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Sunday, January 15, 2012

Snow! ~ Patriots! ~ The Mediterranean ~ Sashimi


PATRIOTS!!!


Good 30º little snowy morning. Yes, snowy!





 


What a football day yesterday was! The SF 49ers and the New 'Awlans' Saints game was a nail biter with the 49ers winning 36-32. And then there were my Patriots and the Broncos. Wow! 45-10. Mr. Tebow you are a fine young man with heart and a giving heart... you just need more time in. As one of the 'gentlemen in the booth' said, "If Tom Brady went over to the Broncos, they'd win the second half."

Sorry Tebow, you'll get there! Practice practice practice! Maybe then you'll get a spiral close to Brady's!




Early yesterday I met up with Jeannie and Bill at the Mediterranean ( http://www.themediterraneangp.com/) in Grants Pass to have birthday celebratory martinis.

Saturday and Wednesday are $5 martini days and they are GOOD! Since Bill wanted a 'down low incognito quiet' little bash, we did just that. Rosemary/lemon martys and Pomegranate/habañero martys! Mmmmmm mmmm mmmm. Billy's gift was wrapped in duct tape.
 
 
 
 Apropos for a male!
 
 
 
I also got him a Cartwright's rib eye.
(If you know Cartwright's you know how super excellent their meats are!
(I was told he took the steak home and barbecued it and enjoyed it last night!)


Shelly,
one of the Mediterranean owners, is a sweetheart. She made the martinis and even gave Bill an ice cream/coffee/creation with whipped cream and a candle on top!

 
 

We'll be going back there soon for some of their fantastic pizza and I LOVE their Moussaka! Just like being back in Greece!


After the 'wild birthday celebration I came home to my chair, a fire, Maggie & Harley, and football!


Dinner was fun. Sashimi! Mmmmm... I had a beautiful piece of Ahi Tuna and fixed some



 
And the sunset was spectacular....


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Oregon had a gray wolf that, being monitored, has gone to California.....
Allen Daniels checked his trail camera hidden in the woods east of Butte Falls one day last fall looking for photographs of the black-tailed deer he was hunting, not trying to capture wildlife history.

This black and white image contains what biologists believe is the first known photograph of OR-7, the wondering gray wolf whose 700+ mile journey from NE Oregon to No. California has captured imaginations on five continents. http://www.dfg.ca.gov/wildlife/nongame/wolf/
(thanks for the site, Erika!)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Two friend's birthdays today...
my old pal from ELA, Al Rodriguez...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY AL!!! Miss you~ Hope your special day is GREAT!
Hey Bill Patterson!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!


Historically this date...
1870 – A political cartoon for the first time symbolizes the Democratic Party with a donkey ("A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion" by Thomas Nast for Harper's Weekly).
 
 
 
 
 
1943 – The world's largest office building, The Pentagon, is dedicated in Arlington, Virginia.
1947 – The brutalized corpse of Elizabeth Short ("The Black Dahlia") is found in Leimert Park, Los Angeles.
1967 – The first Super Bowl is played in Los Angeles, California. The Green Bay Packers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs 35-10
2009US Airways Flight 1549 makes an emergency landing in the Hudson River shortly after takeoff from LaGuardia Airport in New York, New York. All passengers and crew members survive.
 
 
And births this date include....
1906Aristotle Onassis, Greek shipping magnate (d. 1975)
1909 – Gene Krupa, American drummer (d. 1973)
1913 – Lloyd Bridges, American actor (d. 1998)
1929Martin Luther King, Jr., American civil rights leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1968)
"It should come as no surprise that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican. In that era, almost all black Americans were Republicans. Why? From its founding in 1854 as the anti-slavery party until today, the Republican Party has championed freedom and civil rights for blacks. And as one pundit so succinctly stated, the Democrat Party is as it always has been, the party of the four S's: slavery, secession, segregation and now socialism."
" It was the Democrats who fought to keep blacks in slavery and passed the discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws. The Democrats started the Ku Klux Klan to lynch and terrorize blacks. The Democrats fought to prevent the passage of every civil rights law beginning with the civil rights laws of the 1860s, and continuing with the civil rights laws of the 1950s and 1960s."

1937Margaret O'Brien, American actress
 
 
 
1968Chad Lowe, American actor
1979Drew Brees, American football player
Sorry Drew, a loss the day before your birthday :o(
All I know. Nuff said. Happy Football Sunday!
xo Sue-Mom-Bobo
January 15th
National Strawberry Ice Cream Day

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Bill thanks you for the quiet "Birthday bash". Wheeeeee He so enjoyed the steak, it was HUGE. Sorry to say your dinner was, well, you know. Icky LOL
Going to be a fun football day. Have a nice relaxing one. xoxo
Jeannie

Anonymous said...

Sue,

Thank you for the little history lesson about the "R" Party. It still amazes me that most blacks blindly fall into the "D" side because they obviously do not know their history! The "D"s have been more successful with their spin. I heard one of the candidates last night tell it is just the opposite of what so many people believe about the parties. The "R"s are for the "little" people. The small business owners, the entrepreneurs, lower taxes,smaller government and fewer regulations. If you will notice it's the billionaires, Hollyweird types, Wall Streeters who are big donors to the "D"s.
OK now off my soap box! lol

Poor little Maggie out there shivering in the snow. I know Lola would never set foot out there in that. It's beautiful tho.

By the way I just saw Margaret O'Brien in person last month and she looks nothing like the later pic that you have posted. She has black hair. She is so tiny and looks wonderful for her age or for any age! :):)

Hugs, Trisha

Oregon Sue said...

You goof. I'm sure there is a whole nation of Japanese who will disagree with you, as well as my family! Come on girlfriend, let's go a round!!! LOL Love you. xo Glad you and Bill had fun. I did too. Yeah, football. Gonna take the day off in respect for the birthday boy! In my chair!!! xo

Oregon Sue said...

Trish, thanks for the comments. I'll go research that picture and change it if necessary. BTW, Maggie was fine. She wasn't shivvering, she was just mad I was taking her picture!!! LOL

Anonymous said...

Sorry girlfriend but I have to agree with Jeannie! I could barely LOOK at that pic of the raw tuna, let alone think about eating it. My guys like sushi which I don't undersand. Daryl doesn't like COOKED fish but will eat the raw stuff???
It looked like it was begging for a frying pan and a little oil! LOL
Oh well to each her own! lol

XO Trisha