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Thursday, May 23, 2024

Weather ~ Picture of the Day ~ Pat Boone ~ Skillet Corned Beef and Cabbage ~ National Lucky Penny Day

  


Good 34º morning.  Be careful out there, it's a full moon! 
 
 
Yesterday we started at 53º and cloudy. Later most of the clouds left except for a few little ones... We topped at 74º.
 


 
Picture of the Day😊 High five from "friends". 
 

 
Interesting about Pat Boone.....
 
                             ^1960
 

Patrick Charles Eugene Boone (born June 1, 1934) is an American singer, actor, television personality and composer. During his recording career, he sold nearly 50 million records, had 38 Top 40 hits, and he also appeared in various Hollywood films.

 

According to Billboard, Boone was the only singer that could compete in popularity with Elvis Presley during the 1950s. Always Billboard, has ranked Pat as one of the biggest charting artists in the period 1955–1995. Until the 2010s, Boone held the record for spending 220 consecutive weeks on the Billboard charts with one or more songs each week.

 

During the 1950s and the 1960s Boone was one of the most popular entertainer in the United States, becoming a teen idol as a valide alternative to the hedonism of rock and roll, thanks to his activities as singer, writer, actor and religious motivational speaker. In 1957, the age of 23, Boone began hosting a half-hour ABC variety television series, The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom, which aired for 115 episodes (1957–1960). Many musical performers including Edie AdamsAndy WilliamsPearl Bailey, and Johnny Mathis made appearances on the show.[8] His cover versions of rhythm and blues hits had a noticeable effect on the development of the broad popularity of rock and rollElvis Presley was the opening act for a 1955 Pat Boone show in Brooklyn, Ohio.

 

As an author, Boone had a number-one bestseller in the 1950s ('Twixt Twelve and Twenty, Prentice-Hall). In the 1960s he focused on gospel music. Later he became a member of the Gospel Music Hall of Fame. He continues to perform and speak as a motivational speaker, a television personality, and a conservative political commentator.

 

Early life

Boone was born on June 1, 1934, in Jacksonville, Florida, the son of Margaret Virginia (née Pritchard) and Archie Altman Boone. He grew up in Nashville, where his family moved when he was two years old. Pat Boone graduated in 1952 from David Lipscomb High School in Nashville. His younger brother Cecil (1935–2023), professionally known as Nick Todd, was born a year later to the day, and was also a pop singer in the 1950s and later a church music leader.

 

In a 2007 interview on The 700 Club, Boone claimed to be the great-great-great-great-grandson of the American pioneer Daniel Boone.

 

Pat primarily attended David Lipscomb College, and later Lipscomb University in Nashville. He graduated in 1958 from Columbia University School of General Studies magna cum laude having previously attended North Texas State University, now known as the University of North Texas, in Denton, Texas.

 

Boone began his career by performing in Nashville's Centennial Park. He began recording in April 1953 for Republic Records (not to be confused with the current label with that name), and by 1955, for Dot Records. His 1955 version of Fats Domino's "Ain't That a Shame" was a hit. This set the stage for the early part of Boone's career, which focused on covering R&B songs by Black artists for a white American market. Randy Wood, the owner of Dot, had issued an R&B single by the Griffin Brothers in 1951 called "Tra La La-a"—a different song from the later LaVern Baker one—and he was keen to put out another version after the original had failed. This became the B-side of the first Boone single "Two Hearts Two Kisses", originally by the Charms – whose "Hearts Of Stone" had been covered by the label's Fontane Sisters.

 

In 1956, Boone was one of the biggest recording stars in the US. Several film studios pursued him for movies; he decided to go with 20th Century Fox, which had made Elvis Presley's first movie. Fox reworked a play he had bought, Bernardine, into a vehicle for Boone. The resulting film was a solid hit, earning $3.75 million in the US.

