9/11 Tribute, Pistachio is the Fall Color, Best Steak Fajita Marinade Recipe, Trivia
Wednesday Greetings –
Great presentation to offer today on this September 11, 2024.
BEGINNING WITH
LESLIE ELMAN’S TRIVIA AND FASCINATING FACTS
Leslie is a master of intrigue and who-would’ve-thought information. I love it!
QUICK QUESTION
Do I believe in heroic deeds?
Indeed I do.
Whether by heroic small acts of kindness or heroic life changing events – animals, elderly, neighbors, strangers at the grocery store. So many opportunities for us to be a hero some how – some way.
You?
REMEMBERING SEPTEMBER 11, 2001
23 years ago today. Bet you can remember exactly where you were that Tuesday morning. I do.
We were working at Love Field on a Southwest Airlines commercial. It was surreal. Still surreal thinking about it today 23 years later.
Where were you?
Please share your memory in comments – we all have our story to tell.
AND the video/song **CLICK** is a please don’t pass it up watch/listen.
You may have seen it before – but absolutely worthy of another watch on this “anniversary” day.
A tribute to the brave people who experienced it and to those of us who did whatever we could from outside of New York – via donations and prayers.
And Michael W. Smith’s music backing up the images is goose bump stuff.
STEAK FAJITA MARINADE RECIPE
Might just become your forever go-to when you fire up the grill to prepare fajitas.
Sure is mine!
Love this recipe.
TRACY BECKERMAN’S COLUMN
On Pistachio being the fall fashion trend color is once-again a slice-of-life hoot!
HOORAY!
STACY’S WORLD
Is back this Friday. I’ve got the inside scoop and it’s a don’t wanna miss read!
THANKS ALL FOR POPPING IN TODAY
Sharing and Caring.
We feel the love and we love ya back.
Ready?
Set.
Go.
Enjoy.
POP QUIZ
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- IN ONE OF FILMDOM’S FAMOUS PHONE SCENES, WHO SPEAKS THIS LINE, “I DON’T HAVE MONEY. BUT WHAT I DO HAVE ARE A VERY PARTICULAR SET OF SKILLS — SKILLS I HAVE ACQUIRED OVER A VERY LONG CAREER, SKILLS THAT MAKE ME A NIGHTMARE FOR PEOPLE LIKE YOU.”
a) Humphrey Bogart in “The Maltese Falcon”
b) Harrison Ford in “Patriot Games”
c) Mel Gibson in “Ransom”
d) Liam Neeson in “Taken” - IN THE FIELD OF CHAOS THEORY, EDWARD LORENZ USED WHAT SEEMINGLY INSIGNIFICANT EVENT TO ILLUSTRATE THAT INFINITESIMAL CHANGES IN A SYSTEM CAN HAVE MONUMENTAL CONSEQUENCES?
a) A butterfly flapping its wings
b) A raindrop rolling down a windowpane
c) A snake shedding its skin
d) A turtle blinking its eye - WHICH BREED OF DOG TRADITIONALLY ACCOMPANIED HORSE-DRAWN FIRE WAGONS?
a) Corgi
b) Dalmatian
c) Gordon Setter
d) Portuguese Water Dog
- IN ONE OF FILMDOM’S FAMOUS PHONE SCENES, WHO SPEAKS THIS LINE, “I DON’T HAVE MONEY. BUT WHAT I DO HAVE ARE A VERY PARTICULAR SET OF SKILLS — SKILLS I HAVE ACQUIRED OVER A VERY LONG CAREER, SKILLS THAT MAKE ME A NIGHTMARE FOR PEOPLE LIKE YOU.”
QUICK QUESTION
DO YOU BELIEVE
IN HEROIC DEEDS?
POP QUIZ ANSWERS
- In the famous phone scene from “Taken,” Liam Neeson says: “I don’t have money. But what do have are a very particular set of skills — skills that make me a nightmare for people like you.”
- In the field of chaos theory, the “butterfly effect” described by Edward Lorenz illustrates the idea that infinitesimal changes in a system can have monumental consequences.
- Dalmatians are “fire dogs” that traditionally accompanied horse-drawn fire wagons.
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SEPTEMBER 11, 2001
“The September 11 attacks (also referred to as 9/11) were a series of coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group Al-Qaedo against the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001. The attacks killed 2,997 people, injured over 6,000 others and caused at least $10 billion in infrastructure and property damage.
… 9/11 is the single deadliest incident of firefighters and law enforcement officers in the history of the United States, who braved the wreckage to try and save those trapped inside.” wikipedia
There were few things that were not memorable about that day, but here are a selection of quotations that we found particularly unforgettable:
- ” Something is wrong. We are in a rapid descent. We are all over the place. I see water, I see buildings. We are flying low. We are flying very, very low. Oh, my God, we are way too low. Oh, my God …”
~ Madeline Amy Sweeney, flight attendant on American Airlines Flight 11 at the end of the phone call to her supervisor - ” I could make out the seams on the wings and all the American Airlines markings. I looked right into the cockpit but couldn’t make out the figures. Maybe, I eyeballed Mohamed Atta, the hijack pilot, but I can’t be sure.”
