Fog ~ Mushrooms ~ Greek Egg Salad ~ ZIP Codes ~ Door Knobs ~ Patriots

Good 34º super foggy morning.

The fog yesterday was rough. Glad I didn't have to drive anywhere.

 Finally it did lift and we had sun for the rest of the day. Nice!

I was outside and saw these mushrooms growing in the wood chips on the side of the house.. I think they are Chanterelles.... but not positive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chanterelle

Luckily, having been to Greece and enjoying the food there.... this is good....

Greek Egg Salad

6 hard-boiled eggs, peeled and chopped

2 T mayonnaise

1/4 cup Kalamata olives

2 T chopped red onion

1/4 cup chopped cucumber

1/4 cup crumbled feta cheese

salt and pepper to taste

3 pita breads, cut in half

1. In bowl combine all ingredients except pita bread. Mix well.

2. Evenly spoon mixture into pita bread and enjoy!

 

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ZIP Codes are a system of postal coded used by the United State Postal Service since 1963. The term ZIP is an acronym for Zone Improvement Plan and was chosen to suggest that the mail travels more efficiently and therefore more quickly (zipping along) when senders use the code in the postal address.

The basic format consists of five digits. An extended ZIP+4 code introduced in 1983, includes the five digits of the ZIP Code, a hyphen, and the four additional digits that determine a more specific location within the given Zip Code.

Until 1963 our address was Los Angeles 32, CA. Then it became Los Angeles, CA 90032

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Historically this date...

1943 – World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to travel via airplane while in office when he travels from Miami, Florida toMorocco to meet with Winston Churchill.

1967 – Counterculture of the 1960s: The Human Be-In, takes place in San Francisco, California's Golden Gate Park, launching the Summer of Love.

1973 – Elvis Presley's concert Aloha from Hawaii is broadcast live via satellite, and sets a record as the most watched broadcast by an individual entertainer in television history.

And births this date include...

1741 – Benedict Arnold, American/British general (d. 1801)

1906 – William Bendix, American actor (d. 1964)

1919 – Andy Rooney, American journalist (d. 2011)

 

 

1924 – Guy Williams, American actor (d. 1989)

Zorro!

1926 – Tom Tryon, American actor (d. 1991)

1938 – Jack Jones, American singer

Wow, 6 wives!!!!

1941 – Faye Dunaway, American actress

1944 – Marjoe Gortner, American evangelist

Delivered a package to him when I was working for UPS. OMGOSH, what a weirdo!!!! SOOOO in love with himself!

1968 – LL Cool J, American rapper and actor

I was watching Blue Bloods and the detectives entered this house and it had crystal door knobs on the inside doors. Our house in El Sereno also had vintage crystal knobs....

These things are selling now for $43 a pair! I still have these.

Reruns for dinner, chair, wine, and TV. Exciting Saturday night!!! Actually it was, as my Patriots beat the Titans 35-14!!! ♥

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

xo Sue Mom Bobo

January 14th

National Hot Pastrami Sandwich Day

The BEST ones I ever had were from The

Hat in Alhambra on Valley Blvd and

Garfield.....

http://thehat.com/

Yes, and coffee was only a nickel!!!! They are still there at Garfield and Valley!

Sun/Clouds/Sunset ~ Chris Nantz ~ Minnesota Hotdish ~ Rubber Ducky Day

The next full moon, "blue moon", will be January 31st. No full moon in February.

Good 36º extremely foggy morning.      

    

OMGOSH, the sun came out yesterday morning! YIPPPEEEE....  and by noon we had warmed to 52º !! Heat wave!!!  Later I went outside to enjoy the sun and stood facing the sun to warm up. By then it was 63º and it felt like heaven!

Dude was sooooooo happy....

Hey mom, rub my tummy!!!

Sure Dude. You have a super nice tummy!!♥

... and then about noon the cloud cover came back. :0( 

.... but it kept trying to show us blue sky!

