Dash/Dude ~ Picture of the Day ~ Arroyo Seco Parkway/Pasadena Freeway ~ BLT Macaroni Salad ~ Dinner~ Dash ~ National Carbonated Beverage With Caffeine Day

 

Good 26º clear morning. 

 

Yesterday got sunny and warm.

 

 

I posted Dave Clark's birthday yesterday and it was also Mickey Mouse's birthday. Interesting about Dave's father and uncle... they both worked for Disney, drawing caricatures back in the 1930's!!

 

 

Dash is Dude's shadow. He follows Dude everywhere! A good thing, when they are outside! Then I don't worry about him squeezing through the fence and going somewhere! While I was working at my desk, took off my slippers, and Dash came and laid down on my feet! Such a love!!! ♥

 

 

 

 

Picture of the Day....

Crows in a snowy tree in Portland Maine....

 

 

 

 

Interesting about the first freeway...

 

The Arroyo Seco Parkway, also known as the Pasadena Freeway, is the first freeway in the  United States. It connects Los Angeles with Pasadena alongside the Arroyo Seco seasonal river. It is notable not only for being the first, mostly opened in 1940, but for representing the transitional phase between early parkways and modern freeways. It conformed to modern standards when it was built, but is now regarded as a narrow, outdated roadway.  A 1953 extension brought the south end to the Four Level Interchange in downtown Los Angeles and a connection with the rest of the freeway system.

The road remains largely as it was on opening day, though the plants in its median have given way to a steel guard rail, and most recently to concrete barriers, and it now carries the designation State Route 110, not historic U.S. Route 66. Between 1954 and 2010, it was officially designated the Pasadena Freeway. In 2010, as part of plans to revitalize its scenic value and improve safety, the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) restored the original name to the roadway. All the bridges built during parkway construction remain, as do four older bridges that crossed the Arroyo Seco before the 1930s. The Arroyo Seco Parkway is designated a State Scenic Highway, National Civil Engineering Landmark, and National Scenic Byway. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.

 

I so remember driving my little Porsche on that freeway. It was a very winding road, fun in the Porsche. What was interesting, as opposed to now, there was a stop sign at the end of each on ramp just prior to getting on the freeway. No way to get up to the speed limit on the on ramp and merging with the freeway traffic! Stop and then go!

 

 

 

• Here's another way to make a macaroni salad.....
• BLT Macaroni Salad
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• Okay, so you won't find any lettuce in this BLT Macaroni Salad, but we have put in extra-green and flavorful baby spinach. We think it gives this macaroni salad recipe a tasty new twist! Serve it to your gang and see how much they'll love it!
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• 1 pound elbow macaroni
• 1 cup mayonnaise
• 1 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
• 8 slices bacon, cooked and crumbled
• 1 cup cherry tomatoes, cut in half
• 1 1/2 cups coarsely chopped baby spinach

 

1. Cook macaroni according to package directions. Drain and let cool.
2. In a large bowl, combine mayonnaise, garlic, salt, and pepper. Add pasta and remaining ingredients; mix well, cover, and refrigerate until ready to serve.

 

***You may need to add a little extra mayo before serving, if it's a bit drier than you like after refrigeration.

 

 

Historically this date.....

1493 – Christopher Columbus goes ashore on an island he first saw the day before. He names it San Juan Bautista (later renamed Puerto Rico).

 

1863 – American Civil War: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the military cemetery ceremony at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

 

1930 – Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow commit their first robbery, the first in a long series of robberies and other criminal acts.

 

1943 – Holocaust: Nazis liquidate Janowska concentration camp in Lemberg (Lviv), western Ukraine, murdering at least 6,000 Jews after a failed uprising and mass escape attempt.

..... so utterly disgusting. Too bad Hitler couldn't have been turned over to the Jews and let them torture him!!!

 

1959 – The Ford Motor Company announces the discontinuation of the unpopular Edsel.

 

1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum (the "Ocean of Storms") and become the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon.

 

1969 – Football player Pelé scores his 1,000th goal.

 

 

1990 – Pop group Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award because the duo did not sing at all on the Girl You Know It's True album. Session musicians had provided all the vocals.

 

1998 – Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings against U.S. President Bill Clinton.

 

 

 

And births this date include....

1897 – Quentin Roosevelt, son of United States President Theodore Roosevelt (d. 1918)

....He died at age 20, serving in the military. Never knew about him, this is an interesting read about his short life. Attended Harvard at age 13!!!

 

 

 

1917 – Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (d. 1984)

1919 – Alan Young, British-born American actor (Mister Ed) (d.2016)

.... ♫♩♬A horse is a horse, of course of course .... ♫♩♬

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_PZPpWTRTU

LOVED that show!!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1920 – Gene Tierney, American actress (d. 1991)

 

 

 

 

1933 – Larry King, American TV personality

....Another one of those irritating TV personalities! AND he's had 8 WIVES!!!!

 

 

 

1936 – Dick Cavett, American talk show host

1938 – Ted Turner, American businessman

Not much respect for this idiot after he married Fonda and of course he founded the CNN (Clinton News Network!) also known as the FNN ... Fake News Network!

