Powerhouse Fire ~ NY 1939 ~ VW Sculpture ~ Chicken Burrito

Good 46º clear sunny will be hot again morning. Close to 90º yesterday. Bout the same today. Glad to see the drizzle and low clouds in So. Cal helping out that horrible Powerhouse fire!

Click here: Firefighters gain ground in California | News - Home

Burned 32,000 acres already. Unbelievable. Containment is somewhere around 40-60% contained.

 

 

 

This link came from Lynn Helbing (ret LASD) a friend from back in the Temple Station days in the 70's. Thanks Lynn! This video is awesome. People drinking nickel pina coladas at a sidewalk vendor.... old cars.... such fun.

Click here: 1939 New York in HD Color - Looks Like Filmed Yesterday! - YouTube

 

And you won't believe this..... a sculpture made from a 1953

Volkswagen Beetle !!! Just amazing!

 

 

Well, fuey, Maggie didn't get her mani/pedi yesterday. Vet's office called and they had surgeries. So, we'll aim for Thursday.

Two birthdays today.. my friend Val Smullen from our JCRW group is celebrating today. HAPPY BIRTHDAY VAL!!!

And PatC's man, Tim Rosa is celebrating today also. Tim's still a puppy, born when I was in high school. You're catchin' up though!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TIM!

 

Historically this date..

1896 – Henry Ford completes the Ford Quadricycle, his first gasoline-powered automobile, and gives it a successful test run.

 

1939 – Holocaust: The MS St. Louis, a ship carrying 963 Jewish refugees, is denied permission to land in Florida, in the United States, after already being turned away from Cuba. Forced to return to Europe, more than 200 of its passengers later die in Nazi concentration camps.

1974 – During Ten Cent Beer Night, inebriated Cleveland Indians fans start a riot, causing the game to be forfeited to the Texas Rangers.

2004 – Marvin Heemeyer's eventually suicidal protest rampage with an improvised bulletproofed bulldozer destroys 13 buildings in Granby, Colorado, including the town hall.

 

Quite a mixed bag of births today... some good and a lot of very odd people!

Births include...

1907 – Rosalind Russell, American actress (d. 1976)

 

1924 – Dennis Weaver, American actor (d. 2006)

 

 

1926 – Robert Earl Hughes, American heaviest human being (d. 1958)

Click here: Robert Earl Hughes Was A Mighty Big Man - YouTube

 

1936 – Bruce Dern, American actor   (ewwwwww.)

 

 

1944 – Michelle Phillips, American singer-songwriter and actress (The Mamas & the Papas)

 

 

1952 – Parker Stevenson, American actor and director

 

 

1975 – Russell Brand, English comedian and actor

(another ewwwwww.....)

 

1975 – Angelina Jolie, American actress

(ick)

 

1979 – Christopher Dorner, American police officer and murderer (d. 2013)

 

Yesterday did some shopping, stopped at Post Office to mail stuff, Ace for a new sprinkler, and then met up with Bill, Jeannie, Dale, and Bob at Shenanigans yesterday for a glass of wine. On the way home bought a roasted chicken. Dinner was tortilla, provolone cheese, jalapeno cream cheese, sweet/hot chili sauce... heated and rolled up. GOOD!!!

 

TV and a nap in my chair!

 

All I know. Tucker's baseball game this evening. Nuff said. Ciao.

xo Sue Mom Bobo

June 4th

Applesauce Cake Day

National Cheese Day

National Frozen Yogurt Day

National Cognac Day

Ok, for lunch a frozen yogurt. Cheese on your spaghetti for dinner. Cognac and applesauce cake for dessert.

 

 

 

Fairy Tales ~ Mowing ~ Crazy Cat ~ Shrimp/Pasta Salad

Good 43º clear sunny morning. Looks like it's going to be in the high 80º's today and then the 90º's for the rest of the week.

Got this from Gator.... good one!

 

Yesterday I mowed the back lawn (weeds and weird grasses)... that oddball cat of mine was sitting in the shade watching me. He's not afraid of the riding mower! Then since I stopped (taking his picture) he came towards me...

 

So I go to the front yard.... and he lays down right where I am going to mow...

 

I finish, stop the mower to put back Mr. Hippo and get the hose so I can water the cherry tree and he climbs up on the mower!

 

I had put Maggie and Dude in the house where it was cool and soon as I finished mowing, Dude wanted out...

 

I moved the trampoline and got that all mowed... then Ms. Deer comes along, gets comfy in the shade, and munches on the cut grass....

 

Took the trash can to the road and put up my new sign...

 

My neighbor was out bailing his cut grass....

 

Historically this date...

