Monday, July 15, 2024

Tuesday Tidbits: NAILED IT!


How many nails does a cup of chai tea cost?

What? Nails aren’t legal tender anymore?

Yes, there was a time when people in the U. S. (and other parts of the world) used nails to barter with.

I don’t think much about construction nails until one is protruding, and I catch my hand or the toe of my shoe on it.

Nails have been around for millennia, dating from as far back as 3,400 BC, but historians theorize they were likely around before that. Some of these early nails were made of bronze, but the ones made of iron would have rusted into dust.

Bronze Nail

Nails were made one at a time by a blacksmith or nailer. After heating a square iron nail rod, it was hammered to a taper on the end to create a point. Heated once again, the nail was cut free of the rod, then placed in a hole in an anvil or a nail header, where the head would be formed with several glancing blows of a hammer. This was the slow production method until late in the 18th century. These were wrought iron type nails.

Roman Iron Nails

Because the laborious process took so long for each one, nails were a valuable commodity. They were so precious and hard to come by in the Colonies that people would burn down their home before they moved or torch old buildings for the nails. In Virginia, they passed a statute that prohibited this practice. During bad weather, in the evenings, or during the winter, families would make nails for their own use or for barter.

Wrought Iron Nail

In the last decade of the 1700s and the first decade in the 1800s, nail cutting machines were invented. This enabled nails to be cut from iron plates, but they still had to be headed one by one. These were type A nails.

Heading a Nail

Eventually, a machine was invented in the 1810s which both cut the nails and created the head. This sped up the process and brought down the price. These were type B nails.

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During the 1880s, the Bessemer process for making inexpensive soft steel revolutionized nail making. The use of iron for nails quickly diminished. A faster and cheaper nail making method was invented—the wire-cut nails. By 1886, ten percent of nails in the United States were made from steel wire. Six short years later, steel-wire nails had outpaced the old iron ones, and by 1913, ninety percent of U. S. nails were wire nails.

These are still the type of nails used today. With the advent of wire nails, this costly object could be produced at speeds unfathomable before and for much cheaper. Thus, nails lost their monetary value.

Which sadly means, I can’t buy a chai with my handful of nails.


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Dreams of My Heart by Barbara Scott—If plucky Irish immigrant Kate O’Brien can’t pay off the loan on her deceased brother’s homestead, she’ll be forced to marry the banker’s son. When she’s attacked by a drunken gang, salvation comes from a total stranger—Texas cattleman Buck McKean. However, his kindness threatens her reputation, and they marry to prevent impending consequences. But love has a hard time growing within two hearts scarred from past hurts. When Kate asks Buck for the unthinkable, her choice endangers both their lives. Can God mend their hearts and save their love?
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MARY DAVIS, bestselling, award-winning novelist, has over thirty titles in both historical and contemporary themes. Her latest release is THE LADY’S MISSION. Her other novels include THE DÉBUTANTE'S SECRET (Quilting Circle Book 4) THE DAMSEL’S INTENT (The Quilting Circle Book 3) is a SELAH Award Winner. Some of her other recent titles include; THE WIDOW'S PLIGHT, THE DAUGHTER'S PREDICAMENT, “Zola’s Cross-Country Adventure” in The MISSAdventure Brides Collection, Prodigal Daughters Amish series, "Holly and Ivy" in A Bouquet of Brides Collection, and "Bygones" in Thimbles and Threads. She is a member of ACFW and active in critique groups.

Mary lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband of thirty-seven years and one cat. She has three adult children and three incredibly adorable grandchildren. Find her online at:
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Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nail_(fastener)
https://monroeengineering.com/blog/nailed-it-the-history-of-nails/
https://www.harpgallery.com/blog/the-humble-nail-a-key-to-unlock-the-past/
https://www.oldhousefix.com/history-of-american-nails/
https://www.uvm.edu/~tvisser/nails/NailHistoryVisser.pdf
https://inspectapedia.com/interiors/Nails_Hardware_Age.php

Saturday, July 6, 2024

SMALL TOWN ROMANCE is Back!

