America's Got Talent ~ Scaredy German Shepherd ~ Nan Cipolla ~ Tap Rock ~ Jennifer/Mike/Sarah/Mike/Me ~ Applesauce Cake

Good 51º clear sunny moon is out morning. Yesterday we hit 89º. Summer is a comin'! Supposed to be close to 100º this weekend. Joy.

 

 

Sent to me by Carolyn Taylor (wife of Ollie!). It will inspire you! 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiItdgDxfMs

 

 

Now this is funny.... a big old German Shepherd is afraid of a stuffed animal. I giggled!!!

http://www.coolestone.com/media/12450/German-Shepherd-scared-of-Stuffed-Toy-Tiger./#.VXHHJZdLHIs

 

Today is a special birthday... Nan Cipolla (wife of Mike) HAPPY BIRTHDAY NAN! Gotta get those martinis one of these days!!!

I hope you have a wonderful day, Nan!!!

 

Historically this date...

1752 – A devastating fire destroys one-third of Moscow, including 18,000 homes.

1833 – The U.S. President Andrew Jackson becomes the first President to ride on a train.

1882 – More than 100,000 inhabitants of Bombay are killed as a cyclone in the Arabian Sea pushes huge waves into the harbor.

1889 – The Great Seattle fire destroys the entirety of downtown Seattle, Washington.

1918 – World War I: Battle of Belleau Wood – The U.S. Marine Corps suffers its worst single day's casualties while attempting to recapture the wood at Chateau-Thierry.

1944 – World War II: the Battle of Normandy begins. D-Day, code named Operation Overlord, commences with the landing of 155,000 Allied troops on the beaches ofNormandy in France. The allied soldiers quickly break through the Atlantic Wall and push inland in the largest amphibious military operation in history.

1981 – Bihar train disaster: a passenger train traveling between Mansi and Saharsa,India, jumps the tracks at a bridge crossing the Bagmati river. The government places the official death toll at 268 plus another 300 missing; however, it is generally believed that the actual figure is closer to 1,000 killed.

2005 – The United States Supreme Court upholds a federal law banning cannabis, including medical marijuana, in Gonzales v. Raich. (HA! Not in Washington, Colorado, or soon to be Oregon! Good grief! Pot heads are just that.)

 

And births this date include...

1932 – David Scott, American astronaut

 

1956 – Björn Borg, Swedish tennis player

 

 

1967 – Paul Giamatti, American actor

 

Yesterday at noon for lunch.... Jennifer, Mike, Jennifer's cousin Sarah, and her NY friend Mike (sheesh... first everyone is named Dave and now everyone is Mike!) meeting at Tap Rock. Since the "tourists" were coming this is such a nice place to show off the river and the area. So, for me, twice in one week! I was the "on time/early bird" so I got us a table on the deck and a glass of wine for me...

 Across the river by Riverside Park the Canadian Geese were out in force!

Just an absolutely perfect day~! Everyone finally arrived, albeit late.

Sarah and Mike are super nice folks and it was such fun to get to meet them and chat. Mike flew from NY to Olympia WA and they are on an antique collecting trip. Mike has a website that is so interesting...   http://www.toastercentral.com/ 

After lunch they headed south to California. In Fort Jones there is a 41 mile 'garage sale' !!!

Jennifer had the BBQ Ranch Chicken Chopped Salad (rotisserie-style chicken, chopped romaine, avocado, Tillamook Cheddar cheese, black beans, tomatoes, corn, sliced black olives, green onion, and BBQ Ranch dressing!) It doesn't look that big in the picture but she shared it with Sarah and Mike... three plates of salad!!!!

Jennifer's Mike enjoyed the same thing I had there on Wednesday, turkey/bacon/tomato/cranberry cream cheese sandwich! I had Fish and Chips. OMGOOOOOD!!!!

GOSH those 'chips' were awesome!

Our favorite waiter, Lance, was there, but our table wasn't in his area...

Brian gave me a bunch of State Farm pens to give him and he was ecstatic! I even got a hug!!!

