My Mom ~ Cool Squirrel ~ FBI Cats

 

Good 48º morning. Cooler yesterday by about 10 degrees. Saturday at 1pm it was 91º and yesterday at 2pm it was 82º. Nice.

If you are up early enough and read this, this link is the live webcam at the Acropolis in Athens Greece. There is 10 hours difference between the west coast USA and Athens...

http://www.acropolis.gr/

 

... and this one shows more of the construction going on there....

http://www.grandebretagneview.com/

Today is my Mother's birthday. She was born to Scottish immigrant parents in 1905 in Cleveland Ohio in her Aunt Nells' home. Aunt Nell's children played with the boy next door... Bob Hope. My Mom was a wonderful woman, so kind and loving. She had me after she turned 40, so I was probably the reason for her gray hair! LOL.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

... and Mom on her birthday in 1973 with Kristen and Brian..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Happy Birthday Mom! I love and miss you so much! ♥

In the heat, the critters do what makes them comfortable.. out on the back porch Mr. Squirrel was spread out on the cool cement...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PJ and I went to Costco yesterday. First stopped at the Rogue River Growers Mart and PJ bought tomatoes and I chatted with Gary..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

He makes the BEST birdhouses and he makes bat houses and flicker houses. He's there every Sunday. If you are on FB go to Gary's Avian Abodes.....

http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Garys-Avian-Abodes/194059200651833

Costco was fun, as always. I bought salted in the shell peanuts so I can get Jerry's smoker up here to the house and smoke some of those babies! They are SOOOOOOOOOO good smoked!!! Addictive. Wanted to stop at 7 Oaks for corn, but forgot they are closed on Sunday. We did stop at the pottery place to take some pictures for Jeannie. She wants a pot for a plant. Or is it she wants to plant pot? I forget.  

 Oh well, here's the pots....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So many pretty ones and lots of fun statues too..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Came home, had lunch, and the Poopsie Do was sooo happy I was home and she could come in and nap...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Later we put the trash can out on the road and then stopped at PJ's to give the "girls" a box to play in. PJ said Neko and Rio are FBI... Feline Box Inspectors!

 

 

Left there and went to the barn. I set off some bug bombs inside after I determined the smoker was too awkward for me to move alone. I'll need help.

Had a nice sunset....

Historically this date...

1914 – A male servant of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright sets fire to the living quarters of the architect's Wisconsin home, Taliesin, murders seven people and burns the living quarters to the ground.

1935 – Will Rogers and Wiley Post are killed after their aircraft develops engine problems during takeoff in Barrow, Alaska.

1945 – World War II: Victory over Japan Day – Japan surrenders.

Japan surrendered yesterday, the 14th, but the announcement wasn't made until today, the 15th.

1965 – The Beatles play to nearly 60,000 fans at Shea Stadium in New York City, in an event later seen as marking the birth of stadium rock.

1969 – The Woodstock Music and Art Festival opens.

1971 – President Richard Nixon completes the break from the gold standard by ending convertibility of the United States dollar into gold by foreign investors.

And births this date include....

1769 – Napoleon Bonaparte, Corsican-born French military officer and dictator (d. 1821)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1879 – Ethel Barrymore, American actress (d. 1959)

 

 

1912 – Julia Child, American cook and TV personality (d. 2004)

 

 

 

 

 

I LOVED her show. She was awesome!!!

1923 – Rose Marie, American actress

 

 

 

 

 

 

1925 – Mike Connors, American actor

 

 

 

1950 – Anne, Princess Royal of the United Kingdom

 

 

 

 

 

1968 – Debra Messing, American actress

 

 

 

 

1972 – Ben Affleck, American actor

 

 

 

All I know. Nuff said. Happy Monday!

xo Sue-Mom-Bobo

August 15th

National Lemon Meringue Pie Day

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/grandmas-lemon-meringue-pie/detail.aspx