Soap Box Time ~ Silly Turkeys ~ Turkey/Gravy/Potatoes

Good 31º morning. Foggy out there, but light! Yeah!

 

Boy, there is nothing buy whining from the masses about the time change. Come on people. Every six months the time changes and every six months you guys whine and whine...

put on your big girl panties and deal with it.

 

Yesterday Maggie and I ran errands.... Post Office to pick up a package and mail one. The wait was over 30 minutes in line! One gal working, 12-15 people in line, and one of them was getting a passport. For crying out loud! There was a gal in the back who brought change out for a dumbo woman who was mailing a $14 package and gave the clerk a $100 bill! Why couldn't she have helped the women with the passport?????ONE clerk on a Monday! Stupid. Inefficient.

Then to pharmacy, the market, and the vets for Magg's pills. Back home, yes, and almost time for wine!

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If you haven't seen this... it's a hoot:

 

IN RESPONSE TO THE E-MAIL CONCERNING MY DOG... Please be advised I am sick and tired of receiving questions about my dog who mauled six illegal aliens wearing Obama tee shirts, four Democrats wearing Pelosi tee shirts, two rappers, nine teenagers with pants hanging down past their cracks, eight customer service desk people speaking in broken English, three flag burners, and a Pakistani taxi driver.

FOR THE LAST TIME...

THE DOG IS NOT FOR SALE

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Ok, interesting.... Dr. Conrad Murray fed into Michael Jackson's drug mess and was convicted of "involuntary manslaughter". What a lot of money Californians paid for this courtroom show. Not only that, the people who stood outside the courthouse, with nothing else to do, and wait and wait for the verdict. No jobs? No TV? No radio? No life?

Pathetic. Then there is Lohan.... don't even get me started.

 

OMG, what a fun video. Produced by the Yupiq Eskimo Village in Quinhagak, Alaska. You will be singing along, trust me!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyviyF-N23A

Thanks Rod Johnston (LASD/USMC) for this!!

 

A beautiful day yesterday..................

The turkeys were probably relieved they were not the ones in the smoker on Sunday, so they hung around all day, napping on the fence and on the ground.... funny guys!!! They always make me laugh.

 

Retraction.... yesterday I said it was Lydia and Gerry's anniversary. I was a day too soon. Happy Anniversary today, kids!!!

And.......... today is my Sisterfriend Brenda's hubby, Robert's, birthday. OMG Robert, trying to catch up to me???? LOL. Happy Birthday kiddo!

 

Historically this date...

1889 – Montana is admitted as the 41st U.S. state.

1895 – While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the X-ray.

1960 – John F. Kennedy defeats Richard Nixon in one of the closest presidential elections of the twentieth century to become the 35th president of the United States.

1966 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs into law an antitrust exemption allowing the National Football League to merge with the upstart American Football League.

1973 – The right ear of John Paul Getty III is delivered to a newspaper together with a ransom note, convincing his father to pay 2.9 million USD.

And births this date include....

1927 – Patti Page, American singer

Still doing concerts at 83 years old!!!

1931 – Morley Safer, American journalist

1950 – Mary Hart, American television personality

Dinner last night used the smoked turkey... I cut up a couple of Yukon Gold potatoes and cooked them in some water seasoned with basil sea salt and garlic. I reconstituted some mushrooms in wine and garlic. Potatoes done then added in the mushrooms, some grape tomatoes, red bell pepper, and sauteéd them a bit. Then added in the Trader Joe's turkey gravy and some cut up bite sized turkey pieces.....

I had cooked some haricots vert (french cut green beans) in the mushroom liquid...

Perfect! Maggie and Harley both loved licking the gravy left in my dish!

 

All I know. Nuff said. Happy Tuesday. Habañero Martini Day! Ciao.

xo Sue-Mom-Bobo

November 8th

National Harvey Wallbanger Day

1 oz Vodka

1/2 oz Galliano

4 oz Orange juice

Pour vodka and orange juice into a collins glass over ice cubes and stir. Float Galliano on top and serve.

