Good Morning!
On this day in 1783 the Revolutionary War between the U.S. and Great Britain ended with the Treaty of Paris.
In 1895 the first professional football game was played in Latrobe, PA. The Latrobe YMCA defeated the Jeannette Athletic Club 12-0.
In 1935 Sir Malcolm Campbell became the first person to drive an automobile over 300 miles an hour. He reached 304.331 MPH on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah.
In 1943 Italy was invaded by the Allied forces during World War II.
In 1954 “The Lone Ranger” was heard on radio for the final time after 2,956 episodes over a period of 21 years.
In 1967 the TV game show “What’s My Line?” broadcast its final episode. The show aired over 17 years on CBS.
And in 1976 the U.S. spacecraft Viking 2 landed on Mars.
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Quote of the Day
“I have done stupid with a lot of zeros on the end of it. I know what it looks like.”
Dave Ramsey
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Today would be Kitty Carlisle’s birthday. She actually sang and acted before doing every game show ever on TV. 🙂 Who knew?
Today is Freddie “The Texas Cannonball” King’s birthday. This should help get you movin’. 🙂
And it’s Al Jardine’s as well.
And in another Beach Boy item, I thought this was nice, all things considered.
From MSN ” A northeast Ohio couple had planned every detail of their wedding — except for the sound check of a Beach Boys concert next door during their ceremony.”
“The Plain Dealer in Cleveland reports that when the band found out about the timing of its sound check, the newlyweds’ guests were told they could attend the concert for free.”
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Wandering Views 
Good morning! First? I awoke at 5:00 feeling good! Just about finished with my coffee and about to jump in the shower. I have a busy day today, especially this afternoon/evening.
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Becca has had no one to play with at recess for last couple of days. I just sent an email to her teacher as this was a problem last year and I’m hoping to prevent a repeat this year. Becca claims she asked five girls to play, all of whom wouldn’t let her join in their play group. I don’t know if it’s something Becca’s doing, or if it’s the other kids, but it breaks my heart for her. They won’t let her take a book outside during recess, so she sits quietly under a tree and waits for the bell. Not much fun for a second grader. It’s so weird b/c she usually makes friends easily at places like the park or McDonald’s. She came down again last night around midnight complaining of nightmares and wanted to sleep with me. I walked her back to bed as I really needed a good night’s sleep (and that’s almost impossible for me to get with her in my bed). I checked on her 30 minutes later and she was sleeping soundly. I think she’s really anxious about school and that’s what’s causing her to have such fitful sleep.
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Annms, it really hurts our mommy heart when our children hurt. I wish I had some advice for you but I don’t.
I am up early this morning thanks to Mo the Cat.
Amos is back home after spending the weekend with Baby Girl. He is having to discipline the puppy, Lulabelle. She wants to play and he is being a grumpy old man. He is currently hiding out beside me.
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I used to listen to the masked man who always left a silver bullet behind. Three days a week (MWF).
“Who was that masked man?”
That was the Lone Ranger.
“Hi yo Silver!” in the background.
Super corny after you reach 16 or so. Kids loved it.
And we bought Merita bread.
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Hi Ho Silver, away!
There were some fun shows when we were younger.
Just going through my videos, some of which I bought from others here and forgot about, and discovered some episodes of Bonanza. I will have to reacquaint myself with the show. I have driven many times by the ranch on the north end of Tahoe.
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I saw the ranch once on a visit to Tahoe.
A thunderstorm at 7:15 in Hendersonville. 😦
We usually have them in the afternoon or early evening.
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Glad to hear that you visited my homeland, Chas. I love those mountains.
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My heart hurts for your daughter, too, Ann. If she is making friends easily in other places, it would make me wonder what is going on, too. Perhaps she needs to look for another child that seems unfriendly? What kind of activities are these girls doing that another cannot join? What kind of equipment is available for her to do some actual physical activity?
