Good morning! It's a wonderful morning! It rained all night again!! Everything has been getting a good steady soaking (and not sudden torrential downpurs), and the yard and garden is greening up nicely. There are still a lot of things that need to be planted or transplanted, but hopefully by the end of the week we'll get that done. It would be great if we could get everything "settled" in place, and for the summer only have to water & weed. Today will be upper 70s, and maybe more rain; maybe even afternoon storms. So, today will not be planting - but it won't be watering either! LOL!
Last night I went by the grocery store on the way home. Sadly, I didn't get anything else done. By 9:00 (didn't even watch all of dancing) I was wrapped up in my quilt and going to sleep! :) Lots of tired catching up I guess. Hopefully tonight I will get another patch or two done on the floor; and some laundry. And, maybe, some sewing while watching the Top 3!! Two of my 3 favorites are still there. :)
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Today is "International Museum Day" ... "Shavuot (Jewish - begins at sundown)" ,,, "Visit Your Relatives Day".
Quotes of the Day:
"The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass."
-- Martin Mull
"Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot."
-- Clarence Thomas
A thought for the day
Lewis Mumford wrote, Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.
Today in history:
In 1652, Rhode Island legislators passed a measure making slavery illegal. It was the first such law in North America.
In 1860, the Republican Party nominated Abraham Lincoln for U.S. president at its convention in Chicago.
In 1896, U.S. Supreme Court handed down Plessy vs. Ferguson decision that determined "separate but equal" racial policies are constitutional.
In 1897, Bram Stoker published "Dracula."
In 1933, the U.S. Congress created the Tennessee Valley Authority for flood control and rural electrification.
In 1991, chemist Helen Sharman became the first Briton in space when she blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome aboard a Soviet spacecraft.
In 1992, 27th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution took effect.
In 2004 sports, Randy Johnson, Arizona's 40-year-old lefthander, pitched a perfect game in a 2-0 win over Atlanta. He was the oldest major league pitcher to accomplish that feat.
In 2009, the Hubble Space Telescope was returned to orbit after astronauts finished their fifth spacewalk in a mission to repair and refurbish the 19-year-old instrument and possibly keep it running at least until 2014.
Today's birthdays include:
- Persian poet Omar Khayyam in 1048
- Russian Tsar Nicholas II in 1868
- English philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell in 1872
- German architect Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus, in 1883
- Operatic singer Ezio Pinza in 1892
- Film director Frank Capra (It Happened One Night, It's a Wonderful Life) in 1897
- American composer Meredith Willson (The Music Man) in 1902
- Blues singer Big Joe Turner in 1911
- Singer Perry Como in 1912
- Director/screenwriter Richard Brooks (Key Largo, Elmer Gantry) in 1912
- Ballet star Margot Fonteyn in 1919
- Pope John Paul II, born Karol Wojtyla, in 1920
- Actor Pernell Roberts in 1928
- Actor Robert Morse in 1931
- Mad magazine cartoonist Don Martin in 1931
- Baseball Hall of Fame member Brooks Robinson in 1937
- Baseball Hall of Fame member Reggie Jackson in 1946
- Rock keyboardist Rick Wakeman in 1949
- Country singer George Strait in 1952
- Actor Chow Yun-Fat in 1955
- Actress Tina Fey in 1970
Everyone have a Great Tuesday!
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