Happy Camp Complex Fire ~ Musashi with Family ~ Sami & Tucker ~ Great Card ~ George B ~ Cultural Divide ~ Skyscrapers

Good 46º clear and sunny morning. I am praying for rain, along with everyone else. That fire in Siskiyou county just south of the Oregon border, the Happy Camp Complex, has grown to nearly 73,000 acres!

http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4078/

Yesterday evening I met Brian Jen Tucker Sami and Jean at Musashi for dinner. 

It was WONDERFUL! Brian Jen and I each had a 'roll'... mine is called a "spider roll" (unk why) and has cooked crab, avocado, and cucumber.  It's the one closest. 

http://musashisushi.com/2014sushi.pdf

... and I had a seaweed salad (scrumptious!)

Sami and Tucker are proficient with chop sticks!

 

One the wall are some of my friend Donna Walsh's paintings. I LOVE this tiger...

THANK YOU Brian and Jen! And until you are formally thanked, THANK YOU SAMI AND TUCKER for your gifts!!! AND JEAN for yours!

More pictures later.......

Yesterday was also the first day of school up here. Sami now in 1st grade and Tucker in 5th grade...

 

I have to share with you the card I got from Nancy and David and Skeeter.... LOL!!

YEP, that is Bruiser!!!!! Only thing missing is the white nose.... and he LOVES tuna!

Speaking of tigers...............

A great friend is celebrating his birthday today.. George Bachmeier (LASD ret). HAPPY BIRTHDAY GEORGE!

(George a few years ago... playing with a tiger!)

Historically

1944 – Holocaust: diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last transport train from the Westerbork transit camp to the Auschwitz concentration camp, arriving three days later.

1976 – Viking program: The American Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars.

2004 – Beslan school hostage crisis – day 3: the Beslan hostage crisis ends with the deaths of over 300 people, more than half of which are children.

And births this date include....

1875 – Ferdinand Porsche, Austrian automotive engineer (d. 1951)

.....one of my most favorite vehicles was my 1969 912 Porsche... what a RIDE!!

1913 – Alan Ladd, American actor (d. 1964)

1942 – Al Jardine, American guitarist (The Beach Boys)

1965 – Charlie Sheen, American actor

 
   Total weirdo.

 

Then .....

All I know. Happy Hump Day. Nuff said. Ciao.

xo Sue Mom Bobo

September 3rd

Skyscraper Day is a day to appreciate and admire the world's tallest skyscrapers.

Skyscrapers are truly engineering and architectural marvels. In many crowded cities, space is in short supply, and real estate prices are ever increasing. Building "up" becomes more and more logical. As technical capabilities in construction improved, skyscraper buildings have become taller and taller. In addition, there is a certain prestige to have one of the tallest buildings in the world in your city and country.

World's Tallest Buildings

	Building	Country	Height(Feet)	# Floors	Year Built
1.	Burj Khalifa	Dubai	2,717	163	2010
2.	Shanghai Tower	Shanghai, China	2,073.	121	2014
3.	Makkah Royal Clock Toewr Hotel	Mecca, Suadi Arabia	1,971	120	2014
4.	One World Trade Center	New York City,  NY, USA	1,776	104	2014
5.	CTF Finance Centre	Guangzhou, China	1,740	111	2016
6.	Taipei 101	Taipei, Taiwan	1,671	101	2004
7.	Shanghai World Financial Center	Shanghai, China	1,614	101	2008
8.	International Commerce Cnetre	Hong Kong, China	1,588	118	2010
9.	Petronas Tower 1	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	1,483	88	1998
9..	Petronas Tower 2	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	1,483	88	1998
11.	Zifeng Tower	Nanjing, China	1,476	89	2010
12.	Willis Tower (formerly The Sears Tower)	Chicago, Il	1,450	108	1974
13.	KK100	Shenzhen, China	1,449	100	2011
14.	Guanzhou International Finance Center	Guanzhou, China	1,440	103	2010
15.	Trump International Hotel and Tower	Chicago, IL., USA	1,389	98	2009
24.	Empire State Building	New York, New York	1,250	102	1931