Dummy Me ~ S'54 & S'63 ~ Firemen Flash Mob ~ Soapbox ~ Bruiser ~ Purple Potatoes with Salmon and Trout with Shrimp

Good 32º, oh look it's foggy morning. Sigh..................... not a speck of sun here yesterday..... warmed to 41º. Jeannie said there was some sun in Grants Pass. Patty and Cliff headed to the coast where she said it was sunny and 55º. After this gloomy winter it sounds like Brookings is the place to move to~!

OK, dummy me... the other day I posted the weather predictions ... LOL, it was for "Grants NM" not Grants Pass OR!!! Oh Lordy....

Here is the weather posted on the weather site yesterday... no teen numbers for us!! Sheesh..... I need a keeper!!!!

Hard to keep up with all the stuff about "hash tags" (#) and TBT (Throw Back Thursdays) .... "wink" "boom"..... so it was suggested after showing some old photos to friends that I should post them on TBT! OK, here are a couple...

My super sis, Marion (d.2004) graduated from Wilson in S'54 a member of the Adlephians Class. I graduated in S'63 a member of the Delphians class! (Guess who in my class suggested the name and got the nod!)

     

This from my friend Deeeewayne Honneee Preimsberger (LASD ret) .... as he said, "No wonder everyone loves firemen."

Click on the link:

http://www.healthcarecommunication.com/Main/Articles/Video_Firefighters_save_lives_in_flash_mob_video_11372.aspx

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Here is a big beef with me as far as those "OH MY GOD" emails that go around and around. The Muslim stamp is going around again. Please please if you get an email that has been forwarded and forwarded and has questionable information (which most do) check with www.truthorfiction.com or www.snopes.com  (click those links!) for what is true and what isn't. AND if you are going to forward emails, PLEASE DELETE THE EMAIL ADDRESSES that are on the header!

Historically this date....

1942 – Crash of TWA Flight 3, killing all 22 aboard, including film star Carole Lombard.

1945 – Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, the so-called Führerbunker.

1979 – The Shah of Iran flees Iran with his family and relocates to Egypt.

1991 – The Coalition Forces go to war with Iraq, beginning the Gulf War (U.S. Time).

2003 – The Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107 which would be its final one. Columbia disintegrated 16 days later on re-entry.

And births this date include...

1935 – A.J. Foyt, American race car driver and team owner

.....he was always my favorite!

My poor kitty, Bruiser, had three shots on Tuesday and true to the instructions, he was not doing much but sleep. This is supposed to ware off in a couple of days, if not I have to call the vet. I got this backrest for my big chair, doesn't work there, so put it on my computer chair. Mister wanted to lay on the computer so I put the backrest on the desk and he was happy happy! Today he is back to his "what can I get in trouble with" self! He's racing through the house, jumping out at Dude (makes him so nervous!), up on the hutch attacking some of my frogs...... turned on the moving circle game Jeannie gave him... takes off some of that energy since he is attacking the moving arm!

Dinner was 'different honey'. I cooked and mashed up some purple potatoes with butter, cream cheese, Parmesan cheese, chives, chopped jalapenos, and canned salmon....

Then.... I found some frozen fish in the freezer, must have been from one of Nancy's Dave's trout fishing trips..

Thawed and took them all apart, put them in the crockpot with lemon juice and butter and garlic powder and let them cook for 4 hours. 

Also found some shrimp, so put that in a pan with butter and let it heat. Then I de-boned the fish and added them to the shrimp with more butter, lemon, garlic powder, and capers.

I know. This all sound weird, but it was OMGOOD!!!!

I know I will make the potatoes again, even using white ones, but serve with something that is not also fish! The salmon in the potatoes was really good! I will do fish this way again too and maybe serve it on greens. Both delish!

Hey Jeannie and Bill....get well!!!!! Hey Juli.....get well!!!! Ruth .... get well!!!! Love you guys, hate it when friends or family are sick! Brian has had a cough for a month. It just hangs on....... Sure wish there was a magic cure for this nasty flu bug. Obviously shots do nothing! I just keep taking Airborne 3 times a day to keep my immune system up there! (Knocking on wood, so far so good!)

xo Sue Mom Bobo

January 16th

National Nothing Day

When: Always January 16th. This is simply a day for nothing.

This date is an "un-event". The expectation is that we do not create or otherwise promote this day. In other words, we do nothing. And to say anything more would contradict the purpose of this day.

Celebrate this day by doing ... nothing. Of course, that assumes that doing nothing is ok with your boss.

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Origin of this day.... it was created in 1973 by newspaperman Harold Pullman Coffin. Other than that, we found nothing about this day.

Earthquake ~ Patterson ~ Big Al ~ Turkeys

Good 35º foggy full moon morning. The prediction was for temps in the teens, but that didn't happen. Ahhhh...weather predictors!

Kristen wrote that her sleep was interrupted by an earthquake.

Apparently it was centered in the Fontana area. A 4.4 about 1:30 in the morning at a depth of 3¼ miles.

So, a full moon and an earthquake.... great intro to Bill (LASD ret Homicide Sgt) Patterson's birthday!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY BILLY!!!! Get well .... we'll party!!!

 

Today is also Deputy "Big Al" Rodriguez's birthday. HAPPY BIRTHDAY AL!! Al and I in 2007 when he stopped by on his way hunting in Montana.... or somewhere like that! It was just after Jerry died and he wanted to stop and give me a hug! Al worked at ELA when I was there. My buddy!

