Good 42º clear June morning.
OMG June!!
I had my back surgery 4 years ago today. Wow, time sure zips along!
Yesterday I was putzing around in the kitchen and Bruiser
decides to attack a bag. This is a shopping bag provided by my son's State Farm
office...
Bruiser attacked it, jumped on it, and then took a nap on
it!
He's a nut!
Yesterday was exciting... sprayed weeds, put water in the 6 batteries in my
golf cart, straightened out the check register and paid some bills.
Whooppeeee.....
Kristen called and said she had been a chaperone with Jack's
band on a trip to Disneyland on Thursday. They had a workshop and went into a
recording studio (behind the scenes!) and were given music they had not seen
before, played, critiqued, and played and recorded it. The teacher/leader
whatever he was, said out of all the kids playing ... Jack was "spot on". He was
playing the snare drum. Go Jack!!! xo Here he is with 4 other band members
enjoying the Tea Cups...
There is a "lemon bar" recipe going around. I have seen it on several
sites. It's called "2 Ingredient Lemon Bars". The original recipe calls for a
box of Angel Food cake mix and 2 cans of lemon pie filling (42 oz total). Mix
them together, put in 9x13 pan and bake at 350º for 25 min. Dust with powdered
sugar. Jeannie made them and the consistency was, at best, icky! I decided to
make them using regular cake mix and smaller cans of lemon (30 oz total)
They weren't done in the 25 min...cooked for another 12 minutes! Didn't put
on powdered sugar. Their consistency is, yes, icky! Better than the angel food cake, but don't even bother.
So, while they were cooking I sat on the front porch enjoying the
afternoon.. Birds were out and busy...
...and the Bruise enjoyed watching the birdies too!
A fire started in Grants Pass along I-5 between exits 55 & 58 on the
north side. It has destroyed two structures and 100 acres and fire crews from
GP, Jackson Co, and the Dept of Forestry are all over it. The smoke blew this
way .... very pungent and choking....
Historically this date...
1812 – War of 1812: The U.S.
President James Madison asks the Congress
to declare war on the United Kingdom.
1813 – James Lawrence, the
mortally-wounded commander of the USS Chesapeake,
gives his final order: "Don't give up the ship!"1974 – The Heimlich maneuver for
rescuing choking victims is published in the journal Emergency
Medicine.
2009 – General Motors files
for Chapter
11 bankruptcy. It is the fourth
largest United States bankruptcy in history.
And births this date include...
Ok, so dinner last night, another pantry pot-luck...
Canned roast beef, tomatoes, olives, basil, garlic starter sauce, leeks,
red onion, and angel hair pasta.
Cook the pasta for about 3 min, drain. Heat the beef with the rest of the
ingredients, add the pasta, let bubble for a few minutes, add grated
cheese.
Very tasty! YUMMMMY!!! Reruns for breakfast!
All I know. Tucker has baseball game today. Happy Saturday. Ciao.
xo Sue Mom
Bobo
June oneth
June is National Papaya Month, National Fresh Fruit and Vegetables Month,
National Dairy Month, National Iced Tea Month, National Candy Month, Aquarium
Month, Gay Pride Month, National Accordion Awareness Month, National Adopt A Cat
Month, National Seafood Month, National Turkey Lover's Month, and Rose Month.
Whew!
8 comments:
Lots of gorgeous people born today.
What a great experience Jack had.
Rose month? It isn't always Rose month?
Congratulations on 150,000+ visitors to your blog! Outstanding Sue!!!!!XO
Also, did you see on the news where liquor and wine companies are going to put health info, eg Calories, sugar, etc on their labels. Finally we will be able to drink more responsibly now!
Re the roses, remember L, you live in Collifornia. We have seasons! Oh wait, you have seasons, Fire..Flood...Riots...Academy Awards! ox
Thanks Ike! Nice of you. xo
Calories on liquor and wine. How sad! Responsibly? Darn.
Morning Sue,
I like Bruiser, can't wait to meet him in person some time soon. Your bird friends look very happy.
Sounds like Jack has a made a place for himself with the drums. Marine Corps Band in his future??
Thanks for testing the lemon bar recipes, I would have been tempted to try them and wonder what I did wrong.
I hope the fire is out and there were no more structures damaged and especially no one injured.
Your pantry dinner seemed a little iffy at first, but your final picture really looks yummy!!!
Keep up the great blog.
Gail
Great news about Jack and his drumming. Those cold music performances are so much fun to watch. I was present many times when our band did those and I was amazed at how great they sounded having never seen the music before.
Too bad about those lemon bars. I guess the old recipe for those is the best.
Dinner looks yum yum!!
I couldn't find in his bio why Andy Griffith won the medal given by President GW. Have you any idea? Andy was a life long Dem as is Ron Howard. What a disappointment when I realized that fact!
XO Trisha
Hi Gail. Thanks for the note. The fires down in So. Cal desert areas, Santa Clarita, and Santa Barbara sound awful. Ours is 115 acres so far. Firefighters have it surrounded. Scary. xo
Trish, yes stick to the old lemon bar recipe. Andy Griffith got the Medal of Freedom from Bush in 2005. "Established by Executive Order 11085 in 1963, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which is the Nation’s highest civil award, may be awarded by the President, “to any person who has made an especially meritorious contribution to (1) the security or national interests of the United States, or (2) world peace, or (3) cultural or other significant public or private endeavors.”
Muhammad Ali, Jack Nicklaus, and Aretha Franklin also go it. Got me scratchin'. xo
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