Sue's Daily Drivel ...

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

~ 3-15 ~ Happy Birthday Maggie ~ Wind Damage in GP ~

(written early this morning..and added to later this afternoon...)

HAPPY 12TH BIRTHDAY MAGGIE!!!!!

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Here is the link to the card Jake sent Maggie....

http://www.jacquielawson.com/viewcard.asp?code=2799796187072&source=jl999

Good morning/afternoon. 45º at 8:30am and raining.
1/3" since yesterday afternoon.

This morning we had an inch. We'll see what this storm that

is raging now (4pm Tuesday afternoon) has to show....

9am... UPS just confirmed the delivery of my modem will be sometime today. Sigh....4 days without internet makes for a cranky Sue!

Ok, so Dave my UPS guy delivered the modem at noon. Thank goodness! All that "overnight" crap was just that... crap. It wasn't even picked up by UPS until Monday in Bolder Colorado so it was "overnight" from then! Sigh...... I gave Dave a "Eat Drink be Irish" button to wear on St. Patty's Day, Thursday. I'm sure everyone on his route will want to pinch him thinking he has no green on, just UPS brown! HA! He will be wearin' green. Besides he's Irish!

Maggie and I have been snacking on a chicken I cooked last night in the crockpot. It's so juicy and tender. Making some gravy now to go on chicken and some biscuits. We did go to town yesterday, after Shiloh's 'mom' came and got her! Interestingly enough, she hasn't showed up today! I keep looking. In town I bought the chicken and some peppermint coffee creamer to go in my Harry and David 'Moose Munch and Peanut Butter' flavored coffee. OH MY, good!!!!

I received a card in the mail from Linda down in Woodland...

inside it says..."Sometimes I just sit and ponder
on how you're doin' way off yonder." Put a smile
on this old face!!! Thanks Linda!

Brian and Jen's power was off from Sunday afternoon until 7pm Monday night. In Riverside Park in Grants Pass the wind knocked down 4 over 100' tall trees. One crashed through the gazebo where a birthday party was going on at the time. Nobody was hurt, thankfully. Here are a few pictures of local damage...

When the ground is a soaked as it is then the 35-55mph

gusts of wind come along.... 'stuff' happens. 7 homes were destroyed in Grants Pass. I hope Brian didn't have the insurance

on them!!!! (smile)

Historically this date....

44 BC – Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March.

1493 – Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first trip to the Americas.

1916 – President Woodrow Wilson sends 12,000 United States troops over the U.S.-Mexico border to pursue Pancho Villa.

1985 – The first Internet domain name is registered (symbolics.com).

And births this date include....

1767 – Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States (d. 1845)

I like these. Would love a box of them!!!!

1882 – Jim Lightbody, American runner (d. 1953)

OMG, with a name like that, he HAD to be a runner!

In the cardiology unit there is a Dr. Lightheart. Fate via a name!

1899 – George Brent, American film actor (d. 1979)

1913 – Macdonald Carey, American actor (d. 1994)

1935 – Judd Hirsch, American actor

1941 – Mike Love, American musician (The Beach Boys)

1970 – Derek Parra, American speed skater

1975 – Eva Longoria, American actress

with and without

So, the rains have come down hard and easy. The turkeys stood

out in the front yard most of the day. Sometimes the smart ones

would get under the trampoline. It's windy and cold. More rain on the way. Gotta go get some wood so we can have a fire.

Happy Tuesday, what is left of it!

Nuff said. Ciao.

xo Mom-Soupy-Sue

March 15th

National Pears Helene Day

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/nigella-lawson/pears-belle-helene-recipe/index.html

~ 3-14 ~ Geese Ducks ~ Sami's Birthday Party ~ Shiloh .. yet again. ~

Good 36º morning. Yesterday we got .64" of rain. Most of it in about an hour. This morning it's foggy. More rain expected through the week and we were told upwards to 8" of rain will fall.

Today is day 3 without internet for me. The phone company said they would "overnight" my modem. Well, it never came yesterday! So I wait.

The second pair of geese and the one single goose have returned now, making 5 total. And Mr. and Mrs. Mallard are here too....

Four in the pasture and one on the barn roof.

Opened the gate early yesterday in anticipation of the modem arriving. Noticed one of the hinges is broken. Swell. One more thing. Waited until 12:30 to leave for Sami's birthday party at her other grandmother's house. Got to the gate and there was Shiloh! Couldn't leave her, as she would follow me and get hit by a car on the road! So, in the car she goes. Muddy feet and all.

Took her home and was upset with Gerard and Maria. They both acted like.... 'sigh, this is a nuisance'. YES IT IS! I explained again about the collar and the perimeter wire. "But we have 20 acres." No dummy, you don't wire the entire 20 acres, just an area you want to contain Shiloh in.. include the patio so she can get in the shade, etc. "What do we do when we want to take her for a walk?" TAKE OFF THE COLLAR DUMMY! Oh boy, I was upset.

Sami's party was so fun. Jen and Jean had decorated for a Princess Party! All the little girls in fancy princess dresses and Sami was the prettiest!

Jen had all kinds of crafts for

the kids to make and games to play .. and Jean and Jen

made lot of food.... mini taquitos, chicken/cheese casserole,

meatballs, and had guacamole, salsa, and chips.