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#SmallTownRomance includes…
The Daughter’s Predicament by Mary Davis—As Isabelle Atwood’s romance prospects are turning in her favor, a family scandal derails her dreams. Despite gaining the attention of a handsome rancher, her parents are pressuring her to marry a man of their choosing to rescue her sister’s reputation. While a third suitor waits silently in the wings, hoping to sweep her off her feet. Whom will Isabelle choose?
Her Hope Discovered by Cynthia Herron—Is the sure thing worth risking for the possibility of maybe?
Charla Winthrop, a savvy business woman seeking a permanent lifestyle change in small-town Ruby, learns that things aren’t always what they appear when she takes up residence in a house steeped in charm and a hint of mystery.
Rumor has it that Sam Packard the town carpenter is her go-to guy for home remodeling, but can Charla convince him to help her—with no strings attached, of course? Alone far too long, Sam’s prayed that God would send him a wife and a mother for his daughters. However, the new Ruby resident is hardly what he imagined.
At the Crossroad by Christa MacDonald——Erin Sullivan has endured the rumor mill of Sweet River, Maine for years. Being the subject of small-town judgment taught her not to hope for good things. No matter how strong her feelings were for Pastor Dan Connors, she planned to keep them buried for the sake of his reputation and the good of her own heart.
Dan became a pastor thinking it would be temporary--three years later he is struggling in a job he never wanted. When Erin sees Dan struggling alone, she reaches out to help, and he comes to rely on her quiet strength and kindness. Dan is determined to find his way, but it may have to be without the woman he's come to love.
Dreams of My Heart by Barbara Scott—If plucky Irish immigrant Kate O’Brien can’t pay off the loan on her deceased brother’s homestead, she’ll be forced to marry the banker’s son. When she’s attacked by a drunken gang, salvation comes from a total stranger—Texas cattleman Buck McKean. However, his kindness threatens her reputation, and they marry to prevent impending consequences. But love has a hard time growing within two hearts scarred from past hurts. When Kate asks Buck for the unthinkable, her choice endangers both their lives. Can God mend their hearts and save their love?
Unbroken Spirit by Kelsey Norman—Nina Anderson never expected to pull an unconscious man from a lake. Neither did she imagine that the unearthly man would claim he was sent to be her protector and help her with an impending future event. Nina’s mysterious new protector, Liam, brings her the respect she’s always wanted—and maybe even a chance at love. Will he have the power to save her and restore Nina’s faith in God?

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MARY DAVIS, bestselling, award-winning novelist, has over thirty titles in both historical and contemporary themes. Her latest release is THE LADY’S MISSION. Her other novels include THE DÉBUTANTE'S SECRET (Quilting Circle Book 4) THE DAMSEL’S INTENT (The Quilting Circle Book 3) is a SELAH Award Winner. Some of her other recent titles include; THE WIDOW'S PLIGHT, THE DAUGHTER'S PREDICAMENT, “Zola’s Cross-Country Adventure” in The MISSAdventure Brides Collection, Prodigal Daughters Amish series, "Holly and Ivy" in A Bouquet of Brides Collection, and "Bygones" in Thimbles and Threads. She is a member of ACFW and active in critique groups.

Mary lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband of thirty-seven years and one cat. She has three adult children and three incredibly adorable grandchildren. Find her online at:
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Monday, June 24, 2024

Tuesday TIdbits: WHO SURVIVED 8 ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS?


Hmmmm?

 

Male or female?

 

Female.

 

U.S. Person?

 

No.

 

England?

 

Yes.

 

Was it a royal?

 

Yes.

 

Queen Victoria?

 

YES!

 

Alexandrina Victoria came into the world on May 24, 1819. At the tender age of eighteen, she became queen when her late father’s three older brothers passed away with no heirs. There are a lot of facts and tidbits I could write about this queen, but I have chosen to focus on the unprecedented eight attempts on her life.

 

On February 10, 1840, she married Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, whom she proposed to the previous November. Four months later while pregnant, the first attempt on her life occurred. The queen and prince were riding around Hyde park in an open carriage on June 4, 1840, when Edward Oxford stepped out of the crowd and fired twice at Victoria. She was unharmed, and the crowd wrestled Oxford to the ground. Oxford’s motive for this attack is unknown, and he later claimed there were no bullets. He was deemed not guilty but insane and spent time in an asylum before being deported to Australia.

 

The second and third attempts were perpetrated by John Francis. On May 29, 1842, Francis aimed at the queen and pulled the trigger. However, his gun failed to fire, and he ran off. Convinced Francis would try again, the queen and prince set out on the same route the next day, May 30th. This time several plain-clothed guards were in the crowd. A shot rang out, and they apprehended Francis immediately. He was sentenced to hang, but Queen Victoria intervened and had him deported to Australia instead.

