Good 31ยบ rain coming soon, tonight/tomorrow morning.
My two Amaryllis plants are blooming.. Does that mean it's Spring???
The one on the left from Patty and the one on the right from Cindy.
WD-40 hints for the week...
First Lady, her family, and entourage, visiting China courtesy of the American taxpayers.
Subject:
Beijing Hotel Not Impressed with Obama Ladies
Per Daily Mail compliments of my friend in London (from Gar Austin .. LASD ret)
Just FMI (For My Information) if you want to be taken off the daily drivel
list, just let me know. I am on FB with the link and you can always just save
the link (www.OregonSue.blogspot.com) and
visit whenever you feel like it. Sometimes constant emails are a pain. Each day
the new post will appear first, the archives are on the left for any you missed.
Just click on them. Let me know. No feelings hurt.
LOL! Thanks Liz, my dental hygienist at Bright Now Dental in
Grants Pass, for posting this!
This is a GREAT story!
Historically
this date....
1882 – Robert
Koch announces
the discovery of mycobacterium
tuberculosis,
thebacterium responsible for tuberculosis.
1900 – Mayor of New
York City Robert
Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground
"Rapid Transit
Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.
1934 – U.S.
Congress passes
the Tydings-McDuffie Act allowing the Philippines to become a self-governing commonwealth.
1944 – Ardeatine
Massacre: German troops kill 335 Italian civilians in Rome.
1958 – Rock'N'Roll teen idol Elvis
Presley is drafted
in the U.S. Army.
1989 – Exxon Valdez
oil spill: In Prince
William Sound in Alaska,
the Exxon Valdezspills
240,000 barrels (38,000 m3) of petroleum after running
aground.
1998 – Jonesboro
massacre: Mitchell
Johnson and Andrew Golden, aged
11 and 13 respectively, fire upon teachers and students at Westside Middle
School in Jonesboro,Arkansas; five people
are killed and ten are wounded.
Click on the "massacre" link and it is an interesting read. Sick
puppies, both...Golden more so.
And births this date include....
1930 – Steve
McQueen, American actor (d. 1980)
1944 – R. Lee
Ermey, American actor
Born in Emporia, Kansas, Ermey enlisted in the United States Marine
Corps in 1961. Ermey was a drill instructor at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in
San Diego, California, and Parris Island, South Carolina from 1965 to 1967. In
1968, Ermey arrived in Vietnam where he served for 14 months with the Marine
Wing Support Group 17. He then served two tours of duty in Okinawa, Japan,
during which he rose to the rank of Staff Sergeant (E-6) and was medically
discharged in 1972 for several injuries incurred during his
tours
1954 – Donna
Pescow, American actress
1976 – Peyton
Manning, American football player
Speaking of football ... and Kristen and Olga I'm sorry, but the Jet's are
STUPID! The got rid of Mark Sanchez QB and signed Michael Vick! What the HELL
are they thinking???? Rex Ryan is a total JERK anyway!!! Michael Vick, a
convicted felon not out of jail for very long... OBVIOUSLY he doesn't like
animals to get convicted of operating an illegal interstate dog fighting ring
for 5 years! ANYONE who mistreats animals isn't worth 2 cents! FU*K him!! I will
NOT watch a NY Jets game, no matter who they are playing, even if it's my
Patriots! He should be tied up and let some dogs chew on him! Justice is needed
for those poor dogs!
Ok, off the
In regards to dogs and taking them in and feeding them and finding their
home... (posted on FB by my friend Georgia Sue) I so agree......
Here is one SMART dog:
All I know. Happy Monday. Nuff said. Ciao.
xo Sue Mom Bobo
March 24th
National Chocolate Covered Raisin Day
Chocolate is made from cocoa beans ( a vegetable) and raisins are
from grapes (a fruit). And, we all know that vegetables and fruit are good for
you. Therefore, aren't chocolate covered raisins good for
you?
