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Wednesday, June 7, 2023

Weather ~ Picture of the Day ~ Seattle ~ Bacon Cheddar Bites ~ Jim and Mel Plumbridge ~ National Chocolate Ice Cream Day

  


Good 59º cloudy morning. 
 
 
Yesterday the dark clouds moved in and we had thunder and rain in some places......... and a crazy sunset............




 
Picture of the day..... perfect timing 😀
 

 
Interesting about Seattle..........
 

Seattle (/siˈætəl/  see-AT-əl) is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States. It is the seat of King CountyWashington. With a 2020 population of 737,015, it is the largest city in both the state of Washington and the Pacific Northwest region of North America. The Seattle metropolitan area's population is 4.02 million, making it the 15th-largest in the United States. Its growth rate of 21.1% between 2010 and 2020 made it one of country's fastest-growing large cities.

 

Seattle is situated on an isthmus between Puget Sound (an inlet of the Pacific Ocean) and Lake Washington. It is the northernmost major city in the United States, located about 100 miles south of the Canadian border. A major gateway for trade with East Asia, Seattle is the fourth-largest port in North America in terms of container handling as of 2021.

 

The Seattle area was inhabited by Native Americans for at least 4,000 years before the first permanent European settlers. Arthur A. Denny and his group of travelers, subsequently known as the Denny Party, arrived from Illinois via Portland, Oregon, on the schooner Exact at Alki Point on November 13, 1851. The settlement was moved to the eastern shore of Elliott Bay in 1852 and named "Seattle" in honor of Native American Chief Si'ahl of the local Duwamish and Suquamish tribes. Seattle currently has high populations of Native Americans alongside Americans with strong Asian, African, European, and Scandinavian ancestry, and hosts the sixth-largest LGBT community in the U.S.

 

Logging was Seattle's first major industry, but by the late 19th century, the city had become a commercial and shipbuilding center as a gateway to Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush. Growth after World War II was partially due to the local Boeing company, which established Seattle as a center for aircraft manufacturing. The Seattle area developed into a technology center from the 1980s on wards with companies like Microsoft becoming established in the region; Microsoft founder Bill Gates is a Seattleite by birth. Internet retailer Amazon was founded in Seattle in 1994, and major airline Alaska Airlines is based in SeaTac, Washington, serving Seattle's international airport, Seattle–Tacoma International Airport. The stream of new software, biotechnology, and Internet companies led to an economic revival, which increased the city's population by almost 50,000 between 1990 and 2000.

 

The culture of Seattle is heavily defined by its significant musical history. Between 1918 and 1951, nearly 24 jazz nightclubs existed along Jackson Street, from the current Chinatown/International District to the Central District. The jazz scene nurtured the early careers of Ernestine AndersonRay CharlesQuincy Jones, and others. The city is also the origin of rock acts such as Foo FightersHeart, and Jimi Hendrix, as well as the grunge subgenre of rock and its pioneering bands Alice in ChainsPearl JamNirvana, and Soundgarden.

 

You can read a whole lot more, go here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle

 

 

From Mr. Food
 

Need a quick and flavorful appetizer you can whip up in just 20 minutes? Well, you don't need a ton of ingredients to make our Bacon Cheddar Bites and you can bet these babies will disappear right before your eyes!
 
  • 1 cup milk
  • 1/2 stick butter
  • 1 cup all-purpose flour
  • 4 eggs
  • 8 slices bacon, cooked crisp and crumbled
  • 1/3 cup thinly sliced scallions
  • 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese
  • 3/4 teaspoon salt

 

  1. Preheat oven to 350º. Coat 2 baking sheets with cooking spray.
  2. In a medium saucepan over medium heat, combine milk and butter until butter is melted and mixture is hot. Add flour and stir vigorously with a wooden spoon, until mixture forms a ball. Remove from heat. Stir in 1 egg until mixture is smooth. Repeat with remaining eggs, adding 1 egg at a time, until thoroughly combined. Stir in remaining ingredients.
  3. Drop mixture by teaspoonfuls onto prepared baking sheets.
  4. Bake 15 to 18 minutes, or until puffed and golden brown. Serve warm.

 

***Serve this with picante sauce for dipping.
 
 
 
Yesterday my nephew Jim and his wife Mel and their two dogs drove up from California. We met for dinner at the Rivers Edge restaurant.....


I'll have some pictures tomorrow.
 

 
 
Historically this date.........
1692 – Port RoyalJamaica, is hit by a catastrophic earthquake; in just three minutes, 1,600 people are killed and 3,000 are seriously injured.

 
1832 – Asian cholera reaches Quebec, brought by Irish immigrants, and kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada.

 
1982 – Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public; the bathroom where Elvis Presley died five years earlier is kept off-limits.

 
2013 – A gunman opens fire at Santa Monica College in Santa Monica, California, after setting a house on fire nearby, killing six people, including the suspect.

 
 
And births this date include...
 
1917 – Dean Martin, American singer, actor, and producer (d. 1995)
 
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1940 – Tom Jones, Welsh singer and actor
If you read his page and click on "personal life" he was quite the gad-about!!!
What a handsome guy back then!!
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1952 – Liam Neeson, Irish actor
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All I know. Nuff said. Have a good Wednesday. Ciao.
xo Sue Mom Bobo

To observe National Chocolate Ice Cream Day on June 7th all you need is chocolate ice cream. Who says you have to stop there, though? You can have it in a cone or make it from scratch. Add sprinkles or syrup or whipped cream.
Chocolate ice cream is the second most common flavor, surpassed only by vanilla. The chocolate-flavored ice cream has been in existence well over a hundred years and has been popular in the United States since the late 19th century.
Cocoa powder is blended in with eggs, cream, vanilla, and sugar to make chocolate ice cream. The cocoa powder is what gives the ice cream a brown color. Other flavors, such as rocky road or triple chocolate chunk, use chocolate ice cream in their creation.

How to observe...

While you can enjoy this day with a scoop or two, you could also explore the variety of chocolate ice creams available, too. “How many kinds of chocolate ice cream can there be?” you might ask. Well, you might be surprised. For starters, of course, there’s dark chocolate and milk chocolate. But then we can add peanut butter or marshmallow. We just recently celebrated Rocky Road. And don’t forget all the kinds of fudge. Some people like chocolate and mint mixed together, too. And the list goes on and on.

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