Good 48º cloudy drizzling morning.
Was quite cloudy in the morning yesterday.
Sun came and went and so did the rain. I think we hit 65º.
Yesterday morning Tucker's baseball game was at 9am. I went to that....
Came home...... Rogue River's Depot Street Bridge...
When I got home Dave had already started the brush-hogging...
He worked at it until 7pm and part of the time he was out there it POURED
rain!!! That guy is one tough dude!!! He said he did the hardest part yesterday
and will probably return today to finish up.
Historically this date..
1906 –
The Wright
brothers are
granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their
"Flying-Machine".
1915 – Lassen
Peak erupts with
a powerful force, and is the only mountain other thanMount St.
Helens to erupt in
the contiguous US during the 20th century.
1942 –
World War II: Ted
Williams of the Boston Red
Sox enlists in
the United States
Marine Corps as a flight
instructor.
1960 – An earthquake measuring 9.5 on the moment
magnitude scale, now
known as the Great Chilean
Earthquake, hits southern Chile. It is the
most powerful earthquake ever recorded.
1968 – The nuclear-powered submarine the USS Scorpion sinks with 99 men aboard 400 miles southwest
of the Azores.
1992 – After 30 years, 66-year-old Johnny
Carson hosts The
Tonight Show for the last
time.
2004 – The U.S. town of Hallam,
Nebraska, is wiped out by a powerful F4 tornado(part
of the May 2004
tornado outbreak sequence) that broke
a width record at an astounding 2.5 miles (4.0 km) wide, which kills one
resident.
2008 – The Late-May 2008
tornado outbreak sequence unleashes 235 tornadoes,
including an EF4 and an EF5 tornado, between May 22 and May 31, 2008.
The tornadoes struck 19 states and one Canadian
province.
2011 – An EF5 Tornado strikes Joplin,
Missouri killing 161
people, the single deadliest tornado in the United
States since modern
record keeping began in 1950.
And births
this date include....
1938 – Richard
Benjamin, American actor
.....still
married to Paula Prentis!
1940
– Michael
Sarrazin, Canadian actor (d. 2011)
1942
– Barbara
Parkins, Canadian actress
Later I was feeling lousy. Cold coming on... sneezing, coughing, runny
nose. ICK!!! Took Zycam and drank hot tea. Was not in the mood for dinner. Some better today. Will continue with the Zycam and eating light.
This is the movie I watched Saturday evening...
Pal Linda had told me about it and she liked, so I found and recorded it.
Called "Joy".
It was a totally weird flick. About a woman, Jennifer Lawrence played Joy,
who invented the Miracle Mop
The cast of characters is wild.... Joan River's daughter plays Joan, a
number of the names are so very familiar, but I didn't recognize them. The whole
movie is around a totally dysfunctional family...
All I know. Nuff said. Happy Sunday. Ciao.
xo Sue Mom
Bobo
May 22nd
National Vanilla Pudding Day
Vanilla Pudding History
May 22 is National Vanilla Pudding Day,
but what we enjoy today is far different from the dish’s origins.
Culinary historians believe that the
precursor of vanilla pudding originated in earl early medieval Europe, an
evolution of an Arab pudding-like dish of rice and almonds. The oldest recipe
known dates back to the early 13th century, a translation that is believed to
have been based on a manuscript from the 12th century or earlier.
Over the centuries, the recipe turned
into blancmange (pronounced blah-MOHNJ), meaning “white dish,” from the Old
French blanc mangier. This dish was enjoyed by Europe’s wealthy
during the Middle Ages. It appears frequently in recipe collections of the time
from all over the Continent, and is called one of “the few truly international
dishes of medieval and early modern Europe.”*
*Source:
Wikipedia.
The dish is referred to in the
prologue to Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and in an early 15th century
cookbook written by the chefs of Richard II. We first came across the reference
as a child, in the book Little Women.
Originally a white stew, the key
ingredients of the original blancmange were milk or almond milk, sugar and
shredded capon or fish. In the 17th century, the meat was dropped and the dish
evolved into a dessert pudding made with cream and eggs (and, later, gelatin*).
In the 19th century, arrowroot and cornstarch were added and the dish evolved
into the final, modern blanc mange, known in the U.S. as vanilla pudding (and
originally known as cornstarch
pudding).
