Sorry to be so late today. Been having phone problems and then the modem went out. The phone company guy, Greg, was here at 8:45. He just left (9:45) and fixed everything. Found a broken line. He amazed me. Super efficient and super nice. So, back in business!!!
Good 37º drizzling snow on my mountain morning.
Rain continued from Monday night mostly drizzling light rain on and off all
day and then some hard rain last night. Another 3/4" of the wet stuff....
Not a good day to drive south from here or north from Ca... our Siskiyou
summit is looking pretty forbidding...
Yesterday was haircut day with my fav gal Leah.....
Lots of fun chatting while she worked on my hair. She told me about a
cauliflower recipe that absolutely made me drool. She promised it email it to me
so I can share.
Next was lunch at Musashi ( http://musashisushi.com/ ) in Grants Pass
with Jennifer and Mike, and Micol and Bob.
Jennifer & Micol:
My sushi lunch.:
"Spider Rolls" shared by the others:
Really nice time with good friends. At Mike's suggestion I tried the
"Tomodachi" which is hot saké and plum wine:
OMGOSH! That was soooooooooooo good. I am addicted! I had two!
A good friend
from back in the early Temple City days, Jim Forbus, is celebrating his birthday
today. Jerry nicknamed him "The Busses". HAPPY BIRTHDAY JIM!! Jim is former
LASD, former Washoe Co Lt, and now a Reno real estate
entrepreneur!
Historically this date....
1823 – A Visit from St.
Nicholas, also known as The
Night Before Christmas, is published
anonymously.
1968 – The 82 sailors from the USS
Pueblo are released after eleven months of internment in North
Korea.
1970 – The North
Tower of the World Trade
Center in Manhattan, New York
City is topped
out at 1,368 feet (417 m), making it the tallest building in the
world.
1972 – A 6.5 magnitude
earthquake strikes
the Nicaraguan capital of Managua killing more than
10,000.
1972 –
The 16 survivors of the Andes flight
disaster are rescued
after 73 days, having survived by cannibalism.
1986 – Voyager, piloted
by Dick
Rutan and Jeana
Yeager, lands at Edwards Air
Force Base in California becoming the first aircraft to fly non-stop
around the world withoutaerial or ground
refueling.
And births
this date include....
1918
– José
Greco, Italian-born flamenco dancer (d. 2001)
1946
– Susan
Lucci, American actress
1971 – Corey
Haim, Canadian actor (d. 2010)
Dinner....a tamale with guacamole (from Costco) .... Simple
and good!
Chair, wine, TV, Hallmark Christmas movie...
All I know. Nuff said. Happy Hump Day. Ciao.
xo Sue Mom
Bobo
December 23rd
National Pfeffernüsse Day
PFEFFERNÜSSE or PFEFFERNUESSE
Pfeffernüsse (pronounced FEH-fehr-NEE-suh—the word means “pepper
nuts”) are hard, spicy cookies, often dunked in wine during a visit (think of
a tea
party with wine). The “nuts” refer
to the nut-like hardness of the cookie; there are no nuts in the recipe, which
includes gingerbread spices (anise, cloves, nutmeg), pepper and citron. The
black pepper adds to the spiciness without adding heat. Here’s a recipe.
