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1958: LEGO company representative file for patient.

1936: US base full hall of fame, in Cooperstown N.Y., elects first members.

21/22: in 1976 the first Concordes fly with commercial passengers. The planes broke the sound barrier with passengers.

25 th: 1919: first commission starred at the League of Nations

27th: 1951: first atomic detonation at the Nevada test site. code named Manhattan project!

2021: first woman and black and Asian American to be Vice President of USA.

18 th: President Thomas Jefferson seeks funds for Lewis and Clark expediation to venture westward to the Pacific ocean.

19th: my bride’s birthday.

14/15 Diana Ross performs her last concert with the supremes.

January7/8: 1955: Marian Anderson, first African American to sing at the metropolitan opera in New York.

January 7/8 : 1642 astronomer Galileo passes. Called the father of modern astronomy . He confirmed the earth circles the sun.

January 9: apple unveils the iPhone in 2007.

January 10: 1922 Arthur Griffith was elected President off the Irish free state.

1919 former President Theodore Roosevelt passes.

He was also a writer, naturalist, soldier.

The teddy bear was named after President teddy Roosevelt refused to shoot a bear cub.

In 1870 work started in the Brooklyn bridge.

The civil engineer was Washington Roebling.

Took about 13 years to complete building the bridge?

The Chef

The first week living together, after the marriage ceremony , the job responsibilities were ;my bride cleaned the house( or apartment) except for the bathroom(s) which were my cleaning domain.

I made breakfast. Carole always cooked dinner and we shared cooking lunch during the weekends and vacation days.

I always, happily ,washed pots and pans after all meals!

On special occasions I made the dinner lasagna. I took care of cooking the turkey, on others!

Never once was she interested in grilling anything; that was my domain, which I wasn’t thrilled about. I never mastered grilling, especially steak and chicken!

I should have noticed one of Carole’s weaknesses after the three wedding showers she had. Only one offered practical gifts like cook books( she loved all three of them) , a rolling pin, cookware, storage containers and anything else of use in the kitchen.

God love her but my aunt Marie, on my mom’s side of the family,  figured out that Carole didn’t know how to cook. While Cooking Certain meals, later in our marriage,  Carole noted that her mom wouldn’t let near the stove because She was left handed. 

My aunt had one of her three daughters( Helen) host the final shower.

Carole loved Italian American food. We had that twice a  week; order pizza on Friday and cook pasta on Monday or Tuesday night. Ragu sause had to be warmed up and pasta was different every week. Once in a while she made meatballs, but so did I. She had a recipe for the meatballs.

There came a time when I lost my job.

My bride in her own way offered me the house cleaning or the cooking job. I took the cooking one. Why the cooking job? I knew everything she liked to eat and I fealt I could easily cook what I liked  for the same meal.

Since that fateful day, Carole never cooked another thing, except to heat water for her Lipton tea! That stopped when her dementia became more obvious to her.

With all the signs she exuded during her cooking career, I am convinced she disliked cooking.

However I know she did like to bake apple pie and make cookies using her cookie shooter. She went thru two of them. Any pans or cooking tools she bought or recommended were for me?

I rarely served string beans!