Monday, April 5, 2010

Good Morning! Monday April 5, 2010

Good morning! It's a beautiful morning. It's clear and sunny, and will go to the upper 80s today ... wow! Where did spring go? LOL! I think it might be back by the end of the week. Meantime, bright hot sunny days means watering!! I still have trees to plant, hopefully I can find time for that soon.
We got home late yesterday afternoon after a wonderful Easter with son, dil, and grands. We went to church with them, watched the kids have an egg hunt in the yard, and had a lovely dinner before we had to head home.
Tonight is class night, and hopefully finishing up some laundry. Tomorrow I should get home with enough daylight to try to plant a tree! :)

Today is "Easter Monday" ... "National Deep Dish Pizza Day" ... "Smigus Dyngus/Dyngus Day/Wet Monday" ... "White House Easter Egg Roll" ... "Family Day (South Africa)" ... "National Tomb-Sweeping Day/Qing Ming Festival (China)" ... "National Tomb-Sweeping Day (Taiwan)".

Quotes of the Day:
"The best way to compile inaccurate information that no one wants is to make it up."
-- Scott Adams

"I base my fashion taste on what doesn't itch."
-- Gilda Radner

Today in history:
In 1614, Pocahontas, daughter of a chief, married English tobacco planter John Rolfe in Jamestown, Va., a marriage that ensured peace between the settlers and the Powhatan Indians for several years.

In 1768, the first U.S. Chamber of Commerce was founded in New York City.

Today's birthdays include
- English philosopher Thomas Hobbes in 1588
- Elihu Yale, namesake of Yale University, in 1649
- Benjamin Harrison, signer of the Declaration of Independence and father of U.S. President William Henry Harrison, in 1726
- English physician Joseph Lister, who introduced antiseptic surgery, in 1827
- Educator Booker T. Washington in 1856
- Actor Spencer Tracy in 1900
- Actor Melvyn Douglas in 1901
- Actress Bette Davis in 1908
- Actor Gregory Peck in 1916
- Novelist Arthur Hailey in 1920
- Singer Gale Storm in 1922
- Filmmaker Roger Corman in 1926
- Impressionist Frank Gorshin in 1933
- Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin L. Powell in 1937
- Actor Michael Moriarty in 1941
- Actor Max Gail in 1943
- Actress Jane Asher in 1946
- Astronaut Judith Resnik in 1949
- Actor Mitch Pileggi in 1952

Everyone have a Great Monday!

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