 

Number four occurred on July 3, 1842. While Victoria rode in a carriage to Sunday services, John William Bean made his way to the front of the crowd and pulled the trigger on his weapon. It failed to fire due to being loaded with tobacco instead of bullets. Mentally ill and having a severe spinal deformity, which caused him to be barely four feet tall, he was sentenced to eighteen months of hard labor.

 

Nearly seven years passed before the fifth attempt on June 29, 1849. William Hamilton, frustrated with Britain’s endeavors to help Ireland during the Irish famine, decided the best course of action was to shoot the queen. However, his gun also had no bullets, only gunpowder.

 

The sixth was probably the most traumatic for Victoria. Robert Pate, ex British Army officer and known for slightly lunatic behavior, approached the queen in her carriage with three of her children on June 27, 1850. She was visiting a dying uncle at Cambridge House. Pate moved to the front of the crowd and struck the queen on the head with his cane. This left her with a bruise and a scar. Pate was sentenced to seven years in the penal colony in Tasmania.

 

Well over twenty years came and went before number seven, which was likely the most politically motivated and occurred on February 29, 1872. Seventeen-year-old Arthur O’Connor scaled the wall of Buckingham Palace and slipped past the guards to lie in wait for the queen to return from her ride around London. O’Connor rushed up to Victoria’s carriage and raised a flintlock pistol a foot away from the queen. Guards wrestled him to the ground. O’Connor said he never intended to hurt the queen, which his broken pistol attested to. He only wanted to get her to release Irish political prisoners held in Britain.

 

And the final attempt was on March 2, 1882 by Roderick Maclean. As the queen left Windsor Station, heading toward the castle, Maclean fired a wild shot at the queen, which missed. Boys from Eton College pummeled Maclean with their umbrellas before the police arrested him. Found not guilty but insane, Maclean spent the rest of his life in an asylum.

 

Later, Queen Victoria said of this incident, “It is worth being shot at to see how much one is loved.”

 

She passed away on February 22, 1901 at the age of eighty-one; not from any assassination attempt but from failing health.

 

I have to say, Queen Victoria seemed to be one of the luckiest people to be targeted and apparently brought out the crazies.

 

 

MRS. WITHERSPOON GOES TO WAR (Heroines of WWII series)
2023 SELAH Award 3rd Place in Historical Romance

A WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots) flies a secret mission to rescue three soldiers held captive in Cuba.

Margaret “Peggy” Witherspoon is a thirty-four-year-old widow, mother of two daughters, an excellent pilot, and very patriotic. She joins the WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots). As she performs various tasks like ferry aircraft, transporting cargo, and being an airplane mechanic, she meets and develops feelings for her supervisor Army Air Corp Major Howie Berg. When Peggy learns of U.S. soldiers being held captive in Cuba, she, Major Berg, and two fellow WASPs devise an unsanctioned mission to rescue them. With Cuba being an ally in the war, they must be careful not to ignite an international incident. Order HERE!


MARY DAVIS, bestselling, award-winning novelist, has over thirty titles in both historical and contemporary themes. Her latest release is THE LADY’S MISSION. Her other novels include THE DÉBUTANTE'S SECRET
(Quilting Circle Book 4) THE DAMSEL’S INTENT (The Quilting Circle Book 3) is a Selah Award Winner. Some of her other recent titles include; The Widow’s Plight, The Daughter's Predicament, “Zola’s Cross-Country Adventure” in The MISSAdventure Brides Collection , Prodigal Daughters Amish series, "Holly and Ivy" in A Bouquet of Brides Collection, and "Bygones" in Thimbles and Threads. She is a member of ACFW and active in critique groups.
Mary lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband of thirty-seven years and one cat. She has three adult children and three incredibly adorable grandchildren. Find her online at:


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Sources:

Who Knew?: Women in History by Sarah Herman

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Victoria

https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Queen-Victoria-Eight-Assassination-Attempts/

https://theculturetrip.com/europe/united-kingdom/articles/there-were-eight-assassination-attempts-on-queen-victoria/

https://www.history.com/news/eight-times-queen-victoria-survived-attempted-assassinations


Monday, May 27, 2024

Tuesday Tidbits: CODED MESSAGES WITH POSTAGE STAMPS

It seems people have been devising ways to communicate without words for centuries. A lot of us have heard of the language of flowers where the types and colors have different meanings. Or the language of fans where people could communicate across a room with the position of a fan.
 
