Jake I checked my gif's first!
Today is Astromomy Day wish I had a telescope and the darkness of Bonaire's skies!
It is also Fresh Celery Day...
(Someone should start checking who is thinking up these holidays!) and it is also.....FRIDAY!!!!!
watch how quick the weather turns from sunny and warm to rainy, in my neck of the woods anyway....

Good Morning Meryl - glad you are back.
And it is also 2 days till I go to Bonaire
Looks like another wonderful morning in paradise
Am off to the solicitors [about the investment property we are buying]and then hopefully back for a tiny while before going to work - for the last time.

It;s off to work I go [she says singing the tune in her head, and wishing she had time to look for a gif of the seven dwarfs]

Morning Meryl and Jenni, it's also Frog Month (Linda). Looks a little stormy on the island today. perfect frog weather

Good Morning Charlotte

she's very visual this morning

Morning all I've got some archive shots for us.. looks like it's rainy there today as well..

Morning Freddie, Charlotte's been showing of pieces and parts all morning. You working today?

I'll be in and out again This working stuff has got to stop so I can get my FIX of BT>>>
today in history:{drum roll please}
1956 - Grace Kelly marries Monaco's Prince Rainier III

Good morning, everybody! Celery Day? Garlic Day? Let's make some soup. Our offical Heat Wave is probably over - 80s today and dropping to the 60s over the weekend.



Garlic Day
Anniversary of Revolutionary War
National Youth Service Day
General Robert E. Lee Birthday
Primrose Day

It's CUSTOMER SERVICE MONTH! Mention this to the folks behind the counter next time you're in a fast food place. Right!

speaking of food, my tummy's growling at me, so I'd better feed it. Back in a bit.

Rusty, are you going in for pizza today?

Today is also Primrose Day...
and in 1919 - 1st parachute jump & free fall

Also on this day in History
General Robert E. Lee Birthday

I'm home for the day - no bribes today are getting me out of here. Been a busy week with all the work/docs/shopping/gardening.



My Momz Soup - brown stew beef with onions and garlic in oil - add two big cans of tomatoes, couple more onions, half a bunch of celery, leaves and all.



Fill pot with water and simmer and stir for three or four hours. Add some salt, oregano, beef boullion, if you want it. I sometimes add a can of tomato sauce if I want to thicken the broth. Voila. Add 8 - 12 oz macaroni or ditalini and serve when tender.

Fresh Celery Day

Celery is part of the parsley family. It was first grown as a medicinal plant, then (during the Middle Ages) as a flavoring. Finally, people started using it as a food - mainly for soups and salads. It's a good source of vitamin C and potassium, but here's the best part... It takes more calories to chew a piece of raw celery than you get from eating it!

Celery raw is good for the jaw,
but celery stewed is more easily chewed.

TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS:

1903 - Eliot Ness, FBI agent-Chicago
1932 - Jayne Mansfield, actress (Fat Spy)
1935 - Dudley Moore, actor (Arthur)

1946 - Tim Curry, actor (Rocky Horror Picture Show)

1903 - Eliot Ness, FBI agent-Chicago

Good Morning !

How large is Charlotte? Cynde's pic of her near the mooring block makes me think she's but a few inches long...

Sally, take a ride!

1982 - NASA named Sally Ride to be first woman astronaut.



1948 - ABC-TV network begins

Rusty...Momz's brown stew beef sounds yummy! Pls freeze & send I tried for years to learn to cook, but finally gave it up as a public service to the neighborhood (& fire dept). I've become an adequate nuker.

Barbara Good morning.. According to Humann Charlotte is between 4-6 1/2 inches
yellowtailed Damselfish

1897 - The first annual Boston Marathon was held. It was the first of its type in the U.S.

Thank you, Freddie!

Barbara - I'm a big soup/stew/sauce maker in the winter and griller in the summer. Casseroles, too for BoxerBob. (I always make enough soups, casseroles and spaghetti sauce for a couple meals. I ain't DUMB.) None of those things takes much prep and there's so little precision involved that I can handle it.

Nothing like Potstickers for me! LOL

1892 - The Duryea gasoline buggy was introduced in the U.S. by Charles and Frank Duryea.



In my hometown:

September 21, 1893, Frank drives the first Duryea, in Springfield, MA. More than two decades later, it was given to the Smithsonian Institution, where it is exhibited.

1934 - Shirley Temple appears in her 1st movie.



1977 - Alex Haley received a special Pulitzer Prize for his book "Roots."

oh, come on Rusty, pot stickers aren't hard. it's just like making meatloaf and wrapping them in won ton wrappers. You can even add chopped celery.

Morning Barbara

They looks so fancy! How come they don't pop open? Do you glue them shut? LOL

Did everybody see that Freddie had a GMTA meeting last night - all by herself. LOLOL! Caught a night diver!

One of my favorite snack is Celery with peanutbutter spread on it {this is the worst celery ani I have ever seen!!Both ani's from Animation Library!}

Let's HOP to a new thread for Frog Week Friday!

LOLROTFLMAO.....I can have a party all by myself and even dup the pixs!!!!

you go girl!!

Freddie - I had to opt for the non-animated sort of celery. Guess there isn't much call for dancing celery. I crunch it sometimes with salt and have to share with the boxers - they eat apples, pickles, tomatoes, carrots. When I'm chopping veggies, they are avid beggars. When they were pups I gave them carrots to gnaw - cheap, and it won't hurt them.

I meant to ask you how much wogga wogga you were inhaling.

Rusty, a little water seals the edges and no, they don't pop open. Amazing little things.

Hey do you think this bird looks like she is saying"COULD I HAVE SOME PRIVACY ,PLEASE"

she is laying on 4 eggs

Awww - I love the peregrines. We have a similar nestbox in downtown Springfield, but no birds this year, so far. First time we've missed them in 15 years or so. Hope they show up!



The hilarious thing about it - is that it's the tallest building downtown - with a Sheraton and offices inside and people coming out the front door are often pelted with starling heads. ROFL.

Sorry. I mean, that is so sad and disgusting. (*Snort* *Guffaw*)