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I never listened to the radio shows, but sure enjoyed the television shows of both The Lone Ranger and Bonanza. My dad really enjoyed Bonanza, too. It was a good family show. Those were the days when the good guys always eventually won; reminiscent of the final outcome of eternity. It was also the days before embarrassing commercials and shows ruined by things not appropriate for our children. I am so glad we have opportunities to record and lots of choices today for what to watch, but sad for those children who have no one to guide them to good choices.
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How does one lose a spaghetti squash?
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Good morning! I completed my stint at the emergency room. We are thankful for God’s provision of the work, but am so happy to be at home full time with my husband and little ones again. Yesterday my oldest daughter turned 30. When did I ever become old enough to have a daughter that age? 🙂
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How was everyone’s labor day. I smoked some chicken breasts over hickory and mesquite. I put some Saltgrass seasoning on them while the breasts were being smoked. Cindi said it was the best chicken she has ever eaten.
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I made burgers, and pickled eggs. My wife loves both.
Today I’m making a stuffed cabbage casserole. Yum. 🙂
I loved the Lone Ranger as a kid.
I would guess someone or thing stole it. Squash don’t walk off on their own, not even the spaghetti kind. I personally think they’re too much work, and don’t taste like spaghetti at all. 🙂
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Squash don’t walk?
Labor Day for me was work-work-work. And it’s back to it again today. Not much of a weekend since I also worked on Saturday, but it happens.
I remember the Lone Ranger on TV — and Silver with his black-and-silver saddle. And Bonanza on Sunday nights.
Will pray that Becca finds a special friend for recess, that’s got to be awkward for her. 😦 I was much older, but in my sophomore year in high school several of my best girlfriends — we all walked to and from school together as we lived in the same block — got boyfriends with cars.
Suddenly there I was, walking to and from school all by myself (occasionally they’d say I could ride with them, but I talk about feeling like a third wheel … So I’d walk alone, feeling really strange. It didn’t last and I connected with another girlfriend I’d met in junior high so we became bosom buddies (although she was on the other side of town so we couldn’t walk to and from school together).
And when the boyfriends all graduated a year ahead of us, I got my walking partners back again. 😉
But it’s hard to feel like you’re out of the loop when you’re growing up.
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Good morning, all!
Ann, my daughter had a terrible time making friends at school until she was in grade 8. Then she made some good friends and ever since then has made friends who are wonderful, loyal and amazing. I sometimes wish I was a friend like her and could make friends like her. She seems to be extra blessed by God for the people He brings into her life, but those first few years were a long haul. I thank God for the wonderful, Godly, caring teachers she had, who looked out for her in those hard years.
I went to check the back garden yesterday and the poor lone spaghetti squash that I had been watching grow had gone missing. I’m assuming a bear took it but I guess it could have been racoons, although we haven’t seen any sign of them around our house. We usually eat it seasoned with garlic and butter – nothing like spaghetti 🙂
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I was awakened at 2:15 by the loudest police helicopter circling and circling just a few blocks southeast of my block — my window was open (we’re into our typical sweltering September weather here in LA) and I could see it in the sky with a red light, going ’round and ’round and ’round and ’round, droning on forever, flying low and loud. It finally went away after about an hour. Don’t know if they caught their guy or not.
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Mom bought and cooked spaghetti squash once and none of us liked it. Then she decided to serve it with spaghetti sauce and unfortunately she actually liked it that way . . . but I was happy she never bought it again. I like all other forms of squash I have tried, though unfortunately my husband doesn’t, and so far when I cook something he doesn’t like, the girls generally won’t even try it. (The younger one will eat summer squash, but I haven’t tried cooking any other squash variety for fear I’ll just be making it for myself.)
Ann, I too was the child with no friends for most of my childhood. I’d walk around the playground finding pretty rocks for lack of anything better to do. I did have friends sporadically here and there (like one classmate for part of fifth grade who shared my love of horses, though neither of us had a horse). I took high school by correspondence but made friends at church (older than me by several years) and finally learned to make friends in college. Some of those friends are still friends today.
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This was my first year trying to grow squash (other than zucchini & pumpkins), so I was just seeing if it would grow here.
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Drives, I think that anything my hubby cooks is the best I’ve ever tasted.