Our sunset was beautiful....

My super pal, Linda Nantz (hubby Marine with Jerry and she goes with me to the Laughlin LASD reunion) her son Chris is celebrating his 50th birthday today. HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHRIS!!!!

How would you like this handsome guy for your nurse?? He is one!!! But, you gotta go to Napa to the hospital!

Historically this date...

1822 – The design of the Greek flag is adopted by the First National Assembly at Epidaurus.

1968 – Johnny Cash performs live at Folsom Prison

1993 – Space Shuttle program: Endeavour heads for space for the third time as STS-54launches from the Kennedy Space Center.

2001 – An earthquake hits El Salvador, killing more than 800.

And births this date include...

1884 – Sophie Tucker, Russian-born singer and performer (d. 1966)

1919 – Robert Stack, American actor (d. 2003)

1931 – Charles Nelson Reilly, American actor (d. 2007)

1934 – Rip Taylor, American actor

1943 – Richard Moll, American actor

1961 – Julia Louis-Dreyfus, American actress

1962 – Trace Adkins, American country music singer-songwriter

 

1966 – Patrick Dempsey, American actor

 

This recipe is famous in Minnesota. Sugar Bear, I'm sure being a 'Minnie-soda' gal you have made this or similar many times!

Minnesota Hotdish

A favorite dish in Minnesota for years, but the term "hotdish" wasn't used until the 1930's. This is a one dish meal that includes  some kind of meat, a can of cream soup, mixed veggies, and a starch. This isn't the kind of dish you make a fuss about, it's the kind you throw together for dinner, the church potluck, or a family get together.

1½ pounds ground beef

1 t. onion powder

¼ t. salt

2 10.75oz cans cream of mushroom soup

½ cup milk

1 16oz pkg frozen mixed vegetables

1 cup shredded Cheddar cheese

½ of a 32oz pkg frozen seasoned tater tots

1. Preheat oven to 400º

2. Coat 9x13 baking dish with cooking spray

3. In skillet brown ground beef with onion powder, salt and pepper, stirring until meat crumbles and is no longer pink. Drain. Spoon into baking dish.

4. In bowl combine soup and milk, mixing well.

5. Top ground beef with frozen vegetables. Pour soup mixture over that and sprinkle with cheese.

6. Place tater tots on top of cheese.

7. Bake 40-45 minutes or until tater tots are golden.

**This dish is not written in stone ..... use whatever kind of meat you like (shredded cooked chicken thighs are good.) Use a variety of cream soup, use different vegetables.

Tonight is my Patriots and the Titans playoff game. One of the Titans, Marcus Mariota, a former Oregon Ducks player and first of the Ducks to win the Heisman Trophy as well as the first Hawaiian born to win it.

 

He is a favorite player of my grandson Tucker! In the Titans game with the Chiefs recently he threw a pass, it bounced off a Chief's player, Mariota caught it and made the touchdown. AMAZING! He caught his own pass and scored!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzKKNHb-QR4

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

xo Sue Mom Bobo

January 13, 2018 is

National Rubber Ducky Day

Today is National Rubber Ducky Day! In 1970, Jim Henson performed the song “Rubber Duckie” as Ernie on Sesame Street, and the rubber duck bath toy has been an iconic American symbol ever since. Rubber ducks have been around since the rise of the rubber industry in the late 1800s, but no one knows their exact origin.

Did you know that in January of 1992, a shipment of 29,000 rubber duckies fell off a cargo ship in the Pacific Ocean? By 2007, the “Friendly Floatees” had traveled 17,000 miles around the world on the ocean currents. Some are still afloat today! Over time, people reported seeing the duckies in places such as Australia, Indonesia, South America, the Bering Strait, the Arctic, and in the Atlantic Ocean!

Happy Rubber Ducky Day!

I have my own collection of rubber duckies... military ducks 

and the ones by my bathtub.....