Good morning! It's a wonderful morning. It's still a bit gray out, and it's supposed to be mostly cloudy today. We didn't end up getting any rain yesterday (at least, not in my area); only a slight chance of it today. It's turned cool .. reall fall weather ... ony mid 60s today! This might even be a day to open the doors and turn the furnace on (to burn off the dust that accumulates over the summer). Then when the nights start getting too chilly, we'll be ready for heat.
Yesterday ended up taking longer than we hoped; but in the end, we were finally successful in our mission. :) DH now has a nice new suit; and I even got a tiny bit of Christmas shopping done. We were all really tired by last night though ... so of course, other than one quick load of laundry, nothing got done.
Tonight I will need to get busy for sure. The shows I like to watch on Monday don't start until 8:00; and there are lots of commercials ... so I should get busy! :)
Today is "Child Health Day" ... "Improve Your Home Office Day" ... "Ten-Four Day" ... "UN World Habitat Day" ... "Anniversary - Sputnik" ... "Independence Day (Lesotho)".
Quotes of the Day:
"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."
-- Socrates
"What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?"
-- Dr. Robert Schuller
Today in history:
In 1876, the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, now Texas A&M, opened. It was the first public higher education institution in Texas.
In 1883, the Orient Express train made it first run.
In 1895, the U.S. Open men's golf tournament is first contested. It was won by Horace Rawlins.
In 1957, the Soviet Union launched the first man-made space satellite, Sputnik 1.
In 1965, Pope Paul VI arrived at Kennedy International Airport in New York on the first visit by a reigning pope to the United States.
In 1989, Art Shell was hired by the Oakland Raiders as the first black head coach in the modern National Football League.
In 2001, Rickey Henderson of the San Diego Padres scored his 2,246th run, breaking Ty Cobb's Major League Baseball record.
In 2004, SpaceShipOne, the first privately funded rocket to reach the edge of space, flew to an altitude above 62 miles over the California desert.
Today's birthdays include
- Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th president of the United States, in 1822
- Frederic Remington, painter of the American West, in 1861
- Journalist/author Damon Runyon in 1880
- Pioneer movie comedian Buster Keaton in 1895
- Actor Charlton Heston in 1923
- Actor Clifton Davis in 1945
- Actor Susan Sarandon in 1946
- Actor Armand Assante in 1949
- Actor Liev Schreiber in 1967
- Football Hall of Fame member Sam Huff in 1834
- Author Jackie Collins in 1937 (age 73) - Author Anne Rice in 1941
- Author Roy Blount Jr. in 1941
- Civil rights activist H. Rap Brown in 1943
- Baseball Manager Tony La Russa in 1944
- Recording executive and businessman Russell Simmons in 1957
- Singer Jon Secada in 1962
- Actor Alicia Silverstone in 1976
- Actor Rachael Leigh Cook in 1979
Everyone have a Great Monday!
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