Sue's Daily Drivel ...: March 2012

Saturday, March 31, 2012

TOO Much Rain ~ Funny Dog ~ Funny Seal ~ Deer Turkeys & Geese

Good 46º POURING rain morning. 1/4" an hour. WINDY. Rain all over windows. T-storms possible. Electricity flashed off and then back on. Crazy.

OK, here's my first attempt at 'stacking' photos.... Need more practice, obviously, but here is the rain gauge left to right...
7am 3-30, 3pm 3-30, and 7am 3-31

.... and it was still pretty dark and the elk were up in the pasture at the top of the hill...

Now I know most everyone loves dogs. This golden is watching Marmaduke on TV. OMG. Just tooooooooooooo cute!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3ZbQeRIp8g

And... this is a neat story...

Some time ago Panchita was caught up in a net, which left deep cuts all over her body. She managed to make it to this hotel where animal advocates nursed her back to health for 3 months. Every day she returns to rest after being out to sea. She is now pregnant and expecting within a month.

Yesterday, other than the rain pouring down all day I was watching some of the critters. 4 deer were munching grass in the upper pasture. One of the fawns has this fur missing all over his side... :o(

This made me laugh.... turkeys playing chase around a bush...

They would have kept up the game but they saw me and stopped.

The geese were close by, standing out in the front yard ...

While their child from last year played in the creek...

And the creek overflowed it banks, blocking off the foot path to the barn....

Historically this date....

1918 – Daylight saving time goes into effect in the United States for the first time.

1931 – TWA Flight 599 crashes near Bazaar, Kansas killing 8 including Knute Rockne, head football coach at the University of Notre Dame

1992 – The USS Missouri, the last active United States Navy battleship, is decommissioned in Long Beach, California.

And births this date include....

1929 – Liz Claiborne, Belgian-born American fashion designer (d. 2007)

.... I love Liz clothes!

1934 – Richard Chamberlain, American actor

1934 – Shirley Jones, American singer and actress

1943 – Christopher Walken, American actor

Weird!

1945 – Gabe Kaplan, American actor and comedian

1948 – Al Gore, 45th Vice President of the United States and Nobel laureate

.............. the "Nobel" part makes me throw up in my mouth!

1948 – Rhea Perlman, American actress

Lunch was soup! The shrimp soup I made the other day..

Dinner was broccoli and carrots and hummus and a couple cookies.

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

xo Sue Mom Bobo

March 31st.

(Click on the links for some interesting and different recipes)

National Tater Day

http://www.idahopotato.com/

National Oranges and Lemons Day

http://www.seasonalchef.com/preserves17.htm

http://www.anniebakes.com/lemon.htm

National Clams on the Half Shell Day (mmmmmmm.....)

Friday, March 30, 2012

Load the Ark! ~ Mrs. Brown ~ Chicken Salad ~ Doctor's Day

Good 48º (heat wave) POURING RAIN morning. Over a quarter inch in the last hour (.30), over an inch (1.10) since yesterday afternoon. I'm getting the Ark ready! I've got streams and creeks EVERYWHERE!

And I don't have to fill the birdbath!

This from Steve Geon (Wilson W'64) ... a Russian flash mob. Fun!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgoapkOo4vg

The use of the 'F' word is in this video, but it's so danged funny..... Mrs. Brown's dog is getting old and the kids are trying to figure out a way to tell her it's time for the pooch to be put down.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U430rpfjIIQ&feature=relmfu

Thanks to Mike Cipolla for this!
BTW, Mrs. Brown is a guy!

Yesterday Maggie and I whizzed to town early and got errands done and then home just as the sprinkles started. They were on and off all day and we got about 1/8" during the day... in the late afternoon it started in earnest. Glad I have no plans or appointments through the weekend.

Dinner was good... I put some cut up chicken breast in buttermilk to soak for a few hours, then drained it, coated with Panko, and fried in olive oil. I made a salad with ice berg lettuce, baby spinach, tomatoes, and celery... topped it with the chicken, some Parmesan cheese, and added Bob's Blue Cheese salad dressing. (We can get it now at Harry and David's. Yeah!)

Historically this date... (Remember.. click on the words in blue and that is the link to more information)

1842 – Ether anesthesia is used for the first time, in an operation by the American surgeon Dr. Crawford Long.

1867 – Alaska is purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, about 2 cent/acre ($4.19/km²), by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward.

1981 – PresidentRonald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John Hinckley, Jr.

..............and to repeat myself from last year..."(... and the beeeoootch I shared and office with at CF Braun, Patsy Paige, made a horrible remark when I told her the President had been shot .."He deserved it", she said !!!

Of course not to mention that she was lazy, expected pay for not doing a thing, ghetto born and bred ... Oh, and she was extremely prejudicial!" ... sort of like that beeeeotch in the White House now!

And births this date include....

1853 – Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter (d. 1890)