Good 36º very foggy morning.
Yep:
I got this from high school pal, Mary (Fancher) Zavala... OMGOSH! The
husband and wife are on an African safari and they see a cheetah chasing
down a small antelope. The husband remarked that the antelope might escape. The
wife answers, "If that antelope survives this one, I'll give you sex every day
for the rest of your life." For the results, click on the link ... only 20 seconds long!
Yesterday stayed gloomy and foggy til about noon... and then SUNSHINE!!!
And the birds were out and happy...
We warmed to 57º by 2:15. Heat wave! Turned off the heater. Bruiser came in
for a nap on my printer/scanners....
And then the sun went away at 2:30! Clouds came in....
Historically this date...
1935 – The United States
national debt is 0 for the only
time.
1981 – A local farmer reports a UFO
sighting in Trans-en-Provence, France, claimed to
be "perhaps the most completely and carefully documented sighting of all
time".
1994 – Russian cosmonaut Valeri
Polyakov on Soyuz TM-18 leaves for Mir. He
would stay on the space
station until March
22, 1995, for a record 437 days in space.
2011 – An attempted assassination of Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle
Giffords and
subsequent shooting in Casas Adobes,
Arizona at a Safeway grocery store kills 6 people and wounds 13,
including Giffords.
And births
this date include....
1911
– Gypsy Rose
Lee, American actress and entertainer (d. 1970)
1912 – José
Ferrer, Puerto Rican actor (d. 1992)
Married to
Rosemary Cloony and had 5 children.
1935
– Elvis
Presley, American singer (d. 1977)
1942
– Yvette
Mimieux, American actress
1947
– David
Bowie, English musician
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Here is some history of the LA River. If you grew up there like I did, this
is interesting. ..... and a picture of it today, filled up from all the rains
...
When the Spanish government decided in 1777 to construct its first
agricultural settlements in California to feed the missions and presidios, they
picked a site on high ground west of the river they called El Río de Nuestra
Señora La Reina de Los Ángeles de Porciúncula.
The namesake settlement of Los Angeles became the second city in
California after San Jose, with a water ditch — the zanja madre — diverting flow
to the city.
The river, its tributaries and artesian wells made Los Angeles County one
of the biggest cattle and food producing centers in the nation. Fishermen caught
steelhead trout in the pools, and waterwheels ran flour mills in the
currents.
But as Yankee newcomers poured in during the 19th century and settled on
lower-lying areas, they suffered catastrophic floods.
After epochal rains in 1862 turned much of the basin into a lake,
residents began clamoring to raise the banks of the river and build upstream
dams.
What made the river so tempestuous was topography. Pacific storms stall
against the San Gabriels, some of the steepest mountains in the world, with
sparse vegetation to slow down the rainwater as it plummets down granite
canyons.
Water from 834 square miles of rugged terrain, some higher than 7,000
feet, drains into the L.A. River. Excluding the mountain washes that feed it,
the main river drops 800 feet from its source in Canoga Park to its mouth in
Long Beach, 51 miles away. The Mississippi drops that much over 2,300
miles.
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Shared by Cyndi! LOL!!! True.
Later it was reruns for dinner... chair, wine, TV.
All I know. Nuff said. Happy TGIF. Ciao.
xo Sue Mom Bobo
January 8th
National Toffee Day
Who would think, to look at a cup of sugar and a bar
of butter, that combining the two at high heat would produce wonderful toffee!
Thank goodness for adventurous cooks.
Toffee is basically caramelized sugar and
butter...but follow the trail after that and the story gets confusing. Read all
about it in The ABC’s of Toffee (including the difference between toffee and
buttercrunch).
A favorite is Cary's Of Oregon for toffee. They make
a trail mix that is fabulous!!! Made with toasted almonds, dried cranberries,
raisins, and large chunks of their toffee. http://www.carysoforegon.com/
Cary's is located in Grants Pass on Union Street behind Three Rivers
Hospital. You can purchase their products in person on on line at the above
website.
