I took this pic a few weeks ago at a lake near the house. I don't know what kind of bird it is, heron or crane? I didn't think I'd be able to get so close!
I made this for a friend a few years ago:) It's not perfect by any means...but I learned a lot from it. Don't know if I'm quite ready to do the baby carriages and all the other crazy stuff you can make. I'd try another cake though.
I made this for a friend a few years ago:) It's not perfect by any means...but I learned a lot from it. Don't know if I'm quite ready to do the baby carriages and all the other crazy stuff you can make. I'd try another cake though.
MrsMB What does the elephant have to do with the school?
First of all....Roll Tide
Secondly, we like to take things announcers/fans say and play off them. "Crimson Tide" came from a similar story. Here is official story on the elephant:
"The story of how Alabama became associated with the "elephant" goes back to the 1930 season when Coach Wallace Wade had assembled a great football team.
On October 8, 1930, sports writer Everett Strupper of the Atlanta Journal wrote a story of the Alabama-Mississippi game he had witnessed in Tuscaloosa four days earlier. Strupper wrote, "That Alabama team of 1930 is a typical Wade machine, powerful, big, tough, fast, aggressive, well-schooled in fundamentals, and the best blocking team for this early in the season that I have ever seen. When those big brutes hit you I mean you go down and stay down, often for an additional two minutes.
"Coach Wade started his second team that was plenty big and they went right to their knitting scoring a touchdown in the first quarter against one of the best fighting small lines that I have seen. For Ole Miss was truly battling the big boys for every inch of ground.
"At the end of the quarter, the earth started to tremble, there was a distant rumble that continued to grow. Some excited fan in the stands bellowed, 'Hold your horses, the elephants are coming,' and out stamped this Alabama varsity.
"It was the first time that I had seen it and the size of the entire eleven nearly knocked me cold, men that I had seen play last year looking like they had nearly doubled in size."
Strupper and other writers continued to refer to the Alabama linemen as "Red Elephants," the color referring to the crimson jerseys.
The 1930 team posted an overall 10-0 record. It shut out eight opponents and allowed only 13 points all season while scoring 217. The "Red Elephants" rolled over Washington State 24-0 in the Rose Bowl and were declared National Champions.
Post by rockinrobyn on Jun 22, 2015 18:22:55 GMT -5
MrsMB Thanks for that story! I thought of you the moment I pulled up behind the Jeep. And because I am a Big10 girl I will give you a one time...Roll Tide.
MrsMB Thanks for that story! I thought of you the moment I pulled up behind the Jeep. And because I am a Big10 girl I will give you a one time...Roll Tide.
You rock
Sent from so-called "smart" phone. Please forgive any errors!
I recently got a box of family history items. One of them is a very old book that has signatures from some people on my paternal grandmother's side. One of them lived back in the mid-1800's. The book is really fragile, I'm sort of unsure as to how to properly store it.