Dr. Pepper Recipe from 1880 found

I am a big fan of Dr. Pepper so news that an early notebook containing what might be an original recipe piqued my interest. I expected that it would contain things that you are not allowed to put in sodas anymore like cocaine or embalming fluid. The auction website has some of the pages in great detail, but I can't understand the handwriting of the recipe for "Dr. Pepper Pepsin Bitters" (click on the picture for bigger). The stain on the page might be Dr. Pepper.



The notebook is expected to sell for more than $50,000. I am content with a few high-res pages.

As american as baseball and apple pie

The new house hosted its first game of catch as some guests and I through baseballs back and forth a few times before the chicken was done on the grill. Nothing more American than throwing a baseball back and forth. Memorial Day weekend also signals flag flying season. I was unable to get the apple pie into this picture, though we did have one for dessert.

I picked this picture because apparently I either run funny or was about to fall down (I am the stumbling man on the left). It is an action shot. The truth, justice and the American way picture is harder to compose, since those qualities are so abstract.

A slice of Americana: quenched thrist at the lemonade stand.

Driving around on our errands today we saw and patronized a lemonade stand run by some enterprising young ladies.






They seemed to have some trouble getting the price right was it $2 for a half cup? $4 for a full cup? Yet the sign said otherwise. We did not see the sign until the transaction was complete. Their sales skills were that good.




I liked the other advertising they did. Fresh squeezed becomes fresh squesed[sic]. Yum!







The leamonade[sic] was leamonlishous[sic]. The signs were blamed on an illiterate brother.

I am all for supporting local business. If you think you can do better than these girls then I invite you to play the lemonade game, it is harder than you think.