Travelin' Bruiser ~ 60's Quiz ~ Wacky Walkers ~ St. Pat's Dinner ~ Oatmeal Cookies

Good 34º dark and cold morning with hopes of a sunny day!

 

What a beautiful day yesterday was..

The Bruise went out ... and I saw him wayyyyyyy down towards the gate... He wasn't gone long. I think he goes down there to check out Frank and Cindy's cat.

While I was taking pictures I was being watched....

 

Coffee yesterday morning... I love the Torani sugar free syrups in my coffee (Peanut Butter being the fav) and a little fat free coffee creamer. So, Irish Cream syrup is GOOD!!

 

This came from John 'Teddy Bear' Thurman... a 60's quiz. Fun!!! I aced it!

http://teacherprobs.com/do-you-actually-know-far-out-slang-of-the-1960s/

Not surprising, high school in the 60's, married in the 60's, and a mom in the 60's!! How about you? This is what they said about my score:

"There is no doubt you were hip in the 1960’s and still are today! You just blew the doors off of this quiz by ACING it! Most people get a couple of the choicest words right, but very few do as well as you just did. Your performance was really out of sight!" 

 

This will definitely put a smile on your face, and made me laugh out loud!!! Wacky Walkers on Mel's Video of the Day:

http://www.coolestone.com/media/11906/The-Hilarious-Wacky-Walkers/

 

Historically this date.....

1968 – Gold standard: The U.S. Congress repeals the requirement for a gold reserve to back US currency.

1990 – In the largest art theft in US history, 12 paintings, collectively worth around $300 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts.

How sad the case has not been solved nor the art recovered!

2002 – U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda ends (started on March 2) after killing 500 Taliban and al Qaeda fighters with 11 allied troop fatalities.

And births this date include....

1837 – Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th President of the United States (d. 1908)

1858 – Rudolf Diesel, German inventor (d. 1913)

.. Thanks to him we have those horribly noisy smelly trucks that most men love!

1886 – Edward Everett Horton, American actor (d. 1970)

.... Do you think he ever heard a Who?

1926 – Peter Graves, American actor (d. 2010)

My sister, Marion, knew Peter. He had a house at Tahoe and her real estate office rented it out for him. He told Marion lots of Hollywood stories, especially ones about Liz Taylor and Richard Burton, with whom Peter socialized. The stories were always whoppers!

1938 – Charley Pride, American musician

.... love his voice!

Here are two of my favorite Charlie Pride songs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRIRTQ_k-Sg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2rEqLtpl8g

1970 – Queen Latifah, American singer and actress

 

 

Dinner yesterday was the yummy corned beef...

Into the Crock*Pot it went, topped it with brown sugar, and added 1½ bottles of Guinness Stout, turned on high for 4 hours and then low for 4 hours. This wasn't a big brisquit, only 2¾ pounds.

PERFECT!!!

Then to the Colcannon... I peeled (with my Mom's vintage Ekco Floating Blade Peeler...I love using things she used.) a couple potatoes and diced the. Cooked til soft.

Next was chop the leek and cabbage (only used about 1/3 of the cabbage)... put in frying pan with olive oil and sauté until mostly soft.

Mash the potatoes, add in butter, sour cream, salt and pepper...

Stir potatoes into the cabbage/leeks.

Put in baking dish to heat through.

Wine yesterday was green! 

Bruiser got to taste some corned beef, which he loved!

Dinner was GREAT!!!

 

My friend Trish Bowler posted this on FB... LOVE it..

Interesting, nobody asked me what the "Póg Mo Thóin" on the sweatshirt meant! I guess everyone speaks Irish Gaelic!

 

All I know. Happy Hump Day. Nuff said. Ciao.

xo Sue Mom Bobo

March 18th

Oatmeal Cookie Day

It’s Oatmeal Cookie Day! Oatmeal cookies have been around since the late 1800s. They originated in England, and evolved from the savory oatcake. In the Middle Ages, soldiers carried oatcakes with them in case they needed a quick boost of energy during battle. Although our modern-day version is much sweeter, oatcakes and oatmeal cookies share many of the same ingredients including spices, nuts, and raisins.

Oats are an excellent source of iron and fiber, which explains why oatmeal cookies are the healthiest type of cookie! Make a batch today to celebrate Oatmeal Cookie Day!

My Grandmother, Isabelle Dunbar Mills, made what she called Cowboy Cookies... oatmeal cookies with raisins. Yummmmy!!!!

If you want to make some AWESOME Oatmeal Cookies, add in some of Cary's Of Oregon Trail Toffee. It contains toffee bits, almonds, raisins, and cranberries.

http://www.carysoforegon.com/

They are located here in Grants Pass. My pal Dee works there part time. All of their products are the BEST~!!!!

St. Patrick's Day ~ Laney Name ~ All The "Pats" I Know

Good 46º gonna be a pretty day morning!

HAPPY ST. PADDY'S DAY TO Y'ALL!

May the road rise to meet you. May the wind be always at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face. May the rains fall soft upon your fields and until we meet again, May the Lord hold you in the palm of His hand

Here's to your health!

My family name of Laney...

