Untitled

In This Issue

Welcome to the Roadhouse

Roadhouse on the Road

AdoptaPlatoon

The World

According to Jake

wwwwwwwww

We're on the road

July 24th

3:00pm to 7:00pm

Schnuck's Bistro

12332 Manchester Rd.

Des Peres, Missouri

July 28th

7:00 to 10:00

Stovall's Grove

18720 HWY 100

Wildwood, Missouri

August 1st

11:00am to 2:00am

The STABLES

Lemp & Cherokee, Benton Park

St. Louis, Missouri

August 13th

6:00 to 10:00

Highway 61 Roadhouse

34 South Old Orchard Avenue

St Louis, Missouri

August 25th

7:00 to 10:00

Stovall's Grove

18720 HWY 100

Wildwood, Missouri

September 25th

12:00 to 4:00

Lin Festival

Lindenwood Neighborhood

St Louis, Missouri

October 9th

Marxer Farm Party

Owensville, Missouri

October 17th

Fall Fest

at the Barn at Lucerne

Ballwin, Missouri

May 1, 2011

Humane Society of Missouri

Club Hope Open House

Longmeadow Rescue Ranch

Signs Along The Way

Quick Links

This Month:

1787 - The Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia began. The articles of the U.S. Constitution draft were to be debated.

1790 - The first U.S. census was completed with a total population of 3,929,214 recorded. The areas included were the present states of Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont and Virginia

1813 - 500 warriors of the White Stick faction of the Creeks gather in Coweta, Alabama. With 200 Cherokee warriors, they make plans to attack a band of Red Stick Creeks, followers of Tecumseh, over 2,500 strong. The White Sticks are led by Tustuunnuggee Thlucco and Tustunnuggee Hopoie.

1814 - The Treaty of Fort Jackson officially ends the Creek War. The Creeks, including those who fought with Andrew Jackson, are forced to cede 22,000,000 acres to the Unites States.

1861 - The United States Congress passed the first income tax. The revenues were intended for the war effort against the South. The tax was never enacted.

1861 - Stand Watie's Cherokee troops fight on the Confederate side at the Battle of Wilson's Creek in southern Missouri.

1876 - "Wild Bill" Hickok was killed (shot from behind) while playing poker in Deadwood, SD. Jack McCall was later hanged for the shooting.

1887 - Rowell Hodge patented barbed wire.

1893 - Shredded wheat was patented by Henry Perky and William Ford.

1914 - The electric traffic lights were installed in Cleveland, Ohio.

1933 - The Mickey Mouse Watch was introduced for the price of $2.75.

1943 - The U.S.Navy patrol torpedo boat, PT-109, sank after being attacked by a Japanese destroyer. The boat was under the command of Lt. John F. Kennedy.

1944 - Nazi police raided a house in Amsterdam and arrested eight people. Anne Frank, a teenager at the time, was one of the people arrested. Her diary would be published after her death.

1954 - The "Moondog Jubilee of Stars Under the Stars" took place at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn. Acts on the bill included Fats Domino, Muddy Waters, the Clovers, the Orioles, and Little Walter.

1956 - Elvis Presley's song "Hound Dog" were released.

1957 - American Bandstand made its network debut on ABC-TV. The show was hosted by Dick Clark. Until this day the show had been a local show in Philadelphia since 1952.

1960 - Chubby Checker's "The Twist" was released.

1962 - Robert Zimmerman legally changed his name to Bob Dylan.

1963 - Eric Clapton quits The Roosters to form Casey Jones and the Engineers.

1964 - The Pentagon reported the first of two North Vietnamese attacks on U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin

1966 - A ban of the broadcast of any and all Beatles records on most U.S. radio stations went into effect. The ban was in response to John Lennon stating that the band was now more popular than Jesus Christ.

1973 - The movie "American Graffiti" opened.

1982 - Pink Floyd's "The Wall" had its U.S. premiere in New York City.

1983 - New York Yankee outfielder Dave Winfield threw a baseball during warm-ups and accidentally killed a seagull. After the game, Toronto police arrested him for "causing unnecessary suffering to an animal."

1990 - Iraq invaded the oil-rich country of Kuwait. Iraq claimed that Kuwait had driven down oil prices by exceeding production quotas set by OPEC.

