Good 38º clear sunny morning! HAPPY MAY DAY!
Can you believe it's May already???
Yesterday morning the gloom was depressing.
(That black spot in the sky is a goose flying by)
Although, the rain still abated, so I got out the riding
lawnmower and then we had SUN!!!
I mowed the front yard, while the two geese sat on the barn roof honking at me the whole time!, picked up some tree fall. That was it, the back was
screamin'. Had a pretty pile of flowers that had to be mowed.... pretty, wish
they had grown in the garden, not the grass!
Dude was happy I was out and he kept an eye on me.....
We warmed to 73º. Nice!
Boy, that sunshine certainly does a lot for improving your mood. The gloom had gotten everyone depressed!
Historically this date..........
1328 – Wars of
Scottish Independence end: Treaty of
Edinburgh-Northampton – theKingdom of
England recognises the Kingdom of
Scotland as an independent state.
This
is why Scottish Games are always played this time of year.... on this past
weekend.
1707 – The Act of Union joins
the Kingdom of
England and Kingdom of
Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great
Britain.
1785 – Kamehameha I, the king
of Hawaiʻi, defeats Kalanikupule and
establishes the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi.
1915 – The RMS Lusitania departs
from New York City on her two
hundred and second, and final, crossing of the North Atlantic. Six days
later, the ship is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland with the loss of 1,198
lives, including 128 Americans, rousing American sentiment against Germany.
1930 – The dwarf planet Pluto is officially named.
1931 – The Empire State Building is dedicated in New York City
1945 – World War II: Joseph Goebbels and his wife Magda commit suicide in the Reich Garden outside the Führerbunker. Their children are murdered by Magda by having cyanide pills inserted into their mouths.
1948 – The Democratic People's
Republic of Korea (North Korea) is established,
with Kim Il-sung as
leader.
1960 – Cold War: U-2 incident – Francis Gary Powers,
in a Lockheed U-2 spyplane, is shot down over
the Soviet Union, sparking a
diplomatic crisis.
1961 – The Prime Minister of Cuba, Fidel Castro, proclaims
Cuba a socialist nation and abolishes elections.
1991 – Rickey Henderson of
the Oakland
Athletics steals his 939th base, making him the all-time leader in this
category. However, his accomplishment is overshadowed later that evening by Nolan Ryan of the Texas Rangers,
when he pitches his seventh career no-hitter, breaking his own
record.
2007 – The Los
Angeles May Day mêlée occurs, in which the Los Angeles
Police Department's response to a May Day pro-immigration rally
become a matter of controversy.
2011 – Barack Obama announces
that Osama bin Laden, the
suspected mastermind behind the September 11
attacks is killed by United States special
forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Due to
the time difference between the United States and Pakistan, bin Laden was
actually killed on May 2.
And births this date
include...
1852 – Calamity Jane, American
frontierswoman (d. 1903)
1916 – Glenn Ford, Canadian actor
(d. 2006)
1925 – Scott Carpenter,
American astronaut (d.2013)
Darn! He was so cute when he was
young!
1967 – Tim McGraw, American singer
and actor
Later for dinner I baked an Omaha Steaks Chicken Kiev and a
stuffed baked potato...
Olive oil mayonnaise with cracked pepper was the dipping sauce.
OMGOOOOD!!!!
A friend sent an email with a lot photos of "old stuff" and I found the
ones I have...
I have one of these egg slicers... somewhere!
Here's my cracker tin, grater, butter slicer, and peeler................
I had a great long talk with my pal Karen aka Sugar Bear. Her daughter in
law lost her life a couple weeks ago after being hit by a semi on I-5.
The service was on Saturday. Karen's son is an Oregon State Senator. All of
the Senators attended as well as Congressman Walden and the Oregon Governor Kate
Brown. RIP Leta. Love and good thoughts to your Herman and sons.
All I know. Nuff said. Happy Monday. Ciao.
xo Sue Mom
Bobo
May 1st
National Chocolate Parfait Day
- Dark chocolate has more antioxidants than green tea and just as many as blueberries.
- White chocolate really isn’t chocolate. It’s made from cocoa butter, the substance you get by pressing cocoa beans. Cocoa butter is absent of the cocoa solids used to make chocolate.
- Chocolate was consumed by the ancient Aztecs as a frothy beverage, somewhat like hot chocolate we drink today.
- Chocolate comes from a plant, called Theobroma cacao, which translates “Food of the Gods”.
- Eating chocolate can also reduce the symptoms of stress.
Parfait is the French word for 'perfect'. It is the original French sundae.
It was made with a custard base ice cream flavored with fruit purée and whipped
with a lot of air to a delicate texture. Ice cream was not scooped, but
pre-frozen in individual serving containers, typically the long tapered parfait
glasses. In America a parfait became a particular type of sundae, different from
the French one. An American parfait layers syrup and other garnishes between
layers of ice cream, instead of adding them all on top.