 

 

 

 

 

1956 – Ann Curry, American journalist and television anchor

... an Ashland Oregon High School graduate...

 

1956 – Eileen Collins, American astronaut

 

A retired American astronaut and a retired U.S. Air Force Colonel. A former military instructor and test pilot, Collins was the first female pilot and first female commander of a Space Shuttle. Whatta gal!!!

 

1961 – Meg Ryan, American actress

 

1962 – Jodie Foster, American actress

 

 

 

Later my dinner was a crusted cod fillet (Schwans) cooked in the air fryer (370º 12 minutes) atop some baby spinach and some cottage cheese. YUMMMMMO! 

 

Then it was chair, wine, Dash sharing my chair, and TV....

 

 

 

 

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

xo Sue Mom Bobo

 

National Carbonated Beverage With Caffeine Day is a unique food holiday observed annually on November 19.

Some people cannot have caffeine due to medical reasons, some choose to avoid caffeine for their own reasons and then there are the millions of people who like their caffeine very much.  The same is true with the carbonation in beverages.  Today’s celebration combines the two of them together.

• In 1767, Englishman Joseph Priestly suspended a bowl of distilled water above a beer vat at a local brewery in Leeds, England which led to the discovery of a method of infusing water with carbon dioxide to make carbonated water.  Priestly’s invention of carbonated water is the major and the defining component of most soft drinks.
• Caffeine acts as a central nervous system stimulant, temporarily warding off drowsiness and restoring alertness.  Ninety percent of adults in North America consume caffeine daily.   Some people notice sleep disruption after drinking beverages containing caffeine while others see no disturbance at all.

 

Sunny ~ Dash ~ Picture of the Day ~ Cow Shoes ~ Chicken Fajita Bubble Up Bake ~ Dave Clark ~ Mickey Mouse's Birthday

Good 28º frozen morning. 

 

Our day yesterday was sunny with a tad of smoke from the Northern California fires. We warmed to 74º.

 

 

Last night Brian and family brought Dash over. He got comfy on my chair with me watching TV........   

 

 

Picture of the Day......

This rock formation is of the coast of Corsica. It looks like a ship!

 

 

 

Interesting about "cow shoes" !

 

During the alcohol prohibition (1919-1933), the transportation and brewing/cultivation of alcohol was prohibited. Some people who brewed Moonshine (a type of whiskey) did it in the middle of a forest or meadow. Moonshiners were often sought after by law enforcement. A lot of times, authorities had to track the alleged criminals by foot. So to avoid capture, some moonshiners changed their shoes because a set of human foot prints would be suspicious and indicative of people brewing or transporting alcohol. Specifically, they put on cow shoes.

Hoof prints were meant to make the cops never follow the tracks in the first place. Obviously if they came across a still, they’d do something about it. But with hoof prints, the thought is that if the police encountered said prints, they’d think nothing of it, whereas if they encountered human foot prints, they’d possibly follow them and ultimately discover a still.

 

St. Petersburg newspaper story...

 

Shiners wear “cow shoes”.
A new method of evading prohibition agents was revealed here today by A.L. Allen, state prohibition enforcement director, who displayed what he called a “cow shoe” as the latest thing front the haunts of moonshiners.

The cow shoe is a strip of metal to which is tacked a wooden block carved to resemble the hoof of a cow, which may be strapped to the human foot. A man shod with a pair of them would leave a trail resembling that of a cow.

The shoe found was picked up near Port Tampa where a still was located some time ago. It will be sent to the prohibition department at Washington. Officers believe the inventor got his idea from a Sherlock Holmes story in which the villain shod his horse with shoes the imprint of which resembled those of a cow’s hoof.
May 27, 1922, The Evening Independent

 

Moonshine is a term used to describe high-proof distilled spirits, generally produced illicitly. The word “moonshine” is believed to derive from the term “moonrakers” used for early English smugglers and the clandestine (i.e., by the light of the moon) nature of the operations of illegal Appalachian distillers who produced and distributed whiskey. The distillation was done at night to not be caught distilling.

Prohibition in the United States focused on the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages; however, exceptions were made for medicinal and religious uses. Alcohol consumption was never illegal under federal law. Nationwide prohibition did not begin in the United States until 1920, when the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution went into effect, and was repealed in 1933, with the ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment.

( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonshine )

 

 

 

Chicken Fajita Bubble Up Bake

1 can Pillsbury Grands (Southern Style Buttermilk)

1 .85 oz pkg Old El Paso chicken taco seasoning mix

2 T. vegetable oil

1 cup coarsely chopped red bell pepper

1 cup coarsely chopped green bell pepper

1 cup coarsely chopped onions

2 pounds boneless skinless chicken breasts, cut into 3/4" pieces

2 cups (8oz) shredded Colby-Monterey Jack cheese blend

Sour cream, sliced green onions, chopped tomatoes, chopped fresh cilantro leaves, lime wedges......... if desired

 

Heat oven to 350º. Lightly spray 13x9 baking dish with cooking spray.

