Month: April 2013

  • What Kind of Feet Do You Have?

    Daughter Val’s blog reminded me of the research I did a some years ago on the types of feet….all kinds of names for the various styles of feet we humans have been given. The Greek type supposedly is the least common with only 1/6 of people having the 2nd toe the longest. I’ve heard the straight across even length toes on a foot described as a Celtic foot or toes. My 2nd toe, the stay at home piggy, is longer than the piggy that went to market, so according to the above diagram, I have Greek style feet…like the Statue of Liberty and the statue of David by Michelangelo. 

    And here is some information I found on the internet on the subject:

    “According to anatomists three quarters of the population have a so-called Egyptian foot which is characterized by a great toe longer than the second toe, 1/6 of the population have a so-called Greek foot where the great toe is shorter than the second toe, while the rest of the population have a square foot where the great toe has the same length as the second. The reference to Egypt is due to the fact that in Egyptian paintings (where usually feet were shown from a profile point of view) the great toe appeared longer than the second toe. The reference to Greece is due to the fact that Greek statues showed feet having the second toe longer than the great toe.
    Notwithstanding the prevailing anatomy, nearly all the Roman statues, often copies of Greek originals, have Greek feet. It is not easy to find a statue with an evident Egyptian foot, because even Egyptian statues have Greek feet. ………Neoclassic artists had such an admiration for Greece that their statues have Greek feet bordering deformity.” http://romeartlover.tripod.com/Feet.html 

    I’m not sure if it is an ethnic DNA thing that influences what style of feet we have or not.  A lot of us are such a mixture of different ethnic groups or nationalities…I know I am Irish, English, German, French, Welsh among others; and here I am with my so called “Greek feet!” What kind of feet do you have?

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

  • Val’s Visiting: A Reason to Celebrate!

    Val and “Sparky” arrived safely this evening. Knowing how much I love rocks, she gave me special one to wear…a Unakite necklace for my birthday. She found it in Arizona during their recent vacation out west. Now, according to this special stone’s history, I will be protected and my life enhanced in many ways by its special powers. It’s very pretty and the powerful protection is a plus!

    While Val is here, she is going to make some of that delicious looking pumpkin soup sometime before going back home; but both of them will have to help me eat the big pan of lasagna prepared earlier today. I had forgotten how much harder lasagna is to prepare than just spaghetti and meat sauce, but it turned out well. I also made some “brookies” from a recipe a friend posted on Facebook. They are yummy and very fattening I fear….but okay to eat once in awhile like a special occasion when a daughter visits! It’s a wedding of brownies and chocolate chip cookies….for my version anyway. I added some chopped walnuts to half of them since walnuts are supposed to be healthy, and I needed to rationalize a reason for making them. Chocolate and walnuts both are health foods after all…well that was my sort of logical reasoning.

    Here is a photo of the “brookies” which were LOTS easier and quicker to make than that lasagna. This batch had the walnuts in them. Yummy stuff indeed.