Good morning! It's a beautiful morning. It's clear and bright for today, but very cold and windy. We do get cold, of course, but it's usually not until January or February. Seems a lot of the country is in the grip of this extreme cold spell. I do hope all my friends here are able to keep warm and safe!
Yesterday: We got a later start than I hoped, and left DB's house just after 1:00. We went a "long way" home to go by my DS's house, and visited a little. We also stopped for dinner ... after a brief stop at the grocery store, where I decided I did not care to join the melay that was going on there. The "S" - if we get it - isn't until Thursday; but you would have thought it was any minute! LOL! When we got home I got the car unloaded ... and that's it! It was very nice, however, to come home to more of the decorating done, and 2 doors "unstuck". (thanks to my elf and her gnome! heehee)
Today: I've got laundry going, and a package wrapped that needs to go in the mail today. I "plan" (y'all know how that goes! LOL!) to spend the morning getting at least some areas of my house organized. There are still gifts waiting to be wrapped (more came in the mail while I was gone). I hope to bring the last tree down, and only that and one very small one remain to be decorated. This afternoon I'm going to brave the cold and try to finish up shopping.

Today is "Halcyon Day (12/14-28)" ... "Admission Day (Alabama)".

Quotes of the Day:
"Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you."
-- Fran Lebowitz

"In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning."
-- George Orwell

"A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril; but the new view must come, the world must roll forward."
-- Sir Winston Churchill

"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."
-- William James

Today in history:
In 1819, Alabama became the 22nd member of the United States.

In 1896, the Glasgow Underground Railway was opened.

In 1911, Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen became the first person to reach the South Pole.

In 1972, Apollo 17 crew member Eugene Cernan entered the lunar lander, the last man to walk on the moon in the Apollo program.

Today's birthdays include
- French astrologer and prophet Nostradamus in 1503
- Danish astronomer and mathematician Tycho Brahe in 1546
- World War II U.S. air ace Jimmy Doolittle in 1896
- Former U.S. Sen. Margaret Chase Smith, R-Maine, in 1897
- Bandleader Spike Jones in 1911
- Actor Dan Dailey in 1913
- Comedian Morey Amsterdam in 1914
- Horror novelist Shirley Jackson in 1916
- Choreographer June Taylor in 1917
- TV news producer Don Hewitt in 1922
- Country singer Charlie Rich in 1932
- Actor Lee Remick in 1935
- Football Hall of Fame member Ernie Davis in 1939
- Tennis Hall of Fame member Stan Smith in 1946
- Actor Patty Duke in 1946
- Actor Dee Wallace Stone in 1948

Everyone have a Great Tuesday!