Last night Susanne fixed me a banging dinner that I can't seem to get out of my head. Thought I would relive the mouth wateriness and put the recipe up for others to enjoy.

Creamy Ranch Chicken with Penne

6 slices bacon

4 skinless boneless chicken breast-cut into bite sized pieces

2 tbsp all purpose flour

2 tbsp dried ranch dressing

1 1/4 cup milk

3 cups dried medium noodles

1  tbsp finely shredded parmisan

Cut bacon into strips. Cook until crisp, drain. Keep 2 tbsp drippings to cook chicken. Brown chicken in bacon drippings. Sprinkle with flour & ranch dressing, stir well. Stir in milk. Cook until thick and bubbly. Stir in bacon. Meanwhile cook noodles. Spoon chicken over cooked pasta and serve.

Advise Needed

Lately where I live there has been has been an increase of teenage trouble. Since school has gotten out the teenagers are hanging around the playground and parking lots more. Not usually a problem except some of them have been hanging with a guy named "Gouche" and picking up his bad habits. On three consecutive days two of the teens including Gouche have set fires with a couple middle school age students as on lookers. I know most of them are good kids, but until recently the teenagers have had a basketball court to go play on and it has kept them entertained. From what I have gathered the lady that lives next to the courts has complained that the ball was hitting her house and the owners of the court have shut it down to shut her up. The playground on site is off limits to the teenage crowd to play on because of their shear size, they are just way to big for the equiptment. Now in my opinion this is just not fair to the older kids, because now they just have no where to play and most aren't old enough to go to the pool with out a gaurdian, and all of their guardians have to either work or it could just mean they don't care what their kids do as long as they do it outside. I give the kids props for the fact they aren't sitting in the house in front of a gaming console all summer. I am seriously contimplating talking to the apartment complex manager about putting up a basketball goal somewhere near the playgrounds so the teenagers can be watched. My only problem is if I really should go to bat for these kids. When they hang around the playground they have a serious potty mouth and the preteens that are hanging around them are learning their bad habits. I'm not far off from their ages and still remember what it was like to be that age. Only difference is now I know that the younger generation always looked up to the older generation and I'm not sure I can get the guys to understand this. I could really use some advise. These kids are at that stage they can change and given the right guidence they can and will choose the right path to follow.

This Day In History

New Hampshire becomes the ninth and last necessary state to ratify the Constitution of the United States, thereby making the document the law of the land.
By 1786, defects in the post-Revolutionary War Articles of Confederation were apparent, such as the lack of central authority over foreign and domestic commerce. Congress endorsed a plan to draft a new constitution, and on May 25, 1787, the Constitutional Convention convened at Independence Hall in Philadelphia. On September 17, 1787, after three months of debate moderated by convention president George Washington, the new U.S. constitution, which created a strong federal government with an intricate system of checks and balances, was signed by 38 of the 41 delegates present at the conclusion of the convention. As dictated by Article VII, the document would not become binding until it was ratified by nine of the 13 states.
Beginning on December 7, five states--Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, and Connecticut--ratified it in quick succession. However, other states, especially Massachusetts, opposed the document, as it failed to reserve undelegated powers to the states and lacked constitutional protection of basic political rights, such as freedom of speech, religion, and the press. In February 1788, a compromise was reached under which Massachusetts and other states would agree to ratify the document with the assurance that amendments would be immediately proposed. The Constitution was thus narrowly ratified in Massachusetts, followed by Maryland and South Carolina. On June 21, 1788, New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify the document, and it was subsequently agreed that government under the U.S. Constitution would begin on March 4, 1789. In June, Virginia ratified the Constitution, followed by New York in July.
On September 25, 1789, the first Congress of the United States adopted 12 amendments to the U.S. Constitution--the Bill of Rights--and sent them to the states for ratification. Ten of these amendments were ratified in 1791. In November 1789, North Carolina became the 12th state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. Rhode Island, which opposed federal control of currency and was critical of compromise on the issue of slavery, resisted ratifying the Constitution until the U.S. government threatened to sever commercial relations with the state. On May 29, 1790, Rhode Island voted by two votes to ratify the document, and the last of the original 13 colonies joined the United States. Today the U.S. Constitution is the oldest written constitution in operation in the world

This Day In History

On this day in 1913, Hudson Stuck, an Alaskan missionary, leads the first successful ascent of Mt. McKinley, the highest point on the American continent at 20,320 feet.
Stuck, an accomplished amateur mountaineer, was born in London in 1863. After moving to the United States, in 1905 he became archdeacon of the Episcopal Church in Yukon, Alaska, where he was an admirer of Native Indian culture and traveled Alaska's difficult terrain to preach to villagers and establish schools.
In March 1913, the adventure-seeking Stuck set out from Fairbanks for Mt. McKinley with three companions, Harry Karstens, co-leader of the expedition, Walter Harper, whose mother was a Native Indian, and Robert Tatum, a theology student. Their arduous journey was made more challenging by difficult weather and a fire at one of their camps, which destroyed food and supplies. However, the group persevered and on June 7, Harper, followed by the rest of the party, was the first person to set foot on McKinley's south peak, considered the mountain's true summit. (In 1910, a group of climbers had reached the lower north peak.)
Stuck referred to the mountain by its Athabascan Indian name, Denali, meaning "The High One." In 1889, the mountain, over half of which is covered with permanent snowfields, was dubbed Densmores Peak, after a prospector named Frank Densmore. In 1896, it was renamed in honor of Senator William McKinley, who became president that year.
Mount McKinley National Park was established as a wildlife refuge in 1917. Harry Karstens served as the park's first superintendent. In 1980, the park was expanded and renamed Denali National Park and Preserve. Encompassing 6 million acres, the park is larger than Massachusetts.
Hudson Stuck died in Alaska on October 10, 1920. Today, over 1,000 hopeful climbers attempt to scale Mt. McKinley each year, with about half of them successfully reaching their goal.