We are so excited. Look who is here for a visit — our cousin Marcus. We love love love Marcus. The girls are already beginning to swoon.
Marcus Hattingdon-Gray.
By the way, Marcus is cousin to Hattingdon. Oh and Curtis too of course. Sigh . . . so handsome and fun.
September Close
We had a fabulous September this year didn’t we? And how cool is it that we are able to round out the month up with a visit from cousin Marcus. Isn’t he lovely? Sigh.
Thank you everyone who visited with us throughout September, and gave us a “like” or two or three and made a comment. We really appreciate it.
Love, Hattingdon & Co. Cartoon Horses with Hat-titude!
Hey! Look at our Hattingdon. Wow. She is really rockin’ it today in a lovely white saucer hat edged in a deep golden yellow, and embellished with a large, vivid pink blossom. Vivian named the hat Fleur.
Fleur Fashion Saucer Hat.
Doesn’t Hattingdon look gorgeous? We hope she brings you a “hatful of smiles”.
Have a great rest of the weekend, and see you again soon.
On the first day of May this year we gave you a sneak peek at Hattingdon’s newest millinery confection — the “Ariel” butterfly headdress. Predictably, Vivian has created it in a multitude of delicious colors.
Today we show four, with blue, pink, green and purple caps. So let’s go!
Ariel with blue cap.
Ariel in pink cap.
Ariel with green cap.
Ariel in purple cap.
How about that for some drama, hat lovers? This golden ornamental butterfly headdress is a stunning look.
TODAY Hattingdon is wearing a cheeseburger hat. Yes, you read that right — a cheeseburger hat. Bet you did not expect Vivian to do that!
While ruminating on a name, Vivian decided to take a look into the history of the cheeseburger for inspiration. Wow. It was a lot more than anyone expected. See “So who did it?” at the end of the post.
Vivian decided to use the name of the man for inspiration who many believe made the first ever cheeseburger in 1934 in Louisville, Kentucky — Charles Kaelin. Result? Named her Kaylen.
We have Lionel Sternberger to thank for his invention, or so the legend goes. Much like the hamburger, it’s impossible to know for sure who created America’s first cheeseburger.
Lionel was 16 years old in 1926, flipping burgers at his dad’s restaurant, the Rite Spot, in Pasadena, California. Out of boredom, the teenager slapped a slice of American cheese onto a hamburger frying on the griddle. His dad approved of the creation, and so the cheeseburger was born—though they called it the “cheese hamburger.”
The first sandwich to actually be called a cheeseburger was created in Louisville, Kentucky. Charles Kaelin invented the cheeseburger in 1934 to bring extra flavor to his hamburger offering. But he didn’t trademark it. Nope, that honor instead went to Louis Ballast of Humpty Dumpty Drive-In in Denver, who trademarked the name “cheeseburger” in 1935.
There is much more to this story with a host of variations over many generations concerning who did what — and what it actually was that they did. Then we have this.
The answer to who invented the hamburger is almost as challenging as the cheeseburger. Think we are kidding? Check out the links below. See you again soon.
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