Good 26º clear and icy morning.
Yesterday was a New Year's Eve miracle with SUN!!!! Started at 31º and by
9am cooled off to 29º. The we had a heat wave ...
warmed to 57º! We started to see a little blue sky early..
OMG then there was more....
Total blue sky and lots of SUN!!!!
It sure helped get rid of the winter blahs.....
By 3 o'clock it got quite windy! And again last evening... blowing and howling.
I took a quick trip into town to mail some stuff. Back home I opened the
back end of the car and let Dude out. He loves to run.... can you see him up
there???
By 2pm yesterday it was "wine o'clock"... 5pm in NY!
Yesterday for dinner I fixed some spinach & ricotta ravioli with my
homemade marinara sauce (tomatoes, garlic, jalapeño, spinach, chipotle, olives,
mushrooms, and cheesy Alfredo sauce), and a can of artichoke hearts.
... and an Omaha Steak's Stuffed Sole... with scallops and crabmeat.
OINK~!!!
Today is my
neighbor Frank's birthday. HAPPY BIRTHDAY FRANK!!!
Love
this...taking Lucy for a ride on the quad taking' the trash can to the
road!
I really am
Blessed to have such great neighbors!!!!!
Historically this date...
1890 –
The Tournament of
Roses Parade in Pasadena, California, is first
held.
1902 – The first American college
football bowl
game, the Rose
Bowl between
Michigan and Stanford, is held in Pasadena.
1908 – For the first time, a ball is dropped in New York
City's Times
Square to signify
the start of the New
Year at
midnight.
1934 – Alcatraz
Island becomes
a United
States federal
prison.
1962
– United States
Navy SEALs established.
1971 – Cigarette advertisements are banned on American television.
And births
this date include....
1735 – Paul
Revere, American patriot (d. 1818)
1752 – Betsy
Ross, American seamstress (d. 1836)
1895 – J. Edgar
Hoover, American FBI director (d. 1972)
1930
– Ty
Hardin, American film actor
"Love to eat
them mousies. Mousies what I love to eat. Bite they little heads off, nibble on
they tiny feet."
Later after a few incoming phone calls re HAPPY NEW YEAR I settled in my
snuggy chair with the blanket Brian and Jen got me (electric!)
More wine, TV ... New Years Shows... which all turned out to be not of my
genre, the music and musicians I had not heard and did not know who they were. I
miss the old days when Dick Clark hosted. It was a lot more fun.
The Rose Parade will be on soon. Geared up to watch that. Have a great day!
2016. Wow.
All I know. Nuff said. Happy January oneth. Ciao.
xo Sue Mom
Bobo
January 1st
Bloody Mary Day
Pete Petiot’s “Original” Bloody Mary
Pete Petiot is the bartender who claimed to have invented the
Bloody Mary at Harry’s American Bar in the Roaring 20’s. Credit actually goes to
comedian George Jessel in the 1950s—read the history
of the Blood Mary. But Petiot, who became head barman at the St. Regis Hotel
in New York City, served this recipe:
- 2 ounces vodka
- 2 ounces tomato juice
- 1/4 ounce fresh lemon juice
- 2 to 4 dashes salt
- 2 dashes fresh black pepper
- 2 dashes cayenne pepper
- 3 dashes Worcestershire sauce
Shake
with ice and strain into a short glass.
Different Alcohol
If
your favorite spirit isn’t vodka, try one of these:
- Ruddy Mary: Replace vodka with gin.
- Red
Eye: Replace vodka with beer, also replacing tomato juice with Clamato
(see also Michelada Clementina) - Snowball, Bloody Snowball: Replace vodka with Bourbon
- Virgin Mary: Made without alcohol
