Gloom ~ Glendora Fire ~ Kirks ~ Leftovers ~ Radar ~ Hot Buttered Rum

Good 31º morning. Haven't seen any sun here at all. Stayed like this all day yesterday, again ......

I did hear they had sun down on the I-5 and also in Grants Pass.

A raging fire in the hills of Glendora Ca ... started at 6am yesterday....

Jen's (daughter-in-law) brother Jimmy took this picture near his house in Alhambra....

http://ktla.com/2014/01/16/firefighters-battling-brushfire-north-of-glendora/#axzz2qaD7wowB

Jimmy said the fire is out now, but 5 homes burned. Unintentional arson by three dummies throwing paper into a campfire. In custody. The ignorant newscaster on the Sacramento TV station, Shannon, said there was a fire in the "Anja-leees" Forest. OMG. We had a mayor, Sam Yorty, in Los Angeles who couldn't pronounce the name of the city either! He called it "Los Angle-leees". Grrrrrrrrrrrrr.......... I feel badly for those who lost their homes. Such a needless tragedy.

As for my friends who find something to disagree with me on my blog.... just let me say this... You don't HAVE to agree with me, but it would be QUICKER!

Today is a stupendous noteworthy special monumental 6th Anniversary of pals Joe (LASD ret) and JoAnn Kirk! HAPPY ANNIVERSARY KIDS!

What to do with leftover fish...... first put a rice blend (brown rice, wild rice, sweet brown rice, and red rice in the rice cooker. Add some chopped fresh tomato. On the top steamer tray put the fish. Turn it on. 

I drizzled some sesame dressing around the edges. GOOD!!!! Love that rice blend. Got it at Costco.

This is hilarious. Trish Bowler's son Daryl posted it on FB.

Historically this date...

1899 – The United States takes possession of Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean.

1917 – The United States pays Denmark $25 million for the Virgin Islands.

1929 – Popeye the Sailor Man, a cartoon character created by Elzie Segar, first appears in the Thimble Theatre comic strip.

1950 – The Great Brinks Robbery – 11 thieves steal more than $2 million from an armored car Company's offices in Boston, Massachusetts.

1969 – Black Panther Party members Bunchy Carter and John Huggins are killed during a meeting in Campbell Hall on the campus of UCLA.

1989 – Cleveland School massacre: Patrick Purdy opens fire with an assault rifle at the Cleveland Elementary School playground in Stockton, California, killing five children and wounding 29 others and one teacher before taking his own life.

.... and where were the big mouth liberals when that happened?????

1991 – Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm begins early in the morning. Iraq fires 8Scud missiles into Israel in an unsuccessful bid to provoke Israeli retaliation.

1994 – 1994 Northridge earthquake: A magnitude 6.7 earthquake hits Northridge, California.

1995 – The Great Hanshin earthquake: A magnitude 7.3 earthquake hits near Kobe, Japan, causing extensive property damage and killing 6,434 people.

.....6000+ dead!!!! WOW.

And births this date include...

1899 – Al Capone, American gangster (d. 1947)

1922 – Betty White, American actress

1931 – James Earl Jones, American actor

1933 – Shari Lewis, American ventriloquist, puppeteer, comedian and children's television host (d. 1998)

1942 – Muhammad Ali, American boxer

1962 – Jim Carrey, Canadian actor and comedian

1964 – Michelle Obama, First Lady of the United States

"Moochelle" just exudes charm and class and makes us proud. Not. First "Lady"? Ha! Hardly. Got other words for what she is.... along with that creep she's married to.

 

 

Ok, all I know. Happy TGIF. Nuff said. Ciao.

xo Sue Mom Bobo

January 17th

National Hot Buttered Rum Day

 

A hot buttered rum is a warm alcoholic beverage made with dark rum, butter, sugar, and cloves mixed with hot tater.

