Good 54º super smokey morning. Yesterday stayed thick as
molasses most of the day and finally in the afternoon it cleared a bit and I
could see my mountain. Gone again now! We topped at 95º here in Rogue River, but Grants Pass was 100º.
Breakfast yesterday..
A couple hard boiled eggs, leftover vegetables from dinner,
avocado, and yogurt. I am so disappointed in the avocados. I got a bag of 4 from
Costco. Two were perfect, one was so horrible I threw it out, and this one was
sadly not perfect. I do know a bit about avocados ... how to store them, when
they are ripe, etc. Daddy had an avocado tree with about 5 varieties
grafted onto it. We had Hass and Fuerte, but can't remember the others... They
all matured at different times of the year, so we had avocados year round! So,
the avocados 2 out of the 4 being bad, pissed me off!
Talk about things that piss you off..... this is SO DISGUSTING... What they
did should happen to them!
I heard some odd type of "gobbling" outside, and here were two Toms in a
fight...
The one on the left was going after the other one and puffing out his
feathers. It's an assertion of dominance. Here's an example of what they were
doing...
Historically this date....
1966 – The Beatles perform their last concert before paying fans at Candlestick
Park in San Francisco.
1970 – Chicano
Moratorium against the Vietnam War, East Los Angeles,
California. Police riot kills three people,
including journalist Ruben Salazar.
2005 – Hurricane
Katrina devastates much of the U.S. Gulf
Coast from Louisiana to the Florida
Panhandle, killing more than 1,836 and causing
over $80 billion in damage
2007 – 2007 United States Air Force nuclear
weapons incident: six US cruise missiles armed
with nuclear warheads are flown without proper authorization from Minot Air Force
Base to Barksdale Air Force
Base.
And births this date
include...
1916 – George
Montgomery, American actor (d.
2000)
Jerry and I met him once
at the Pomona Fair. He was into woodworking and made some beautiful furniture.
Nice man. Big/tall.
1923 – Richard
Attenborough, English film director (d.
8-14)
1936 – John McCain, American politician
POS!!!
1938 – Elliott Gould, American actor
...
weird.....weird.....weird...
1940 – James Brady, American White House Press
Secretary and gun control activist
(d.8-14)
1958 – Michael
Jackson, American pop singer (d. 2009)
Interesting fact shared by my pal Sugar Bear:
WHY?
In golf,
where did the term 'Caddie' come from?
BECAUSE..
When Mary
Queen of Scots went to France as a young girl, Louis, King of France, learned
that she loved the Scots game 'golf.' He had the first course outside of
Scotland built for her enjoyment. To make sure she was properly chaperoned (and
guarded) while she played, Louis hired cadets from a military school to
accompany her.
Mary liked
this a lot and when she returned to Scotland (not a very good idea in the long
run), she took the practice with her. In French, the word cadet is pronounced
'ca-day' and the Scots changed it into caddie.
I had sent a photo into KOBI5-TV of the smoke hiding my mountain yesterday
..... they put it on the 6 o'clock news!!!
Dinner was an Omaha Italian Breaded Veal Patty. Ground veal with Italian
seasonings, bread crumbs, Romano cheese, garlic, and cornmeal....
Thawed and sauteéd in olive oil and had it along with some Schwans green
beans and some of my homemade sweet hot chili sauce. OMGOOOD!
Sunset last night...
All I know. Nuff said. Happy Tuesday. Ciao.
xo Sue Mom
Bobo
August 29th
Today's 5 facts about Chop Suey:
- Chop suey is a Chinese American dish originating in the mid to late 19th century for Chinese immigrants in San Francisco
- Many believe there are similar recipes in the Toisan region of China.
- A chop suey fad swept the ‘big city’. In 1896, Americans began to visit New York Chinese restaurants in large numbers for the first time.
- Chop suey consists of small pieces of meat, chicken or shrimp stir-fried with celery, onions, bean sprouts, water chestnuts, mushrooms and/or other vegetables, and served over rice, usually with soy sauce.
- Most Chinese servers in the 1890’s were know for their yellow jackets.