August is:

August 1 is . . . Friendship Day and National Raspberry Cream Pie Day

August 2 is . . . National Ice Cream Sandwich Day

August 3 is . . . National Watermelon Day

August 4 is . . . Twins Day Festival

August 5 is . . . National Mustard Day

August 6 is . . . Wiggle Your Toes Day

August 7 is . . . Sea Serpent Day

August 8 is . . . Sneak Some Zucchini Onto Your Neighbor's Porch Night

August 9 is . . . National Polka Festival

August 10 is . . . Lazy Day

August 11 is . . . Presidential Joke Day

August 12 is . . . Middle Child's Day

August 13 is . . . Blame Someone Else Day

August 14 is . . . National Creamsicle Day

August 15 is . . . National Relaxation Day and National Failures Day

Contact Us:

Hi Buckaroos,

Ain't life good. It is summertime and the livin' is easy. Roadhouse is playin' in some great new venues, the fish are jumpin' and we've got a bumper crop of homegrown tomatoes.

We've got to give it to Guy Clark, He knows what he's talking about when he sings about homegrown tomatoes (or as Jake usually calls them, 'maters). I don't care what anyone from anywhere else says, the absolute finest and tastiest tomatoes on the planet come from here in our yard. Sure they required some work and care. But when you walk out on a warm summer morning, pick a red, ripe juicy tomato, wipe it off on your jeans and take that first big bite, the juice might drip down your chin and onto your T-shirt, but you were as close to heaven as you can get while alive.

Ain't nothin' in the world that I like better

Than bacon & lettuce & homegrown tomatoes

Up in the mornin' out in the garden

Get you a ripe one don't get a hard one

Plant `em in the spring eat `em in the summer

All winter with out`em's a culinary bummer

I forget all about the sweatin' & diggin'

Everytime I go out & pick me a big one

Homegrown tomatoes homegrown tomatoes

What'd life be without homegrown tomatoes

Only two things that money can't buy

That's true love & homegrown tomatoes

You can go out to eat & that's for sure

But it's nothin' a homegrown tomato won't cure

Put `em in a salad, put `em in a stew

You can make your very own tomato juice

Eat`em with eggs, eat`em with gravy

Eat`em with beans, pinto or navy

Put`em on the side put`em in the middle

Put a homegrown tomato on a hotcake griddle

If I could change this life I lead

They'd call me Johnny Tomato Seed

`Cause I know what this country needs

Homegrown tomatoes in every yard you see

When I die don't bury me

In a box in a cemetary

Out in the garden would be much better

I could be pushin' up homegrown tomatoes

It is not that the Stable is one of the

Benton Park Neighborhood's hidden

treasures; it is simply easy to miss the

small sign on the Cherokee Street side

of the old Lemp building. And this is

one place that nobody should miss.

The bar is spacious, comfortable and

the kind of place where people hang-

out with friends and family.

"We get a lot of people from downtown and a lot of families. We can take big groups," said Stable founder Jesse Jones. "It is an acceptable bar to bring your kids. Mum can have a glass of wine, dad can have a beer, and the kids can play games. Dogs are allowed on the patio - everyone in this neighborhood has a dog and a laptop."

The patio, unusually, is inside the building. It has large arched openings in the wall that feature ironwork instead of windows. It is an inside-out kind of spot with comfy leather sofas that would be at home in an old-style gentlemen's club, and a bar that looks like it should be by the beach.

The Stable's interior is large, spacious and has high cavernous ceilings. Warm wood tones, areas of casual seating, wall mounted antiques, an enormous fireplace and an incredible chandelier, give the bar an elegant but cozy atmosphere.

The chandelier is about 15-feet tall and five feet wide and it hangs near the bar. It was found on site during the restoration.

Each Sunday we have a beer brunch starting at 9:30 am.

Roadhouse will be featured

August 1st

11:00am to 2:00pm.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

HomeGrown Tomatos

According to Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, the humble tomato, scientific name Solanum lycopersicum, is a member of the nightshade family. (Yes, I know nightshade is poisonous. No, a good homegrown tomato is not going to poison you. In fact, if I'm feeling a bit under the weather, a good tomato often helps the ailment.)

The plant evidently is native to South America, likely Peru, and originally bore small green fruit. The species was soon transported to Mexico and was consumed by the inhabitants of the region. The earlier domesticated version grown by the Aztecs, likely had small yellow fruit that was somewhere around the size of modern cherry tomatoes. Ancient Aztec writing speaks of tomatoes being cooked with peppers and corn. (Sounds good to me.) Our word "tomato" came from the Aztec word tomatl, which translated something along the lines of "the swelling fruit."

