Theme: How Does Your Garden Grow? 3/9/2012
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We Had Great Fun With The Decorations
We were ready to start digging!
"Boo Bees".... Huh? Tom! Quite scaring the bees!
Herbie found the candy! He has been putting on some weight... Wonder why?
Herbie's dyslexia got him again
Did You Know? - Forrest Mars, Sr., the founder of the Mars Company, appropriated the idea for the confection in the 1930s during the Spanish Civil War when he saw soldiers eating chocolate pellets with a hard shell of tempered chocolate surrounding the inside, preventing the candies from melting.
Mars received a patent for his own process on March 3, 1941. Production began in 1941 in a factory located at 285 Badger Avenue in Clinton Hill, Newark, New Jersey. One M was for Forrest E. Mars Sr., and one for Bruce Murrie, the son of Hershey's Chocolate president William F. R. Murrie.
Murrie had 20 percent interest in the product. The arrangement allowed the candies to be made with Hershey chocolate which had control of the rationed chocolate. When operations were started, the hard-coated chocolates were made in five colors: red, yellow, brown, green, and violet. They were packaged in a cardboard tube (similar to Smarties).
Herb thinks Irene can't hear the bag being attacked for its contents
The blue one looks like Herbie
All the flowers are real... The people are not!
A magnificent display of flowers... Tom is the real gardener
The band has warmed up and we are about to do the same
Barbara likes her bird house
Come into the garden
Nancy enjoying the garden.... Tom is waving at the bees
Birthday time... Happy Birthday Bernice
A garden cake... Fits right with the theme for this evening
Nancy pays a visit... Herbie is still after the M&M's
Over here big boy.....
Dressed in the gardening outfits....
The secret radiation coming from Tom's new invention interfered with the camera
He turned it off using the big round switch (with glasses)
