It’s been over ten years since I've seen this. My seeds were old and I thought they were done. I scattered what I had left of them for the neighborhood rodents to scavenge over. Now as I was walking the yard last night I saw a glimmer of hope. I excitedly looked around again and I was not disappointed! I counted no less than 15 volunteer pumpkin plants scattered around my yard! I can’t imagine how far those squirrels carried the seed I left out for them to dine on. My neighborhood could be flush with pumpkins!!! Mind you that these are not just your normal Jack-o-lantern pumpkins, but possibly the seeds from my 534 pound giant! Thank you squirrels ðŸ¿! Thank you for bringing my greatest hobby back to me!
A young man named Levi Strauss emigrated in 1851 from Germany to New York to be with his older brothers, who ran a dry goods store. In 1853 he moved to San Francisco to establish his own dry goods business.
In 1872, Jacob Davis, a tailor who frequently purchased bolts of cloth from the Levi Strauss & Co. wholesale house, wrote to Levi asking to partner with him to patent and sell clothing reinforced with rivets. Davis' idea was to use copper rivets to reinforce the points of stress, such as on the pocket corners (shown) and at the bottom of the button fly.
After Levi accepted Davis's offer, the two men received U.S. Patent 139,121, for an "Improvement in Fastening Pocket-Openings," on May 20, 1873 and BMX girls have been pushing the limits of rivet ever since.
