~ Brownie Waffles! ~ Boy Scouts Birthday ~ Lazy Lasagna ~

Good 29º morning. Had 12 or 6 drops of rain yesterday.

Don't know what's in store for today. 

Rain may be coming Saturday.

This morning a few clouds hanging out..

and some geese were flying over...

Yesterday we had a great sky and about 3pm we got the misting rain..

I was 'playing' with Photo Shop on the following picture.

Interesting concept...

By 5pm we had a beautiful sunset...

Ok, yesterday I was pissed at the way OUR National Anthem

was sung by that piece of trash. Apparently Christina caused

a stir all over the country. Lots of interviews with disgruntled

game watchers re her rendition.

Thank you Ann for sending this....(click the link)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ETrr-XHBjE

This is EXACTLY how it should be done!!! (And Tommy boy is there too!) Who the heqq is in charge of the programing for the Super Bowl? He/she should be taken out of there and FIRED! Who are they putting in that position to choose, teenagers???

'Texas Dan' wrote me about the betta fish and said put a mirror by the fish bowl. Sure enough Shshi thought it was another fish in there and is moving around and hanging out looking at the mirrored fish. Wow. Thanks Dan!!  Question ... if he's the only fish in the bowl, would he be the 'master' betta?  (I know.....   :o)

Yesterday I was watching the Rachael Ray Show. I have come to the conclusion that her talking with her hands has finally gotten to me. She is constantly waving around her open hands and I'm sure she'll say it's her Italian heritage. BS. It's irritating! Anyway, I do like her recipes. She made a "lazy lasagna" by breaking up the lasagna noodles into pieces, cooking them, mixing the noodles with cubed roasted butternut squash, ricotta cheese, and topping with a bechamel sauce and more cheese. No layering. How easy is that! (click the link)

http://www.rachaelrayshow.com/food/recipes/winter-comfort-lazy-lasagna-butternut-squash-and-escarole/

Now, you could easily use your favorite marinara sauce or meat sauce instead of the squash and escarole. I think breaking up the noodles is a spectacular idea!!!

Then, be still my heart, she kicked off "Waffle Week". She took a package of brownie mix (add chopped nuts and maybe dried cranberries) and poured it into the waffle iron to cook. OMG. I was drooling all over the controller!!! Top with ice cream and maybe chocolate or caramel sauce. Oh my. Today she's making grilled ham and cheese waffles.  

(click the links)
 http://www.rachaelrayshow.com/food/recipes/waffle-brownies/

 http://www.rachaelrayshow.com/food/recipes/grilled-cheese-and-ham-waffles/

 Now, where is my waffle iron????

 My Patriot's quarterback, Tom Brady, became the first EVER
unanimous winner in the award’s current format, earning all 50
votes, for Most Valuable Player. In short, Brady took pride in
his award, but would have rather been playing in Texas Sunday
night.“It’s a great award,” Brady said, “but playing in the Super Bowl
is the greatest award that any quarterback could be doing this time of year.”

I love him and his Patriots, but maybe now Tommy will cut his hair!
LOL

He grew it long, I know, for the superstitious fact they
were winning the season. Back to being the handsome
guy he is...

Historically this date....
1837 – Richard Johnson becomes the first Vice President of the United States chosen by the United States Senate.

1910 – The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce.

1922 – President Warren G. Harding introduces the first radio in the WhitHouse.

1993 – General Motors sues NBC after Dateline NBC allegedly rigs two crashes intended to demonstrate that some GM pickups can easily catch fire if hit in certain places. NBC settles the lawsuit the next day.

And births this date include...

1886 – Charles Ruggles, American actor (d. 1970)

1888 – Dame Edith Evans, British actress (d. 1976)

1921 – Lana Turner, American actress (d. 1995)

1922 – Audrey Meadows, American actress (d. 1996)

  

1925 – Jack Lemmon, American actor and film director (d. 2001)

1930 – Alejandro Rey, Argentine actor (d. 1987)

1931 – James Dean, American actor (d. 1955)

1941 – Nick Nolte, American actor

1950 – Cristina Ferrare, American former supermodel and actress

1953 – Mary Steenburgen, American actress

1955 – John Grisham, American writer

1968 – Gary Coleman, American actor (d. 2010)

Maggie and I took Atlas to his dad yesterday.

I picked up his "stuff" and was heading out the door.

He realized he was going home and go soooooo excited!

By the time we pulled into the State Farm parking lot he

was howling! Happy boy to be back with his family.

He loves me to pieces, but you know how it is.....

