Good 34ยบ and now no chance of rain
morning.
Today is it! Shortest day of the year...
Winter Solstice is an astronomical phenomenon occurring in December every year when Sun's elevation with respect to Earth reaches its lowest value (-25.5 degrees). It is accompanied by the longest day on South Pole and the longest night on North Pole of Earth. Today, December 21st, 2013, it occurs at 12:11 P.M EST.
Winter Solstice is an astronomical phenomenon occurring in December every year when Sun's elevation with respect to Earth reaches its lowest value (-25.5 degrees). It is accompanied by the longest day on South Pole and the longest night on North Pole of Earth. Today, December 21st, 2013, it occurs at 12:11 P.M EST.
The winter solstice is the shortest
day of the year, respectively, in the
sense that the length of time elapsed between sunrise and sunset on this day is a minimum for
the year. Of course, daylight saving time means that the
first Sunday in April has 23 hours and the last Sunday in October has 25 hours,
but these human meddlings with the calendar and do not correspond to the actual
number of daylight hours.
Yet as the old wise man once said, it truly
is darkest before the dawn. After the Winter Solstice, the light slowly
begins its inevitable return, and the days begin to grow blessedly longer,
flipping the switch to ON for the inevitable countdown to spring
...
Hey, today is a special day... good
friend Jo Ann Kirk (wife of the infamous Avalon Deputy, Joe....) is celebrating
her birthday. HAPPY BIRTHDAY JO ANN!!! xoxo See you in a few days!
I shared this on a couple friend's FB page... but
so funny. Originally shared by my friend Tammy (mother of Jaco and Sideways!)
...
This Argentinean commercial for Coke focuses in
on early parenthood. Made me laugh!
A year ago today...
And the
Poopsie Do, aka Maggs, sniffing out the white stuff....
It's also National Flashlight Day
Ewwwww.... do I have
to put all of my feet in that ????
....meanwhile, The Bruise took up the middle of my
desk.....
Historically this date...
1937 – Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the world's first
full-length animated feature, premieres
at the Carthay Circle Theater.
1968 – Apollo
program: Apollo
8 launched from the Kennedy Space Center, placing its crew
on a lunar trajectory for the
first visit to another celestial body by humans.
1988 – A bomb explodes
on board Pan Am
flight 103 over Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, killing
270.
And
births this date include....
L-R Mike
Love, Al Jardine, Brian Wilson, Dennis Wilson (d. at 39), Carl Wilson (d. at
51)
Dinner last night was another experiment...
Quinoa, salmon, artichoke hearts, butter, capers, garlic, spicy
tabasco, (not showed .. pomegranate balsamic vinegar), black
beans.....
I put the quinoa in the rice cooker with water and
garlic....
Then I drained and rinsed the beans, drained the hearts... then
tossed them with the pomegranate balsamic. Put them in the steamer basket over
the quinoa. Added the drained salmon, a little tabasco on that, then a pat of
butter on top. Spread the beans and hearts around the outside.
Turned the rice cooker on and let it cook and steam.
OMGOOD!!!! Today for lunch I'll heat the quinoa mixture and put it
on top of some spring greens, that have been drizzled with olive oil and
balsamic vinegar~
All I know. Busy Saturday. Enjoy the calm before the storm. Nuff
said. Ciao.
xo Sue Mom Bobo
December 21st
Look on the Bright Side Day is today. We hope you see the light.
Literally looking on the bright side may be a bit difficult today. It is winter
solstice, the shortest day of the year. And, December days tend to be cloudy.
However, we're going to be optimistic, and fully expect you to succeed.
Look on the Bright Side Day is a day to be optimistic. The term itself
is an optimistic one. It calls upon us to look for something positive, out of an
otherwise bad or sad situation. Often, a bad experience has positive lessons to
be learned.
It's also National Flashlight Day
