Moon ~ The Station ~ Dude ~ Bucket List ~ Dave ~ Sunset ~ Tulips In Spring

Good 43º sunny morning.

A little restaurant in Rogue River, The Station, closed. The building was 100 years old. It had great sandwiches and soup and you could dine outdoors in the warm weather. The restaurant owners were renters in the building and the building owners wouldn't do any maintenance, which got so expensive, the restaurant closed, after 20 years!

On Saturday the fire department used it as a teaching aid in fighting fires and it was basically burned inside.

Then Sunday it was burned to the ground.

Still smoldering...

If I put Dude in the back of my truck and go into a business or post office or anything, he jumps to the front seat. So, I parked where he could see me taking pictures across the street and opened the back window for him. He was happy and stayed put!!!

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This shared on FB by my friend Suzanne Santisteven....

Bucket List - please play along. You'll be surprised at the responses. Put an X if you have done it. Here are my answers....
Fired a Gun X
Been Married X
Fell in love X
Gone on a blind date X
Skipped school X
Watched someone give birth X
Watched someone die X
Been to Canada X
Been to Hawaii
Been to Europe X
Been to Las Vegas X
Been to Washington D.C. X
Been to Nashville
Been to New Orleans
Been camping X
Visited Florida
Visited Mexico X
Seen the Grand Canyon in person x
Flown in a helicopter X
Been on a cruise X
Served on a jury X
Been in a movie
Been to Los Angeles X
Been to New York City X
Played in a band (orchestra) X
Sang karaoke
Made prank phone calls
Laughed so much you peed your pants
Caught a snowflake on your tongue X
Had children X
Had a pet dog X
Had a pet cat X
Been sledding on big hill X
Been downhill skiing
Been water skiing
Rode on a motorcycle X
Jumped out of a plane
Been to a drive-in movie X
Rode an elephant
Been on TV X
Been in newspaper X
Stayed in Hospital X
Donated blood X
Gotten a piercing X
Gotten a tattoo
Driven a stick shift vehicle X
Driven over 100 mph X
Been scuba diving
Lived on your own X
Been in a blimp
Rode in the back of police car X
Got a speeding ticket X
-Copy and paste this and add or delete an X for your answers and share it.

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Historically this date....

1830 – Mary Had a Little Lamb by Sarah Josepha Hale is published.

1846 – Mexican-American War: General Zachary Taylor captures Monterrey.

1883 – The Brooklyn Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic after 14 years of construction.

1940 – Igor Sikorsky performs the first successful single-rotor helicopter flight.

1962 – Project Mercury: American astronaut Scott Carpenter orbits the Earth three times in the Aurora 7 space capsule.

1994 – Four men convicted of bombing the World Trade Center in New York in 1993 are each sentenced to 240 years in prison.

And births this date include...

1686 – Gabriel Fahrenheit, German inventor and thermometer maker (d. 1736)

........and you always wondered why it was called "fahrenheit" ! BTW, there is a guy named Anders Celsius!

1879 – H. B. Reese, American inventor of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups and founder of H. B. Reese Candy Co. (d. 1956)

God Bless him for inventing one of my most favorite things!!!!

1938 – Tommy Chong, Canadian-born actor and comedian

1941 – Bob Dylan, American singer and songwriter

1943 – Gary Burghoff, American actor

1945 – Priscilla Presley, American actress

(WTF?)

1967 – Eric Close, American actor

Dave didn't get here to brush-hog until 6:45pm. He worked til 8:30.....

Sunset:

Dinner was soup I made. Will share that tomorrow.... then it was chair, wine, and a Hallmark movie ... http://www.hallmarkchannel.com/tulips-in-spring

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

xo Sue Mom Bobo

May 24th

National Escargot Day (UGH)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escargot

Dave ~ Bruiser ~ Mac/Chokes/Meatballs ~ Pulled Taffy

Good 45º sparsely cloudy morning. Should have sunshine for the rest of the week...

Yesterday stayed dark, cloudy, gloomy, and cold all day..

Dave didn't get here until about 5pm and did some brush-hogging.... til it got dark....

He has to finish this part of the pasture straight in front and then do the upper pastures on the left... I am assuming he'll be here today....

The Bruiser was out hunting yesterday...

Thankfully he didn't bring home any trophies!

Historically this date....

1934 – American bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde are ambushed by police and killed in Black Lake, Louisiana.

1939 – The U.S. Navy submarine USS Squalus sinks off the coast of New Hampshireduring a test dive, causing the death of 24 sailors and two civilian technicians. The remaining 32 sailors and one civilian naval architect are rescued the following day.

2006 – Alaskan stratovolcano Mount Cleveland erupts.

2010 – Jamaican police begin a manhunt for drug lord Christopher "Dudus" Coke, after the United States requested his extradition, leading to three days of violence during which at least 73 bystanders are killed.

And births this date include...

1883 – Douglas Fairbanks, American actor (d. 1939)

1912 – John Payne, American actor (d. 1989)

1931 – Barbara Barrie, American actress

1933 – Joan Collins, English actress

... still hot!