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I can beat you Linda, I pretty much think anything anyone else cooks that I don’t have to is the best. 😉
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Thanks for the sweet comments, sharing with me in my sorrow for Becca. I notified the teacher and she emailed back that she has recess duty this week and will try to help Becca find some playmates. I’m happy for any help she can give. She seems like an especially sweet teacher and comes highly recommended by several friends. I know she is a strong Christian, and that helps ease my fears. I’m hopeful. And praying.
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KimHH: I’ll second your sentiment! Hubby does almost all the cooking when we’re at “the ranch.” We generally cook out while we’re there and he’s master of the grill so all I have to take care of are the sides. It’s a sweet deal and a welcome break from cooking! He even made a big breakfast on Labor Day!
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I do nearly all the cooking. I like it and enjoy doing it. Mostly. 🙂 I’ve been cooking for myself and others since I was 23 or 24, because I was tired of eating Italian food (Chef Boy-r-dee 🙂 out of a can. I’ve always been the cook around here.
My wife has a few signature dishes that she makes that I love though. Her’s is better than my version. I like to throw stuff together and see what happens. She’s all about following instructions and recipes. 🙄 No sense of adventure……
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Cheryl’s mom “recipe” is the way we have it, with spaghetti sauce. And shredded like strands of spaghetti. Wife loves it, nobody else eats it. That’s the case with pretty much all squash now that I think about. But she loves it, so I make it for her. 🙂
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You’re a good man, AJ! 🙂
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My ex-mother in law taught me early on that if you don’t know what’s for dinner start sauteing an onion. You can guess and by golly it from there.
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Kim, my mom said that often too! I can’t do that as hubby gets migraines from onions – even just the smell of them…
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Just catching up with the TV discussion. First, I saw Donna’s video last night about the TV ad from the old days. We had an old Crossley TV in our garage. It was in the house when we bought it. The picture tube didn’t work, but the sound did. I used to listen to sports broadcasts when working on the car. Anyway, once the FCC decided all the broadcasters needed to go digital, I had no use for the TV. But I hated to throw away the beautiful cabinet. So last year I took out the electronics and put our 19″ modern TV inside. So now I have a 50’s era TV cabinet with 12 year old TV in it.
I also enjoyed the Lone Ranger, but when I saw it in color I had to gasp at the powder blue outfit he wore.
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Jo, I didn’t know you were from that part of the country. (Tahoe area, I presume) We visited there in the early nineties. We rented a car and drove over to Frisco. It was a beautiful drive on Rt. 50 through the mountains.
They said US 50 is the most lonesome highway in America. I lived three blocks off US 50 in Falls Church, Va. It must have been the busiest highway in America. Seemed like it at times.
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That trick wouldn’t work for me since I don’t like onions and detest the smell of cooking onions unless there are other smells to disguise it (that’s the only bad thing about Applebee’s–inevitably someone near me orders a dish that makes my hair smell like grilled onions). It would just ruin my appetite to begin that way.
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Cheryl, we eat at Appleby’s about once a month. I have never had the onion experience. If I had, I would never have gone back. I don’t eat onions either. Not even the ones Mumsee hides in her cakes.
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Back to school today …..
Ann — Friendships go up and down in elementary school especially girls. My daughter went from lots of friends to zero friends to lots of friends every other year. I do find it strange that she can’t take a book outside. Every years I always see a few boys or girls reading under the trees or against the schools walls. Seems rather counterproductive for a school to ban reading.
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I guess the idea is for kids to get some physical exercise during recess. I don’t remember being without friends per se (being in Girl Scouts and having neighbor kids my same age and in the same class helped). But I do remember on occasion playing tether ball alone. I must have been going through some kid-frustration, because I also remember my “hitting” hand turning almost raw I was pounding that ball so hard. 🙂 Scary.
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Interviewed our local congressional rep (who’s become one of the more outspoken liberal skeptics of the strike on Syria).
And right after that high-minded interview, I took a call from a woman wanting us to do a story about the insufficient tree-trimming service in L.A. She went on. And on. And on. 🙂 Lots of diversity in my job, which is what makes it still fun after all these years.
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