Home is best!

We came home, everyone got dinner. For me it was one

of those too easy dinners... a can of Double Noodle chicken

noodle soup, added fresh carrots and broccoli, more chicken

stock, sliced garlic and diced onion. Mmmmm....

Had a roaring fire, Harley on my lap. TV, happy happy.

Then I had a great short chat with Candy. Bob is doing

really well from his shoulder surgery, but alas Candy is

having some issues from her eye surgery. Be well soon

girlfriend! Also chatted with Linda. She related the Super Bowl

party she and Andy attended and is sending me one of the

recipes, cheese cake, she said was off the charts good!

Where are you Claire???

All I know. Nuff said. Ciao.

xo Mom/Soupy/Sue

February 8th

Go Fly A Kite Day

Or maybe... instead of flying a kite,

could just tell someone that irritates

you to "go fly" one!!!   :O)

Boy Scout Birthday 101 Years!

~ Packers! ~ Entertainment? Ha! ~ Feutticini Alfredo ~

Good 36º very very foggy morning.

PACKERS WIN!!! Whoooooo hoooooo!!!

What a game. 31-25. Up down, up down, up down. Awesome. Sorry Steelers.  Conversions! Hello Roethlisberger, they sunk you. Three of them!

A couple of things I didn't like .. one was Christina Aguilara singing the Star Spangled Banner. Crap! Stick to the song, the melody, the way it was written, and for God's sake ... know the words! It's NOT all about how many high notes the trashy looking blonde can hit! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jnx-1gAyHWA

Don't get your shorts in a knot, it's my opinion. I'm entitled. But, I'm not the only one upset with this rendition. It's on the news. The only worst singing of our National Anthem was when Rosie O'Donnell sang it off key and grabbing her crotch! Ho! Not laughing... she's one! (***Ok, I have been corrected by my dear friend, O, who reminded me it was Rosanne Barr, not Rosie who sang and grabbed! Both are pigs, anyway!)

Then there was the Black Eyed Peas half time. OMG, what junk. Again, my opinion. I like music, not crap that has a beat.

The things I did like were little snippets of people attending the game... Jennifer Aniston, John Travolta, Ron Howard, A Rod with his current gf Cameron Diaz feeding him popcorn (!), and Bushie and Laura. She and he both always look perfect. Cute couple! And also Condoleezza Rice sat in Dan Rooney's booth with them. Interestingly enough, Dan Rooney, the "boss of the Steelers" and a lifelong Republican, voted for Obama! Imagine. LOL, didn't see BO sitting in his booth! Ya think he's a little upset with the current administration and BO's politics????

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08314/926590-176.stm

I also liked the Budweiser commercials .. but, not as good as previous years. And, liked the Dorritos commercial where the guy house-sitting forgets to feed the fish, water the plant, and knocks over grandpa's ashes off the mantle. Everything revived, even grandpa, with Dorritos! LOL

Atlas laid on his bed...

Maggie laid on the couch....

And while Harley sat next to me....

Atlas was eyeball to eyeball with him occasionally...

Ok, so historically this date..... 

1935 – The classic board game Monopoly is invented.

   I have one made in the 1940's with "hotels" and "houses" made of wood and metal playing pieces. This is one our family used to play.

1962 – The United States bans all Cuban imports and exports.

     Ahhhh.... those luscious cigars a lot of men (and women) loved! So, my darling being a cigar loving/smoking man, he got his 'hand rolled' Cuban (Cuban tobacco seed grown) cigars from Rau, down in Los Angeles. We'd go once a month and get him a box of cigars and Rau would give us a cup of Cuban coffee. OMG. Talk about concentrated caffeine!!! WOW. He had a room full of Cuban ladies hand rolling the cigars. Interesting to watch!

1984 – Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B Mission – Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered space walk using the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU).

1986 – Twenty-eight years of one-family rule end in Haiti, when President Jean-Claude Duvalier flees the Caribbean nation.

1990 – Dissolution of the Soviet Union: The Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party agrees to give up its monopoly on power.

    Ha ha ha ha... on the anniversary of Monopoly, the game!!!!

1991 – Haiti's first democratically-elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, is sworn in.

    And shortly thereafter he was thrown out by a coup. What a country of stupid stupid people! Nothing works there!!!

And births this date include...

1804 – John Deere, American manufacturer (Deere & Company) (d. 1886)

  YEAH!

http://www.retiredtractors.com/Plows/jdpics.html

1812 – Charles Dickens, English novelist (d. 1870)

1867 – Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author (d. 1957)

1908 – Buster Crabbe, American swimmer and actor (d. 1983)

1962 – Garth Brooks, American singer

and in Sandy's family, Jim her bro-in-law and hubby of Babette and Sandy's step-son David. Happy Birthday!