~ Fred Eichler, World Trade Center attack survivor - ” I still have the shoes I wore to work that day. The soles are melted and they’re caked in ash. I keep them in a shoebox with the word ‘Deliverance’ written all around it. They’re kind of like my Ark, reminder of God’s presence and the life I owe to him.”
~ Stanley Pramnoth, 9/11 survivor - “On that terrible day, a nation became a neighborhood, all Americans became New Yorkers.”
~ George Pataki, former Governor of New York
- “The attacks of September 11th were intended to break our spirit. Instead, we have emerged stronger and more unified.”
~ Mayor Rudy Giuliani, 12/31/2001 - “When Americans lend a hand to one another, nothing is impossible. We’re not about what happened on 9/11. We’re about what happened on 9/12.”
~ Jeff Parness, Founder of – New York says Thank You - “September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent of their courage.”
~ Geraldine Brooks - “Numerous civilians in all the stairwells, numerous burn victims all coming down. We’re trying to send them down first. We’re still heading up.”
~ Cpt. Patrick Brown and his company climbed to the 35th floor of the North Tower thirty minutes before the first collapse - “You ready? Okay, Let’s Roll!”
~ Todd Beamer, heard via his abandoned cell phone. Todd was one of the heroic passenger of United Airlines Flight 93 who tried to reclaim the aircraft from the hijackers. Ultimately, altering the course of the intended target of the terrorists~ credits: Wikipedia, Business Insider, Metro.co.uk, Guideposts
And the following compilation pretty much sums up that day to me in a moving short video/song:
WE WILL NEVER FORGET!
(( ** Click to Watch – There She Stands ** ))
TOO MUCH AGREEMENT
KILLS A CHAT.
~ ELDRIDGE CLEAVER ~
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED:
DON’T AGREE WHEN YOU DON’T
RIDDLE ME THIS
I HAVE A NECK, BUT NO HEAD.
I HAVE TWO ARMS BUT NO HANDS.
WHAT AM I?
BEST GRILLED STEAK FAJITAS + SIZZLING FAJITA VEGGIES
This recipe (modestly adapted from Chevy’s famous Fresh-Mex restaurants) is fan-tas-tic! It’s all about the Agua Negra Marinade, baby!
And proper grilling. Marinade is equally delicious with chicken.
While Steaks are grilling, make the sizzling veggies.
HERE’S HOW WE MAKE IT:
2 pounds skirt steak
Agua Negra Marinade (recipe follows)
PLACE THE MEAT
In a resealable container or zip bag. Pour the marinade over the meat and move the meat around to make sure it’s evenly covered. Marinate in the refrigerator for 6-8 hours or over night.
GRILL THE STEAK
Start the coals in a charcoal grill or preheat a gas grill to medium high grilling temperature.
Place the marinated steak on the grill and leave undisturbed for about 3-4 minutes.
Turn beef to the other side.
Grill an additional 2-3 minutes.
TRANSFER MEAT TO A CUTTING BOARD
Slice thin
SERVE
Wrapped in pan heated flour tortilla shells (think taco size – not burrito size)
Sizzling Veggies
Guacamole
Pico de Gallo
Beans and Rice as Side Kicks
AGUA NEGRA MARINADE
1 cup soy sauce
2 cups pineapple juice
2 TBSP ground cumin
2 tsp minced garlic
1/4 cup freshly squeezed lime juice
In a medium size mixing bowl, whisk ingredients together thoroughly. Marinate the steaks as instructed above.
SIZZLING FAJITA VEGGIES
4 TBSP Olive oil
2 cups thinly sliced yellow onion
1 TBSP favorite taco seasoning
1 cup thinly sliced red bell pepper
1 cup thinly sliced green bell pepper
Heat a saute pan over high heat. Add olive oil and heat until it smokes.
Immediately add the onions and taco seasoning.
Saute, stirring a lot for about 4 minutes until onions and kinda soft.
Add the peppers and saute an additional 3 minutes.
Remove from heat and serve with fajita steak meat wrapped up in a shell.
RIDDLE ANSWER
A SHIRT
LOST IN SUBURBIA
SOMETIMES YOU FEEL LIKE A NUT
BY TRACY BECKERMAN
Every year around this time, I get inundated with emails telling me about the latest fall trends and what I should buy and what I should toss. Having been down this wardrobe rabbit hole before, I didn’t want to make a fall fashion faux pas, such as I did last year, when one trendsetting site told me the “it” shoe was a pointed witch boot that was so tight it nearly made my pinky toes fall off.
So this year I cross-referenced all the fashion sources to see what everyone agreed on.
And the consensus was … pistachio.
The big fall color was pistachio.
As the photos of pretty clothes in hideous shades of pistachio swam before my eyes, I wondered, who decides these things and, for goodness’ sake, why pistachio? Pistachio is not even a good color for a nut, much less a woman over 50 with a fading summer tan.
