Whatta Sky! ~ Wild Mushroom & Leek Soup ~ Pumpkin Cheesecake

Good 40º morning. Pressure is up to 29.0 and pollen count is 2.60 out of 12. NATURALLY there is a 'chance' for rain on Monday! This is still unusual weather for this time of year. We've even had snow on Halloween.... but so warm this year.

 

Khadaffis dead ...

He died in bed ...

Doo da ... doo da......

I posted this on FB yesterday .... too cute.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oPHu8s5xNU

It's a bear cub in a grocery store in Alaska....

Earth is about to pass through a stream of debris from Halley's comet, source of the annual Orionid meteor shower. Forecasters expect the shower to peak on Saturday morning, Oct. 22nd, with more than 15 meteors per hour. Earth isn't the only world in the debris stream; NASA researchers will also be watching for meteoroid strikes on the Moon.
FULL STORY at http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/20oct_orionids/

Gots the gin and tonic.... come on lemon!

i before e

except

after c

weird?

 

Yesterday at 7:23am...

.....and then in the afternoon Maggie and I went to the mailbox and saw PJ with this HUGE burn pile! She and Dave have been busy! PJ, let me know when you light this thing off... I'll bring marshmallows!

Back home and the sky at 6:pm...

................and 30 minutes later....

Historically this date....

1959 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs an executive order transferring Wernher von Braun and other German scientists from the United States Army to NASA.

1967 – Vietnam War: More than 100,000 war protesters gather in Washington, D.C.. A peaceful rally at the Lincoln Memorial is followed by a march to The Pentagon and clashes with soldiers and United States Marshals protecting the facility. Similar demonstrations occurred simultaneously in Japan and Western Europe.

1973 – John Paul Getty III's ear is cut off by his kidnappers and sent to a newspaper in Rome; it doesn't arrive until November 8.

1973 – Fred Dryer of the then Los Angeles Rams becomes the first player in NFL history to score two safeties in the same game.

... he played Hunter on TV and I got to meet him out at the Sheriff's Range at Wayside. Nice guy! (Got a picture ... somewhere!)

And births this date include....

1952 – Patti Davis, American actress and novelist, daughter of Ronald Reagan

How to make your momma and daddy proud! Well, other than being a total jerk most of the time!

1956 – Carrie Fisher, American actress and writer

 

At least she got a hold on her drinking..

1980 – Kim Kardashian, American socialite, model and reality television star

............... Sorry, but I just don't get what the interest is in this spoiled rich little beeotch!

 

And dinner was soup. Harry and David's Wild Mushroom and Leek basic soup... but I had some dried porcini mushrooms that I reconstituted in beef broth... and added those..

 

And I added in some couscous and wild and brown rices...

Also had to add more broth to the soup... and the rest of the peas from the Udon Noodle dinner... This soup was AWESOME! Perfect.

I even put a cozy fire in the wood stove. Come on winter!!!!

 

All I know. Possibly a Costco day today. Happy Friday. Ciao

xo Sue-Mom-Bobo

October 21st

Pumpkin Cheesecake Day

Here's two recipes: Betty Crocker's and The Cheesecake Factory recipe:

http://www.bettycrocker.com/recipes/pumpkin-cheesecake/138a3815-0a58-4ac5-854a-9253538e5958

http://embitca.hubpages.com/hub/Cheesecake_Factory_Pumpkin_cheesecake_recipe