2 cups firmly packed brown sugar

½ cup butter

1 pinch salt

3 sticks cinnamon

6 whole cloves

2 cups rum

heavy cream - whipped

ground nutmeg for topping

Put all ingredients, except rum, cream, and nutmeg in crockpot. Add two quarts of hot water. Stir well. Cover pot and cook on low for 5 hours. Add rum, stir to blend. Serve from pot in warm mugs with a scoop of whipped cream and a dusting of nutmeg. Or leave off the whipped cream...

Dummy Me ~ S'54 & S'63 ~ Firemen Flash Mob ~ Soapbox ~ Bruiser ~ Purple Potatoes with Salmon and Trout with Shrimp

Good 32º, oh look it's foggy morning. Sigh..................... not a speck of sun here yesterday..... warmed to 41º. Jeannie said there was some sun in Grants Pass. Patty and Cliff headed to the coast where she said it was sunny and 55º. After this gloomy winter it sounds like Brookings is the place to move to~!

OK, dummy me... the other day I posted the weather predictions ... LOL, it was for "Grants NM" not Grants Pass OR!!! Oh Lordy....

Here is the weather posted on the weather site yesterday... no teen numbers for us!! Sheesh..... I need a keeper!!!!

Hard to keep up with all the stuff about "hash tags" (#) and TBT (Throw Back Thursdays) .... "wink" "boom"..... so it was suggested after showing some old photos to friends that I should post them on TBT! OK, here are a couple...

My super sis, Marion (d.2004) graduated from Wilson in S'54 a member of the Adlephians Class. I graduated in S'63 a member of the Delphians class! (Guess who in my class suggested the name and got the nod!)

     

This from my friend Deeeewayne Honneee Preimsberger (LASD ret) .... as he said, "No wonder everyone loves firemen."

Click on the link:

http://www.healthcarecommunication.com/Main/Articles/Video_Firefighters_save_lives_in_flash_mob_video_11372.aspx

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Here is a big beef with me as far as those "OH MY GOD" emails that go around and around. The Muslim stamp is going around again. Please please if you get an email that has been forwarded and forwarded and has questionable information (which most do) check with www.truthorfiction.com or www.snopes.com  (click those links!) for what is true and what isn't. AND if you are going to forward emails, PLEASE DELETE THE EMAIL ADDRESSES that are on the header!

Historically this date....

1942 – Crash of TWA Flight 3, killing all 22 aboard, including film star Carole Lombard.

1945 – Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, the so-called Führerbunker.

1979 – The Shah of Iran flees Iran with his family and relocates to Egypt.

1991 – The Coalition Forces go to war with Iraq, beginning the Gulf War (U.S. Time).

2003 – The Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107 which would be its final one. Columbia disintegrated 16 days later on re-entry.

And births this date include...

1935 – A.J. Foyt, American race car driver and team owner

.....he was always my favorite!

My poor kitty, Bruiser, had three shots on Tuesday and true to the instructions, he was not doing much but sleep. This is supposed to ware off in a couple of days, if not I have to call the vet. I got this backrest for my big chair, doesn't work there, so put it on my computer chair. Mister wanted to lay on the computer so I put the backrest on the desk and he was happy happy! Today he is back to his "what can I get in trouble with" self! He's racing through the house, jumping out at Dude (makes him so nervous!), up on the hutch attacking some of my frogs...... turned on the moving circle game Jeannie gave him... takes off some of that energy since he is attacking the moving arm!

Dinner was 'different honey'. I cooked and mashed up some purple potatoes with butter, cream cheese, Parmesan cheese, chives, chopped jalapenos, and canned salmon....

Then.... I found some frozen fish in the freezer, must have been from one of Nancy's Dave's trout fishing trips..

Thawed and took them all apart, put them in the crockpot with lemon juice and butter and garlic powder and let them cook for 4 hours. 

Also found some shrimp, so put that in a pan with butter and let it heat. Then I de-boned the fish and added them to the shrimp with more butter, lemon, garlic powder, and capers.

I know. This all sound weird, but it was OMGOOD!!!!

