~ Globalwarmingmyass ~ Moon ~ Contrails ~ Prayer ~

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Good 28º morning. Let's have a talk, Mr. Gore.... this globalwarmingshit is bunk. Just ask anyone in the Northeast ...  

 

or right here in So. Oregon!!!!!

 

Interesting sky this morning... fog and the moon and a jet plane!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I got quite a bit of house stuff done yesterday and even stacked wood on the porch. Didn't do any cooking as I had reruns in the fridge. Not a lot to tell.... I did come across more pictures I put in envelopes and will mail off to those in the pictures... some oldies ..

 

 

Then.... my neighbor's dog, Shiloh, escaped AGAIN! She ran down here with "gay abandon"!! What a sweet little girl. Her folks, Gerard and Maria, saw her escape under the fence so they were headed down here when I saw her at my gate. I sat on the porch and she tried to get into my lap. She loves hugs! Funny little sweetie.

 

Historically this date....

1939 – First flight of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning.

1967 – Apollo program: Apollo 1 – Astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of their spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center.

1984 – Pop singer Michael Jackson suffers second degree burns to his scalp during the filming of a Pepsi commercial in the Shrine Auditorium.

2006 – Western Union discontinues its Telegram and Commercial Messaging services.

   I only sent one once, to my husband when I found out I was pg with Kristen.. he was stationed at Edwards AFB at the time..... (this was George, not Jerry) , but never received a telegram. Did you?

 

And births this date include......

1756 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer (d. 1791)

 

 

1832 – Lewis Carroll, English author (d. 1898)

 

    ... wrote Alice In Wonderland...

 

 

1918 – Skitch Henderson, English bandleader (d. 2005)

 I sure liked him on Johnny Carson ... better any day than that idiot on Letterman...Paul Shaffer..,who makes my teeth hurt... well, so does Letterman. A bigger idiot!!!

 

1921 – Donna Reed, American actress (d. 1986)

 

 

 

1936 – Troy Donahue, American actor (d. 2001) 

 

 

 

 

Donahue spent his last few years with his fiancée, mezzo-soprano Zheng Cao. He died of a heart attack at the age of 65 on September 2, 2001. His A Summer Place co-star Dorothy McGuire died the following week (Sep 13th).

 

 

 

1940 – James Cromwell, American actor

 

 

 

1964 – Bridget Fonda, American actress

 

 

 

 

A Prayer for 2011
Dear God:

For 2011, all I ask for is a big fat bank account and a slim body.
Please do not mix up the two like you did last year.

Amen

 

Sunset was spectacular, again... I just love the contrails. They fascinate me .. and then they too turned pinkish-orange!

 

 

 

All I know. I have some squash and a pumpkin that will go bad if I don't do something with them. Think I will cook them, dice them, and mix with diced sweet potato and maybe some bacon for some kind of a room temp salad... Will see....

 

My friend, Candy, is having an eye surgery today and I wish her the best, will be thinking about her......Also Debbie is having a root canal thing. Thinkin' boutcha too Deb!!!! HUGS. 

 

It's Thursday all day today. Will continue on with my 'cleaning' mission.  Nuff said. Ciao.

xo Mom/Soupy/Sue

January 27th

National Chocolate Cake Day

 

OMG, that sooooo makes me drool.

Reminds me of family gatherings when I

was little and my sister Marion, who was

9 years older, and I would mix our chocolate

cake with vanilla ice cream into a big gooey

mess. We would be banished from the

dining room to the breakfast room because

we were too "gross" for everyone else!!! LOL

~ 30 Degrees ~ New Jobs ~ Peanut Brittle ~

Good 30º morning. Fog too. At least the "crew" let me sleep in until 7am. Yeah!

So, yesterday I babied myself with the Zicam, vitamin C, tea, fruit, and Dr. Zinc. Didn't do much else. Sat here. Did go get my mail, take trash, and pick up some spaghetti Patty and Cliff left for me at PJ's. Sounds/looks interesting.... she had two kinds of pasta and put in creamed corn. Will review....

I had cooked the big ham I found in the freezer all night Monday with a can of crushed pineapple and some brown sugar. There were a few outside places that had freezer burn, so cut them off. It tasted WONDERFUL!

Dinner last night: cut up ham mixed with butternut squash stuffed ravioli (from Costco), fresh mozzarella balls, and a light buttery olive oil sauce. 

   

Cook the ravioli, drain. I reconstituted some dried sliced garlic and some dried diced onion in the marinade from the fresh mozzarella. Heat the garlic, onion with the marinade (about 2 T.)  and some julienned sun dried tomato,  and diced celery. Sauté a few minutes.

  Add cut grape tomatoes, the ham,

a couple pats of butter

and the mozzarella balls.

Add the ravioli and mix well. Heat through. Voilá.

