J is for JSC....

   I was going to dedicate today to all the Js in my family... 2 Grandfathers, an Uncle, my Father, my brother all named James, there is probably a whole lot more that I can't remember. Then there are 2 Joshuas. I have an Aunt Joyce (who by the way named ME). A cousin Jaeneen (I know I spelled it wrong, sorry my mind isn't working). And way too many to remember others.

   But then I heard this...

Houston we've had a problem: 'Space City' snubbed in bid for retired space shuttle

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...."The shuttle really is a program initiated here in Houston," said George Abbey, former director of Johnson Space Center from 1996 to 2001. "We're the ones who came up with the concept. We designed it. We tested it. We operated it. Certainly Houston ought to be number one on the list." 

  I am so spitting mad right now. (Sorry I have paper towels over on the table there)  The entire world knows that The Kennedy Space Center and the Johnson Space Center are the home of NASA. But because Texas didn't vote the way certain people think they should, we are being punished. I have read papers from all the cities in contetion for the shuttles and the commenters in all of them say they hope to get the 4th shuttle. The other 3 should go to the Smithsonian, Kennedy Space Center and Johnson Space Center.

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  Is it just me? 

   I remember driving to Houston as a child, just to see the Johnson Space Center. We toured all the rockets and looked at the Gemini capsule and the lunar lander. I was amazed at all the different languages I heard and people I saw. I was hoping to meet a real live Astronaut. Just check out the website here.

   Even today most of the Astronauts and their family's have homes in the Houston area. They train and work at the JSC. The honest to goodness Rocket Scientist live and work here.

  Okay I am sorry I just needed to vent. 

   

   Now if you will excuse me I think I would like to go send a couple of people to Moon myself.

“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.”

 Mark Twain  1835-1910

I is for Ice Cream....

   On my recipe blog Grandmom's Recipes. Today I have a Ice cream recipe. So to go along with the Ice Cream theme and the fact that the high temprature is suppose to be 88°. So did I just sleep through spring and wake up in summer????   But I digress...What I was going to say is, it seems like the perfect time to share a time line of the History of Ice Cream.

So grab an ice cream cone, sit back and enjoy...

The History of Ice Cream

1000 B.C. The Emperors of China enjoy snow ice cream.

62 A.D.   Roman Emperor Nero sends slaves to get snow for his

                ice cream.

  

1295      Marco Polo gives Italy a new snow ice cream.

1533      Catherine de Medici takes ice cream to France.

1600      Charles I takes a recipe for ice cream to England.

1700      Governor Bladen of Maryland, who was from England, 

                served ice cream at his home in the colonies.

1776      First ice cream palor in America opens in New York City.

1812      Dolly Madison served ice cream to White House Guests.

1843      Nancy Johnston invents the hand cranked ice cream freezer.

1903      Italo Marchinony invents the ice cream cone.

1904      Ernest Hamwi makes waffle cones at the St.Louis World Fair.

1919      Christian Kent Nelson invents the "I-Scream Bar". Mrs. Stover

               wife of Russell Stover the local chocolate producer suggested 

               the name "Eskimo Pie"

1922      The Good Humor Bar is invented. It was the first Ice Cream Bar 

               on a stick. It was originally known as

               "Good Humor Ice Cream Suckers"

1946      The first Baskin-Robbins ice cream store opens in California.

1983      Cookies 'N Cream is invented.

H is for Hampton...

    I have been told my entire life that I am a decindent of General Wade Hampton III. A General in the Civil War (can war actually be civil???).  So for H, I would like to introduce you to my Great-Great-Great (I don't how many) Grandfather.

Wade Hampton III 1818-1902

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   I am also proticipating in the A to Z blog challenge on my recipe Blog.
 Grandmom's Recipes, check it out.   

G is for Garden....

The battle lines have been drawn.

My Potatoes and Beans

The commanders take their places.

                                The Weed Demon and my Gardening Angel



The spies have infiltrated behind the enemy lines.

They get everywhere!!!!

The armies have arisen from their earthy graves.

Gold Potatoes

Pigweed

Let the war begin.

"The kiss of the sun for pardon,

The song of the birds for mirth,

One is nearer God's heart in a garden

Than anywhere else on earth."  

~Dorothy Frances Gurney~

F is for ??? ....

   Help I am frantic.

   My muses are missing in action. They are probably frolicking with friends. Leaving me to flounder in front of the computer.

   They are the ones that said we should flock together in fellowship (I sure don't talk that way) with the bloggers in the A to Z challenge... and then they were late on the letter E.

   Today for the letter F they are no where to be found. They are freaking me out. If you find them could you please forward their location to me. Better yet just Fax it.  I am so furious at their flight from their function in this partnership, I just might fire them.

   Who am I fooling, we all know I will forgive them when they finally fly back.  Besides the fables they will fabricate are the fiber that forms my posts.

“Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.”

 Amy Tan