Good morning! It's a wonderful morning. It's overcast, and there's a good chance of showers and storms. I am really hoping for some reain! It will still be hot, lower 90s ... we're on our way to being the hottest summer on record. Oh goody. LOL!
Last night the electrician didn't come, again. I spent a lot of time working out some lists and schedules. Oh, if only I were as good at following through as I am at making them! I wonder if I could get paid to just make up lists and schedules? LOL!!!
Today - providing I don't spend too much time here playing - I hope to get a lot of things checked off my long list. I've gone from no future plans to potentially 4 or 5 busy weekends ... and still haven't heard from one niece whom I was hoping could come visit. So, I really need to get busy on my projects on the "less" busy weekends! :)
Today is "National Woodie Wagon Day" ... "Toss Away the "Could Haves" and "Should Haves" Day" ... "Wrong Way Corrigan Day" ... "Anniversary - Disneyland Opening" ... "Constitution Day (South Korea)".
Quotes of the Day:
"Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists."
-- John Kenneth Galbraith
"When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire."
-- Whoopi Goldberg
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Christians have their share of troubles, disappointments, sorrows;
But all the time, in the midst of these, they have a secret peace
Of which the world knows nothing.
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Today in history:
In 1938, Douglas Corrigan took off from Floyd Bennett Field in New York for a return flight to California but lost his bearings in the clouds, he said, and flew instead to Ireland. He became an instant celebrity and was forever after known as "Wrong Way" Corrigan.
In 1955, Arco, Idaho, a town of 1,300 people, became the first community in the world to receive all its light and power from atomic energy.
In 1955, Disneyland opened in Anaheim, Calif.
In 1975, three U.S. and two Soviet spacemen linked their orbiting Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft for historic handshakes 140 miles above Earth.
In 2008, the U.S. Library of Congress named Kay Ryan as the nation's poet laureate. Ryan, succeeding Charles Simic, is noted for philosophical yet humorous poems.
Today's birthdays include
- English clergyman and author Isaac Watts in 1674
- Financier John Jacob Astor in 1763
- Mystery writer Erle Stanley Gardner in 1889
- Actor James Cagney in 1899
- TV personality Art Linkletter in 1912
- Comedian Phyllis Diller in 1917
- Olympics movement official Juan Antonio Samaranch in 1920
- Actor Donald Sutherland in 1935
- Actor Diahann Carroll in 1935
- Musician Peter Schickele in 1935
- Supreme Leader of Iran Ali Khamenei in 1939
- Rock musician Spencer Davis in 1941
- Basketball Hall of Fame member Connie Hawkins in 1943
- Actor Lucie Arnaz in 1951
- Actor David Hasselhoff in 1952
- Singer Nicolette Larson in 1952
- Singer Phoebe Snow in 1952
- German Chancellor Angela Merkel in 1954
Everyone have a Great Saturday!
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