Weird Weather ~ Sedona ~ Fires ~ Caramel Apples ~ Green Onions ~ Broncos/Manning ~ USMC Chesty Bulldog

 

Good 49º somewhat cloudy morning.

Nice sleeping cooler last night! Looks like it will be in the 80º's and then the 90º's and by my BFF Jeannie's birthday it is supposed to be 108º !!!! Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat??????? Geeze Louise!

 

Wow, didn't get too hot yesterday. Stayed about 75º and cool inside with a breeze coming in through the windows. I even put on a warm long sleeved shirt! Nice. About 3pm Jeannie said the rain was coming down hard and lots of thunder in Grants Pass. We got all of 12 drops and the thunder was way in the distance. Storm didn't come over my mountain! Looked like it though...

 

Had a first thing in the morning problem with my computer. AOL was acting up. Couldn't see emails, couldn't save emails to send later. Got a hold of AOL and "Dane" remotely fixed it. YES! So, back in business, after a rough hour!

 

Today my Italian son Alex is celebrating his baby daughter's birthday. Sedona is 15. HAPPY BIRTHDAY SEDONA!

Taken about 3 years ago..

And... recently... a real beauty! I know you are so proud of her Alex!

 

 

Re the fire closest to us...

The 24,125-acre Big Windy Complex burning on ODF-protected lands 25 miles NW of Grants Pass is 87 percent contained. More info: http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/3570/  

 

Here are the fires a year ago today...

 

 

Laura (Vincent-Virant) posted this on her FB page... what a good idea if you like caramel apples.....

Do you love caramel apples but hate trying to eat them? Try it this way! (found this and could not keep it to myself!! I can't wait to try it!) Hollow out your apples, (you can balance the apple halves in a muffin pan) fill will melted caramel,... let the caramel harden and cut into slices! yummy!

 

 

PICTURE of the day...  LOL

 

What a good idea...

This was on FB on "Getting Healthy" with a little help from our friends.

 

This is a great little tip for you to try next time you buy some green onions. You can re-grow green onions pretty easily after you have already chopped off the bulk of the green to use in your recipe. Just bind them together, put a little water into the bottom, and they'll be like new again in 12 days!

 

Ok, so last night Brian was a happy camper when Peyton Manning and the Broncos beat the dreaded Ravens 49-27. It didn't look like that was going to happen in the beginning, delays because of lightening storm, but Manning forged ahead ... throwing 7 TD passes and now ranking up there with the few who have done that! I think in a week he faces off against his brother Eli and the Giants. Should be interesting. How their parents can stand that is beyond me!

"Manning is the sixth QB in NFL history to throw seven TD passes in a game and the first since Joe Kapp for Minnesota against Baltimore on Sept. 28, 1969. The others read like a Who's Who of passers who defied the 3-yards-and-a-cloud-of-dust days long before the NFL became so pass-happy: Sid Luckman, Adrian Burk, George Blanda and Y.A. Tittle.
Tom Brady never did it. Nor Brett Favre, Dan Marino, Joe Montana, Steve Young or Terry Bradshaw. Or, for that matter, No. 7 himself, John Elway, who had his binoculars trained on the action from his perch in the luxury seats."

Historically this date....

1970 – Two passenger jets bound from Europe to New York are simultaneously hijacked by Palestinian terrorist members of PFLP and taken to Dawson's Field in Jordan.

 

1972 – Munich Massacre: 9 Israel athletes taken hostage at the Munich Olympic Games by the Palestinian "Black September" terrorist group died (as did a German policeman) at the hands of the kidnappers during a failed rescue attempt. 2 other Israeli athletes are slain in the initial attack the previous day.

 

1995 – Cal Ripken Jr of the Baltimore Orioles plays in his 2,131st consecutive game, breaking a record that stood for 56 years.

 

1997 – Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales takes place in London. Over a million people lined the streets and 2.5 billion watched around the world on television.

 

And births this date include.....

1944 – Swoosie Kurtz, American actress

....interesting read..named after an aircraft by her father!

....on Mike and Molly....

 

 

 

 

1947 – Jane Curtin, American actress

 

 

1958 – Jeff Foxworthy, American comedian

 

1983 – Pippa Middleton, Sister of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge

 

 

Ok, so the story of the USMC mascot. My girlfriend Erika asked about the name "Devil Dogs" and saw a picture of a bulldog on the US Missouri I posted. Here's the story...

Thanks to the German Army, the USMC has an unofficial mascot. During WWI many German reports had called the attacking Marines "teufel-hunden", meaning Devil-Dogs. Teufel-hunden were vicious, wild, and ferocious mountain dogs of Bavarian folklore.

 

Soon afterward a USMC recruiting poster depicted a snarling English Bulldog wearing a Marine Corps helmet. Because of the tenacity and demeanor of the breed, the image took root with both the Marines and the public. The Marines soon unofficially adopted the English Bulldog as their mascot.

Since 1922, the United States Marine Corps has used Bulldogs as its mascots.

U.S. Marine Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler introduced the first Marine mascot, named "Pvt.Jiggs," who lived at Marine Barracks, Quantico VA. He quickly rose in the ranks to Sergeant Major. He was the first in a series of bulldog mascots.

