Good morning! It's a wonderful morning! Last night we finally got RAIN! Not just a sprinkle, but buckets of rain. Of course, we also got a lot of wind (for fortunately, no damage). There was a lot of thunder and lightening; but even after it faded, it rained for a good while. Today is starting off overcast and much cooler. It will be low 90s, and possibly less cloudy by the afternoon. This might be the "calm before the storm", as some very hot days are coming!
Yesterday: As always, for a dialysis and work day, I didn't plan much to do, and was very successful at not doing it. :) I did get all my sprinklers run in the morning, so everything certainly got WET! LOL!
Today: It will once again be a "catch up" day. I do not have to water today - even turned the timers off for this morning. So I used the "extra" time to mop. I'd really rather have slept! LOL! This afternoon I'm going in for some car maintenance, and to get groceries. Later this evening .. if it's not too wet (could be more afternoon showers) ... my friend and I will try to get grass cut. Hopefully I'll be able to fit a few small chores in between all that. Maybe. :)
Today is "Peter & Paul Day (Christian)" ... "Saint Peter's Day (Christian)" ... "Independence Day (Seychelles)".
Quotes of the Day:
"Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing."
-- Redd Foxx
"The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. "
-- William James
"I have failed many times, and that's why I am a success."
-- Michael Jordan
Today in history:
In 1853, the U.S. Senate ratified the $10 million Gadsden Purchase from Mexico, adding more than 29,000 square miles to the territories of Arizona and New Mexico and completing the modern geographical boundaries of the contiguous 48 states.
In 1992, doctors in Pittsburgh reported the world's first transplant of a baboon liver into a human patient. The recipient, a 35-year-old man, survived for three months.
In 1995, the U.S. shuttle Atlantis docked with the Russian space station Mir.
In 2007, the American bald eagle, declared endangered in 1967, is flourishing and no longer imperiled, the U.S. Interior Department announced.
Today's birthdays include
- William Mayo, co-founder of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., in 1861
- Astronomer George Ellery Hale, founder of the Yerkes and Mount Palomar observatories, in 1868
- French writer Antoine de Saint-Exupery in 1900
- Actor/singer Nelson Eddy in 1901
- Composer/arranger Leroy Anderson in 1908
- Broadway songwriter Frank Loesser in 1910
- Composer/conductor Bernard Herrmann in 1911
- Actor Slim Pickens in 1919
- Baseball Hall of Fame member Harmon Killebrew in 1936
- Black power advocate Stokely Carmichael in 1941
- Singer Little Eva in 1943
- Actor Gary Busey in 1944
- Fashion designer Egon von Furstenberg in 1946
- Comedian Richard Lewis in 1947
- Actor and former U.S. Rep. Fred Grandy in 1948
- Actor Sharon Lawrence in 1961
Everyone have a Great Wednesday!
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