Good 51º clear sunny morning. I think we hit 93º yesterday and should be
about the same today.
Remember when part of the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge collapsed after
the earthquake in 1989?
The World Series baseball game was being played at Candlestick Park. My
nephew Andy was there and said the upper deck swung back and forth! Brian and I
were on our way to Tahoe to see my sister. The game went off the air and we had
no idea an earthquake had happened. When we go to my sister's, Marion was
jumping up and down on her deck shouting at us "THE BRIDGE FELL DOWN, THE BRIDGE
FELL DOWN!!! We both wondered what she had been smokin'!!!
There is been a rebuilding project on the bridge...
It was supposed to be a mild number it ended up costing over $6 billion!!!
But the stupid part is that the work was outsourced to China!!! WTF????
Original estimate for the bridge was $1.2 billion. So instead of having U.S.
steel workers build the new bridge, China did it and over charged us. Well, how
about them California Dems being in charge!! Duh. Willie Brown was the mayor of
SF. The U.S. steel workers union protested, but to no avail!
7 years ago today I had my back surgery. Interesting how they put in 2 rods
held by 4 screws into my L4 & L5 (lower back). The scar is only about 4"
long. Amazing. A friend's similar back surgery 30 years earlier left him a scar
from his neck to his butt!!
The above x-ray isn't mine, it shows two rods and screws in a neck......
but similar to what they did in my back. The bill for the surgery listed the
screws and rods costing $26,000!!! OMGOSH, why didn't the get them at Ace
Hardware???? LOL.
Interesting thing I just read about. Abraham Lincoln loved cats. Actually
he loved all animals. The article is really interesting...
According to his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln,
President Lincoln's only hobby was cats. One age-old tale of Lincoln happened
when he visited General Grant at City Point, Virginia in 1865. The Civil War was
near an end and Lincoln and Grant were faced with bringing a country that had
been divided back together. Lincoln could have gone to a pub, or he could have
stayed home and prayed, but what did he do instead? He found three orphaned
kittens and carried them around City Point until he found them a
home.
Historically this date...
1812 – War of
1812: The U.S.
President James
Madison asks
the Congress to declare war on the United
Kingdom.
1813 – James
Lawrence, the mortally-wounded commander of the USS Chesapeake, gives
his final order: "Don't give up the ship!"1974 – The Heimlich
maneuver for rescuing
choking victims is published in the journal Emergency
Medicine.
2009
– General
Motors files for Chapter
11 bankruptcy. It is the
fourth largest United States bankruptcy in history.
And births
this date include...
1926 – Andy
Griffith, American actor, singer, director, producer, and writer (d.
2012)
1926
– Marilyn
Monroe, American model, actress, singer, and producer (d.
1962)
1937 – Morgan
Freeman, American actor and director
1953
– Ronnie
Dunn, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Brooks &
Dunn)
1973
– Heidi
Klum, German model, actress, fashion designer, and
producer
Here is a
Smilebox from Monday Memorial Day at Jennifer's...
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All I know.
Nuff said. Happy Hump Day. Ciao.
xo Sue Mom Bobo
June
1st
National
Olive Day
Daddy had 4 olive trees. Every year
he'd pick the olives, clean them, and put them into a stoneware crock with water
and lye and let them cure. After they were cured he'd clean them again, really
well, and then put them in brine. Lots of salt and water. That would take
another couple weeks. Then he'd can them. They were green olives with the seeds
in them. At dinner we'd open a jar and the "winner" was the one (either Marion
or I) with the most seeds next to our plate!!! GOSH they were good!!