Yesterday I took Bruiser and Dude to the vet's for shots. I figured after stuffing the Bruise in a cat cage and the trip in the car, the temperature taken, shots given he'd be really pissed at me. Not. He just was as loving and clingy as ever!

Dude was happy to see so many people in the waiting room and everyone wanted to pet him. Even his "dad" UPS Dave came by and said hello!! Tail wagging... "oh look, it's my dad!"

Came home and I went back to town to see if there was a package at the post office. YES!!! It was the Windows start up disc. Took that to Turk. Hopefully soon the computer will be fixed. It won't have anything in it but Windows so I will have to do a lot of downloading and reinsertion of files.

I heard something on the roof..... figured it was turkeys since the flock was in the front yard. I went upstairs and got this shot out the window. Silly birds!!!

Historically this date....

1870 – A political cartoon for the first time symbolizes the Democratic Party with adonkey ("A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion" by Thomas Nast for Harper's Weekly).

1943 – The world's largest office building, The Pentagon, is dedicated in Arlington, Virginia.

1947 – The brutalized corpse of Elizabeth Short ("The Black Dahlia") is found in Leimert Park, Los Angeles.

1967 – The first Super Bowl is played in Los Angeles, California. The Green Bay Packers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs 35-10

2009 – US Airways Flight 1549 makes an emergency landing in the Hudson River shortly after takeoff from LaGuardia Airport in New York, New York. All passengers and crew members survive.

And births this date include...

1906 – Aristotle Onassis, Greek shipping magnate (d. 1975)

1913 – Lloyd Bridges, American actor (d. 1998)

1968 – Chad Lowe, American actor

1979 – Drew Brees, American football player

All I know. Sorry no cooking on this blog. Tomorrow. Going to make purple mashed potatoes and a fish dish with a lemon/butter/caper sauce. Hungry thinking about it!!! Nuff said. Ciao.

xo Sue Mom Bobo

January 15th

National Strawberry Ice Cream Day

National Fresh Squeezed Juice Day

Soapbox ~ Chicken Soup ~ My Cat-Other Cats ~ UPS Sue ~ The Hat and Philippe's

Good 41º foggy morning. OMG, it's going to go back into the teens at night for a while again. DARN!

Ok, I was told to get on my

re the flu outbreak.... this from my BFF Jeannie who is soooooo sick. After getting a "flu shot" both she and Bill got the "flu". Bill's turned into walking pneumonia, even after a "pneumonia shot" !!! So, if you are coughing, have a fever (frequently or infrequently), body aches, and headaches.... STAY HOME!!!!!! Jeannie had to cancel an appointment and the nurse told her "thank you" as sooooooooooooo many "don't give a rap and come in anyway and spread this crap around!" I don't care if you are a man or not.... men don't tell their spouses when they don't feel good. TELL YOUR WIFE IF YOU HAVE SYMPTOMS!!! AND STAY HOME!!!!

Here is the chicken soup I made on Sunday....

First I cut up 3 large skinless/boneless chicken thighs and sauteéd them until brown. Put in crockpot. I get the vegetable stock at Costco... 8 cups of water (2 quarts) and 4 capfuls of the stock mix and put in crockpot with chicken.

Then I cut up mushrooms, a leek, and green beans. Added that to the crockpot along with drained diced tomatoes, a T of basil, a capful of dried garlic, about 2 T of taco seasoning, and some broccoli slaw. Then added in some egg noodles....

I let this cook on low for about 4 ½ hours. OMGOOOOD!!!!

... and the vegetable stock is so good for you!!!

While I was in the kitchen I saw Bruiser out the window up on the birdbath drinking the water. I ran to get my camera, but as usual he is uncooperative when it comes to me taking his picture... so just got this one of him on his way back to the house... see the "look" !!! LOL.

Now here's a great idea for those of you with bars or a place where you keep your wine! Put those old tools to work!

OMG this is hilarious!!!

So many more bad kitties here:

http://www.sunnyskyz.com/blog/79/The-27-Naughtiest-Cats-In-The-World-And-I-Can-t-Stop-Laughing#.UtDgMCrWtPE.facebook

Historically this date....

1952 – NBC's long-running morning news program Today debuts, with host Dave Garroway.

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

1969 – An accidental explosion aboard the USS Enterprise (CVN-65) near Hawaii kills 27 people.

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.

2010 – Yemen declares an open war against the terrorist group al-Qaeda.

And births this date include....

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

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

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

...just so sad to me that so many of the handsome actors I was smitten with turned out to be gay! Not fair!

1938 – Jack Jones, American singer

1941 – Faye Dunaway, American actress

.... all I can say is, "Why???" She was beautiful, now a plastic surgeon's work.

1944 – Marjoe Gortner, American evangelist

(youngest ordained minister!)

... yeppers, this was the guy I delivered a package to when I worked for UPS... up in the Hollywood Hills. I had a "fro" and so did he. He stared at me! LOL. He was odd with a capitol O! 

1968 – LL Cool J, American rapper and actor

...I like him, don't know why. Don't like rap music. He is pleasant to look at and listen to when speaking. Seems to be a nice guy!

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

xo Sue Mom Bobo

January 14th

National Hot Pastrami Sandwich Day

OMG we'd always go to The Hat on Valley Blvd and Garfield in Alhambra.... Great sandwiches and nickel coffee!

Then there is Philippe's on Alameda by the Terminal Annex Post Office (where my Dad worked!) and Olvera Street in Los Angeles (best taquitos ever!)....