Postage stamps are no different. When they came on the scene in the 1840s, people around the world developed codes to send additional meanings beyond their written words.
 
Prior to 1840, mail service was confusing, expensive, and less than reliable, which mostly served royalty and government. Postage was calculated by the mile, making the recipient pay the cost. However, the lack of a stamp didn’t stop secret messages. Small, well-placed marks on the address side of the letter could be all the recipient needed to know what the message within held.
As mail service became more accessible with up to three or more deliveries a day in some metropolitan areas, mail arrival was the event/s of the day. Everyone got excited, so it was impossible for a couple to covertly communicate without the whole household knowing—and the parents reading them.
 
How could a person solve this quandary? Include a secret message, of course. And how would they do that? With the introduction of the pre-paid postage stamp, one could be positioned to convey additional information. These could be as simple as “yes” or “no”, or more complex like “Be careful. We are being watched.”, “I need to see you”, “May I have your portrait?”, or “I’ve learned of your deceit.” One “how-to” booklet claimed 270,000 different missives could be encoded.
 
This means of postage communication became greatly popular in the 1890s and into the early twentieth century. Millions of booklets and postcards with these codes were printed and distributed. What business-minded person wouldn’t want to get a slice of that lucrative pie?
A problem arose that no standard code existed from region to region. Therefore, in one area, the position could mean “I can’t wait to see you.” while in another it meant “I just want to be friends.” Talk about mixed messages. The wrong tilt could mean “He has discovered everything!” or “Tomorrow at the same place.” Some even used two stamps; the various positions and angles of the pair in relationship to each other said a lot.
If you would like to see a vast array of these post cards from around the world deciphering these codes, go here: https://riowang.blogspot.com/2011/12/language-of-stamps.html
 
Apparently, codes became so complicated that stamps were put anywhere and everywhere on a piece of mail: front, back, top, bottom, center, and all places in between. It may have looked haphazard and careless, but these placements were deliberate. This seemingly randomness didn’t bode well for the post office when individuals would have to search an envelope or postcard to find the stamp. In light of this chaos, the top right corner was eventually designated for postage. However, that didn’t stop people from continuing to send additional messages via stamps. What they could say was merely more limited.
There’s no definitive way to know how much these coded-stamp communications were used in actual correspondence, but they were hinted at being used into the 1960s.
 
Another tidbit I found in my research had nothing to do with the secret codes but rather with an alternate use for postage stamps. During the Civil War, people hoarded coins, causing a shortage. This prompted the use of postage as currency. Due to their fragile nature, they didn’t fare well in hand-to-hand transactions. In 1862, John Gault solved this problem by creating a brass encasement. The stamp was wrapped around a circle of cardboard and put into the protective coin-like jacket. A thin film of mica (a silicate mineral) served as a window, allowing the stamp to be readily seen as well as protect it from damage. Cool!
What secret message might you be sending every time you adhered postage a little askew?

MRS. WITHERSPOON GOES TO WAR  (Heroines of WWII series)
2023 SELAH Award 3rd Place in Historical Romance

A WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots) flies a secret mission to rescue three soldiers held captive in Cuba.

Margaret “Peggy” Witherspoon is a thirty-four-year-old widow, mother of two daughters, an excellent pilot, and very patriotic. She joins the WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots). As she performs various tasks like ferry aircraft, transporting cargo, and being an airplane mechanic, she meets and develops feelings for her supervisor Army Air Corp Major Howie Berg. When Peggy learns of U.S. soldiers being held captive in Cuba, she, Major Berg, and two fellow WASPs devise an unsanctioned mission to rescue them. With Cuba being an ally in the war, they must be careful not to ignite an international incident. Order HERE!

MARY DAVIS, bestselling, award-winning novelist, has over thirty titles in both historical and contemporary themes. Her latest release is THE LADY’S MISSION. Her other novels include THE DÉBUTANTE'S SECRET
(Quilting Circle Book 4) THE DAMSEL’S INTENT (The Quilting Circle Book 3) is a Selah Award Winner. Some of her other recent titles include; The Widow’s Plight, The Daughter's Predicament, “Zola’s Cross-Country Adventure” in The MISSAdventure Brides Collection , Prodigal Daughters Amish series, "Holly and Ivy" in A Bouquet of Brides Collection, and "Bygones" in Thimbles and Threads. She is a member of ACFW and active in critique groups.
Mary lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband of thirty-seven years and one cat. She has three adult children and three incredibly adorable grandchildren. Find her online at:


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Monday, April 22, 2024

Tuesday Tidbits: GARDEN NEWS & REMINDER

Once again, I’m going to try to grow a vegetable/fruit garden. I think I’m a glutton for punishment, but I was excited that my feeble attempt last year yielded me a couple of handfuls of edible veggies and a strawberry.

