Moon~ Rain ~ Computer ~ Neil Ornstein ~ Omaha Steak & Green Beans ~ Deer ~ Bruiser ~ Val Smullen & Nan Chippola ~ Jelly Donuts

 

June 6 Waxing Gibbous 92%

June 7 Waxing Gibbous 96%

TODAY June 8 Waxing Gibbous Illumination: 99%

 

 

Good 56º raining morning.

 

Rain started yesterday afternoon, just a sprinkling, but got harder. We ended up with 1/4" since yesterday and more is coming down now. See what happens when I wash my car!

 

I don't know how long I can keep the blog going, still more problems with the computer. Using my old one right now, which is slower than molasses! We'll see.............

 

 

Today is a special birthday, Neil Ornstein (LASD ret). HAPPY BIRTHDAY NEIL!!

 

Historically this date...

1949 – The celebrities Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson are named in an FBI report as Communist Party members.

1953 – An F5 tornado hits Beecher, Michigan, killing 116, injuring 844, and destroying 340 homes.

1966 – Topeka, Kansas, is devastated by a tornado that registers as an "F5" on the Fujita Scale: the first to exceed US$100 million in damages. Sixteen people are killed, hundreds more injured, and thousands of homes damaged or destroyed.

1972 – Vietnam War: The Associated Press photographer Nick Ut takes his Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of a naked 9-year-old Phan Thị Kim Phúc running down a road after being burned by napalm.

 

And births this date include...

1925 – Barbara Bush, American wife of George H. W. Bush, 41st First Lady of the United States

 

1927 – Jerry Stiller, American comedian and actor

              .......ick. can't stand him!

 

1933 – Joan Rivers, American comedian, actress, and author (d.2014)

             ........... ditto ick!

                         

 

1936 – James Darren, American actor, singer, and director

 

1940 – Nancy Sinatra, American singer and actress

 

 

 

Dinner last night was an Omaha Steak I cooked in the Air Fryer (http://www.powerairfryer.com/) with a drizzle of olive oil and a sprinkling of garlic salt, 15 minutes at 370º. The green beans are something new, from Schwans (http://www.schwans.com/).... they come in a steamer bag, frozen, and you just put them in the microwave for a few minutes and VOILA ! Really good!!!!

I am loving everything I have gotten from Schwans, like I love Omaha Steaks. Their ham and cheese omelett cookes from being frozen for 2 minutes in the micro and they are GOOD!!!!

 

Here is the little deer that was munching the grape leaves outside my bathroom window...

 

And Bruiser was out and about before the rains started...

 

 

Missed special days so far this month ..

Belated Happy Birthday to

Val Smullen on June 4th

Nan Chippola on June 6th

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LADIES~!! 

 

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

xo Sue Mom Bobo

June 8th

National Jelly Filled Donut Day

 

Spell It Doughnut Or Donut, Just Spell It Delicious

                     (Krispy Kreme glazed raspberry filled donut!!! OMG!)

Introduction: Doughnut History

A doughnut is a pastry, a small, fried ring of sweet, leavened dough. Doughnuts leavened with baking powder are more dense than the fluffier, yeast-leavened doughnuts.

There are many types of doughnuts. Just a few examples include bismarks or jelly doughnuts, raised doughnuts leavened with yeast, squares and twists, crullers made from twisted cake-doughnut dough and French doughnuts made with cream-puff pastry dough. Doughnuts can be filled or unfilled, plain, glazed or iced.

Originally a Dutch recipe without a hole, the dough is dropped into hot oil, and was originally called an olykoek, or oily cake. The first written reference to “doughnut” is in Washington Irving’s 1809 in History of New York, where he writes of “balls of sweetened dough, fried in hog’s fat, and called doughnuts, or olykoeks.” The first known printed record of the shortened “donut” appears in “Peck’s Bad Boy And His Pa,” a story by George W. Peck published in 1900.

As the story goes, in 1847, 16-year-old American Hanson Gregory created the hole in the center of the doughnut. He used the top of a round tin pepper container to punch the holes, so the dough would cook evenly.

And the rest is history