Snow! ~ Jennifer Murphy ~ George Foreman

Good 32º it snowed morning!!

I was totally shocked to see the snow when I got up.

I checked all the road cams and we are the only place that got snow besides the Siskiyou and Sexton summits!!!!! Joy.

Welcome to Oregon!!!

Yesterday was a day of resting and recuperating from the game Sunday.

Today is a special birthday .... Jennifer Murphy. She works today so yesterday I met up with Jennifer & Mike, Bob, and Dave & Nancy to celebrate Jennifer's birthday. We ate at Taqueria de Guacamaya in Rogue River... my favorite Mexican restaurant...

L-R Jennifer, me, David, Nancy, Bob, Mike

I just love their tamales...

They have several kinds... chicken, pork, and cheese (with spinach!) OMGOOD!!! And I had a taco.

Historically this date...

1935 – The classic board game Monopoly is invented.

I have a few... original one from 1930's that was my family's with arrow... with the original game pieces made from metal and the hotels made from wood....

1962 – The United States bans all Cuban imports and exports.

.... sad for all the Cuban cigar smokers!

1964 – The Beatles first arrived in the United States. Their performance on The Ed Sullivan Show two days later would mark the beginning of the British Invasion.

1984 – Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B Mission – Astronauts Bruce McCandless IIand Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered space walk using the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU).

1995 – Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, is arrested in Islamabad, Pakistan.

And births this date include...

1804 – John Deere, American manufacturer (Deere & Company) (d. 1886)

....it's a birth date for writers!

1812 – Charles Dickens, English novelist (d. 1870)

1867 – Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author (d. 1957)

1885 – Sinclair Lewis, American writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1951)

1908 – Buster Crabbe, American swimmer and actor (d. 1983)

   

1955 – Miguel Ferrer, American actor (d.2016)

1962 – Garth Brooks, American singer

1978 – Ashton Kutcher, American actor

                             gag!

This is interesting about George Foreman..

George Foreman spent six months here in Grants Pass in the Job Corps, and in his autobiography "By George," the former heavyweight champion boxer turned preacher, entrepreneur and author says he was "reborn" in Grants Pass.

 

http://www.mailtribune.com/article/20150417/SPORTS/150419551

http://www.thepoliticalinsider.com/heavyweight-champion-george-foreman-grilled-on-his-support-of-trump/

All I know. Nuff said. Happy Tuesday. Ciao.

xo Sue Mom Bobo

February 7th

National Fettuccine Alfredo Day

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fettuccine_Alfredo