Speaking of ham.... here is something fun... Draw a pig... and get analyzed.

http://www.zipperfish.com/zf-games/draw-a-pig/

<My drawing.

Historically this date.....

And births this date include....

1941 – Scott Glenn, American actor

 

1944 – Angela Davis, American feminist and activist

1955 – Eddie Van Halen, Dutch musician (Van Halen)  

   Drugs certainly make an

improvement, don't they!!

1958 – Ellen DeGeneres, American actress and comedian

1961 – Wayne Gretzky, Canadian ice hockey player

How about we all lighten up on the President. After all he is getting people jobs....

.... why just a couple of months ago, he got jobs for 63 Republicans.  Way to go Prez. You da man.

Last night's sunset....

The first one at 5:15 and the second at 5:30.

After dinner we had a fire and watched The Closer and a wonderful PBS show Pioneers of Television - Westerns. Wonderful! Brought back so many memories. If you get a chance, check your listings and see it!

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

xo Mom/Soupy/Sue

January 26th

National Peanut Brittle Day

1920 – Former Ford Motor Company executive Henry Leland launches the Lincoln Motor Company which he later sold to his former employer.

2005 – Glendale train crash: Two trains derail killing 11 and injuring 200 in Glendale, California, near Los Angeles.

Cold ~ Cold/Flu ~ Irish Coffee

 

 

 

 

 

 

Good 30º morning. Tad on the cold side and gloomy......

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yesterday the sun came out! YEAH! I went to Medford for a meeting with our JCRW President, Ruth, and a couple of the other gals... Two are VP's, Laraine is in charge of all of us Chairpeoples, Val is the Treasurer, Laura is the Calling Chairman, and I'm the Membership Chair. We are going to have a class in how to do spreadsheets..... probably the 8th of Feb. Something I have never learned.

This was the view of Mt. McLaughlin on the way into Medford

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reminds me of Mr. Fujiyama in Japan...

also called Mt. Fujisan, and Mt. Fuji.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After the meeting I ran to Costco to see if they had anymore of the chicken/sweet potato dog treats. Of course they didn't! Then to the Grange for seed and corn. Cheaper there than at Ace in town.

 

Home and puttered around. I found a ham in the freezer this am and it went into the crockpot with pineapple and brown sugar on it. Don't know if it will be any good...been in there a long time! If it's bad, the critters out back will eat it!

 

Our sunset, as usual, was awesome....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

1858 – The Wedding March by Felix Mendelssohn becomes a popular wedding recessional after it is played on this day at the marriage of Queen Victoria's daughter, Victoria, and Friedrich of Prussia.

1881 – Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.

1890 – Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days.

1960 – The National Association of Broadcasters reacts to the Payola scandal by threatening fines for any disc jockeys who accept money for playing particular records.

1961 – In Washington, D.C. John F. Kennedy delivers the first live presidential television news conference.

1971 – Charles Manson and three female "Family" members are found guilty of the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders.

 

And births this date include....

1931 – Dean Jones, American actor

 

    

 

 

1936 – Diana Hyland, American actress (d. 1977)

 Nearly 20 years older than Travolta.

 "died in John Travolta's arms" ...

 

 

1945 – Leigh Taylor-Young, American actress

     

   Married co-star in Peyton Place, 

Ryan O'Neal .. son Patrick..

 

 

1951 – Steve Prefontaine, American runner (d. 1975)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    An Oregon boy, made good, sadly died at 24.

 

So, seems like everyone I know has or has had a bad bad cold... sore throat, coughing, runny nose..... the usual suspects. Thought I was going to avoid it... Wasn't around Dave when he was at his worst, PatT had it, but wasn't around her, and yesterday at our meeting, Ruth shows up coughing and spewing and miserable. So................... I started getting that "throat thing, runny/tuffy dose, and sneezing like mad" ! I started in with the Zicam in the afternoon, chewable vitamin C, and herbal tea, and Musinex. In the night I took another Zicam and more vitamin C. Another Zicam this morning and "it" is still there a little, but I feel 100% better. All I have to say, if you are going out in public, take some Airborne and if you feel a cold coming on, immediately take Zicam. The cold/flu tracker says here in So. Oregon it's "moderate"

 

 

Ok, all I know. Will be getting my new Microsoft Office program today via UPS so I can learn spreadsheets. Will keep a lid on my cold. Hope you have a great Tuesday. Nuff said. Ciao.

 

xo Mom/Soupy/Sue

January 25th (a month since Christmas already!)

National Irish Coffee Day

Mmmmm.... I can do that!

 

P.S. Don't know what this site is doing..

everything is spread out and the font

changes on it's own. Grrrrrrrrrrrr....

Maybe I need to find another site for my

blog. This one is sooooo frustrating!