Good 39º drizzling morning. Snow predicted for today as low as 2000'. I'm
at 1200'. The I-5 in Ashland is quite foggy with snow on the sides of the
road..
And the Siskiyou Summit is quite busy with snow!
Yesterday stayed gloomy and foggy and COLD most of the day! By noon we had
only warmed to 41º. Then at 12:30 the sun came out! YEAH! And we warmed to 51º.
Dude was happy to go out and lay in the sun, until an idiot with a gun kept
firing rapidly round after round. Dude gets very nervous. Finally the jerk quit
the rapid firing and Dude was happy to go back outside.
Here's friends Miss Bonnie and her hubby Bill on their latest trip... to
Africa. They had quite a trip and took lots of photos of the animals...
Historically this date....
1859 – Charles
Darwin publishes On the Origin of
Species, the anniversary of which is sometimes called "Evolution
Day"
1950 – The "Storm of the
Century", a violent snowstorm,
paralyzes the northeastern
United States and the Appalachians, bringing
winds up to 100 mph and sub-zero temperatures. Pickens, West Virginia, records
57 inches of snow. 323 people die as a result of the
storm.
1971 – During a severe thunderstorm over Washington state, a hijacker calling himself Dan Cooper (AKA D. B.
Cooper) parachutes from a Northwest
Orient Airlines plane with $200,000 in ransom money. He has
never been found.
1974 – Donald
Johanson and Tom Gray
discover the 40% complete Australopithecus
afarensis skeleton, nicknamed
"Lucy"
(after The
Beatles song
"Lucy in the
Sky with Diamonds"), in
the Awash
Valley of Ethiopia's Afar
Depression. (This person lived between 3.9 and 2.9 million years ago!
OMG)
And births
this date include....
1713 – Junípero
Serra, Spanish missionary (d. 1784)
1864 – Henri de
Toulouse-Lautrec, French
painter (d. 1901)
.... a very
strange little man and very very strange art! He was famous for painting
prostitutes and maids. Although, I did like his posters, they were
interesting.
<Self
portriat. (How'd he do that??)
1897 – Lucky
Luciano, American gangster (d. 1962)
An
American serial
killer, rapist, kidnapper, and necrophile who assaulted and murdered numerous young
women during the 1970s, and possibly earlier. After more than a decade of
denials, he confessed shortly before his execution to 30 homicides committed in
seven states between 1974 and 1978; the true total remains unknown, and could be
much higher.
1968
– Todd
Beamer, American, acclaimed hero of United
Airlines Flight 93 (d. 2001)
1978 – Katherine Heigl, American
actress and producer
Now this is just too funny.. Mr. Phuc Dat Bich has had his Facebook account
closed several times.... Hmmm... wonder why?
When you have AOL and sign on, the sign on screen changes... there have to
be a dozen different ones, but they have my Bruiser on one!
How about this for your Thanksgiving dinner...
"Mother's Killer Biscuits"... These biscuits are really
awesome. Been making them for over 40 years. A family holiday staple. You need 2
packages of Grands biscuits, 1 cube butter, a bundt pan. Arrange biscuits in a
circle in the pan on their side. Melt butter in microwave (30 seconds) and pour
over the biscuits. Bake at 350º for approx 30-37 minutes (depending on you oven
and altitude... mine took 37) until dark golden brown on top. Put on rack to cool.
After about 10 minutes turn out onto a plate.
You make
these, and you will thank me!
You know I
have never done it but often thought about making these for breakfast and adding
cinnamon in the melted butter... or sticking mozzarella cheese in between the
biscuits.... or..... Imagination is a good thing!
Later it was my Patriots vs the Butt-ta-low Bills.
My Tommy Brady and his pooch on Sunday ...
So I was thoroughly enjoying the game.... The best thing the Jets did was
get rid of that creep dog killer Michael Vick and the creep coach Rex Ryan. Now
Ryan is coach of the Bills. And can you imagine, the Bills have the highest
amount of field penalties of any other team! Geeeesh..... Glad that was over.
My Pats are now 10-0.
Dinner was yams and a ling cod fillet...
First I put the halved yams in some water in the crock pot casserole for 3
hours.
I coated the cod with some lemon infused olive oil (my homemade) and a
mixture of Panko, parsley, spicy Mrs. Dash, and some crystallized lemon ...
.... sauteéd in more lemon infused olive oil...
Perfect! I sprayed I Can't Believe It's Not Butter on the yams. Love them!
All I know. Happy Tuesday. Nuff said. Ciao.
xo Sue Mom Bobo
November 24th
National Sardines Day