 

Personal life

In November 1953, when he was 19 years old, Boone married Chicago-born Tennesseean Shirley Lee Foley (April 24, 1934 – January 11, 2019), also 19 years old, daughter of country music great Red Foley and his wife, singer Judy Martin. They had four daughters: Cheryl "Cherry" Lynn, Linda "Lindy" Lee, Deborah "Debby" Ann, and Laura "Laury" Gene. Starting in the late 1950s, Boone and his family were residents of Teaneck, New Jersey. Shirley Boone was a lesser-known recording artist and television personality than her husband. She also founded a hunger-relief Christian ministry that evolved into Mercy Corps. She died in 2019, aged 84, at the couple's Beverly Hills home from complications from vasculitis, which she had contracted less than a year earlier.

 

                              ^2011

If you want to read a lot more, go here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Boone

 

 
 
From Mr. Food
 

SERVES
4
COOK TIME
15 Min

Don't bother with the slow cooker or the pressure cooker! All you need for this corned beef and cabbage recipe is a skillet. In about 20 minutes, you'll be ready to dig in!

 

  • 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
  • 8 cups chunked green cabbage (1/2 a large head)
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
  • 2 (15-ounce) cans whole potatoes, drained (see Notes)
  • 1 (14-1/2-ounce) can sliced carrots, drained
  • 3/4 pound deli-style corned beef, sliced into 1/2-inch strips
  1. In a large skillet, heat oil over medium heat. Add cabbage, and saute 6 to 8 minutes, until very soft but not brown. Add salt and pepper; mix well.
     
  2. Add potatoes and carrots, and top with corned beef. Reduce heat to medium-low, cover, and cook 6 to 8 minutes, or until completely heated through. Serve immediately.

 

***For this dish, it’s best to rinse the canned potatoes and drain them well before adding.

***If you’d like a more traditional flavor, add 1 teaspoon pickling spice along with the salt and pepper.
 
 
Historically this date...........
1934 – American bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde are ambushed by police and killed in Black Lake, Louisiana.


1939 – The U.S. Navy submarine USS Squalus sinks off the coast of New Hampshire during a test dive, causing the death of 24 sailors and two civilian technicians. The remaining 32 sailors and one civilian naval architect are rescued the following day.




2010 – Jamaican police begin a manhunt for drug lord Christopher "Dudus" Coke, after the United States requested his extradition, leading to three days of violence during which at least 73 bystanders are killed.

2015 – At least 46 people are killed as a result of floods caused by a tornado in Texas and Oklahoma.


And births this date include...
1883 – Douglas Fairbanks, American actor (d. 1939)


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1912 – John Payne, American actor (d. 1989)
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1931 – Barbara Barrie, American actress
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1933 – Joan Collins, English actress
.... 5 husbands!
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1958 – Drew Carey, American actor and comedian
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All I know. Nuff said. Have a good Thursday. Ciao.
xo Sue Mom Bobo

On May 23rd, National Lucky Penny Day hopes you’ll have good luck all day long.
See a penny, pick it up. All day long you’ll have good luck.
When you are out and about, look on the ground for pennies.  It just might be your lucky day!
Years ago a penny was able to buy something. (Check out National Taffy Day – to see what we used to get for a penny.) Today, due to inflation, the penny does not buy much of anything. The metal value and cost of minting pennies exceed their face value. Many nations have stopped minting equivalent value coins and efforts are being made to end the routine use of pennies in several countries including the United States.
The United States first issued a one-cent coin produced by a private mint in 1787.  Benjamin Franklin designed it. On one side, it read “Mind Your Business” and the other “We Are One.” This coin was made of 100% copper and was larger than today’s penny. It came to be known as the Fugio cent. However, the first pennies struck in a United States Mint weren’t produced until 1793, but they were also made of copper.
But why are pennies lucky? Well at one time, metals, including copper were precious material. Finding a penny was a valuable find. Sometimes finding a penny had more to do with the daily battle between good and evil. Do you only pick up a penny if it’s head side up? Superstitions carry on from generation to generation. And with some of them the rule that says if you find a penny tail side up, you should flip it over and leave it head side up for the next lucky person to find.
On a wedding day, there’s also a saying that leads people to put a penny in the bride’s shoe. It’s more likely to lead to a blister than to bring good luck in that case.

HOW TO OBSERVE

See how many pennies you can find. It just might be your lucky day!

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