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Saturday, February 23, 2013

Pretty Sky ~ Trooper at work ~ Buck & Doe ~ Iwo Jima ~ Artichoke Dip


Good morning.
36ยบ and we got about another 1/4" of rain out of this storm. So far only 1/2".

We're pretty close to that full moon... which will appear on Monday the 25th

 



I'm still blogged out and not in the mood for historical stuff or birthdays...

Although, today is Iwo Jima Day....

"Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima" is a historic photograph taken on 23 February 1945 by Joe Rosenthal. It depicts five Marines and a U.S. Navy corpsman raising the flag of the United States atop Mount Suribachi. The photograph was extremely popular, being reprinted in thousands of publications. Later, it became the only photograph to win the Pulitzer Prize for Photography in the same year as its publication, and ultimately came to be regarded as one of the most significant and recognizable images of the war, and possibly the most reproduced photograph of all time. Of the six men depicted in the picture, three (Franklin Sousley, Harlon Block, and Michael Strank) did not survive the battle; the three survivors (John Bradley, Rene Gagnon, and Ira Hayes) became celebrities upon the publication of the photo. For a while, it was believed that the man now known to be Block was actually Hank Hansen, but Hayes set the record straight. The picture was later used by Felix de Weldon to sculpt the Marine Corps War Memorial, located adjacent to Arlington National Cemetery.

By the morning of 23 February, Mount Suribachi was effectively cut off above ground from the rest of the island. The Marines knew that the Japanese defenders had an extensive network of below-ground defenses, and knew that in spite of its isolation above ground, the volcano was still connected to Japanese defenders via the tunnel network. They expected a fierce fight for the summit. Two four-man patrols were sent up the volcano to reconnoiter routes on the mountain's north face. Popular legend (embroidered by the press in the aftermath of the release of the famous photo) has it that the Marines fought all the way up to the summit. Although American riflemen expected an ambush, they encountered only small groups of Japanese defenders on Suribachi. The majority of the Japanese troops stayed in the tunnel network, only occasionally attacking in small groups, and were generally all killed. The patrols made it to the summit and scrambled down again, reporting the lack of enemy contact to Colonel Chandler Johnson. Johnson then called for a platoon of Marines to climb Suribachi; with them, he sent a small American flag to fly if they reached the summit. The Marines again anticipated an ambush, but they reached the top of Mount Suribachi without incident. Using a length of pipe they found among the wreckage atop the mountain, the Marines hoisted the U.S. flag over Mount Suribachi: the first foreign flag to fly on Japanese soil. A photograph of this "first flag raising" was taken by photographer Louis R. Lowery.
As the flag went up, Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal had just landed on the beach at the foot of Mount Suribachi and decided that he wanted the flag as a souvenir. Popular legend has it that Colonel Johnson wanted the flag for himself, but, in fact, he believed that the flag belonged to the 2nd Battalion 28th Marines, who had captured that section of the island. Johnson sent Sergeant Mike Strank to take a second (larger) flag up the volcano to replace the first. It was as the replacement flag went up that Rosenthal took the famous photograph "Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima".
 


Here is a funny English humor video... you might enjoy. I did. I think Lydia sent this a few years back.


 
I like to take pictures so thought you might enjoy some of these...
Driving into Grants Pass...
 
Observing the local poleeece doin' the work of the Lord.....
 
Mr and Mrs Buck up in my pasture....



I'm watchin' ... you are watchin' me......


I cooked some artichokes and tried something different for the dipping sauce. I mixed some of my Franks's Red Hot sauce that I had added melted butter to for the chicken wings on Super Bowl Sunday... with BF Mayonnaise. OMGOOD!!!

 
 
I know, a lot of you just go with the traditional melted butter with your artichokes, and I was raised eating them that way too, but it's like working on an assembly line..I could NEVER do that. I would go out of my mind...same old same old day after day. Another reason why law enforcement is a fun job. Nothing is ever the same. Or I know some of you cook and eat the same basic things day after day and never change or add to recipes to make them slightly different from the last time. As with dipping sauce for artichokes... be adventurous and try ranch dressing, or cheese queso dip, or Kraft chipotle mayonnaise, hummus, or mix mayo and sour cream and lemon and cracked black pepper for a great dip. If you like butter, add garlic to it. Mix mayo with capers or/and sriracha sauce or sweet/hot chili sauce. TRY SOMETHING DIFFERENT!

All I know. Nuff said. Happy Saturday.
xo Sue Mom Bobo
February 23rd
National Banana Bread Day