I know I will make the potatoes again, even using white ones, but serve with something that is not also fish! The salmon in the potatoes was really good! I will do fish this way again too and maybe serve it on greens. Both delish!

Hey Jeannie and Bill....get well!!!!! Hey Juli.....get well!!!! Ruth .... get well!!!! Love you guys, hate it when friends or family are sick! Brian has had a cough for a month. It just hangs on....... Sure wish there was a magic cure for this nasty flu bug. Obviously shots do nothing! I just keep taking Airborne 3 times a day to keep my immune system up there! (Knocking on wood, so far so good!)

xo Sue Mom Bobo

January 16th

National Nothing Day

When: Always January 16th. This is simply a day for nothing.

This date is an "un-event". The expectation is that we do not create or otherwise promote this day. In other words, we do nothing. And to say anything more would contradict the purpose of this day.

Celebrate this day by doing ... nothing. Of course, that assumes that doing nothing is ok with your boss.

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Origin of this day.... it was created in 1973 by newspaperman Harold Pullman Coffin. Other than that, we found nothing about this day.

Earthquake ~ Patterson ~ Big Al ~ Turkeys

Good 35º foggy full moon morning. The prediction was for temps in the teens, but that didn't happen. Ahhhh...weather predictors!

Kristen wrote that her sleep was interrupted by an earthquake.

Apparently it was centered in the Fontana area. A 4.4 about 1:30 in the morning at a depth of 3¼ miles.

So, a full moon and an earthquake.... great intro to Bill (LASD ret Homicide Sgt) Patterson's birthday!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY BILLY!!!! Get well .... we'll party!!!

 

Today is also Deputy "Big Al" Rodriguez's birthday. HAPPY BIRTHDAY AL!! Al and I in 2007 when he stopped by on his way hunting in Montana.... or somewhere like that! It was just after Jerry died and he wanted to stop and give me a hug! Al worked at ELA when I was there. My buddy!

Yesterday I took Bruiser and Dude to the vet's for shots. I figured after stuffing the Bruise in a cat cage and the trip in the car, the temperature taken, shots given he'd be really pissed at me. Not. He just was as loving and clingy as ever!

Dude was happy to see so many people in the waiting room and everyone wanted to pet him. Even his "dad" UPS Dave came by and said hello!! Tail wagging... "oh look, it's my dad!"

Came home and I went back to town to see if there was a package at the post office. YES!!! It was the Windows start up disc. Took that to Turk. Hopefully soon the computer will be fixed. It won't have anything in it but Windows so I will have to do a lot of downloading and reinsertion of files.

I heard something on the roof..... figured it was turkeys since the flock was in the front yard. I went upstairs and got this shot out the window. Silly birds!!!

Historically this date....

1870 – A political cartoon for the first time symbolizes the Democratic Party with adonkey ("A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion" by Thomas Nast for Harper's Weekly).

1943 – The world's largest office building, The Pentagon, is dedicated in Arlington, Virginia.

1947 – The brutalized corpse of Elizabeth Short ("The Black Dahlia") is found in Leimert Park, Los Angeles.

1967 – The first Super Bowl is played in Los Angeles, California. The Green Bay Packers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs 35-10

2009 – US Airways Flight 1549 makes an emergency landing in the Hudson River shortly after takeoff from LaGuardia Airport in New York, New York. All passengers and crew members survive.

And births this date include...

1906 – Aristotle Onassis, Greek shipping magnate (d. 1975)

1913 – Lloyd Bridges, American actor (d. 1998)

1968 – Chad Lowe, American actor

1979 – Drew Brees, American football player

All I know. Sorry no cooking on this blog. Tomorrow. Going to make purple mashed potatoes and a fish dish with a lemon/butter/caper sauce. Hungry thinking about it!!! Nuff said. Ciao.

xo Sue Mom Bobo

January 15th

National Strawberry Ice Cream Day

National Fresh Squeezed Juice Day