The current mascot is the 14th (Chesty XIII retired Aug 28, 2013) in a series of mascots named "Chesty" after the famous Marine Lieutenant General Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller Jr.. This dog lives at the Marine Barracks in Washington, DC, where he appears in weekly parades.
Marine units across the Corps have mascots, usually bulldogs, the most famous of which represent the enlisted training installations. An English bulldog named 'Legend' represents Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island and 'LCpl. Belleau Wood' represents Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego.

Here is the retired Chesty ... and his replacement...

 

 

All I know. TGIF. Nuff said. Ciao.

xo Sue Mom Bobo

September 6th

National Read A Book Day

National Coffee Ice Cream Day

Bruiser ~ Linda W ~ LE Lunch ~ Chaka ~ Martin ~ Dave/Dude ~ Rosh Hashanah

    

Good 59º, it never cooled off much, cloudy morning. Pressure dropping and the tiny possibility of rain.

 

Nothing on the radar

Clouds on the satellite...

 

Yesterday Bruiser went for a hunt in the morning. Later in the afternoon when I returned home there were two tails and some innards on the front porch. Ewwwwww.....

 

Today is my old friend's birthday. Not to say that she is OLD, it's just that we have known each other since kindergarten. Over 60 years! HAPPY BIRTHDAY LINDA WATTERLOND TERROR!

Here we are at Sierra Park (Sewer Pipe) Safety Monitors, and good grief, dressed alike!

And today... still that pretty blonde...

 

 

Historically this date.....

1793 – French Revolution the French National Convention initiates the Reign of Terror.

.............not so different from what BO and his minions are doing to this country now!

 

1836 – Sam Houston is elected as the first president of the Republic of Texas.

.... After Jerry and I got married I wanted to have a boy and name him 'Sam' after Sam Houston because Jerry was a Texan. Didn't get to do that, but now we have 'Samantha'...granddaughter...we call her 'Sami'. Close enough!!

1945 – Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a Japanese-American suspected of being wartime radio propagandist Tokyo Rose, is arrested in Yokohama.

... really interesting read.

1960 – The boxer Muhammad Ali (then Cassius Clay) is awarded the gold medal for his first place in the light heavyweight boxing competition at the Olympic Games in Rome.

1972 – Munich Massacre: A Palestinian terrorist group called "Black September" attack and take hostage 11 Israel athletes at the Munich Olympic Games. 2 die in the attack and 9 die the following day.

1975 – Sacramento, California: Lynette Fromme attempts to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford.

And births this date include.....

1846 – Jack Daniel, Distiller (d. 1911)

Whoot whoot whoot!!!

 

1847 – Jesse James, American outlaw (d. 1882)

1937 – William Devane, American actor

1939 – George Lazenby, Australian actor

1939 – John Stewart, American musician (The Kingston Trio) (d. 2008)

1940 – Raquel Welch, American actress

1951 – Michael Keaton, American actor

Yesterday I went to the Law Enforcement/Fire luncheon. A couple of new guys joined us.... Dan Castillo, who now lives in Texas. Dan went to Garfield High and graduated the same year I did. He knows a couple of my high school friends. He was a Sergeant at ELA Station. Also Bernie Hoene, worked Lancaster/Palmdale and knew my Jerry. He was on the pistol team. THEN what blew me away is that an LAPD guy, Tom Marshall, knew my old high school friend Mike Bastian. Just got re-acquainted with Mike and his wife a few days ago at a BBQ. Will have to quiz Mike AND Tom how they knew each other!

My lunch was a super good patty melt with onion rings.... Half came home with me for dinner!

 

After lunch I went to Bill and Jeannie's. So sweet, she had a big basket of birthday goodies for me!

We sat on the deck where the view is awesome...

Chaka entertained us by getting in her empty pool....

 

Her dad took her for a run and then she got the real deal....

Jeannie and I went down to the lower garden and picked a melon...

Nice afternoon!

Rushed home because Martin (pronounced Mar-teen)  was coming over to deliver a cord of wood for me....

He is a client of Brian's and super nice guy. He also does landscaping so having him back to access my yard, grind the stump, and see what else he can do.

Turned on the TV but it was not working. We did have a power somthingy in the morning where it went off and back on. Dave and PJ came up and Dave got the TV going again! YEAH! Dude was happy and cuddled with Dave!

 

I was going to write about the Marine Corps mascot today, but got a late start. So will do it tomorrow.

Ok, nuff said. Happy Rosh Hashanah to all my Jewish friends. Ciao.

xo Sue Mom Bobo

Today is also National Cheese Pizza Day

 

 

Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, is celebrated in 2013 from sundown on Sept. 4 to nightfall on Sept. 6. The Hebrew date for Rosh Hashanah is 1 Tishrei 5774.

Though Rosh Hashanah literally means "head of the year," the holiday actually takes place on the first two days of the Hebrew month of Tishrei, which is the seventh month on the Hebrew calendar. This is because Rosh Hashanah, one of four new years in the Jewish year, is considered the new year of people, animals and legal contracts. In the Jewish oral tradition, Rosh Hashanah marks the completion of the creation of the world.
Rosh Hashanah is the beginning of the Jewish High Holy Days, or Yamim Noraim (the "Days of Awe"), and is followed 10 days later by Yom Kippur, the "day of atonement." The Mishnah refers to Rosh Hashanah as the "day of judgment," and it is believed that God opens the Book of Life on this day and begins to decide who shall live and who shall die. The days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are viewed as an opportunity for Jews to repent (teshuvah, in Hebrew) and ensure a good fate.