Dusting of Snow ~ Anne & Led ~ Barbetta ~ JCRW Luncheon ~ Bouillabaisse

Good 33º rainy snow on the trees on my mountain morning.

Brian called from his car, dropping Sami off at school, and Sami wanted to know if she could come over to Bobo's house. Brian asked her why and she said, "because Bobo has snow." LOL I told her it was still up too high but I'd let her know if it got down to the ground! Here is a couple pictures of the dusting the trees up on my mountain got so far.....

A couple of special occasions today... my dear friend from high school, Annalee (Carlin) Fortini and her man Led are celebrating their 44th wedding anniversary today. HAPPY ANNIVERSARY KIDS! What a glorious wedding you had... red carpeting and huge white Christmas trees in the church, our pretty green dresses and holly bouquets!

Here is the Fortini website...

Click here: Fortini Home, Garden & Design - Welcome

 

.... and also from Wilson celebrating a birthday today is Barbetta (Hanson) Suttles....

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BARBETTA!

(still a cutie!)

Yesterday I went to the JCRW luncheon. It's held at Twin Creeks, a retirement community. They have lovely apartments in the building where we have our luncheons and also individual homes surrounding it. The buffet table was set up...

My lunch was salad, roasted veggies, potato, and delicious ham! Also pumpkin pie that was to die for!

The North Medford High School Choir sang Christmas songs for us. Beautiful voices in those kids!!!

Historically this date....

1962 – NASA's Mariner 2 becomes the first spacecraft to fly by Venus.

1963 – Baldwin Hills Reservoir wall bursts, killing five people and damaging hundreds of homes in Los Angeles.

1972 – Apollo program: Eugene Cernan is the last person to walk on the moon, after he and Harrison Schmitt complete the third and final Extra-vehicular activity (EVA) of the Apollo 17 mission. To date this is the last manned mission to the moon.

2006 – American spy satellite USA-193 is launched.

2008 – President George W. Bush makes his fourth and final (planned) trip to Iraq as president and is almost struck by two shoes thrown at him by Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi during a news conference in Baghdad.

And births this date include....

1503 – Nostradamus, French astrologer (d. 1566)

1895 – King George VI of the United Kingdom (d. 1952)

L-R Queen Elizabeth, Princess Elizabeth (now Queen), the Dowager Queen Mary, Princess Margaret, & King George VI.

1896 – Jimmy Doolittle, American General (d. 1993)

1935 – Lee Remick, American actress (d. 1991)

1946 – Patty Duke, American actress

 

All I know. Going to stay in pj's today and do my Christmas cards. I'm also going to make my friend Erika's 'Blaukraut' cooked red cabbage recipe! Nuff said. Ciao. TGIF (already again!)

xo Sue Mom Bobo

December 14th

National Bouillabaisse Day

Click here: Bouillabaisse Recipe : Emeril Lagasse : Recipes : Food Network (he uses fish bones, but you can buy, at Trader Joe's, a fish base stock.....)

 

Here is a much simpler recipe....

Click here: Bouillabaisse Recipe | Simply Recipes

This recipe looks fabulous (some amounts are in grams, etc so you would need a converter ... google has one)... I look forward to seeing more of Vicky's blog...

Click here: S’tasty Bouillabaisse