Generally, I tend not to do well with clothing colors that are named for foods. I don’t look good in eggplant or cantaloupe or mustard, so I didn’t hold much hope for pistachio. And really, calling a color “pistachio” doesn’t distract from the fact that it is basically just ugly green. It falls somewhere on the color wheel between hospital-room green and algae, neither of which is a particularly good color for anyone. When your clothes give you the pallor of a dead person, you know it’s time to move on.
I was duly forewarned when I hit the stores, and even though I was expecting it, the sight of all that pistachio-ness was still a shock. There were pistachio pants and pistachio coats and even little pistachio berets for the woman who wants panache with her pistachio.
A woman with pistachio-painted fingernails breezed by on her way to the racks of pistachio-colored palazoo pants in plaid. It was all just a little bit excessive for me and I long for the days of mustard and cantaloupe.
All around me, trendy women were scooping up the pistachio-colored clothing as though there was about to be a shortage of pistachios and they might be forced to settle for clothes in avocado instead. As I watched in awe, I decided it couldn’t hurt to try one pistachio-colored coat just to see how awful it would actually look on me. I didn’t want to be one of those women who judged a trend without trying it, even if it did make me look like I’d just had food poisoning.
But as I reached for my size, another woman in a pistachio-induced shopping frenzy reached past me and whisked the coat off the rack and into her basket.
“Excuse me,” I said. “I was just about to try that on.”
“Just take another one,” she said dismissively.
“That was the last one in my size,” I replied.
“Forget it,” she said. “I’m doing you a favor … This color would look terrible on you.”
~ Tracy Beckerman is the author of the Amazon Bestseller, “Barking at the Moon: A Story of Life, Love, and Kibble.”
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Fascinating Stuff
- Though it was intended for both men and women, from its earliest days, Vogue magazine’s readership skewed heavily toward women interested in fashion. Dressmaker Rosa Payne saw that as a marketing opportunity. In 1905, she persuaded the magazine’s publisher to off her own hand-cut dressmaking patterns for sale to readers. Her instinct was right on target. Readers were happy to pay an additional 50 cents above the magazine’s 10-cent cover price for one of Payne’s patterns.
- The first 911 call in U.S. history was made in Haleyville, Alabama, on Feb. 16, 1968. Alabama Speaker of the House Rankin Fite called U.S. Rep. Tom Bevill to test the system, and that rotary-dialed call (from a red phone, no less) set in motion a nationwide emergency calling system that now handles some 240 million calls a year.
- An American Viticultural Area, or AVA, is a federally designated winegrowing region administered by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau. The first place to earn that distinction was the area surrounding Augusta, Missouri, which received its AVA designation on June 20, 1980. Second was California’s Napa Valley, named an AVA in January 1981.
- Published in 1604, Robert Cawdrey’s “Table Aphabeticall” was the first dictionary of the English language. Its 3,000 or so entries concentrated on words that Cawdrey determined to be difficult for uneducated people (women in particular) to comprehend. His simple definitions could be quite charming. Hospitality is defined as “good entertainment for friends and strangers.” Chaos is “a confused heap or mingle mangle.” And a labyrinth is “a place so full of windings and turnings, that a man cannot find the way out.”
- After a fire ravaged Philadelphia in 1730, Benjamin Franklin enlisted volunteers for an organized fire brigade. His Union Fire Company, incorporated in 1736, provided a vital municipal service for a city of densely packed wooden buildings. In 1752, Franklin founded the Philadelphia Contributionship for the Insurance of Houses from Loss by Fire. Today, the Philadelphia Contributionship is the oldest continuously operating property insurance in the United States.
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September 11, 2001. Oh yes I easily recall where I was when hearing the news that the twin towers were hit. . Here’s something you may have forgotten. President Bush shut down all air space over our nation with the exception of one plane. Who was on that plane? Billy Graham. “We needed to help our nation to recover so I requested Billy Graham to come to capitol for Prayer.” So Daymaker readers, I encourage you to honor this day with a bit of history. Utube BILLY GRAHAM; AN EXTRA ORDINARY JOURNEY.” Once you pull it up, you can simply fast forward to the “15 minute mark” and there you will find history as well as his prayer over our nation. I plan on watching it once again later today. Thanks Daymaker for bringing this day to our attention.
Marty, thanks for the reminder. A most interesting time in our history.
Sept. 11, 2001 I was working in an office building in Preston Center in Dallas. My boss was in California and one of my co-workers was attending a seminar in the east. My mother called shortly after 9:00 and told me about the first attack. We turned on the television and remained glued to it for the rest of the workday. It was – surely – a bad dream. A bad dream that kept getting worse. My boss ended up renting a car to drive home from Cali. My co-worker was able to get to a relative’s for a few days, then booked multiple flights on Southwest Airlines and flew from place to place before finally arriving home. The events of that day just seem to get more horrible with the memories they provoke. Lives lost. Families disrupted. Damage, destruction. On the plus side – heroic actions by “ordinary” citizens as well as by first responders. A coming together of the nation. We must never forget.
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Great read! September 11, 2001 A day we will never ever forget.