1958 – Drew Carey, American actor and comedian

Dinner was super simple... Reesers Mac & Cheese, Reese Artichoke bottoms, and leftover meatballs... I heated and sauteéd the artichoke bottoms and the meatballs in butter...

It was simple, but good!!!

Chair, wine, TV, and a couple phone conversations. Then I fell asleep in my chair!!!! I woke up at 2am!!!!! Sheesh.....

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

xo Sue Mom Bobo

May 23rd

National Taffy Day

Read this... a history of taffy and very interesting!

http://www.thenibble.com/reviews/main/candy/toffee/toffee-information3.asp

Recipe and photos of pulling taffy.... When was the last time you pulled taffy? I think for me it was when my children were very small!

http://www.thenibble.com/reviews/main/candy/toffee/toffee-information3.asp

Tucker's Baseball Game ~ Depot Street Bridge ~ Brush-hogger Dave ~ Rain ~ Movie "Joy" ~ Vanilla Pudding

Good 48º cloudy drizzling morning.

Was quite cloudy in the morning yesterday.

Sun came and went and so did the rain. I think we hit 65º.

Yesterday morning Tucker's baseball game was at 9am. I went to that....

Came home...... Rogue River's Depot Street Bridge...

When I got home Dave had already started the brush-hogging...

He worked at it until 7pm and part of the time he was out there it POURED rain!!! That guy is one tough dude!!! He said he did the hardest part yesterday and will probably return today to finish up.

Historically this date..

1906 – The Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their "Flying-Machine".

1915 – Lassen Peak erupts with a powerful force, and is the only mountain other thanMount St. Helens to erupt in the contiguous US during the 20th century.

1942 – World War II: Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox enlists in the United States Marine Corps as a flight instructor.

1960 – An earthquake measuring 9.5 on the moment magnitude scale, now known as the Great Chilean Earthquake, hits southern Chile. It is the most powerful earthquake ever recorded.

1968 – The nuclear-powered submarine the USS Scorpion sinks with 99 men aboard 400 miles southwest of the Azores.

1992 – After 30 years, 66-year-old Johnny Carson hosts The Tonight Show for the last time.

2004 – The U.S. town of Hallam, Nebraska, is wiped out by a powerful F4 tornado(part of the May 2004 tornado outbreak sequence) that broke a width record at an astounding 2.5 miles (4.0 km) wide, which kills one resident.

2008 – The Late-May 2008 tornado outbreak sequence unleashes 235 tornadoes, including an EF4 and an EF5 tornado, between May 22 and May 31, 2008. The tornadoes struck 19 states and one Canadian province.

2011 – An EF5 Tornado strikes Joplin, Missouri killing 161 people, the single deadliest tornado in the United States since modern record keeping began in 1950.

And births this date include....

1938 – Richard Benjamin, American actor

.....still married to Paula Prentis!

1940 – Michael Sarrazin, Canadian actor (d. 2011)

1942 – Barbara Parkins, Canadian actress

Later I was feeling lousy. Cold coming on... sneezing, coughing, runny nose. ICK!!! Took Zycam and drank hot tea. Was not in the mood for dinner. Some better today. Will continue with the Zycam and eating light. 

This is the movie I watched Saturday evening...

Pal Linda had told me about it and she liked, so I found and recorded it. Called "Joy".

It was a totally weird flick. About a woman, Jennifer Lawrence played Joy, who invented the Miracle Mop

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_Mangano

The cast of characters is wild.... Joan River's daughter plays Joan, a number of the names are so very familiar, but I didn't recognize them. The whole movie is around a totally dysfunctional family...

http://www.movieinsider.com/m10801/joy

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

xo Sue Mom Bobo

May 22nd

National Vanilla Pudding Day

Vanilla Pudding History

May 22 is National Vanilla Pudding Day, but what we enjoy today is far different from the dish’s origins.

Culinary historians believe that the precursor of vanilla pudding originated in earl early medieval Europe, an evolution of an Arab pudding-like dish of rice and almonds. The oldest recipe known dates back to the early 13th century, a translation that is believed to have been based on a manuscript from the 12th century or earlier.

Over the centuries, the recipe turned into blancmange (pronounced blah-MOHNJ), meaning “white dish,” from the Old French blanc mangier. This dish was enjoyed by Europe’s wealthy during the Middle Ages. It appears frequently in recipe collections of the time from all over the Continent, and is called one of “the few truly international dishes of medieval and early modern Europe.”*

*Source: Wikipedia.

The dish is referred to in the prologue to Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and in an early 15th century cookbook written by the chefs of Richard II. We first came across the reference as a child, in the book Little Women.

Originally a white stew, the key ingredients of the original blancmange were milk or almond milk, sugar and shredded capon or fish. In the 17th century, the meat was dropped and the dish evolved into a dessert pudding made with cream and eggs (and, later, gelatin*). In the 19th century, arrowroot and cornstarch were added and the dish evolved into the final, modern blanc mange, known in the U.S. as vanilla pudding (and originally known as cornstarch pudding).