I have started my seedlings inside.

I’m tickled they started growing so fast--just two days!

Under2Weeks

Look at these little guys go!

3 Weeks

They are really growing! That green bean in the front left corner as well as the other beans, peas, zucchini, and summer squash may cause me trouble because of how tall they are growing already. I have another 3 weeks—AT LEAST—before I can transplant them outside. It could be 5 weeks. I hope they don’t get too big for their little starter pods. I have some skewers I’m going to need to tie them to.

I, also, got a berry kit and started blackberries, strawberries, and blueberries. These ones are slow to start sprouting, but I’ll be patient.

Besides my seedlings, I bought a sweet cherry tomato, a pear tomato, and a mint plant. The couple of tomato plants I bought last year did better than the ones I started from seeds. I may or may not transplant the tomatoes into the raised garden beds. I’ll see how much room I have. The mint, on the other hand, is staying put in the pot, lest it take over the garden, yard, and neighborhood. I love the smell of mint.

In addition to those, we bought a pair of raspberry bushes and a pair of blueberry bushes. I love raspberries. They always take me back to my grandparents’ garden. Mm-mm good!

Last year, I tried to find rhubarb plants because I LOVE rhubarb pie. But I could never find them locally. Well, I started looking earlier this year, and I found some at Walmart, so I bought four. I also got some seed potatoes. I’ve never grown potatoes, but I love to eat them. I also have a few potatoes in my pantry that are growing that I’ll try planting as well.

I’m moving my garden from one side yard of my house to the opposite one, which meant moving a ton of rocks with a shovel and a rake. I did it over a couple of days. Then I laid down cardboard as a weed barrier.

The columbine is blooming again this year. So pretty!

I’m going to attempt to plant a few butterfly-and-hummingbird-attracting flower seeds in the landscape cloth holes in my flower garden rather than buy already started flowers. They may or may not grow. I hope they do, because one of the flowers that came up on its own attracted butterflies, and it was so fun to see them enjoying the blooms.

The flowering tree we planted last fall is blooming! It makes me so happy.

I’m excited to see how everything grows and to eat the fruits and veggies of my labor.

Will you be doing doing any gardening this summer?

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Happy Reading! 

MRS. WITHERSPOON GOES TO WAR (Heroines of WWII series)
2023 SELAH Award 3rd Place in Historical Romance

A WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots) flies a secret mission to rescue three soldiers held captive in Cuba.

Margaret “Peggy” Witherspoon is a thirty-four-year-old widow, mother of two daughters, an excellent pilot, and very patriotic. She joins the WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots). As she performs various tasks like ferry aircraft, transporting cargo, and being an airplane mechanic, she meets and develops feelings for her supervisor Army Air Corp Major Howie Berg. When Peggy learns of U.S. soldiers being held captive in Cuba, she, Major Berg, and two fellow WASPs devise an unsanctioned mission to rescue them. With Cuba being an ally in the war, they must be careful not to ignite an international incident. Order HERE!

MARY DAVIS, bestselling, award-winning novelist, has over thirty titles in both historical and contemporary themes. Her latest release is THE LADY’S MISSION. Her other novels include THE DÉBUTANTE'S SECRET
(Quilting Circle Book 4) THE DAMSEL’S INTENT (The Quilting Circle Book 3) is a Selah Award Winner. Some of her other recent titles include; The Widow’s Plight, The Daughter's Predicament, “Zola’s Cross-Country Adventure” in The MISSAdventure Brides Collection , Prodigal Daughters Amish series, "Holly and Ivy" in A Bouquet of Brides Collection, and "Bygones" in Thimbles and Threads. She is a member of ACFW and active in critique groups.
Mary lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband of thirty-seven years and one cat. She has three adult children and three incredibly adorable grandchildren. Find her online at:


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Tuesday Tidbits: NAILED IT!

How many nails does a cup of chai tea cost? What? Nails aren’t legal tender anymore? Yes, there was a time when people in the U. S. (and oth...