Fog ~ Chicago PD ~ NY ~ Cathy ~ WD-40 ~ Cocktail Shaker ~ Football Sunday!

Good 32º foggy morning. My weather station on my desk says snow. The weather prediction is for cloudy. Pressure is dropping.

Gadzzzzzzzzz.......yesterday was foggy and SOOOOO cold.

I am so tired of this. Whine whine whine..... It stayed 38º until after 1:30 when the sun finally came out and then it was 50º. YEAH~ I was checking the blog from a year ago, and nothing has changed. Same old same old ... in the 20ºs in the morning. Frozen everything. Guess I forget how cold it gets. Brain farts. Old age. Ah well.....

Put wood on the porch and made a fire in the late afternoon in the wood stove. Was really warm and snuggy for a change. Hadn't had any wood on the porch for a week! Then watched the two hour premier show of Chicago PD. Interesting. Parts were intense.

Main character sort of pissed me off a bit, but will watch it again to see if he turns around. http://www.nbc.com/chicago-pd/

PICTURE of the day.... from my trip to Nova Scotia, Boston, Bar Harbor, on a cruise out of NY... and a NY tour by my friend Joan Petit-Clair ... the Brooklyn Bridge..

I want to go back to NY and on my bucket list is dinner at Frank Sinatra's favorite place, Patsy's. It is Italian and on W 56th Street. (Joan, ready to go???) Joan and I did eat at Delmonico's.

OMGOOD!!!! What fun that was!!!!

Today is the birthday of my friend, Cathy. I worked with Cathy at ELA. I called her Princess Leia, as she was so small in her radio car..... It looked like she was steering the Enterprise! BUT, irregardless of her size, you didn't screw with her... or you'd be cuffed and in her backseat and on your way to jail~!!! (taken at ELA in July 1998) HAPPY BIRTHDAY CATHY!!!!!

Historically this date....

1883 – The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey.

1915 – Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.

1935 – Coopers Inc. sells the world's first briefs.

1937 – Howard Hughes sets a new air record by flying from Los Angeles, California to New York City in 7 hours, 28 minutes, 25 seconds.

1953 – 71.7% of all television sets in the United States are tuned in to I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth.

1978 – The last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany leaves VW's plant in Emden. Beetle production in Latin America continues until 2003.

1981 – Iran Hostage Crisis: United States and Iranian officials sign an agreement to release 52 American hostages after 14 months of captivity.

1986 – The first IBM PC computer virus is released into the wild. A boot sector virus dubbed (c)Brain, it was created by the Farooq Alvi Brothers in Lahore, Pakistan, reportedly to deter piracy of the software they had written.

1991 – Gulf War: Iraq fires a second Scud missile into Israel, causing 15 injuries.

And births this date include...

1807 – Robert E. Lee, American Confederate general (d. 1870)

1809 – Edgar Allan Poe, American writer and poet (d. 1849)

1839 – Paul Cézanne, French painter (d. 1906)

... I really like his paintings...

1922 – Guy Madison, American actor (d. 1996)

1923 – Jean Stapleton, American actress (d. 2013)

1930 – Tippi Hedren, American actress

1939 – Phil Everly, American musician (d. 2014)

1943 – Janis Joplin, American singer ,Big Brother and the Holding Company (d.1970)

1944 – Shelley Fabares, American actress

YIKES!

1946 – Dolly Parton, American singer and actress

Double YIKES!

1947 – Paula Deen, American chef and restaurateur

1953 – Desi Arnaz, Jr., American actor

..... sh*t~ he looks like Perry Como!

The WD-40 tip of the week... getting ready to travel? Get out the suitcases and.....

Lubricate pullout handles on suitcases

Stop squeaks on suitcase wheels

Remove scuff marks on plastic suitcases

Lubricate suitcase locks and zippers

Here's another good idea...

Crack eggs into a cocktail shaker, put on the strainer lid, then gently pour into bowl. Only the whites will seep through.

It also works as a garlic peeler. Place unpeeled cloves into shaker, replace top, and do what Tom Cruise did best in "Cocktail"... shake shake shake! Or............. put powdered sugar in shaker, replace strainer top, and shake sugar onto baked goods or french toast when recipe calls for a "dusting".

All I know. Nuff said. Happy Sunday. Ciao.

xo Sue Mom Bobo

January 19th

National Popcorn Day

Drizzle on some butter, shake on some taco seasoning or garlic salt and sprinkle on some grated cheese. YUMMMM

Great for today, Football Sunday!!! GO PATRIOTS!!!!!