News & Updates from Silvia Griffin · Page 2
We took a road trip from New Orleans to Las Vegas and discovered miles and miles of cotton fields.Which prompted me to do some research on Cotton crowing.Cotton production is an important economic factor in the United States as the country leads, worldwide, in cotton exportation.
The United States is ranked third in production, behind China and India. Almost all of the cotton fiber growth and production occurs in southern and western states, dominated by Texas, California, Arizona, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Louisiana.
More than 99 percent of the cotton grown in the US is of the Upland variety, with the rest being American Pima.
Cotton production is a $25 billion-per-year industry in the United States, employing over 200,000 people in total, as against growth of forty billion pounds a year from 77 million acres of land covering more than eighty countries.The final estimate of U.S. cotton production in 2012 was 17.31 million bales, with the corresponding figures for China and India being 35 million and 26.5 million bales, respectively.We drove through Texas and saw cotton bails all over.
I live somewhat a double life. 6 month in Canada / Summer and 6 month in the USA or some place where the winter is not making me live 40 Celsius below 0.We have been to Australia 2 X and met some of my clients.
Also New Zealand is a good place to winter for us Canadians.We who escape the winter they call us Snowbirds .So these are my Winter Glasses I just got.
I am also and American Citizen and a Permanent Resident in Canada. So you can see and a total mix up.Thank you for being my Customers,Silvia
The recipe for a Bernese butter Bread is a traditional bread specialty from the Swiss canton of Bern. I grew up there until I immigrated to the USA in 1979.My mother always made this bread for special occasions like weekend, Easter, Christmas.
If you google : Butterzopf- you will get the instructions since I am not sure I am allowed to give it here.Then right click on your computer and use- translate this page to get it in the language you need.
Flour Milk Butter and yeast are the main ingredient. On this particular occasion when I took this picture a couple of month ago I was teaching how to make this bread to a friend of ours , male!
Hope you enjoy this type of Bread as much as we did.
In Edmonton we have a great Mueseum Called Fort Edmonton Park.In the late 18th century, the Hudsons Bay Company was in fierce competition with the North West Company for the trade of animal furs in Ruperts Land.
As one company established a fur trading post, the other would counter by building another post in close proximity. Expansion up the Saskatchewan River began in the 1790s.
In the summer of 1795, the North West Company constructed Fort Augustus where the Sturgeon River meets the North Saskatchewan River, just north of the present-day city of Fort Saskatchewan, approximately 35 kilometres (22 mi) northeast of the final Fort Edmonton (near the present-day Alberta Legislature Building in Edmonton).
In 1969, a reconstruction of the fifth Fort Edmonton began five km upstream from its final site, representing it as it stood in 1846, but this time on the south bank of the North Saskatchewan River.
This marked the beginning of Fort Edmonton Park, which has become one of the citys premier tourist attractions.
The park represents, through various historical buildings, four distinct time periods, exploring Edmontons development from a fur trade post in the vast Northwest of Canada.When we visited with my Grand kids we where able to show them what I loved to do as kid, a different kind of pastime not know anymore today.
In Edmonton we have a great Mueseum Called Fort Edmonton Park.In the late 18th century, the Hudsons Bay Company was in fierce competition with the North West Company for the trade of animal furs in Ruperts Land.
As one company established a fur trading post, the other would counter by building another post in close proximity. Expansion up the Saskatchewan River began in the 1790s.
In the summer of 1795, the North West Company constructed Fort Augustus where the Sturgeon River meets the North Saskatchewan River, just north of the present-day city of Fort Saskatchewan, approximately 35 kilometres (22 mi) northeast of the final Fort Edmonton (near the present-day Alberta Legislature Building in Edmonton).
In 1969, a reconstruction of the fifth Fort Edmonton began five km upstream from its final site, representing it as it stood in 1846, but this time on the south bank of the North Saskatchewan River.
This marked the beginning of Fort Edmonton Park, which has become one of the citys premier tourist attractions.
The park represents, through various historical buildings, four distinct time periods, exploring Edmontons development from a fur trade post in the vast Northwest of Canada.When we visited with my Grand kids we where able to show them what I loved to do as kid, a different kind of pastime not know anymore today.