Phase 2 of The House Behind The Trees ~ The downstairs #TeelsBuildaHouse

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So we are starting the downstairs ... I HATE to say basement because we had a basement in our old home, where you opened a door and went down stairs separated from anything else. It was a finished basement complete with a bedroom, craft room, family/game room and we spent a lot of time there ~ our oldest son moved down there in jr high and stayed through high school ... until we finished the master suite in the attic then he moved back up to the bedroom floor with his brother and sister.  So here our downstairs is open to the rest of the house, you can see through to the outside from the top of the stairs going down because we have a wall of windows down there as well.  We really didn't plan to have a kiddo down there but since we are having to do a switch-a-roo with rooms (I'll explain later) he is moving home soon and will be downstairs. Anyhoo, our downstairs will house our main family room, our middle sons room, a full bath and kitchenette.  I thought it would be fun ...
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February 9 is National Pizza Pie Day .... Pizza Fun Facts

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February 9 is National Pizza Day! Here is what a little research dug up ... 

What is the favorite “All-American” dinner?

   Pizza (43%)
   Fried Chicken (29%)
   Hamburgers (15%)
   Other (7%)
   Hot Dogs (4%)

Fun Facts:

  *Approximately 100 acres of pizza are consumed each day in the U.S.
  *17% of all restaurants are pizzerias.
  *93% of Americans eat a minimum of one pizza each month.
  *Frozen pizzas first became available in 1957.
  *Pepperoni – America’s favorite topping – accounts for 36% of all              pizza orders.

Where did it come from?
While it is impossible to know exactly where pizza first began, Italy has traditionally been considered the birthplace of the pizza. Tomatoes were first imported to Italy from Peru in the sixteenth century. Wealthier Italians originally thought tomatoes to be poisonous, but the poor ate them along with their usual diet of bread, cheese, and olive oil. As time passed, the combination caught on with the general population. Naples is credited with creating pizza in the form we know it today. Neapolitan pizzas are considered to be the world’s best.

In the late nineteenth century, Italian immigrants brought pizza to the U.S. The first pizzeria, Lombardi’s Pizzeria Napoletana, was opened in New York in 1905. But pizza didn’t really catch on with Americans until after World War II when soldiers stationed in Italy returned home with a passion for pizza. The popularity of pizza spread rapidly during the 1950s and 1960s and has been an American favorite ever since.

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