Tsunami ~ Chicken Broccoli Casserole ~ VPike

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Good 35º foggy morning.

 

The earthquake in Japan... so devastating. Now a tsunami warning for Crescent City and the Oregon Coast and No. Cal Coastal cities. Not good in Hawaii and Philippines either. Stand by...

Here are some road cam pictures of the coast here in Oregon...Highway 101 has been closed completely. Regular TV programming has been preempted for the continuing news.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Historically this date...

1888 – The Great Blizzard of 1888 begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400.

2011 – An earthquake measuring 8.9 in magnitude strikes 130 km (80 miles) east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami.

 

 

 

And births this date include....

1903 – Lawrence Welk, American musician (d. 1992)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1934 – Sam Donaldson, American reporter

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1936 – Antonin Scalia, American Supreme Court Justice

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1956 – Joey Buttafuoco, American statutory rapist

Certainly made a wonderful name for himself!

 

 

1958 – Anissa Jones, American actress (d. 1976)

 

 "Buffy" on Family Affair. A sad Hollywood fatality. Drug overdose at 18 years old.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 and today is my friend JoanP's birthday. She is my cruising buddy. HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOAN!! Hope you do something fun!

 

This is really fun... I bet you can't stop playing with it. See a picture of where you grew up. Check out some of your old "haunts". When you enter an address you will see a picture of the place. There is a little map with a man on it .. you cam move the man up or down the street. Use the N on the direction circle to look around. http://www.vpike.com/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My old high school.... good old Woodrow Wilson which is now

El Sereno Middle School.

 

 

Patty gave me some broccoli casserole she had made. I heated it up last night. OMG, GOOD!!!

 

Patty's Chicken Broccoli Casserole 

2 pkg chopped frozen broccoli

1 cup grated cheese

1 can mushroom soup

1 cup mayonnaise

1 med onion - chopped

2 eggs - well beaten

3/4 cup chopped pecans

2 cups buttered bread crumbs

1-3 chicken breasts, cooked and chopped

Cook broccoli as directed, drain. Add soup, mayo, chicken, onions, nuts, eggs. Pour into 2 qt casserole dish. Sprinkle with cheese and top with bread crumbs. Bake uncovered 30 min at 350º. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yesterday about 5pm the sky was ominous....

so we had a snuggy fire....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The chatter re the tsunami is getting more and more. Waves hitting San Francisco Bay. Big ones on our coast now. The pictures from Japan show the horror. So sad.

 

 

All I know. Going to have a cup of coffee and watch the news. My new printer showed up so will set that up today.

 

Ciao. Happy Friday.

xo Mom-Soupy-Sue

March 11th

Oatmeal Nut Waffle Day   (?)

Internet ~ Turkeys ~ Hawk ~ RAIN ~ Goodwill

 

 

 

 

 

 

Good 44 º heavily raining morning.

 

After 3pm now... Scratch that... 60º and the sun keeps peeking through...

 

 

 

 

 

Trouble with the internet this morning. Can't get any sites to open. May not get to this blog until way later.... I have a JCRW luncheon meeting today. My pal Nancy going with me. We'll see if I get this off before we leave.

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Ok, back home and internet seems to be working. Yeah! I took Nancy and PatT with me to the luncheon. We had a great lunch... Ruth, again was

in rare form. Laughter is good!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The turkeys were still 'hanging around' when I got home...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I was wrong about the amount of rain this morning...

The "floater" in the measuring tube was stuck at the bottom and it looked like 1/4"... LOL, after I shook it before I left here it showed

1½" ! Big difference. More in tune with all the rain I heard!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It was a pretty day, on and off yesterday....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yesterday Shiloh showed up here again. Poor baby, she's starved for love. Her "mother" showed up an hour and a half later..... and told me, "Lock her up in a shed and she won't want to come back." ! Sigh.... I sat on the porch with her a couple of times and all she wanted was to be scratched and loved. She tried to get as close to me as she could. Such a love!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We also had a visit from the hawk....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

He/she sits near the bird feeders. When there is

not one bird around I know the hawk is! This is a

Cooper's Hawk. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooper's_Hawk

The hawk wasn't afraid of me when I went out onto the porch to take a picture .... that's when he turned his head to look at me.

 

 

I worked on the stuff to take to Goodwill and got it all in my car.

 

 

 That included sheets and towels,purses and shoes too.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

$30 shoes, rarely worn...  

 

Black ones, 

 

 

 

 $60 and named "Black Sue" LOL, worn a couple of times....

 

 

 

Ha ha ha... and look at these (worn once!)  

 

 

 

 

The lady at Goodwill said, "Sure, we'll take them!" OMG, who would want brocade peach heels????

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 And these never worn! 
Sperry Top Sider rain boots...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

None of my old shoes will fit anymore. I had heard that your nose and ears keep growing the rest of your life, but your feet???? 

 

 

Anyway, dumped all at Goodwill and then Maggie and I went to Patty and Cliff's......... She got an external hard drive and I put all her documents and pictures on it in case her computer takes a dump. I learned the hard way about saving stuff on the external drive. Fortunately for me, Turk is a computer genius and saved most of my docs and pictures! So, now Patty's is saved. Also adjusted their computer's screen resolution so site pages weren't so big and that made Cliff happy.

 

 

Historically this date...

1831 – The French Foreign Legion is established by King Louis-Philippe to support his war in Algeria.

1876 – Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call by saying "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you."

1933 – An earthquake in Long Beach, California kills 115 people and causes an estimated $40 million dollars in damage.

1945 – The U.S. Army Air Force firebombs Tokyo, and the resulting firestorm kills more than 100,000 people, mostly civilians.

1977 – Rings of Uranus: Astronomers discover rings around Uranus.

