Sue's Daily Drivel ...: 03/30/12

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)