Good Morning! Thursday May 6, 2010

Good morning! It's a beautiful morning. It's starting out cloudy, and just a hint of fog; but that will probably all quickly burn off. It's going to the low 90s today ... much too hot for early May! What a strange year this is turning out to be. And, while some people have been getting rain every day, at my house not a drop. Watering time!!
I made a lot of progress on my decluttering last night. While there is still a lot to go, I'm actually seeing a few bare spots on a table that was covered! :) My goal for tonight is to copletely empty the card table and put it away.
I was amazed at the AI result show, not at all what I expected. My original 3 favorites are all still hanging in there! Tonight, I wonder if there are new shows or reruns .. that might determine how much cleaning I get done! LOL!

Today is "Joseph Brackett Day" ... "National Nurses Day" ... "National Day of Prayer" ... "National Day of Reason" ... "No Diet Day" ... "No Homework Day".

Quotes of the Day:
"The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people."
-- Lucille S. Harper

"Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better."
-- King Whitney Jr.

Today in history:
In 1889, the Eiffel Tower was officialy opened to the public.

In 1915, Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox hit his first major league home run in a game against the New York Yankees in New York.

In 1940, "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

In 1954, 25-year-old British medical student Roger Bannister cracked track and field's most famous barrier, the 4-minute mile, during a meet at Oxford, England. His time: 3 minutes, 59.4 seconds.

In 1994, the Channel Tunnel, a railway under the English Channel connecting Britain and France, was officially opened.

In 2006, unbeaten Barbaro won the 2006 Kentucky Derby by 6 1/2 lengths.

Today's birthdays include
- French revolutionary Maximilien Robespierre in 1758
- Austrian psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud in 1856
- Arctic explorer Robert Peary in 1856
- French writer Gaston Leroux in 1868
- Silent screen star Rudolph Valentino in 1895
- Restaurateur Toots Shor in 1903
- Actor Stewart Granger in 1913
- Actor-director-writer Orson Welles in 1915
- Author Theodore White in 1915
- Baseball legend Willie Mays in 1931
- Rock musician Bob Seger in 1945
- Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair in 1953
- TV host Tom Bergeron (Dancing with the Stars) in 1955
- Musician John Flansburgh in 1960
- NHL record-holding goaltender Martin Brodeur in 1972
- Actress Roma Downey in 1960
- Actor George Clooney in 1961

Everyone have a Great Thursday!