Sunday, October 31, 2010

Good Morning! Sunday October 31, 2010

Good morning! It's beautiful morning. It seems like we waited longer this year, but it's now that wonderful time of year I love so much ... mildly warm days, cool nights, and so many gorgeous things in bloom! Today will be low 70s, clear and sunny.
Yesterday: I usually have a hard time changing plans with short notice. But, I didn't have much planned except TV (quiet plans! LOL!); so when I got a last minute chance to do something, I took it. I met my DS, DDIL, DGS, and DGD at a corn maze! It was just a perfect day for being outside, and it was a lot of fun. And ... we found all 12 "markers", and were only there about 2 hours. I did get most of the other things done I had planned, so it was a really nice day.
Today: This will still be a quiet day. I'm not going to try to "catch up" ... nothing but routine cleaning to do. And of course, the never-ending laundry. I have some "easy" projects to tackle, such as gluing another chair, pruning a plant (that Maggie thought it was fun to climb - one of the reasons she is currently confined to the kitchen), assembling the new chair, and maybe cleaning the clutter under the kitchen sink. :)

Today is "Halloween" ... "All Hallows Eve" ... "Beggar's Night" ... "Magic Day" ... "National Knock-Knock Day" ... "National UNICEF Day" ... "Reformation Day" ... "Admission Day (Nevada)".

Qoutes of the Day:
"Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret."
-- Laurence J. Peter

"Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't."
-- Pete Seeger

"I always wanted a happy ending... Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity."
-- Gilda Radner

Today in history:
In 1517, Martin Luther began the Protestant Reformation by nailing a proclamation to the door of a church in Wittenberg, Germany.

In 1864, Nevada was admitted to the Union as the 36th state.

In 1941, the Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota -- consisting of the sculpted heads of U.S. Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt -- was completed.

In 1892, Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" was first published.

Today's birthdays include
- Dutch painter Jan Vermeer in 1632
- English poet John Keats in 1795
- Girl Scouts founder Juliette Gordon Low in 1860
- Gen. Chiang Kai-shek, the first leader of Nationalist China, in 1887
- Actor/singer Ethel Waters in 1896
- Actor Dale Evans in 1912
- British jockey and writer Dick Francis in 1920
- Actor Barbara Bel Geddes in 1922
- Actor Lee Grant in 1927
- Astronaut Michael Collins in 1930
- Former TV news anchorman Dan Rather in 1931
- Actor/producer Michael Landon in 1936
- Folk singer/songwriter Tom Paxton in 1937
- Actor David Ogden Stiers in 1942
- Actor Sally Kirkland in 1944
- Actor Brian Doyle-Murray in 1945
- Actor Stephen Rea in 1946
- Olympic gold medal marathon runner Frank Shorter in 1947
- Actor Deidre Hall in 1947
- Actor John Candy in 1950
- Broadcaster Jane Pauley also in 1950
- Actor Ken Wahl in 1954
- Actor Brian Stokes Mitchell in 1957
- Actor Rob Schneider in 1963
- Rapper/carpenter Vanilla Ice in 1967

Everyone have a Great Sunday!

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