I wore my silly shirt "SMILE if you aren't wearing any underwear" !! Gets a lot of laughs!

 

Too much lunch so I wasn't even hungry to fix dinner. Snacked.

 

All I know. Nuff said. Happy Saturday. Ciao.

xo Sue Mom Bobo

June 6th

National Applesauce Cake Day

 

BUSY DAY APPLESAUCE CAKE

1 (18.25 oz.) pkg. yellow cake mix 1/3 c. oil 1 1/4 tsp. ground cinnamon 1/2 tsp. ground cloves 1 c. applesauce 3 eggs Ground nutmeg GLAZE: 1 c. sifted powdered sugar 1/4 tsp. rum extract 1 tsp. light corn syrup 2 to 3 tbsp. applesauce In large mixing bowl, combine cake mix, applesauce, oil, eggs, cinnamon, 3/4 teaspoon nutmeg and cloves. Mix at low speed of electric mixer until moist, then at high speed for 2 minutes. Pour mixture into greased and floured bundt pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 50 minutes or until toothpick placed in center comes out clean. Cool in pan 15 minutes. Invert onto serving plate and cool. Combine powdered sugar, rum extract, corn syrup and applesauce in mixing bowl. Mix until smooth and of drizzling consistency. Drizzle glaze over top of cake. Sprinkle lightly with nutmeg. 12 servings.

Or sprinkle on powdered sugar! Also, add in a cup of chopped walnuts~!

Old Words & Phrases ~ Cats ~ Stuffed Baked Potato ~ The Pendletones

Good 46º clear and sunny morning.

Yesterday was  a beauty. 71º with a great breeze and warmed to 77º. Clear as a bell. I got my apple tree pruned of the dead branches, the back patio cleaned off, some weeds pulled, and I ran '5 Miles' to the trash can.

I spent some time printing out maps of the Keck Medical Center of USC where Kristen will have her surgery on June 12th. Then scouted motels in the area. I want to stay close to Alex and Jack so I can take them to the hospital with me if they want to go and then take them out to eat. They will be staying at their dad's, but he has to work.  

I got this from Steiny... Richard Steinhurst (LASD ret) and thought it so funny and age appropriate for my age group... Enjoy. Been a while since you have heard these!

WORDS AND PHRASESREMIND US OF THE WAY WE WORD

                                                                     

by Richard Lederer

 

About a month ago, I illuminated some old expressions that have become obsolete because of the inexorable march of technology. These phrases included "Don't touch that dial," "Carbon copy," "You sound like a broken record" and "Hung out to dry." A bevy of readers have asked me to shine light on more faded words and expressions, and I am happy to oblige:

 

Back in the olden days we had a lot of moxie. We'd put on our best bib and tucker and straighten up and fly right. Hubba-hubba! We'd cut a rug in some juke joint and then go necking and petting and smooching and spooning and billing and cooing and pitching woo in hot rods and jalopies in some passion pit or lovers’ lane. Heavens to Betsy! Gee whillikers! Jumpin’ Jehoshaphat! Holy moley! We were in like Flynn and living the life of Riley, and even a regular guy couldn't accuse us of being a knucklehead, a nincompoop or a pill. Not for all the tea in China!

 

Back in the olden days, life used to be swell, but when’s the last time anything was swell? Swell has gone the way of beehives, pageboys and the D.A.; of spats, knickers, fedoras, poodle skirts, saddle shoes and pedal pushers. Oh, my aching back. Kilroy was here, but he isn't anymore.

 

Like Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkle and Kurt Vonnegut’s Billy Pilgrim, we have become unstuck in time. We wake up from what surely has been just a short nap, and before we can say, “I'll be a monkey’s uncle!” or “This is a fine kettle of fish!” we discover that the words we grew up with, the words that seemed omnipresent as oxygen, have vanished with scarcely a notice from our tongues and our pens and our keyboards.

 

Poof, poof, poof go the words of our youth, the words we've left behind. We blink, and they're gone, evanesced from the landscape and wordscape of our perception, like Mickey Mouse wristwatches, hula hoops, skate keys, candy cigarettes, little wax bottles of colored sugar water and an organ grinder’s monkey.