  Do you have rings around your anus? Hmmmm.....

 

And births this date include....

1888 – Barry Fitzgerald, Irish actor (d. 1961)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1928 – James Earl Ray, American assassin (d. 1998)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1940 – Chuck Norris, American actor, martial artist and actor

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1940 – Dean Torrence, American singer (Jan and Dean)

 

 

 

 

1957 – Osama bin Laden, Islamist and leader of al-Qaeda

 

 

 

 

 

 

1958 – Sharon Stone, American actress

 

 

She looks like

she's been partying

with Charlie Sheen!

 

 

1983 – Carrie Underwood, American country singer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All I know. Nuff said. Happy Thursday.

Ciao.

xo Mom-Soupy-Sue

March

National Noodle Month

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mmmm.... tuna noodle casserole!

Dr. Brian ~ Harry & David ~ Leah ~ Crab and Linguini

Good  43 º morning. Foggy.

Looks like today may be dry for a change.

Yesterday my first effort was a yearly appointment with my cardiologist, Dr. Brian Morrison.... 

 Such a great guy (and very handsome too)!

The dreaded exam room....

His assistant, Nicky, checked my vitals and gave me

an EKG. 

 I answered all the standard questions, "No. No. No. No. No. No. No. and No."

Doc came in and checked my heart. He listened to heart, neck, and stomach, listening for signs of  atheromatous plaque buildup.

The bottom line is that my EKG was great, heart sounds great, no signs of plaque buildup, and my blood pressure was perfect! Whoooooo hoooooo. I was sort of down in the dumps heading over there, concerns for Maggie and Harley presently, so didn't think I'd have such a good outcome. Well, that perked me right up!

After chatting a bit and hugging Dr. Brian goodbye (for another year) I headed to Merle Norman. Needed some makeup. It was just 9:30 so had to wait half and hour. I went next door to Harry and David...

I bought several items.... and had some of their great coffee.

This is a favorite store of most who live in the area. Oh, by the way, this is an "unauthorized" photo! I was informed of this by a clerk just after I took it. I'm not using it for evil purposes, just showing you a place that is a joy of discovery to shop! Then to even make my day better, the checker said that since they are in restructuring and not advertising in local papers, they would send me info via email. And since my email wasn't on file with them and I gave them my email address, I got a FREE pie!
It's apple/cranberry. OOOOOHHHH so good!  Oh my.

THEN.... be still my heart, since I am over 60 on every Tuesday I get a 10% discount. Such a deal I got today! 

Here is my loot from H&D:

L to R top: live basil (oh boy, kitchen smells heavenly!), sweet

potato brownie mix (no cholesterol, no gluten, no anything bad), caramelized onion/feta/garlic foccacia, tomato/garlic foccacia.

L to R front: lemon mojito green tea, raspberry Danish, sticky red rice from Philippines, purple barley, and black rye bread....

and the pie! I took the pie to Frank and Cindy's and had

her cut out a couple of large pieces for them and today

will take some to Patty and Cliff.  See Dave and Pat,

if you had been home and not in the Arizona desert,

you could have had some too!

Then from Medford to Rogue River to Ray's

in the pouring rain...

You can see the mill on the right that recently re-opened.
Two of my neighbors .. Joey and Frank work there as
well as Mike from Napa.

In Ray's I ran into Leah, my hair salon sweetheart, and Karla, asst mgr.

Then Dan from Ace walked in,
Noel from the Post Office....
when I left John (fixed my ac/heater yesterday) was there!

I checked out the cooked chickens...

and the raw ones...

 and got one to cook and hamburger

to try and tempt Maggie!

Stopping in the beauty shop to give Leah her present. Her birthday is today and she's hopefully off celebrating!

Historically this date....

1796 – Napoléon Bonaparte marries his first wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais.

1842 – The first documented discovery of gold in California occurs at Rancho San Francisco, six years before the California Gold Rush.

1916 – Pancho Villa leads nearly 500 Mexican raiders in an attack against Columbus, New Mexico.

1959 – The Barbie doll makes its debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York.

Jan and Ben Kundert were married in 1980 - Jan a cousin of Brian and Kristen's.... HAPPY ANNIVERSARY kids!!!

And births this date include....

1454 – Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer and cartographer (d. 1512)

1902 – Will Geer, American actor (d. 1978)

1921 – Carl Betz, American actor (d. 1978)

1934 – Yuri Gagarin, Soviet cosmonaut and the first human in space (d. 1968)

1934 – Joyce Van Patten, American actress

 

1940 – Raúl Juliá, Puerto Rican actor (d. 1994)

1943 – Charles Gibson, American television journalist

.... and four of my friends celebrate their birthdays today....

Leah (of course!), Wendy on Catalina Island, Virginia my dear neighbor from Temple City, and Mr. Ike, retired LASD Homicide!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY all of you Pisces!

So, after shopping yesterday I stopped for gas. OMG. Do I have to mortgage the house???

Funny, the diesel price is 415, which in our

code book 415 means 'disturbance'. The price of diesel is very disturbing!  :-(

I think we are trying to  catch up with Collifornia!

All I know. House cleaning and tossing stuff in the Goodwill box...

Happy Wednesday, Hump Day!

Ciao.

xo Mom-Soupy-Sue

March 9th

Ash Wednesday

Lent Begins

Panic Day

Get Over It Day

Barbie Day

..................and

National Crabmeat Day!

OMG, my mouth is watering!

My niece Nancy said her hubby, Dan,

was going to make her crab and

spaghetti for her birthday (yesterday).

Sounds like a plan for tonight. I do

have a can of crab I got at Costco!

A nice white sauce with lemon and

add the crab... pour over hot

linguini..... OH MY!