AND... it's National Cappuccino Day

Cappuccino
1/3 espresso topped with 1/3 hot milk and 1/3 frothed milk.
Single: made with 1 shot of espresso and about 4 oz. milk.
Double: made with 2 shots of espresso and about 8 oz. milk.

Smoked Turkey Breast ~ Dang Football! ~ Inquisitive Owl ~

Good 38º almost getting light at 6:30 am morning!

YEAH! I love it light earlier! The dark is depressing.

Here are three photos from yesterday... the snow didn't last long, it was just a pleasant surprise and interlude for a day..

First picture 2pm, then 4pm, then 5pm....

Sooooooooooo..... not happy camper about the games on TV yesterday. Sad about my Pats (lost to Giants. I HATE the Giants!!!), and even my daughter Kristen called me to say, "Mom, I heard you yelling all the way down here!"....... Sigh....................... Kristen's Jets beat the Bills, Brian's Colts lost to the Falcons :o( , and Alex's Dolphins beat the beejebers out of the Chiefs! Wow, the Ravens beat the Steelers, Packers beat the Chargers, the 'Lambs' lost to the Cardinals (giggle), and the Raiders lost to the Broncos (Yeah!). Ok, enough football.

 

Mr. Squirrel made a visit for some corn...

... and Maggie napped...

Yesterday I smoked a turkey breast. First I put it in a large zip bag and added about 4 cups of water mixed with 1 cup of salt and let it sit in the fridge over night.

 

 

Then I dried it off, drizzled on some olive oil and spices: Garlic/Lemon, Pepper/Orange, Fisherman's Wharf (which I get at the Jacksonville Mercantile and it includes:salt, black pepper, parsley, garlic, white onion, lemon peel, green peppercorns, and green onion. Good on fish or poultry. Check their site: www.urbanaccents.com ) and Bob's Seasoning salt (I like the celery taste) and paprika.

250º and 1 hr per pound... so this smoked for 4 hrs 45 min.

With Bill's expertise, this came out great! Very moist and perfect.

Then I cooked some bow tie pasta, cut up some asparagus, added a few turns of olive oil to a hot pan, added canned sliced mushrooms (liquid and all) and the asparagus. When the liquid was gone the asparagus was cooked and then I stir fried them in the oil that was left. Added the pasta ....

and voilá      

   dinner!

 

Historically this date....

1908 – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are reportedly killed in San Vicente, Bolivia.

1910 – The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright Brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.

1940 – In Tacoma, Washington, the original Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapses in a windstorm, a mere four months after the bridge's completion.

1944 – Franklin D. Roosevelt elected for a record fourth term as President of the United States of America.

1983 – 1983 United States Senate bombing: a bomb explodes inside the United States Capitol. No people are harmed, but an estimated $250,000 in damage is caused.

"On January 20, 2001, the day he left office, President Bill Clinton commuted Evans's sentence." What an ASSHOLE!

(sorry... but he is!)

2000 – Hillary Rodham Clinton is elected to the United States Senate, becoming the first former First Lady to win public office in the United States, although actually she still was the First Lady. (GAG GAG AND MORE GAG)

2000 – Controversial US presidential election that is later resolved in the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court Case.

(Thank GOD Gore didn't come out on top!)

 

And births this date include....

1918 – Billy Graham, American evangelist

 

1952 – David Petraeus, American military commander

.... run him for President! He won't act like an arrogant turd or bow to the enemy!

1959 – Keith Lockhart, American orchestral conductor

..... Boston Pops, a big favorite of mine!

And down in the depths of Diamond Bar California, is my friend Lydia who is celebrating her marriage to Gerry today. HAPPY 36TH ANNIVERSARY kids!!! xo

 

I LOVE owls. You will get a giggle out of this video....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo9aygYS2ik

 

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

xo Sue-Mom-Bobo

November 7th

National Bittersweet Chocolate w/ Almonds Day

 

 

SNOW! ~ Power Out ~ Habanero Martini ~ Nachos Day

Good 33º SNOWY morning! OMG.

