Good morning! It's a wonderful morning. The forecast for today is mid 40s, mostly cloudy ... at the moment, it's clear and bright, at least in my back yard! LOL! The house doesn't feel so chilly; but of course, the wind has calmed a lot and that helps.
Yesterday was a surprisingly productive day, considering I dawdled and got a late start. :) My niece and I went into town, took a brief cruise around a second hand store, and then got groceries. We got the groceries all put away, took a break, and then got the Christmas stuff cleared off the high shelves in the kitchen. I sorted through the boxes I had packed up before Christmas, and decided not to bother putting all of it back. At the moment my shelves look a bit sparse - but since I'm an incurable collector, I'm sure that will be taken care of sooner or later! LOL! I haven't taken the boxes upstairs yet, because I want to take another look around, try to see if I've missed anything (which I usually do!). They'll go up today. Next weekend - winter will turn to spring. Well, at least inside my house it will! :)
Today is "Floral Design Day" ... "International Sword Swallowers Awareness Day" ... "National Tooth Fairy Day" ... "Perigean Spring Tides" ... "Purim (Jewish)" ... "St. Oswald of Worcester Feast Day" ... "Snow Moon" ... "Lantern Festival (China)".
Quotes of the Day:
"Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway."
-- John Wayne
"The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation."
-- Benjamin Disraeli
Today in history:
In 1784, the Methodist Church was chartered by John Wesley.
In 1827, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was chartered.
In 1849, the first shipload of gold seekers arrived in San Francisco after a five-month journey from New York.
In 1885, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company was incorporated in New York as a subsidiary of American Bell Telephone.
In 1935, nylon was invented by DuPont researcher Wallace Carothers.
In 1982, the J. Paul Getty Museum became the most richly endowed museum on Earth when it received a $1.2 billion bequest left by Getty.
In 1983, the concluding episode of the long-running television series "M*A*S*H" drew what was then the largest TV audience in U.S. history.
Today's birthdays include:
- French essayist Michel de Montaigne in 1533
- American journalist and screenwriter Ben Hecht in 1894
- Chemist and physicist Linus Pauling, twice winner of the Nobel Prize, in 1901
- Movie director Vincente Minnelli in 1903
- Cartoonist Milton Caniff in 1907
- Actress Billie Bird in 1908
- Actor Zero Mostel in 1915
- Actor Charles Durning in 1923
- Svetlana Alliluyeva, daughter of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, in 1926
- College basketball coach Dean Smith in 1931
- Actor Gavin MacLeod in 1931
- Dancer Tommy Tune in 1939
- Former race car driver Mario Andretti in 1940
- Actress Bernadette Peters in 1948
- Actress Mercedes Ruehl in 1948
- Actor John Turturro in 1957
- Actress Rae Dawn Chong in 1961
- Actor Robert Sean Leonard in 1969
- Hockey player Eric Lindros in 1973
Everyone have a Great Sunday!
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