Okay, first of all let me remind ya'll there are only 7 days left till the 2006 Nascar season kicks off with the Daytona 500. Wheeeeeeee! You can learn a little more about the Daytona track here:
Click here: Daytona International Speedway - Homepage
You can learn more about Kasey Kahne (my favorite driver) by going here:
FOXSports.com - KaseyKahne.com
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Today I made a batch of chicken wings, a few snacks and that Oreo cake (quite yummy by the way), and we were going to sit here and watch the Bud pole shootout tonight. It was rained out, so we will watch it tomorrow at 4pm, if the weather co-operates.
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Alrighty, next we begin to think about Valentines day. Okay, okay...we women think about it. The men think "oh chit" at 5:15pm when they are driving home from work on February 14th and hear something about it being Valentines day on a radio commercial.
If your one of the lucky ones, your husband/boyfriend doesn't forget it before the commercial is over. Perhaps he will stop and buy you some roses.
Which is the perfect segway for this article that I found at HGTV.
Bouquet Bits
12 Fun, Romantic Facts About Roses
by Rose Kennedy, special to HGTV.com
What is it about a beautiful, romantic bouquet of roses that brings out the accountant in all of us? Hardly anyone can remember the precise amount of the national debt, but at least 92 percent of women can remember the last time they received flowers, and some 56 percent of those blooms would be roses. No matter if you'll be giving or hope to be receiving, here are a dozen freshly picked facts and figures about rose bouquets you can count on:
180 million: estimated number of roses produced for the floral industry for Valentine's Day 2005
64: percentage of fresh roses purchased that are red, followed by pink (11 percent), mixed colors (10 percent), peach or salmon (5 percent), yellow (4 percent), white (3 percent) and other (3 percent)
74: percentage of roses bought by men
32: of rose purchases made by women, the percentage sent to their mothers
24: of rose purchases made by women, the percentage sent to husband or significant other, followed by purchases made for themselves (22 percent) and daughter (16 percent) or friend (14 percent)
20: years that Joe DiMaggio sent six red roses to the crypt of his deceased former wife, Marilyn Monroe, three times each week
3-5: blooms that are sacrificed on a rose bush to allow a single long-stem rose to grow.
6: roses in a bouquet to symbolize infatuation
3: roses in a bouquet to symbolize a couple and their shared love for a traditional one-month anniversary gift
20 - 60: minutes to submerge whole droopy roses underwater in a sink or bathtub (after trimming about an inch from the stems) in the hopes of reviving them
80: degrees F, the highest temperature roses should ever be displayed at; they'll last longest in a cool area
121: years since Kate Greenaway's Language of Flowers was first published in 1885, specifying the meaning of deep red roses to be "bashful shame," white roses "I am worthy of you," red rosebuds "pure and lovely," and yellow "decrease of love" or "jealousy"! Today the yellow rose indicates friendship, joy and caring, and the red is a universal symbol of passionate love.\
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On my google "I'm feeling lucky" search, I typed in Valentines and this is the return I got...kids domain, it lloks like it has some fun things for kids to do.
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Have a good-night.
HUGS!
~Jill Marie
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