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Sunday, November 10, 2013

Philippines Typhoon ~ USMC Birthday ~ Brad's Fox ~ Chicken/Veggie Crockpot Soup


    
Good 41º very foggy morning. Cloudy til Tuesday and then a "chance" of rain.


My step-son Aaron's wife Marie is from the Philippines. Her family is all there. Worried, I talked to Marie last night.  She told me the family all lives in a mountainous valley away from the coast and they are all OK! Yes!
Such tragedy, the worst typhoon to reach land and the estimate of death is 10,000 already.

Unbelievable. Prayers for those people.


 
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(click on the link, turn your speakers up....it always puts a lump in my throat and a tear in my eye. It did that to Jerry too!)

1775-2013 238 Years of the United States Marine Corps. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ALL MARINES! You make me proud. You make my heart sing. I am the proud wife of a Marine. I am the proud Mom of Marines ... Brian and also my Italian son Alex. I fly a USMC flag on my flagpole below the United States Flag.


A message from the Commandant of the Marine Corps...

God Bless you all and thank you.
(this video below is AWESOME!!! I love it! My heart swells with pride for all Marines and I cry.)

My Marine Darling, my son Brian, my Italian son Alex.
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Jerry's Marine buddy and my friend Andy Nantz...
OMG Andy, you look 12 years old~ Cute!
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Friends Sid Heal and Rod Johnson and Bill Patterson
(all LASD ret)
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(lol, sorry Billy, Jeannie didn't have a picture of you in your uniform, so I 'doctored' this one!)

 
And a special shout out to our Rogue Valley Marine Corps League members! Semper Fi.


And to my friends... Jon Austin (ret LASD), Terry Bonyea (ret LASD), Sally Harwell (ret LASD), Mel Nix, Lynn Crowell, Paul Allgood (ret LASD), and Rick & Wendy Harp's (Co Fire Capt on Catalina) sons.... Semper Fi to all of you and HAPPY BIRTHDAY.

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This is great..... a friend on Catalina Island, Brad Foote, posted this on his FB page... He said"New backyard came with a chase toy for the dog"   ... LOL, Mr. Fox up a tree.


....and yes, Virginia, foxes can climb trees!


 
 
 

Dinner was the leftover stir-fry veggies

and the rice (added in another 1/2 cup of raw rice) made into a soup. I put them in the crockpot along with a carton and a half of chicken stock. Added in chives, garlic, bacon salt, and ground pepper. Then added in a bunch of broccoli and some previously cooked chicken thighs. Let it cook on low for a couple hours. Then added in the Philly Cooking Cream.... some American cheese and some mozzarella cheese. OMGOOD!!!!!




 

Historically this date.... 

1954 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC War Memorial (Iwo Jima memorial) in Arlington National Cemetery.

1969National Educational Television (the predecessor to the Public Broadcasting Service) in the United States debuts the children's television program Sesame Street.

1989 – German citizens begin to bring the Berlin wall down

2006 – The National Museum of the Marine Corps is opened and dedicated by U.S. President George W. Bush and announces that Marine Corporal Jason Dunham will receive the Medal of Honor in Quantico, Virginia.

 

And births this date include...
1923Hachikō, Japanese dog (d. 1935)
    ... the movie Hachi with Richard Gere (2009) follows the basic same story...American made. GREAT movie~!
 
 

1925Richard Burton, Welsh actor (d. 1984)
 

1932 – Roy Scheider, American actor (d. 2008)
 

1933Ronald Evans, American astronaut (d. 1990)
 

1959 – Mackenzie Phillips, American actress and singer
 
 

1969 – Ellen Pompeo, American actress
 

1983Miranda Lambert, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Pistol Annies)
 

All I know. Happy Sunday. Nuff said. Ciao.
xo Sue Mom Bobo
November 10th

Marine Corps Birthday (And Mr. BO, that is pronounced 'CORE' ....NOT  CORPSE~! You idiot.)
 
.....and.....
National Vanilla Cupcake Day