Crow & Turkey Vultures ~ Doe ~ Schwans Order ~ Guacamolé Pita ~ Neighbor's Burglary ~ Dirty Sue Martini ~ American Eagle Day

Good 56º clear sunny morning

Yesterday our temps climbed to  95º and I watered front lawn and back.... Supposed to cool down a bit for the next few days to the 80ºs and then zoom to triple digits by Sunday.

I was bad, breakfast was a splurge (again) ... lemon cake topped with whipped cream, and strawberries. OINK!!! Well, you know... I didn't want the strawberries to go bad. 

It was looking like a disagreement between one of the crows and several turkey vultures up in my pasture! The crow kept dive-bombing the vulture sitting on the tree stump....

The little doe was back up here in the yard and then later laying in the shade down by the barn...

I did get some vegetable items ordered from Schwans... which will be delivered today. I love their micro steam green beans: 

 and I also got some corn, fresh that has been cut off the cob:

, and some fresh green peas:

  

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roasted sweet potatoes:

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and mini "Scrambles" which have a crust, scrambled eggs, bacon, white gravy, and cheese: 

All are fresh frozen and can be cooked in the oven or microwave. So tasty, fresh, and easy! AND they don't spoil if you haven't used them right away like fresh do!

Lunch was a "guacamolé" pizza. Actually I heated a pita slice for 30 seconds in the microwave, slathered it with guacamolé, topped with Parmesan cheese, and tomatoes.

   OMGOOOOD! And messy!!!!

Historically this date...

1893 – Lizzie Borden is acquitted of the murders of her father and stepmother.

1945 – The United States Secretary of State approves the transfer of Wernher von Braunand his team of Nazi rocket scientists to America.

2009 – During the Iranian election protests, the death of Neda Agha-Soltan is captured on video and spreads virally on the Internet, making it "probably the most widely witnessed death in human history".

And births this date include...

1924 – Audie Murphy, American soldier and actor Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1971)

... he had a very intense and short life. His second wife was an amazing woman.

1928 – Martin Landau, American actor

1931 – Olympia Dukakis, American actress

1933 – Danny Aiello, American actor

1940 – John Mahoney, English actor

1942 – Brian Wilson, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (The Beach Boys) Who my Brian was named after!

1945 – Anne Murray, Canadian singer and guitarist

1952 – John Goodman, American actor

1967 – Nicole Kidman, Australian-American actress

Later in the morning I went into town to the post office to pick up a package. When I got home I noticed the older gentleman, Ralph, across the road struggling with his trash container. He uses a cane and is quite crippled up. I ran across the road and helped him buy putting the can down by his house.

You can see here by looking down his driveway how close he is to the road:

He was going to put it into the back of his pick up truck, but no way could he stand with a cane and lift it! Then he told me a couple nights ago some valuables were stolen from inside his truck. About $1500 worth. Don't know why he left it unlocked, but........................ The police think it's a couple young guys who live on Earhardt Road and are always walking and wearing hoodies. I keep EVERYTHING up here locked even though I am quite a ways off the road. I also have motion control lights and a big dog who barks. Oh, and guns!!!!

Yesterday, since it was Martini Day I made one for me.... Dirty Sue olive juice mix, vodka, Daddy's shaker, Mediterranian stuffed olives, LASD shot glass, and my "tipsy" wine glass:

Mmmmmmm............ sooooooooo good!

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

xo Sue Mom Bobo

June 20th

American Eagle Day

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170619005036/en/June-20-American-Eagle-Day

https://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/us/american-eagle-day

Father's Day Brunch ~ Mexican Corn Salad ~ Laura Verant ~ TV Shows and Table Manners ~ Doe ~ Martini Day

   

Good 61º clear sunny morning.

Warmed up some more yesterday. We hit 95º.

Dude was not happy outside, too hot for my big guy! Happy in the cool house.

Yesterday I met up with Brian, Jen, Tucker, Sami, and Jean at a new place in town, Lulu's, for brunch.