Being half Irish.... and half Scottish.... I love celebrating St. Patrick's Day, even though I am of Protestant Irish heritage and St. Pat is the Catholic holiday.... still, corned beef and all things Irish are GREAT! Here is the Laney family Irish coat of arms... As you can see it's not green... Green is Catholic Irish... 

My father's family, Irish, Laney ......

The name Laney in its original Gaelic form was O'Dubhshlaine and first appears in recorded history 
around A.D. 950. The O' means "grandson of" or later, "descendant of." Dubh means "black." Shlaine is a territorial name referring to the district from which the river Slaney takes its name--a section of Slieve Bloom mountains in the County of Laois in southeast Ireland.

Dubhshlaine is best 
translated, "the dark-haired ones of Slaney." (funny my name being Susan and Laney! Slaney!)

Daddy had black hair (so thick he could hardly get a comb through it)...

but he married a pretty Scottish Lass with light red hair... ergo mine was blonde.

Chief Dubhshlaine, whose ancestral home was at the foot of the Slieve Bloom Mountain (1,733 ft.), 
is the patriarch of all the families whose names are Laney, DeLaney, and DuLaney, with numerous 
variations in the spellings of each. According to some genealogists in Ireland, the Laney name was 
once spelled "Leighneigh." It is in the district of the Slieve Bloom Mountain and the section east of it 
in KilKenney County where the greatest number of DeLaneys are found today. 
So there... now you know more about me than you wanted to!

My name now of Maxwell!

My Brian's pub!

My Maggie Girl! (She may have been a Scottish McNab, but Irish enough for me!)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McNab_dog 

How fun it would be to go to this pub in Dublin today!

I received the following link from friends Ginny and Merrill Feiker (he's ret. LASD SR). This song by Roma Downey and the beautiful pictures of Ireland that accompany it is wonderful. Enjoy!

www.andiesisle.com/ThisBlessingIsForYou.html

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Father O'Malley rose from his bed one morning. It was a fine spring day in his new Washington D.C. parish.

He walked to the window of his bedroom to get a deep breath of the beautiful day outside. He then noticed there was . . . a donkey lying dead in the middle of his front lawn.

He promptly called the White House . The conversation went like this: "Good morning. This is Barrack Obama . How might I help you?"

"And the best of the day te yerself . This is Father O'Malley at St. Ann's Catholic Church. There's a donkey lying dead in me front lawn and would ye be so kind as to send a couple o'yer lads to take care of the matter?"

Barrack , considering himself to be quite a wit and recognizing the Irish accent, thought he would have a little fun with the good father, replied,
"Well now Father, it was always my impression that you people took care of the last rites!"

There was dead silence on the line for a moment . . . .
Father O'Malley then replied: "Aye,' tis certainly true; but we are also obliged to notify the next of kin first, which is the reason for me call."

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And Happy St. Pat's Day to all the Pats I know:

PJ (Pat Sandifur), PattyK (Pat Kuehl), PatT (Pat Tracy), PatC (Pat Cruz), PatR (Patrick Reardon), Patsy (Pat Goslin), PR (Patty Rodriguez), PattyHOM (Patty Hickey Oshiyama McNaughton), PattyB (Patty Braga), PatM (Patrick Mallon), My Pats (Patriots), PatK (Patrick Kraut). Whew! Did I miss anyone? Oh wait, yes I did.. Trish (Patricia Bowler). 

The following shared by George Bachmeier (LASD ret)

Click here: Things you didn't know about Guinness beer | Fox News

Kristen posted this sunrise on her FB page yesterday. Pretty So. California!!!

Historically this date..

1963 – Mount Agung erupted on Bali killing 11,000.

1969 – Golda Meir becomes the first female Prime Minister of Israel.

1985 – Serial killer Richard Ramirez, aka the "Night Stalker", commits the first twomurders in his Los Angeles, California murder spree.

2008 – Governor of New York Eliot Spitzer resigns after a scandal involving a high-end prostitute. Lieutenant Governor David Paterson becomes New York State governor

And births this date include...

1919 – Nat King Cole, American singer (d. 1965)

1930 – James Irwin, American astronaut (d. 1991)

 

1936 – Ken Mattingly, American astronaut

1938 – Rudolf Nureyev, Russian-born dancer and choreographer (d. 1993)

1951 – Kurt Russell, American actor

1955 – Gary Sinise, American actor

One of my favs!

1964 – Rob Lowe, American actor

Now, if you are going to cook a corned beef go back to my blog for Saturday March 14th for a PERFECT Corned Beef recipe! Mine will go in the Crock*Pot soon! Just some brown sugar and Guinness and 8 hours in the Crock*Pot!

And on a final note... Here's your St. Paddy's Day card:

There's a dear little plant that grows in our isle,
'Twas St. Patrick himself, sure, that sets it;
And the sun of his labor with pleasure did smile,
And with dew from his eye often wet it.
It grows through the bog, through the brake, through the mireland,
And they call it the dear little Shamrock of Ireland.

My sweatshirt for today:

xo Sue Mom Bobo

March 17th

Corned Beef & Cabbage Day