Good 36º foggy morning.
Yesterday it sprinkled on and off most of the day. Heated up to 49º! The
late about 2:30 the sun came out and we had a blistering temperature of
55º!!
Got less than 1/10" of rain.
OMGOSH, it's December! Whoppen????
So fast this year went! (I know.... talkin' like Yoda)
Throw Back Thursday....
1987 at the Sheriff's Dept Chili Cook Off:
Jerry and his pal Jim Klinger had a chili booth, and since they both worked at the BC Range, they called their chili booth "DERANGED CHILI" !
Yesterday I was going to go to Costco, but changed my mind. Not in the
mood. So, I hooked up my new speakers for my computer. Then made a birthday
card. Then the pest control guy came by and we had a great chat. He formerly
lived in Temple City, military family, horse person, and loves shooting! Long
discussions!
We bought this house on this date 1997. Didn't move in til spring in 1998.
Actually Jerry moved 17 trips of stuff up here and I moved up in August. Here is
the tractor he bought back then, his pickup in the background and the house, no
fence yet....
This funny little house was built in 1935. A shack! The foundation is so
odd, big rocks with trees sitting atop the rocks and the house on top of the
trees. Sort of like this:
No building codes back then. At least it's still standing and a lot of
improvements have been made.
LOL, so true!!!
Historically this date...
1824 – United
States presidential election, 1824: Since no candidate received a majority
of the total electoral
college votes in the election, the United
States House of Representatives is given the task of deciding the winner in
accordance with theTwelfth
Amendment to the United States Constitution.
1885 – First serving of the soft
drink Dr Pepper at a drug store
in Waco, Texas (United
States).
1952 – The New York Daily
News reports the news of Christine Jorgenson,
the first notable case of sexual
reassignment surgery.
1969 – Vietnam War: The first draft lottery in
the United States is held since World War
II.
2001 – Captain Bill Compton
brings Trans World
Airlines Flight 220, an MD-83, into St. Louis
International Airport bringing to an end 76 years of TWA operations
following TWA's purchase by American
Airlines.
And births this date
include....
1913 – Mary Martin, American actor
and singer (d. 1990)
1933 – Lou Rawls, American singer (d.
2006)
1935 – Woody Allen, American film
director, actor, and comedian
1939 – Lee Trevino, American
golfer
1940 – Richard Pryor, American
comic and actor (d. 2005)
Raised in a brothel run by his
grandmother where his mother was a prostitute beaten by his ne'er-do-well
father; a victim of sexual molestation at age six; abandoned by his mother at
age ten; a high school drop-out by 14; a father himself by 17... 6 wives, 7
children. Pryor set himself on fire after freebasing cocaine while drinking
151-proof rum. The man was a mess! Heart
attack and multiple sclerosis.
1945 – Bette Midler, American
actress and singer
Married to Martin Von Haselberg since
1984! Daughter Sophie.
1951 – Treat Williams, American
actor
Football tonight:
There is a collection barrel in Brian's
office. If you want to donate and don't want to drive to GP, let me know, I can
take it for you.
Brian's State Farm office in the
shopping center by Albertson's, The Vine, Tacos Locos, McDonalds .... Redwood
Hwy and Allen Creek Rd. Just one toy! It will go a long way to making a child
happy. Don't wait til the last minute!
Later dinner was some of my awesome chicken noodle soup I took out of the
freezer. Chair, wine, TV ... Code Black (with Rob Lowe...good show)
and Chicago Fire.
All I know. Nuff said. Happy TBT. Ciao.
xo Sue Mom
Bobo
December oneth
National Pie Day
Pastry history:
While the French have the reputation as the great pastry
makers, the Egyptians, who were great bread makers, worked out the details of
early pastry. There was a savory pastry: a dough of flour and water paste to
wrap around meat and soak up the juices as it cooked. Pastry was further
developed in the Middle East and brought to Mediterranean Europe by the Muslims
in the 7th century.
Another leap occurred in the 11th century, when Crusaders
brought phyllo dough back to Northern Europe (the First Crusade was 1096-1099).
Greek and Roman pastry did not progress as far as it could have because both
cultures used oil, which can't create a stiff pastry. In medieval Northern
Europe, the traditional us of lard and butter instead of oil for cooking
hastened the development of other pastry types. Pies developed, and the stiff
pie pastry was used to provide a casing for the various fillings. By the 17th
century, flaky and puff pastries were in use, developed by French and Italian
Renaissance chefs; and pastry began to become highly decorated, with pastry
chefs working intricate patterns on the
crusts.
