Orange and Yellow Dahlia

Another entry for my Dahlia "Art Gallery".  Our flowers are really putting on a lovely last ditch effort before the cold weather sets in.  The dahlia's look great and the roses are enjoying the cooler, sunny weather.  

My aunt told me a new recipe for pork chops.  I hope you read this...it's hilarious.  This recipe resulted because of a busy day for her.  She got a NEW REFRIGERATOR!  She takes such good care of things, that management sometimes forgets that she needs updated appliances.  Her fridge was about 35 years old!  It was just not doing it's job anymore so she asked and they okayed that quickly.  She's thrilled.  She had people in and out with one thing and another, so she was sort of distracted but this is how you fix her new dish: (And she said, You aren't going to put this on the Internet are you?  I said, Yeah, I think I will!)  And this is exactly how she told me her new recipe:

Take two pork chops and put them in a pan and add seasonings of your choice.  Fry up the chops to brown them on both sides, then cover them with  golden cream of mushroom soup and then put the pan in the oven and put the oven on Broil and let it cook for 45 minutes.  Then turn the oven to bake and finish cooking for 20 minutes.  


We laughed and laughed.  She said it's a wonder her stove didn't blow up.

Then Bill went to the bank to take out some cash from the cash machine.  The sunlight was a hindrance to his transaction.  He was supposed to get $80.  He came back to the car and said, "I have to go into the bank."  I said, "Why?"  Bill:  Well, apparently I took out $800.00 instead of $80.     Uh oh.   He got it fixed and when he got in the car and told me about it, he said that it started to spit out all this money!  We were surprised it let us do that, since there was not $800.00 in that account!  Well, all is well now.   Freaky Friday, I think.

Then we went and picked up the little Baby Ben clock for my aunt, all cleaned and a new main spring installed.  

I went outside to pick tomatoes and, I tell you, the darn things keep coming.  It will rain sometime this weekend, so wanted to get them off of the vines.  Now I smell very tomatoey.  

And that's the way it is, October 23, 2015.  (A nod to Walter Cronkite)

 Throughout his career as a television anchorman, Walter Cronkite had a few memorable run-ins with other powerful figures at CBS News, one of his producers told CNN.
Walter Cronkite occasionally butted heads with executives at CBS News, his former producer says.

more photos »



Sanford "Sandy" Socolow, who worked at CBS News for 32 years, more than four of them as Cronkite's producer, said Cronkite ran into trouble soon after he took over for Douglas Edwards in the "CBS Evening News" anchor chair.

"The first night up, he ended the show by saying, I'm paraphrasing, 'That's the news. Be sure to check your local newspapers tomorrow to get all the details on the headlines we are delivering to you.'"

That didn't fly.

"The suits -- as we used to call them -- went crazy," Socolow told CNN, referring to CBS executives. "From their perspective, Cronkite was sending people to read newspapers instead of watching the news. There was a storm." 

CBS News President Richard Salant met with Cronkite, who initially resisted, then agreed to change his sign-off, Socolow said.  "In the absence of anything else, he came up with 'That's the way it is.'" 
But that too ruffled feathers, Socolow said. 

"Salant's attitude was, 'We're not telling them that's the way it is. We can't do that in 15 minutes,' which was the length of the show in those days. 'That's not the way it is.'" Cronkite persisted and that's the way it was from then on.