Brandied Fruit Day Brandied Fruit was a necessary invention.  Back in the day, before refrigeration, in order to preserve fruit and ensure it would keep longer brandy was mixed with it as a preservative, I'm guessing it didn't hurt that it tasted pretty darn good! Ha! Make your own brandied fruit Top vanilla ice cream, pound cake, or angel food cake with it. YUM! Information Overload Awareness Day Understanding Information Overload 4 ways to retrain your brain to handle information overload Death by Information Overload To take some time off today from info overload try these simple things; instead of emailing make a phone call, refrain from reading all the news sources you normally would, make choices to interact with people voice to voice and face to face instead of through technology.

I am grateful for fruit.  The variety of fruits available provide natural sources of fiber, sugar, vitamins, among several other benefits. (Day 165 was devoted to bananas , check out the link I included on that post to the health benefits.) I am a huge fan of fruit in a lot of different forms.  Today I had an orange, apple, and banana. :)