It's very small and of course the place was super crowded for Father's Day.

I was stuffed. Had a ham sandwich served with an egg on top and with holandise sauce.

Came home, put out the trash for tomorrow's pick up, picked up my mail, and started working on this blog. Kept thinking I was SOOOOOO full that dinner was the farthest thing from my mind. Brian and family were going to the movies in the afternoon. A nice choreless Dad's Day for Brian!

If you like Mexican Corn on the Cob you will like this... Mexican Corn Salad.

Ingredients:

2 T butter

3 cups corn (about 4 ears) cut from the cob*

½ jalapeño, seeded and finely diced

3 T mayonnaise

1 clove garlic, grated

2 green onions, sliced

1 handful cilantro, chopped

1 lime, juice

2 T cotija or feta cheese, crumbled

chili powder to taste

1. Melt butter in heavy skillet over medium-high heat.

2. Add corn, toss and let it sit cooking until charred, mix it up and let it char again, about 6-10 minutes

3. Add jalapeño, saute for a minute and remove from heat

4. Mix eveything and serve warm or cold or room temperature.

Adding one diced avocado is amazing!

*An easy way to cut corn from the cob is to set the bottom of the cob on the hole in the center of a bundt pan, slice down through the kernals and then fall into the pan. Works perfect!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNH0_utripo

Special birthday today, Laura (Vincent) Verant. She is a former neighbor of ours and she and Kristen were pals... HAPPY BIRTHDAY LAURA!

Historically this date..............

1910 – The first Father's Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington.

1978 – Garfield, holder of the Guinness World Record for the world's most widely syndicated comic strip, makes its debut.

And births this date include...

1903 – Lou Gehrig, American baseball player (d. 1941)

Cute. Dimples~!

1921 – Louis Jourdan, French actor (d. 2015)

... this yummy man had been married to his one and only wife since 1946! until his death.

1969 – Lara Spencer, American TV personality

1975 – Poppy Montgomery, Australian actress

Later I had watched a couple fav shows, "Wildlife Docs", which is so interesting with all the animals... and "Beach Bites" with Katie Lee.

http://www.cookingchanneltv.com/shows/beach-bites-with-katie-lee

I like her and she goes to some super neat mouth-watering beach restaurants, but she eats, like most of those on TV anymore, with her left hand on the fork, knife in rigth hand, and then does not switch and eats with the upside down fork. 

That is NOT what we were taugh as far as table manners. If you cut with the knife in the right hand then you switch the fork back to your right hand and hold it upright.

Sigh......................... And I enjoyed a couple episodes of Family Feud.

Out in the yard a couple times yesterday was this doe. She was happily eating grass, then the rose bush leaves. She is so skinny with her ribs showing! Poor baby.

Dinner, after a lot of consideration, was a few pieces of celery dipped into the egg salad from the other day. Not hungry.

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

xo Sue Mom Bobo

June 19th

National Martini Day

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martini_(cocktail)

Like most cocktails, the Martini has a history that varies based on who’s telling the story. The oldest known story involves the Martini originating as a derivative of the Martinez. As the Martinez was produced around 1850, people claim that somewhere along the line the drink was changed to dry vermouth and ditched the maraschino liquor.

Others claim that the recipe for the Martini was created in the town of Martinez and thus called the Martinez. The name eventually changed to Martini.

San Francisco also claims to have originated the Martini

According to the Oxford-English dictionary, the Martini was created by Martini and Rossi in the later portion of the 1800s.

Some say it is named after the Martini and Henry, a british rifle.

Yet others say the Martini started in New York at the Knickerbocker hotel in 1911.  Created by a bartender named Martini, who first made the drink for John D. Rockefeller.

One of the likely reasons for all the claims, besides groups/people trying to take the credit for the world’s most famous cocktail, is that there were innumerable old recipes for various combinations of gin, vermouth and bitters in varying ratios and combinations with other ingredients.

James Bond liked his "shaken not stirred". I like mine with vodka, "dirty" (with olive juice), shaken and strained, or "up".