Saturday, July 16, 2011

Good Morning! Saturday July 16, 2011

Good morning! It's a beautiful morning! Really really lovely out, comfortably cool, breezy, sunny. If it would stay like this all day, I think I could just move the computer right out! LOL! It's only supposed to go to mid to upper 80s; the forecast is for "partly" cloudy, but no sign of rain.
Yesterday: It turned into a day with more "running around" than anything, but sometimes that just can't be helped. I got my hair done, took trash to the dump, picked up my friend. We got a bit done (she was in the garden, I was working on the room project), then went to visit her dad. (turns out he needs a triple by-pass ... prayers would be welcome!). Then we all went to Chick-Fil-A, and a quick bit of grocery shopping. By the time we got home, it was late .. again. Oh well.
Today: It's a dialysis day, which dictates a bit of the coming and going. I hope to fit things in between: I want to get by the farmer's market; drop off a new prescription to be filled; and get some more work done at home (while DH isn't here to be coughing in the dust I'll be stirring up! LOL!). I don't know if we'll be visiting the hospital again tonight or not, so trying to just "go with the flow" today. Y'all know that's hard for me! LOL!

Today is "National Woodie Wagon Day" ... "Toss Away the "Could Haves" and "Should Haves" Day" ... "Anniversary - District of Columbia Established" ... "La Paz Day (Bolivia)".

Quotes of the Day:
"Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then--we elected them."
-- Lily Tomlin

"As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls."
-- M. Cartmill

"Those that think it permissible to tell white lies soon grow color blind."
-- Austin O'Malley

Today in history:
In 1769, Father Junipero Serra founded Mission San Diego de Alcala in California.

In 1790, the U.S. Congress designated the District of Columbia as the permanent seat of the U.S. government.

In 1935, world's first parking meter installed in Oklahoma City.

In 1951, J.D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye" published.

In 1969, Apollo 11, the first moon-landing mission, was launched from the Kennedy Space Center, carrying astronauts Neil Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin and Michael Collins.

Today's birthdays include
- English painter Joshua Reynolds in 1723
- Mary Baker Eddy, founder of the Christian Science Church, in 1821
- Rights activist Ida Bell Wells-Barnett in 1862
- Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen in 1872
- Baseball great and Black Sox scandal figure Shoeless Joe Jackson in 1888
- Actor Percy Kilbride (Pa Kettle) in 1888
- Vaudeville great Blossom Seeley in 1886
- Popcorn businessman Orville Redenbacher in 1907
- Actor Barbara Stanwyck in 1907
- Actor/dancer Ginger Rogers in 1911
- Actor Barnard Hughes in 1915
- Former Miss America/TV personality Bess Myerson in 1924
- Actor Corin Redgrave in 1939
- Tennis Hall of Fame member Margaret Court in 1942
- Former football coach and television commentator Jimmy Johnson in 1943
- Singer/actor Ruben Blades in 1946
- Violinist Pinchas Zukerman in 1948
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member Stewart Copeland in 1952
- Playwright Tony Kushner in 1956
- Cyclist Miguel Indurain in 1964
- Football Hall of Fame member Barry Sanders in 1968
- Actor Phoebe Cates in 1963
- Actor Will Ferrell in 1967
- Actor Rain Pryor in 1969
- Actor Corey Feldman in 1971

Everyone have a Great Saturday!

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