Good Morning! Saturday November 20, 2010

Good morning! It's a beautiful morning. Today will be mid 60s, sunny and a little breezy. It's a gorgeous fall day, and will be perfect weather for the Raleigh Christmas parade! One of these years I'm actually going to get up early enough to drive to town, find a place to park, and watch the parade "live" like we did as children. Not this year.
Yesterday: It was a very busy and very good day. I got a lot of cleaning and decluttering done in the house, and a friend and I together cooked a Huge meal. We had turkey (LOVE the new roaster! LOL!), lots of veggie dishes ... and we all ate so much, we didn't even have room for pie. We were also too full and tired to go to see the lights as originally planned.
Today: I've already cleaned up most of the dishes from last night (just a few things had to soak a bit). I am going to watch the parade on TV; finish a few chores (including taking trash to the dump), work on the decorating some more. Tonight I think our friends will come back over for the pie and then go see the lights! :)

Today is ""Family Volunteer Day" ... "Name Your PC Day" ... "Transgender Day of Remembrance" ... "UN Africa Industrialization Day" ... "UN Universal Children's Day" ... "Revolution Day (Mexico)".

Qoutes of the Day:
"Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up."
-- G. K. Chesterton

"Men are born to succeed, not fail."
-- Henry David Thoreau

"It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust."
-- Samuel Johnson

Today in history:
In 1272, Edward I was proclaimed King of England.

In 1789, New Jersey became the first state to ratify the Bill of Rights.

In 1947, Princess Elizabeth, the future Queen Elizabeth II of England, married Philip Mountbatten.

Today's birthdays include
- my daughter-in-law, HAPPY BIRTHDAY CINDY
- Botanist John Merle Coulter in 1851
- Norman Thomas, six times the Socialist Party candidate for U.S. president, in 1884
- Dick Tracy creator Chester Gould in 1900
- TV commentator Alistair Cooke, in 1908
- Singer/actress Judy Canova in 1916
- U.S. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, D-N.Y., in 1925
- Actress Kaye Ballard in 1926
- Actress Estelle Parsons in 1927
- Actor/TV game show host Richard Dawson in 1932
- Comedian Dick Smothers in 1939
- Actress Veronica Hamel in 1943
- Actor Richard Masur in 1948
- Actress Bo Derek in 1956
- Actress Sean Young in 1959
- Actress Ming-Na ( ER ) in 1963

Everyone have a Great Saturday!