1885 – In the last military engagement fought on Canadian soil, the Cree leader, Big Bear, escapes the North-West Mounted Police.1889 – The first long-distance electric power transmission line in the United States is completed, running 14 miles (23 km) between a generator at Willamette Falls and downtown Portland, Oregon.

1943 – In Los Angeles, California, white U.S. Navy sailors and Marines clash with Latino youths in the Zoot Suit Riots.

1965 – The launch of Gemini 4, the first multi-day space mission by a NASA crew. Ed White, a crew member, performs the first American spacewalk.

1979 – A blowout at the Ixtoc I oil well in the southern Gulf of Mexico causes at least 3,000,000 barrels (480,000 m³) of oil to be spilled into the waters, the second-worst accidental oil spill ever recorded.

1991 – Mount Unzen erupts in Kyūshū, Japan, killing 43 people, all of them either researchers or journalists.

 

 

And births this date include...

1925 – Tony Curtis, American actor (d. 2010)

 

1967 – Anderson Cooper, American journalist and author

 

Dinner last night... in the mood for salad... thawed out some shrimp, chopped tomatoes, mushrooms, cucumber, avocado...  cooked salad pasta, spinach, and canned baby corn.... Sauté shrimp, mushrooms, and baby corns ..... toss all together.

Seasoned with Weber Garlic, garlic powder, and chives. Dressing was mayonnaise, sesame oil, and lemon juice all whisked together. (yes, my lemon juice is in a wine bottle!)

 

OMGOOD!!!

 

All I know. Maggie gets a mani/pedi this morning. Nuff said. Ciao.

xo Sue Mom Bobo

June 3rd.

National Egg Day

 

 

 

Some interesting egg recipes here:

Click here: Egg Recipes | ifood.tv

Sleepy Pets ~ RR House Burns ~ Tucker's Baseball ~ I-5 Fire ~ Rocky Road Ice Cream (YUMMMMM!)

Good sunny clear, so far, 47º Sunday morning. Pressure is dropping....but, it's only supposed to be "partly cloudy" with a high of 79º. Yesterday we hit 85º. Heater in the morning, AC in the afternoon! Typical Oregon!

This from Rod Johnson (USMC, LASD ret) soooooooo CUTE! You will smile and probably get sleepy yourself!

Click here: Sleepy Animals - ModernMom Top 10 - YouTube

 

 

Remember the sign I took a picture of with the guy holding it? Couldn't understand what it meant....

Well, my friend Judy down in California, Seal Beach, told me the following....

"Yeshua is Hebrew for Jesus.   So it's Jesus' blood that saves you.  The other word is cutesy spelling for atonement.  Jesus dying on the cross and spilling his blood is the atonement for sin.  Jews in the old testament made blood sacrifices of a pure lamb (animal) to give to God for the remission of their sins, this is called the old law.  The first part is obvious to most that believe in the 2nd coming and the Apocalypse.  Most Christian's and pastor's including even Catholic priests are preaching that the 2nd coming is very soon because all of the over 500 Biblical prophecies have come to pass that predicted His 2nd coming.  some are saying it's any time now.  that's why everyone is so interested in what's going on in the middle east with Syria."     Thanks Judy!!!

 

Yesterday was Tucker's baseball game. Heading into town there was a house being burned down, on purpose...

 

Tucker's game...

Brian put chairs on the hill in the shade for us.. Sami decided to do a "sack dance" with the sack the chair goes in..

'Twig'  the dog.... sweetest ever! Belongs to Tucker's coach from last year.

 

 

 

On the way home I stopped at the Humane Society and left them a case of cat food. Harley liked it, but Bruiser doesn't. They were happy to receive that. Then back onto I-5 and went by where it burned the other day. All out now, 115 acres, one house damaged slightly and an out building burned. Came close to these homes:

 

Historically this date...

1886 – U.S. President Grover Cleveland marries Frances Folsom in the White House, becoming the only president to wed in the executive mansion.
... interesting about Frances.... (click on her name)

 

1896 – Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his newest invention: the radio.

 

1924 – The U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.
1953 – The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, who is crowned Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Her Other Realms and Territories & Head of the Commonwealth, the first major international event to be televised.

1995 – United States Air Force Captain Scott O'Grady's F-16 is shot down over Bosnia while patrolling the NATO no-fly zone.

2012 – The former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in the killing of demonstrators during the 2011 Egyptian revolution.

 

And births this date include...

1731 – Martha Washington, First American first lady (d. 1802)

 

 

1904 – Johnny Weissmuller, American swimmer and actor (d. 1984)

1937 – Sally Kellerman, American actress

1941 – Stacy Keach, American actor

All I know. Nuff said. Happy Sunday. Will be outside all day.... weeds, lawn, mowing and mowing... etc. UGH.

xo Sue Mom Bobo

June tooth...

National Rocky Road Ice Cream Day