Home on the Range

Betty and Molly are off taking a walk in the Bosque while I write this.

It's been a day of rest for the two of them after their adventure with the birds yesterday which included a very early morning.

But, the one thing we did today was to have lunch at The Range in Bernalillo. It may be my favorite restaurant. It has an eclectic menu and the food is excellent.

We started off our meal with their Green Chile Strips for an appetizer. They are green chiles deep fried with a light batter and they are delicious.

Betty had a taco salad and Molly had a spinach enchilada. Yours truly had a salad with two crab cakes. I love crab cakes and there are only two places I can find good ones - The Range and Indigo Crow in Corrales.

It's been a good day and if everything works out we'll end the day with a dip in the hot tub tonight to soak and watch the stars.


Today is February 21 and if today is your Birthday then you share your day with: Ellen Page (actress, "Juno"), Charlotte Church (singer, Welsh soprano), Jennifer Love Hewitt (actress, "The Whisperer"), Kelsey Grammer (actor, "Frazier"), Tyne Daley (actress, "Cagney & Lacey"), Alan Rickman (actor, villain in "Harry Potter"), Barbara Jordan (the first black congresswoman from the deep South), Rue McLanahan (actress, "The Golden Girls"), Erma Bombeck (humor writer), Sam Peckinpah (director, "The Wild Bunch"), and Andres Segovia (Spanish guitarist).

On this day in 1828 the first issue of the Cherokee Phoenix is printed, both in English and in the newly invented Cherokee alphabet. In 1838 the first burglar alarm is installed in the United States. It is installed in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1842 John J. Greenough of Washington, DC. patented the sewing machine. In 1866 Lucy B. Hobbs became the first woman to graduate from a dental school, the Ohio College of Dental Surgery in Cincinnati. In 1885 the Washington Monument was dedicated. In 1918 the last known green and yellow Carolina parakeet dies. In 1931 Alka Seltzer is introduced. Oh, what a relief it is! In 1947 Edwin H. Land publicly demonstrated his Polaroid Land camera, which could produce a black-and-white photograph in 60 seconds. And in 1972 President Nixon began his historic visit to China. The first American president to visit China and the first president to visit a country not oficially recognized by the United States.