All I know. Nuff said. Ciao.

xo Mom/Soupy/Sue

February 7th

National Fetttucini Alfredo Day

Oh my goodness..... cream and butter and cheese and pasta!

 Plain or topped with shrimp or broccoli or if you are dieting... by the Lean Cuisine kind! Drooling........................

~ Fish ~ Washing Machine ~ RR's Birthday ~ Snacks ~ Super Bowl

Good 36º morning.             

I have to say, babysitting a betta fish is interesting. Sushi was left here Monday and Tuesday he acted like he was hungry. I fed him. PJ says he only eats every 3-4 days. So, when Brian was here dropping off Atlas on Thursday I told him I thought the fish was dead. He just never moves, spending most of the time in the roots of the plant or laying on the bottom of the tank. I was feeling horrible. Brian checked and said, "No, he's fine. These fish don't move around much." Ok, good. So yesterday, Saturday, he finally acted like he was hungry again. I fed him. Hmmm.... 4 days.

Had a chat with PJ, she and Dave and Deb and Tom arrived in Quartzsite and are organizing their campsite. Weather nice there for the moment.

Awaiting pictures....

I was sooooo angry yesterday. I was washing a small load of dish towels and the machine got unbalanced. This danged machine has done this from day one, and that was 12 years ago. It's a top loader and for some time I have wanted a front loader.... but, alas, other places my money has gone. So, I stopped the machine, didn't even think the drain hose would have come loose, started it up again and then heard water... running and hitting the floor. OH SH*T! Got out the "shamwow" and had to move both machines and clean up the floor. Grrrrrrrrr.....   Some day....

Yesterday afternoon, after another beautiful day, the clouds moved in..

And that gave us a beautiful sunset....

(see the moon up there?)

Have to laugh, Atlas likes his "bed" but is unconventional in his usage...

Historically this date...

1978 – The Blizzard of 1978, one of the worst Nor'easters in

New England history, hit the region, with sustained winds of

65 mph and snowfall of 4" an hour.

   Hmmmm...... sounds like a repeat in 2011!

1998 – Washington National Airport is renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport.

And births this date include...

1876 – Henry Blogg, English lifeboatman, George Cross and British Empire Medal recipient (d. 1954)

  can you imagine how popular he'd be today with that name!!! LOL

Mr. Blogg!

1895 – Babe Ruth, American baseball player (d. 1948)

1911 – Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States (d. 2004)

1912 – Eva Braun, German mistress and wife of Adolf Hitler (d. 1945)

Mistress for 12 years, wife for 9 hours!

1917 – Zsa Zsa Gábor, Hungarian-born actress

  

This is her 9th husband.... not good at sustaining long relationships!

Drive with an open container and then slap a cop, go to jail!

How stupid and attention seeking was that!

   Poor Zsa Zsa, coming to such a sad and pathetic end.

1931 – Rip Torn, American actor

(*****Thanks to my dear friend O, this is
Rip Taylor and Rip Torn. Duh. I need a proof reader!)

1931 – Mamie Van Doren, American actress

Nothing recent on her.

She must be looking pretty shabby.

1939 – Mike Farrell, American actor

 

  

1940 – Tom Brokaw, American news anchorman

   

1943 – Fabian Forte, American singer

   

1945 – Bob Marley, Jamaican musician (d. 1981)

 LOVED his music!!!!

1962 – W. Axl Rose, American singer (Guns N' Roses)

All I know. Will be enjoying the Super Bowl later. Brian and family due in from LA and their trip to Disneyland. Atlas will be a happy camper. Although, he seems pretty happy here taking up over half of the bed!

 Here is a cheesy drawing of how the dogs, Maggie and Atlas, "share" my bed. Not to scale... as Atlas is MUCH BIGGER!!

There is no way for me to turn over.

Maggie is up against my leg and Atlas is against my back.

I will be having some stupendous split pea/ham soup I made yesterday. Put the ham bone and a bunch of  cut up ham along with green split peas and yellow split peas, a bunch of onion, sliced garlic, and very chunky baby carrots... and then I added the broth from cooking the ham with the pineapple. I skimmed the fat off and then added some water also. OMG, it's WONDERFUL!!!

Nuff said. Ciao. Hasta! Go Packers!!

xo Mom/Soupy/Sue

February

National Snack Month