Also, the time has changed back to Standard Time. Did you set your clocks?

So... about 12:50am (before changing clocks) Maggie gets up and starts walking around on the bed. She seemed upset. I went for the light but nope, no light. No projection clock on the ceiling. Hmmm... Get flashlight and go look. No light anywhere. No lights on the pump house or the barn. Throw another log in the wood stove and pour a glass of wine. Sigh....

Then I got the wild idea to call the power company. I have a hard line phone just for that sort of thing, since my portable phones won't work and I'm too far in the boonies for my cell to work. Anyway, I was the only one reporting an outage in this area. Talked to Shannon in Portland at Pacific Power. She was very nice and we chatted since she probably had nothing else to do! I told her I recalled working on early morning shift on time change night when the Lt. would come in at 2am and change the time back to 1am. Groan.... At least the extra hour was overtime!

I went out to take a picture of the pitch dark..about 2am when there was a light down at my gate...

Then the phone rang and it was 'Jeff' asking for the gate code. He came in and checked the pole out front and then hiked to the ones up toward the pond...

The snow was coming down. Jeff called me back about 2½ hours later. There had been a tree down close to here and one down up the road. 800 of us were without power. Most probably didn't know until they woke up this morning.

.... and Mr. Hippo has disappeared...

A tree in the back has a big branch down..

and the trampoline is full!

LOL. It does definitely need a new cover.

Historically this date..

1861 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected president of the Confederate States of America.

1944 – Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility and subsequently used in the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.

1977 – The Kelly Barnes Dam, located above Toccoa Falls Bible College near Toccoa, Georgia, fails, killing 39.

1985 – In Colombia, leftist guerrillas of the 19th of April Movement seize control of the Palace of Justice in Bogotá, eventually killing 115 people, 11 of them Supreme Court justices.

And births this date include....

1814 – Adolphe Sax, Belgian inventor (d. 1894)

Yeah for the saxophone!

1854 – John Philip Sousa, American composer (d. 1932)

1946 – Sally Field, American actress

And Fresno must be rockin' out today as Tom Graves (husband of Wilsonite Adelle Easton) celebrates his birthday today. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TOM!!!

Yesterday Nancy and PatT and I went to the Psychic Faire. What a waste of time and $. I did have a nice chat with Fred of the Aquarius Book Store. He's a client of Brian's and told me how much he likes Brian ... what a good agent he is.

So, then PatT went off in one direction and we found the art supply store. Nancy was happy and got some new watercolor art supplies. Run by a nice guy named Josh, next to The Mediterranean Restaurant. Then.............. it was time for a habañero martini at the Mediterranean. They are made with pomegranate juice and infused vodka.

AWESOME! With mine I had falafel (deep fried ball made from chickpeas and or fava beans), with tzatziki (cucumber and Greek yogurt sauce)

and Greek Fries (wedges of potato deep fried and sprinkled with parmesan cheese)

Nancy had the falafel in a pita bread with potato/leek soup.

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/seans-falafel-and-cucumber-sauce/detail.aspx

We were both very satisfied and happy.

I dropped Nancy off and asked David how best to repair my back door hinge problem (screws keep coming out, even after inserting longer screws). He had told me earlier to get some dowels and insert them and then drive the screws through the dowels. Anyway, he came over later and put in some match sticks, glue, and fatter screws. I was not to use the door for 24 hours. Thanks David! I'll try the door later today.

All I know. Have a turkey breast in brine in the fridge. Will smoke that baby in a while. Can't wait. Have a great Sunday. I will be enjoying my snow view. Ciao.

xo Sue-Mom-Bobo

November 6th

National Nachos Day

http://sallyrae3.tripod.com/mycookbook/supernachos.html