Its raining cats and dogs.

      A couple days ago I received an email from my grandma with a couple history facts that I have never knew before.  It was the most interesting email that I have ever received from her.  Usually her emails are facts on how to clean stuff or a disease that might be in our family's blood and so on and so on.  But this one is a good one and I will have to tell her that I liked it so she will send me more interesting ones. hahha Don't be fooled I love all her emails just some I don't end up reading. Here are some of the new history facts from the 1500's that I never knew that I got from the email:

1. Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May, and they still smelled pretty good by June.... However, since they were starting to smell the brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odor.  Hence the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting married.

2. Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water.  The man of the house got to go first, then all the sons and then the woman and the children and the babies were last.  By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it.

3. Houses had roofs made with thick straw piled high with no wood underneath it.  It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the cats and other animals lived in the roof.  When it would rain it became slippery and sometimes the animals would fall off the roof.  That is where we get the saying it is raining cats and dogs.

4. Also in the 1500's they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that always hung over the fire.  Everyday they would light the fire and add things to the pot.  They ate mostly veggies and did not get that much meat.  They would eat the strew for dinner and leave the leftovers in the pot for the next day when they could just add more veggies to the pot.  This would allow some of the food to be in the pot for quite a while.  This is where we get the saying peas porridge hot peas porridge cold peas porridge in the pot nine days old.

5.  Bread was divided according to the status of people.  Workers got the burnt bottom of the loaf, the family got the middle and the guest always got the best part the top or the upper crust.

So there is my little history lesson.  I hope that I am not the only one that did not know these interesting facts.  Well I am off to paint my nails they are in dire need!  Sometimes I just love being a girl. :)