Thursday, April 15, 2010

Good Morning! Thursday April 15, 2010

Good morning! It's a beautiful morning. Today will be right back up there, sunny and mid 70s. We didn't end up with much rain yesterday, so I'll have to get out there and water soon.
Last night I moved bookcases around, and settled on where they'll live now. I watched the results show (strange choices in entertainment!), and was not very surprised at the end. I'm still glad my favorites are there.
Tonight I guess I'll work on finishing moving things around so I can get my space cleaned up! :)
Again ... asking that you all pray for Mama please!

Today is "Tax Day" ... "Income Tax Pay Day" ... "National High Five Day" ... "National That Sucks Day" ... "Anniversary - Titanic Sinking".

Quotes of the Day:
"Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place."
-- Abigail Van Buren

"You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you."
-- Eric Hoffer

Today in history:
In 1755, Samuel Johnson published "A Dictionary of the English Language."

In 1817, the first U.S. public school for the deaf, Connecticut Asylum for the Education and Instruction of Deaf and Dumb Persons (now the American School for the Deaf), was founded at Hartford, Conn.

In 1924, first Rand McNally road atlas published.

In 1947, major league baseball's color line broken with debut of Jackie Robinson for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

In 1955, the first franchised McDonald's was opened in Des Plaines, Ill., by Ray Kroc, who got the idea from a hamburger restaurant in San Bernardino, Calif., run by the McDonald brothers.

In 1999, astronomers announced they had discovered evidence of a planetary system in the constellation Andromeda. At the time it was the only known such system other than the one around the sun.

Today's birthdays include
- Italian painter and inventor Leonardo da Vinci in 1452
- British polar explorer James Clark Ross in 1800
- Distiller Joseph E. Seagram in 1841
- Author Henry James in 1843
- Painter Thomas Hart Benton in 1889
- Singer Bessie Smith in 1894
- Actress Marian Jordan, who played Molly in the long-running Fibber McGee and Molly radio show, in 1897
- North Korean leader Kim Il-sung in 1912
- Businessman Alfred S. Bloomingdale in 1916
- Harold Washington, the first black mayor of Chicago, in 1922
- Country singer Roy Clark in 1933
- Actress Elizabeth Montgomery in 1933
- Actress Claudia Cardinale in 1938
- Actress Amy Wright in 1950
- Newspaper columnist Heloise Cruse Evans ( Hints from Heloise ) in 1951
- Actress Emma Thompson in 1959
- Actress Emma Watson in 1990

Everyone have a Great Thursday!

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