the girls in their prom dresses owns the distinction of being the first photo ever posted on the interwebnet. And four people including winner Mike S recognized that Superman was in fact, Art Buckwald. Thank you all for playing with us. We know it is kind of silly, but hey, if you weren't playing with us you'd probably be working!

Art for May