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Sunday, June 5, 2011

Olive Garden ~ Pancho Villa & My Mom ~ Gingerbread



Good 52º cloudy morning.



My "Red Hot Pokers" are blooming...


Yesterday was the JCRW's  (Jackson Co Republican Women) White Elephant Sale...



I worked the money table with Karen for a few hours.
I enjoyed it. She is fun. Told me about holding her baby boy during a storm and lightening went straight through a window in the room she was in and hit the wall, missing her son, just barely!  OMG! That is just about the wildest thing I have ever heard of! Lightening struck close to me on a couple of
occasions.... but never through a window! (Hi Karen!):

Then PJ and Patty showed up, bought a couple things and then we headed to Olive Garden for lunch. Thanks Patty for a nice lunch and a nice time!!! I had salad and they had the soup (chicken gnocchi) and salad.

Stopped at Safeway for some items that are not carried in our local "rural" market. I got some Dunkin' Donuts coffee.... Cinnamon Spice. Mmmmmm mmmm mmmm!

Wild Bill for America. Awesome. My sentiments .... LIKE this guy!
Historically this date.....
 1883 – The first regularly scheduled Orient Express departs Paris.
 

 




1956Elvis Presley introduces his new single, "Hound Dog", on The Milton Berle Show, scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements.
1968 – U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California by Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan. Kennedy dies the next day
2001Tropical Storm Allison makes landfall on the upper-Texas coastline as a strong tropical storm and dumps large amounts of rain over Houston. The storm caused $5.5 billion in damages, making Allison the costliest tropical storm in U.S. history.
And births this date include....
OH wait, first a retraction... my friend Val was not 80 yesterday, she was a mere 79 years old. Sorry Val, you baby you!

Also it was our friend Tim's birthday. Talk about a baby... he was only 51! Gadzzzzz, he was born when I was in the 9th grade! HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY TIMMY!




Nice, Tim.




Ok, back to other births...
1850Pat Garrett, American Western lawman (d. 1908)










1878Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary (d. 1923)
Here is a picture of some of "Villa's men" who stopped at my grandparents home and told them since they were not citizens of Mexico they needed to leave. They let my grandmother take their picture....
On the left is my Mom, Margaret (she was 5), the middle is Uncle Lloyd, and on the right is Aunt Agnes:
Look, the kids are holding onto rifles!

1895William Boyd, American actor (d. 1972)
Hopalong Cassidy!










Me in my Hoppy outfit:
"Hoppy" !!!!!  He was my hero!
1919Richard Scarry, American author/illustrator (d. 1994)








My children had this book:


1941 – Robert Kraft, American owner of the New England Patriots







 WOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOO!!!!! PATRIOTS!!!!
1971 – Mark Wahlberg, American rapper and actor
.... and on this date in 2004 we lost a great President and a great Governor of California, Ronald Reagan.

All I know. Lots of chores to get done. Happy Sunday. Ciao.
xo Mom-Soupy-Sue
June 5th
National Gingerbread Day








Daddy's favorite dessert.
I made it for him often.

5 comments:

Lydia said...

Hopalong Cassidy and frogs that hop. I see a trend. Bet you owned a pogo stick?

Hop, hop to it):-

Oregon Sue said...

LOL, of course I did, L!!!!

Anonymous said...

Sue,

Oh how I wish we could have a white elephant sale! You didn't say how you did, sale wise. Where did you have your stuff set up? What event?
I don't understand where your grandparents were living when Pancho Villa's men told them to leave.
You triggered lots of stuff to talk about but think I will write a dd note and tell about it.
Good one! You were soooo cute in that picture. I can always tell it's you because of your distinctive eyes.
XO Trisha

Oregon Sue said...

I don't know how much we made. I'll have to find out from Ruth. We had a parking lot behind some offices, a bad location, because not visible from the street.

I said in one of my recent blogs that my grandfather John Mills was a minning engineer and he and my grandmother, uncle, mom, and aunt lived in Cananea Mexico near the copper/silver mines. After Villa's men kicked them out of Mexico my grandfather worked at the Lavender Pit mine in Bisbee Arizona where my uncle Mom and aunt graduated from high school. Remember? xo

Anonymous said...

wow, what a blog today, sue! the gorgeous red hot pokers, that wild bill for america video (which i stole and put on facebook!), my dream vacation of a lifetime; the orient express (have you all seen the pbs special about it? I saved it for when you come here if you haven't seen it.), and the info on Elvis!!!! the pic of your little momma w/villa's men is really awesome, too. just a great special day with all of that and more! judy