And then the rain thunder and lightening came! Lights

flickered. LOOK AT THE RAIN COMING DOWN!

The party went on..

I came home, the back way since trees were down and

lines across the roadway. In Rogue River all the power

was off and all the businesses closed. I couldn't get a

few things I needed at the market. Trees uprooted

and lots of branches on the road! Everything ok here.

Power was on but there was some wind damage on

my porch...

Made a fire. We got snuggy. The storm really bothered

Maggie so she stayed close. Over 74,000 residences

without power in Jackson and Josephine Counties. How

lucky are we!!

Historically....

1900 – The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing United States currency on the gold standard.

1964 – A jury in Dallas, Texas, finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, assumed assassin of John F. Kennedy.

Birthdays....

1879 – Albert Einstein, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955)

1920 – Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist (d. 2001)

1928 – Frank Borman, American astronaut and CEO

1933 – Sir Michael Caine, British actor

1946 – Steve Kanaly, American actor

1948 – Billy Crystal, American actor and comedian

1958 – Albert II, Prince of Monaco

... and Mrs. Vanette Ford Christensen.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY VANETTE!

Today's adjenda is wait for the UPS overnight package.

Hopefully a computer on line today. (HA! That didn't happen.)

Maggie and I will

go to town and to the market and post office.

Bout it. Happy Monday. Ciao.

xo Mom-Soupy-Sue

March 14th

National Potato Chip Day

3-13 Finally ~ Shiloh .. again ~ Quinoa and V-8 Biscuits ~

Good morning. 42º when I got up. Whaaa? Daylight Savings Time and we get a heat wave??? Silly. Now hard to get used to no light when I wake up. I changed all my clocks about 5pm yesterday. Yeah. I like the ones that change automatically.

Yesterday morning at 9:15 Shiloh was back down here! Grrrrr... Poor pup. I called her 'parents' and had to leave a message as no one picked up. Then about 10 minutes later I saw their car leave! They leave and don't even know where their dog is! Majorly pisses me off! So, I called back and said just that, "I saw your car leave and you didn't even know where Shiloh was!"

Maggie and Shiloh both sat on the porch 'watching'. I let her in. Since Maggie won't eat any of her treats because of her meds Shiloh found a pig ear and was happy happy happy! She held onto it. I told her it was "OK" so she lay down on Maggie's bed in the kitchen (I was cooking) and just kept it in her mouth as if someone would take it away.

So cute. She did relax and set it down and napped a bit.

Finally her 'dad' showed up. He's a very pleasant guy, the wife on the other hand is cold as a well digger's shovel! No emotion. He said, "Well, I whistled for her and she didn't show up so we left." Fine, let the poor thing get eaten by coyotes! Anyway, I told him about his sweet dog, put the pig's ear in a zip lock bag, and off they went. I also explained to him about the

collar and buried line that dog's won't cross. Adelle said in the

south everyone has open yards and they all have those buried

wires and collars so when the dog approaches the wire it signals

the collar and they won't cross the line. I told him they either

get that or put a fence around the yard! Their property is fenced, but it's 20 acres also and there must be places she is digging under.

(P.S. I have no idea why this site changes the size of my font! Grrrr)

Cooking today was an experiment.... 1 cup of Quinoa cooked with 1 can of diced tomatoes with lime and about 4 ounces of V-8 juice.

Now this would be good just by itself for a side.

Sauteéd shallot. Mixed up rinsed garbanzo beans, black eyed peas, baked beans, black olives, canned sliced mushrooms, diced green chilies, chopped pecans, cooked wild rice, and added the Quinoa and the shallot and a big handful of grape tomatoes.

I made a light dressing of mayonnaise, olive oil, and lemon

juice. Added my spices... onion sea salt, rosemary/garlic (grinder), Sonoma pepper, and some McCormick's Szechuan Style Pepper Blend. (Good)

Then... I made some of the best and simpliest biscuits ever!

2 ¼ cups Bisquick and 2/3 cup Spicy V-9 Juice. Mix well and drop by spoonful onto cookie sheet. They are light and fluffy and really

good!!

A great little meal and good for me!

Then at 2:15 Shiloh was back. Called Maria and she said, "You are just going to have to keep her and I'll call when I want to see her."

LOL Right. They came down in about half an hour. She just wants to run away. Sigh....

This is late because my internet went away yesterday. I called Qwest and then ran a test on my modem and said it was 'fried'. So they sent me one overnight. No internet all day yesterday from about 8am and then of course this morning. Frustrating.

Historically this date....

1897 – San Diego State University is founded.

1943 – The Holocaust: German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Kraków.

1992 – An earthquake registering 6.8 on the Richter scale kills over 500 in Erzincan, eastern Turkey.

2003 – Human evolution: The journal Nature reports that 350,000-year-old footprints of an upright-walking human have been found in Italy.

2005 – Terry Ratzmann shoots and kills six members of the Living Church of God and the minister at Sheraton Inn in Brookfield, Wisconsin before killing himself.

2008 – Gold prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange hit $1,000 per ounce for the first time.

And births this date include....

1929 – Peter Breck, American actor