Good 51º
1st clear sky morning.
1st clear sky morning.
The Bruise was not happy climbing up to the top of the entertainment center
without the old TV to climb on... He made it but didn't stay long...
(Not good pictures, used my cell phone in a dark room...)
This picture taken 3 years ago today of my Maggie and the Bruise. She
wasn't afraid of him like Dude is!!
It got windy yesterday.. was a warm 76º - 78º but the leaves were being
blown out of the trees like mad... The wind was HOWLING!!!!!
I don't ever recall of weather like this up here. The heat and the wind the
end of October. We've had rain and snow even on Halloween. This was just odd. I
had there windows and doors open all day until dark!
3pm:
Football today...
Today is a special anniversary of special friends.... Lynda and Rick Castro (both LASD ret). 23
years. HAPPY ANNIVERSARY kids!!!
Friday I got a couple things I had ordered....
my new snuggy winter slippers from LLBean:
....and my Dirty Sue martini mix and stuffed olives!
Historically this date...
1800 – US President John
Adams becomes the
first President of
the United States to live in the Executive Mansion (later
renamed the White
House).
1941 – American photographer Ansel
Adams takes a picture of a
moonrise over the
town of Hernandez, New
Mexico that would
become one of the most famous images in the history of photography.
I have
some of his photos ... especially like the Yosemite series...
1960 – While campaigning for President of
the United States, John F.
Kennedy announces
his idea of the Peace
Corps.
1982 – Honda becomes the first Asian automobile company
to produce cars in the United States with the opening of their factory in Marysville,
Ohio. The Honda
Accord is the first
car produced there.
And births
this date include...
1941
– Robert Foxworth, American
actor
1942 – Larry
Flynt, American adult magazine publisher
5 wives so
far and he's creepy!
1957 – Lyle
Lovett, American singer
.... another
creepy....
Yesterday was exciting... vacuumed and mopped. Wow. I had to make some of
those spider eggs too..... in the yolk mixture I used Mayonnaise and Sriracha,
pinch of pepper, and some garlic salt.... of course the added sriracha mayo made
them super good!!!
For years whenever I made deviled eggs Maggie would sit and wait patiently
until she could lick the dish. Bruiser was the same yesterday. He actually
licked the egg mixture! Odd cat.
Later dinner was reruns with a deviled egg or two. Chair, TV (Hallmark
movie and Blue Bloods), wine. Oh, and I saw American Pharaoh win The Breeder's
Cup and race his last race. What a horse!!! Now he's retired, at age 3.
The rain started about 8:30 last night. It continued for several hours. We
ended up with 1/2" !!! YEAH!!
All I know. Nuff said. Happy 1st day of November. Hope you set your clocks
back.
ox Sue Mom
Bobo
November 1st
National Vinegar Day
Peoples from many lands of the world have used vinegar in many different ways, for thousands of years.
Around 5000 BC the Babylonians were using the fruit of the date palm to make wine and vinegar to be used as food
and a preservative or pickling agent.
Vinegar residues were found in urns from ancient Egypt and have been traced to 3000 BC.
The first written history of vinegar in China dates to 1200 BC.
1000 BC… In ancient
Rome different types of vinegar were
made from wine, dates, figs and other fruits and placed in bowls for the dunking
of bread.
The making of rice
vinegar in China goes back 3000
years.
During biblical times, vinegar was used to flavor foods,
drunk as an energizing drink, and used as a medicine. It’s mentioned in both
the old and new testaments. In the Book
of Ruth (Ruth 2:14), after working hard gleaning barley in the fields, Ruth was
invited by Boaz to eat bread and dip it in vinegar.
In ancient Greece,
around 400 BC, Hippocrates, who is considered the father of modern medicine,
prescribed apple cider vinegar mixed with honey for a variety of ailments,
including coughs and colds.
Vinegar was used by the Carthaginian general Hannibal when he crossed the Alps
with elephants to invade Italy in 218 BC. It was poured over hot boulders to
crumble them, to allow his troops to march through.
The Japanese
samurai believed drinking a rice
vinegar drink would boost their strength and they drank it regularly.
Vinegar throughout history has been useful to everyday
soldiers. Diluted vinegar has been used as a strengthening and an energizing tonic by the military throughout the ages. Roman
soldiers called this refreshing drink posca. They used it regularly like the
Japanese samurai. The addition of vinegar to their drinking water had the
additional benefit of killing any infectious agents that might have been
present.
In early Middle
Eastern writings vinegar is mentioned
as being used for medicinal purposes ranging from a digestive aid, an
expectorant and even a clotting agent. It was also used to dress wounds. Besides
its medicinal uses it was valued as a condiment.
Around 40 BC Cleopatra, queen of Egypt,
dissolved costly pearls in vinegar so that she might win a wager that she could
consume a fortune in a single meal. The wager was with Mark Antony.
