Good 39º cloudy morning. No fog! No rain predicted until tomorrow. Wow, two
days without that wet stuff falling from the sky! Yeah! Some different clouds
out there...
Throw Back Thursday
Me 2008 on NY-Nova Scotia cruise......
Yesterday was back therapy day, pick up packages at Post Office day, pick
up prescriptions day. I got the new tags for my licence plates. Put the one on the back plate, but the front one is so low, and with my back, I couldn't get down there to unscrew the plate frame and put it on. I was going to ask Brian to help me with it the other day when I was at his office, but it was pouring rain. So yesterday I stopped at Ace and asked one of the hunky guys, Dan, to help me. He did it! Yes. Thank you Big D !!!
Historically this date...
............remember the Opel Kadett? What a weird little
car!
1908 – New York
City passes
the Sullivan
Ordinance, making it illegal for women to smoke in public, only to
have the measure vetoed by the mayor.
1911 – The first Monte Carlo
Rally takes
place.
1915 – Kiwanis
International is founded in Detroit,
Michigan.
1954 – The first nuclear-powered submarine,
the USS Nautilus,
is launched in Groton,
Connecticut by Mamie
Eisenhower, the First Lady of
the United States.
1968 – Vietnam
War: Battle of Khe
Sanh – One of the
most publicized and controversial battles of the war
begins.
1997 – Newt
Gingrich becomes the
first leader of the United States
House of Representatives to be internally disciplined for ethical
misconduct.
.........if
you read the section on his ethics sanctions, sounds like they were all dropped
for lack of any evidence of wrong doing and the IRS investigated the tax-exempt
status of a class connected to Gingrich and all connected were cleared.
AND....."the House Ethics Committee concluded that inaccurate information
supplied to investigators represented "intentional or ... reckless" disregard of
House rules". Sounds like a bunch of Democrats were pissed he was, after 40
years of Democrat rule in the house, the Republican speaker! Gee what a surprise
that Democrats are liars!
1999 – War on
Drugs: In one of the largest drug busts in American
history, the United States
Coast Guard intercepts a ship with over 4,300 kilograms
(9,500 lb) of cocaine on board.
And births
this date include....
1813 – John C.
Frémont, American army officer, explorer and presidential candidate
(d. 1890)
1824 – Thomas
"Stonewall" Jackson,
American, Confederate army general (d. 1863)
1905 – Christian
Dior, French fashion designer (d. 1957)
1922 – Telly
Savalas, American actor (d. 1994)
Interesting
read (if you click on his name <g>)
1926
– Steve
Reeves, American actor (d. 2000)
1938 – Wolfman
Jack, American disk jockey and actor (d.
1995)
1940 – Jack
Nicklaus, American golfer
1941 – Plácido
Domingo, Spanish tenor
1956
– Geena
Davis, American actress
LOL: (Just for you, Bri!!)
My friend Dave Clark (LASD ret) who is a pilot and has pilot friends was
sent this photo from a pal of his who was flying took this of Mt. Rainier....
beautiful!
Email pal, Maryann Teri, sent this. Go pour a cup of coffee or if it's
later pour a glass of wine and watch this. It's 8 minutes and an AMAZING
Humpback Whale rescue. Very moving. I was crying tears of joy! Thanks
Maryann!
Later in my chair with a cat on my lap (giving me "the stare" when I get my
phone out to take a picture)!
Dinner was Jennifer's Manhattan Clam Chowder....(odd today is New England
Clam Chowder Day!)
She said she'd give me the recipe... I'll share..... Really good!
All I know. Nuff said. Happy TBT. Ciao
xo Sue Mom
Bobo
January 21st
New England Clam Chowder Day
Here is my dear sweet late sister's recipe... soooo good!!!
Marion's Clam Chowder
4 slices bacon, cut into small
pieces
3 green onions and tops,
chopped
5 medium potatoes, cut in small cubes
(red is good with skin on)
1/2 green pepper, chopped
1 carrot grated or cut up
small
3 small stalks celery, chopped
small
1 clove garlic, mashed or minced (I use
3!)
salt and pepper to taste
5 drops hot pepper seasoning (for more
heat, leave bottle on table!)
1 T. Worchestershire
2 cups chopped clams
1 pint of 1/2 & 1/2 (use the fat
free)
3 bottles clam juice
In large kettle cook bacon until crisp.
Drain off most of the grease, then add the onions, potatoes, green pepper,
celery, carrot, and garlic. Drain the clams, saving the juice. Set clams aside.
Pour the juice from the clams and the bottles of clam juice into the pot, season
with salt and pepper, add hot pepper and Worchestershire. Cover, bring to boil,
lower heat and simmer until veggies are tender .... about 20 minutes. Add clams
and 1/2 & 1/2. Stir and heat. Do not boil. Ladle into bowls. Add more
vegetables and/or bacon... to your taste. Serves 4. This is not the 'thick' kind
of chowder, it's lighter and thin. You can also add less clam juice and more
clams if that's your preference. You could even add some boxed mashed potatoes
to thicken it. Go slow with them.... add and
test.
