Good 47ºclear sunny morning. Yesterday was amazing. Finally felt like
SPRING. Only topped out at 79º with a nice breeze all day. Heavenly!
Throw Back Thursday....
1982.. Winston Elliott (aka Winnie) and my Jerry working in the booth at
the BC Range:♥♥
Yesterday I messed with my new computer. AOL told me there was a trojan in
it and they "cleaned" the computer. They said this trojan was from Russia and
was stealing information. Called a Clampi Trojan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clampi
Now I have to work on getting all the programs I had in the old one on the
new one!
Special birthday today, high school pal Jim Harper. HAPPY BIRTHDAY JIM!!!
Jim with his bride Sally and pooch Rufus...
Historically this date
68 – Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide, after
quoting Homer's Iliad, thus ending
theJulio-Claudian Dynasty and
starting the civil year known as the Year of the Four Emperors.
1856 – Five hundred Mormons leave Iowa City, Iowa and head west
for Salt Lake Citycarrying all
their possessions in two-wheeled handcarts.
1934 – Donald
Duck makes his debut in The Wise Little
Hen.
1972 – Severe rainfall causes
a dam in the Black
Hills of South
Dakota to burst, creatinga flood that kills 238 people
and causes $160 million in damage.
1973 – Secretariat wins the Triple Crown.
And births
this date include....
1910 – Robert Cummings, American
actor (d. 1990)
1961 – Michael J. Fox, Canadian-born
actor
1963
– Johnny
Depp, American actor
"In 2011,
Depp became a U.S. resident again, because France wanted him to become a
permanent resident, which he said would require him to pay income tax in both
countries". IDIOT. He doesn't deserve to live here!!! He badmouths the heqq out
of our country and yet taking fools money for his movies is not a problem! I
understand that now he has a place up here in Ashland. Oh
joy.
1981 – Natalie Portman, Israeli-born
actress
Later I had the rerun of the chicken veggie soup I made and watched Blue
Bloods and Night Shift.
Went to bed by 10 and at 4:30am heard a goat screaming.
I am thinking a cougar got one of my neighbor's goats. Sounded horrible!!!
Ok,
up and ready for the day. Have a good one!!
All I know. Nuff said. Happy TBT. Ciao.
xo Sue Mom Bobo
June 9th
National Strawberry Rhubarb Pie Day
Spring is rhubarb season; in North America it grows between April and June.
Technically, rhubarb is a vegetable, a member of the sorrel family. Even
for a vegetable, it's very tart. Before it was sweetened it was added to soups
(try it in lentil soup!) and sauces - in the Himalayas, in Moroccan tagines,,
and Middle Eastern stews.
Be sure to cook only the stems, the leaves are mildly
toxic (they contain oxalic acid... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxalic_acid )
But for most of us, rhubarb needs a sweetener. It's absolutely delicious
stewed, as ice cream, rhubarb pie and it's variation on this recipe, strawberry
rhubarb pie.
Rhubarb grew wild in northwest China and was cultivated about 5,000 years
ago for medicinal purposes. It made it's way west via Turkey and Russia, and was
first planted in England by an apothecary in 1777. Properly sweetened it became
popular for jams, sauces, and crumbles.
