Good morning gang.

We're feeling the affects of that winter blast today. Should be partly cloudy and highs in the upper 20's.

Word of the Day Friday, November 14, 2014


slubber \ SLUHB-er \, verb;

1. to perform hastily or carelessly.

Origin:

Slubber may descend from the Low German term slubbern meaning "to do work carelessly." When slubber entered English in the early to mid-1500s, it meant "to stain or smear."


Today is NATIONAL SPICY GUACAMOLE DAY

Each year on November 14, it is National Spicy Guacamole Day. Call your friends, get the chips ready and celebrate with a bowl of spicy guacamole dip.

Originating with the Aztecs in Mexico, guacamole is an avocado-based sauce which has become popular in American cuisine as a dip, condiment and salad ingredient.

Guacamole is made by using a mortar and pestle to mash ripe avocados and then mixing in sea salt. Sometimes tomatoes, onion, garlic, lemon juice, chili, yogurt or other seasonings are added. To take the guacamole into the “spicy category” jalapeno’s, chili’s, cumin or red pepper have been added to the recipe.

Due to Super Bowl Sunday and Cinco de Mayo, guacamole has pushed avocado sales to 30 million pounds on those two days each year.

To celebrate National Spicy Guacamole Day, try one of the following “tried and true” Spicy Guacamole recipes:

http://www.food.com/recipe/spicy-guacamole-36401

http://www.cookingchanneltv.com/recip ... flay/spicy-guacamole.html

NATIONAL SPICY GUACAMOLE DAY HISTORY

Our research was unable to find the creator of National Spicy Guacamole Day, an “unofficial” national holiday.


NATIONAL PICKLE DAY

It may be a Dill, Gherkin, Cornichon, Brined, Kosher Dill, Polish, Hungarian, Lime, Bread and Butter, Swedish and Danish, or Kool-Aid Pickles, whichever is your choice, eat them all day long as you celebrate National Pickle Day.

The term pickle comes from the Dutch work pekel, meaning brine. In the United States, the word pickle typically refers to a pickled cucumber.

– Pickles are a great snack, low in calories and a good source of vitamin K.

– Sometimes served on a stick at festivals, fairs or carnivals, pickles are sometimes known as “stick pickles”.

– A rising trend in the United States is a deep-fried pickles which have a breading or batter surrounding the pickle spear or slice.

– For thousands of years pickles have been a popular food dating back to 2030 B.C. At that time, cucumbers were imported from India to the Tigris Valley where they were first preserved and eaten as pickles.

– Cleopatra’s full diet of pickles is what she attributed her good looks to.

– Julius Caesar fed pickles to their troops believing that they lent physical and spiritual strength.

– Each year in the United States, 5,200,000 pounds of pickles are consumed.

HAPPY NATIONAL PICKLE DAY!

NATIONAL PICKLE DAY HISTORY

Within our research, we were unable to find the creator of National Pickle Day, an “unofficial” national holiday. The first annual pickle day was celebrated in New York City in 2001.

Tau mautia

Good Morning CGs!

Cold. We had light flurries for much of the day yesterday, but no accumulation. I don't know what the weather is expected to be other than....cold.

Hope everyone has a great day!

Matthew

Uh....its cold here.....real hard to get out of bed when the E blanket is on simmer...this weekend the fuzzy sheets are going on....who says winter can't be fun....

I like a good pickle....had no idea they had them thousands of years ago....

Not much else to report.....stay warm Guru's....

Morning guys...cold here, but nearly as cold as yesterday morning. It's a virtual heat wave at 18. We MIGHT get above freezing today, but a big winter storm is brewing and we might get snow and wind...what a great combination! On the other hand, we probably will get missed, as snow does count as moisture.....

Marcus, we put the fuzzy sheets and e-blanket on last weekend in anticipation of this cold weather.

Greetings! Busy day here again, but at least I won't be stuck in an all-day meeting. Counting the minutes until nap-time. Hope Tommy remembers to pack his Speedo.

Enjoy your Friday, Gurus!

in the 70 again

STILL SUNNY AND COLD IN THE NATIONS THIS MORNING, NO WIND SO THAT HELPS. THEY ARE PREDICTING BELOW NORMAL TEMPS INTO THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK.

OKLAHOMA IS NOW HOME OF THE POSTER GIRL OF GREED: AN OILMAN'S X-WIFE APPEALING HER BILLION DOLLAR SETTLEMENT AS TOO LITTLE. IT MAY BE WORTH A BILLION TO GET SHUT OF A WOMAN LIKE THAT.

ONE INTERESTING ITEM MENTIONED WAS A $300K "LOG CABIN". FITZGERALD SAID THE VERY RICH ARE NOT LIKE YOU OR ME. NOT SO, I THINK, THEY JUST HAVE MORE MONEY TO BE STUPID WITH.

POST OP EYE EXAM ALL OK, EYE DROPS EVERY FOUR HOURS A PIA, IF I DO IT MORE GETS ON MY FACE THAN IN MY EYE; DARLING WIFE DOES A MUCH BETTER JOB :-)

It's official....that boys nuts....holy cow! Glad he didn't hit the front brake to soon.....I want to see him do that on a unicycle.....

That's quite a ride!

Tick-tock, tick-tock .......... Well, my bags are packed. I'm ready to go ........ Woooooooooooooooooooooot .....................Wooooooooooooooooooooot. Finishing up on last minute stuff. In pretty good shape overall. I'll start decompressing as soon as the safety briefing is over after we leave port. Once that's over it's all fun and games. You guys that have never been on a cruise should give it a try sometime. I'll teach you the ropes on booking. Online Vacation Center @ onlinevacationcenter.com and Vacations To Go at vacationstogo.com are two great places to start. When the cold clammy winds drift down from the north ........ bbrrrrrrr. The Carribean offers much milder temps.


http://www.onlinevacationcenter.com/


http://www.vacationstogo.com/?source=msnadc&npm=c

Have a kickass voyage, Tommy!