 

Separate the 8 biscuits and cut each into 6 pieces. Place in bowl and sprinkle with 1 T. taco seasoning mix. Toss thoroughly to coat. Set aside.

 

In a non-stick skillet heat 1 T of the oil over medium heat. Add peppers and onions stirring occasionally and cook 4-7 minutes until tender and starting to brown. Remove from heat and pour into medium bowl.

 

In skillet add remaining oil and chicken. Cook chicken over medium-high heat 5-7 minutes, stirring occasionally, until browned and no longer pink in center. Drain.

 

Return pepper mixture to skillet with chicken. Sprinkle with remaining taco seasoning mix. Stir thoroughly to coat and cook 1-2 minutes until heated through. Stir in 1 cup of cheese.

 

Spoon mixture into baking dish. Top evenly with biscuit pieces. Bake 20-25 minutes until golden brown. Sprinkle remaining 1 cup of chese and bake until melted. Serve with remaining ingredients as toppings.

 

 

 

 

 

Special birthday today.... Dave Clark (LASD ret) is celebrating. HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAVE!!

2016 when Dave and his bride Pam came to visit^

 

 

 

Historically this date....

1307 – William Tell shoots an apple off his son's head.

 

1865 – Mark Twain's short story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is published in the New York Saturday Press.

 

1928 – Release of the animated short Steamboat Willie, the first fully synchronized soundcartoon, directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, featuring the third appearances of cartoon characters Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse. This is also considered by the Disney corporation to be Mickey's birthday.

 

1961 – United States President John F. Kennedy sends 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam.

...as a side note, Jerry's Marine unit was sent, tanks, but instead of being in Viet Nam, they were at Fuji McNair in Japan... back up if/when needed.

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

1963 – The first push-button telephone goes into service.

 

1970 – U.S. President Richard Nixon asks the U.S. Congress for $155 million USD in supplemental aid for the Cambodian government.

 

1978 – In Jonestown, Guyana, Jim Jones led his Peoples Temple cult to a mass murder-suicide that claimed 918 lives in all, 909 of them in Jonestown itself, including over 270 children. Congressman Leo J. Ryan is murdered by members of the Peoples Temple hours earlier.

 

1999 – In College Station, Texas, 12 are killed and 27 injured at Texas A&M University when the 59-foot-tall (18 m) Aggie Bonfire, under construction for the annual football game against the University of Texas, collapses at 2:42am.

 

 

 

And births this date include.....

1908 – Imogene Coca, American actress and comedian (d. 2001)

Such a funny lady ... with Sid Caesar.

 

 

1923 – Alan Shepard, American astronaut (d. 1998)

 

 

1939 – Brenda Vaccaro, American actress

 

 

 

 

 

She and Michael Douglas dated....

 

 

 

 

1942 – Linda Evans, American actress

 

Such a shame when beautiful people use plastic surgery!

 

1968 – Owen Wilson, American actor and film-writer

 

 

 

 

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

xo Sue Mom Bobo

Making his debut on November 18, 1928, we commemorate the birth of that ever lovable mouse that was once a rabbit called Oswald. To get to the beginning of the story, we have to go back to 1927 when Walt Disney first sketched a floppy eared bunny while under contract to Universal Studios. The events that unraveled brought us Mickey Mouse.

HISTORY

Mickey Mouse came under the roller coaster events of Oswald’s success and Universal’s disappointing contract negotiations. Disney Bros. Studio took their leave of both the studio and Oswald and set to work creating a character who would go on to lead the company into the future.

From a rabbit named Oswald to a mouse named Mortimer, eventually, the squeaky-voiced rodent was dubbed Mickey. He flopped in two animated short films without any success. Then on November 18, 1928, Mickey’s star was born. The first animation synchronized to music and sound effects, Steamboat Willie premiered in New York.

Within a year, a Mickey Mouse Club popped up in Salem, Oregon. This particular club offered admission as a fundraiser for the Salvation Army with a donation of either a potato or a small toy and a penny. According to a December 22, 1929, Statesman Journal (Salem, Oregon) article, $12 and three truckloads of potatoes and toys collected by eager new members.

Remember, the stock market crashed just 20 days before Mickey Mouse was born. That a cute little mouse could bring smiles to the faces of children at an uncertain time really isn’t such a surprise.

Generally, new members joined the club by completing an admission form obtained from a local merchant and attending meetings held during matinees at local movie houses. The price of admission often was reduced for good deeds and report cards. By the end of 1930, the Mickey Mouse Clubs had spread across the country.

In 1935, animator Fred Moore gave Mickey a new look that enabled a more fluid movement to the animation.

A makeover in 1935 by animator Fred Moore gave Mickey the look we are familiar with today. The big eyes, white gloves, and the pert little nose. More lovable than ever before, he propelled himself even further into the hearts of children everywhere.

His companions Minnie, Donald, Goofy and Pluto joined him along the way, bringing vaudevillian comedy with them.