It appears that the Native American inhabitants of what is now the southwestern United States, known as the Pueblo people, were aware of the tomato and attributed it with mystical powers. They believed that a person who witnessed the ingestion of tomato seeds would gain the ability to divine the future. I have to wonder why they thought seeing someone else eating tomato seeds would give them mystical powers. Strange times indeed.

Tomatoes were cultivated and consumed by the Aztecs and other of the region's inhabitants by 500 BC. These tomatoes were larger and lumpier than the original small, smooth ones and may well be the direct ancestors of some of the varieties we grow today.

Some historians think Cortes transported tomatoes to Spain in 1521, after conquering what is now Mexico City. Others credit Christopher Columbus with bringing the first tomatoes to Europe earlier, on his return from the Americas in 1493. Either way, the Spanish brought my favorite vegetable-fruit to Europe.

Then, as they began their colonization of the world, they spread it throughout the Americas, the Caribbean, then on to the Philippines. From there, this delectable edible spread to and throughout the Asian continent. The Spanish probably began eating them early after their discovery and by the 1600s they had become a regular part of Spanish cooking.

Early on, the British believed the tomato to be poisonous. And in fact, the stems and leaves may contain minute traces of poisonous elements, but the tomato itself has none. For many years the fruit was considered unfit to eat throughout Britain and the North American colonies, but not necessarily because it was poison.

I suspect it was British resentment of all things favored by their conquer-the-world competitors, the Spanish. However, by the mid-1700s even the stodgy British were eating tomatoes and, according to Wikipedia, by the late 1700s, the Encyclopedia Britannica stated, the tomato was "in daily use in soups, broths and garnishes." In 1710, an early mention of tomatoes grown in British North America reported them being raised in South Carolina. These may have come from traffic and trade with the Caribbean. Today, tomatoes are grown and eaten throughout the world. They are a staple and main ingredient of many of the world's culinary delights.

The best of these wonderful delights come out of family gardens and you can't tell me tomatoes don't have wonderful medicinal powers. If they didn't, then eating them bug-dust and all, since I didn't take time to carry it into the house and rinse it off, would have killed me long, long ago.

Homegrown tomatoes homegrown tomatoes

What'd life be without homegrown tomatoes

Only two things that money can't buy

That's true love & homegrown tomatoes

Thanks for Listenin'

From the Troops

I wanted to contact you to say thanks for this outstanding effort to make our Military personnel feel a touch of home wherever they are. I have been deployed several times to various parts of the world. No matter what is going on around us, when we get encouraging words from home it seems to make a difference that is beyond description. Something as simple as words. Something as common as a crayon drawing. Something as appreciative as "Thanks". These things can mean the world when you are a world away.

- A Soldier

I would like to take this opportunity to say thank you from myself and my fellow Marines. Your packages and well wishes have lifted our spirits at a time when we are so far away from our friends and family. I wish you could have seen the bright eyed looks and utter excitement from the Marines when opening the boxes. It was a true blessing that you made happen. It makes us proud to know that our fellow Americans care as much as we do. It makes the sacrifices we and our families make worth every minute we spend here. We Americans can stand shoulder to shoulder in unison on one thing - we're all proud of our country and we're all proud of each other. The effort you make on behalf of the troops is just as important as the work we are doing here and around the world.

- A Gunnery Sergeant

Greetings,

I wanted to pass on a sincere thanks to all of you who put your time into doing something for those of us deployed far from home. Your efforts are not ignored and we do this all for you.

- A U.S. Army Captain

To the folks of Let's Say Thanks,

First off let me say a personal thank you. I was out of the office when the package arrived and it was placed on my chair. Just to see a package waiting for me made my day! I speak on behalf of other Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines that receiving a package stuffed with goodies is a great feeling - knowing that the folks back home are very appreciative and supporting of their defenders.

I myself have children ages 7 (girl) and 4 (boy) whom I miss so dearly! Seeing the artwork

and the messages "praying and wishing for your safe return" that others write really brings a tear to my eye. It is very touching to know that the kids back home know why we are here defending our country and that they are very active in the supporting us.

Again, I would like to say thank you and keep doing what you are doing as many out here don't have family members to lean on.

- An Air Force Staff Sergeant