 

Where have all those phrases gone? Long time passing. Where have all those phrases gone? Long time ago: Pshaw. The milkman did it. Think about the starving Armenians. Bigger than a bread box. Banned in Boston . The very idea! It’s your nickel. Don't forget to pull the chain. Knee high to a grasshopper. Turn-of-the-century. Iron curtain. Domino theory. Fail safe. Civil defense. Fiddlesticks! You look like the wreck of the Hesperus. Cooties. Going like sixty. I'll see you in the funny papers. Don't take any wooden nickels. Heavens to Murgatroyd! And awa-a-ay we go!

 

Oh, my stars and garters! It turns out there are more of these lost words and expressions than Carter had liver pills.  This can be disturbing stuff, this winking out of the words of our youth, these words that lodge in our heart’s deep core. But just as one never steps into the same river twice, one cannot step into the same language twice. Even as one enters, words are swept downstream into the past, forever making a different river

 

We of a certain age have been blessed to live in changeful times. For a child each new word is like a shiny toy, a toy that has no age. We at the other end of the chronological arc have the advantage of remembering there are words that once did not exist and there were words that once strutted their hour upon the earthly stage and now are heard no more, except in our collective memory. It’s one of the greatest advantages of aging. We can have archaic and eat it, too.

 

See ‘ya later, alligator!

Historically this date...

1942 – World War II: The United States declares war on Bulgaria, Hungary, andRomania.

1944 – World War II: More than 1000 British bombers drop 5,000 tons of bombs onGerman gun batteries on the Normandy coast in preparation for D-Day.

1956 – Elvis Presley introduces his new single, "Hound Dog", on The Milton Berle Show, scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements.

1968 – Robert F. Kennedy, a U.S. presidential candidate, is shot at the Ambassador Hotelin Los Angeles, California, by Sirhan Sirhan, a Palestinian. Kennedy dies the next day.

2012 – The Governor of Wisconsin, Scott Walker, becomes the first U.S. Governor to survive a recall election.

And births this date include...

1878 – Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary (d. 1923)

My Scottish grandparents were "kicked" out of Mexico by Villa's men... but they posed for pictures! My grandfather was a mining engineer in Cananea Mexico. They were told to leave because they weren't Mexican citizens. My mother on the left, uncle in the middle, and aunt on the right. This taken 1910...

1895 – William Boyd, American actor (d. 1972)

That's me in my Hoppy outfit! LOVED Hopalong Cassidy!

 

1919 – Richard Scarry, American author and illustrator (d. 1994)   I bought his books for my children...

 

1941 – Robert Kraft, American owner of the New England Patriots

Just in case you are wondering, YES I still love my Patriots and Tom Brady! Don't be sh**ty to me about it, because I'll just tell you to "kiss my a**!!!"

1971 – Mark Wahlberg, American model, actor, producer, and rapper (Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch)

Later for dinner I cooked a big potato in the microwave... 9 minutes.

I reconstituted some of the Harmony House celery, leeks, and mushrooms.

Then I mixed the potato innards with the vegetables, cut up avocado, butter, garlic, sour cream, Harry & David's Spinach Artichoke dip, and bacon crumbles, and some shredded mozzarella cheese (since yesterday was National Cheese Day!). 

 Stuffed the shells, and heated in the micro until warmed...

OMGOOOOOOD!!!!!

Something interesting I learned yesterday... I named my son Brian after the Beach Boy's Brian Wilson. I was a HUGE fan!!! In 1961 Brian Wilson and a couple of his cousins were a singing group called 'The Pendletones' !!! My Brian's last name is Pendleton!!!! OMG!!! How strange!

All I know. Nuff said. Happy TGIF. Ciao.

xo Sue Mom Bobo

June 5th

National Doughnut Day

OMG, Krispy Kreme are my FAVORITE!!!

Sadly the closest one is in Stockton! But, then health wise, that's a good thing!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Doughnut_Day