4/21/12 - SitonitDAY

[mnhermit]

G'mornin' - finally slept through the night, got up at a reasonable 05:45, walked the dog and now here I am.

SO WAKE UP ALREADY!

Today in History:

1509 - Henry the VIII becomes King of England
1649 - Maryland Toleration Act passed, allowing all freedom of worship
1789 - John Adams sworn in as 1st US VP (9 days before Washington)
1828 - Noah Webster publishes 1st American dictionary
1855 - 1st train crosses Miss River's 1st bridge, Rock Is Ill-Davenport Ia
1878 - NY installs 1st firehouse pole
1913 - Gideon Sundback of Sweden patents the zipper
1948 - 1st Polaroid camera was sold in US
1956 - Elvis Presley's 1st hit record, "Heartbreak Hotel," becomes #1
1962 - Century 21 Exposition opens in Seattle, Washington
1963 - Beatles meet Rolling Stones for 1st time
1967 - Dodgers 1st rain out in Los Angeles (after 737 consecutive games)
1982 - Dr Michael E Bakey performs 1st successful heart implant
1987 - Dow Jones Avg soared 664.7; 2nd biggest one-day gain in history
1997 - Ashes of Timothy Leary & Gene Roddenberry launched into orbit


born today:

1729 - Catharina II, the Great, writer/emperess of Russia (1762-96)
1816 - Charlotte Bronte, Tornton England, novelist (Jane Eyre)
1838 - John Muir, US, naturalist/discoverer (glaciers in High Seirras)
1915 - Frick, [W Groebli], Swiss clown, Frick & Frack)
1930 - Don Tyson, founder, Tyson Foods)
1939 - Ernie Maresca, singer/songwriter (Runaround Sue, Wanderer)
1947 - Iggy Pop, [James Osterberg], Mich, rocker (Zombie Birdhouse)
1949 - Patti LuPone, Northport NY, actress/singer (Evita, Life Goes On)
1959 - Robert Smith, Sussex, rock guitarist/vocalist (Cure-Hell's Kitchen)

[Doug]

1878 - NY installs 1st firehouse pole - thus paving the way for strippers everywhere.

1997 - Ashes of Timothy Leary & Gene Roddenberry launched into orbit - thus providing strange freaked out weather (own that one to Chris)

[Deleted]

Up and awake. Off to guitar lessons in about 45 minutes, then into the library, then into the office, and then back here to vegetate.

[Kramster]

Hey...

[Tamarack]

Good Morning Good People

Sunny and cool Spring morning on the Third Coast. Spending the day on housework and getting organized, although "organized" and "newborn" don't fit into the same sentence. Maybe a few minutes of music along the line. I introduced Lola to Brahms yesterday.

Have a harmonious Saturday one and all.

[brucemacneill]

Memorial service for the friend who died Tuesday at 1 today. These being my musical friends, Mary doesn't know them so we probably won't stay long. After that, I should mow what I didn't mow Tuesday before the rain sets in tonight and it gets way ahead of me.

[Lonnie]

Off to play music with Hammond, Glenn Elvig and Brent Clark at the Harriet Tubman, um... Harriet Beecher Stowe, no, wait... Hans Christian Anderson, uh, no... Wendell Anderson, damn... Alexander Graham Bell, sh**... Ozzie and Harriet, um, wait... ah... Harriet Alexander Nature Center in Roseville.

It's been a long week... heh.

This perked me up:

[drlj]

I am not here but I am there.

Enjoy the day.

[Hobson]

Mr. H and I returned yesterday afternoon from a trip to Phoenix. We saw family and had lunch with a friend. Met with our financial adviser and reinforced our decision to dump him. Spent 8 1/2 hours on Thursday at the Musical Instrument Museum. Wow! Overwhelming and almost impossible to take it all in in one day.

Going to a picnic with our social club today. Forecast high is in the lower 90s, so we'll be sitting in the shade. Then we resume getting ready for the workers to start our home repairs early Monday morning. I'm not looking forward to a week or more of disruption and waking up early when they start the hammering.

[Deleted]

Good morning. A clear and cool morning will give way to a pleasant mountain afternoon in the 70's. Spring runoff starting to jump the banks here and there.

[Don Clark]

Evenin'.....

Long day. Put in a major work day at the old house. Two families in a van with a big trailer came from church to pick up a large load of furniture and stuff that we had donated to the missions group. Between them, what we got rid of, and what we brought home here.....there is an echo in the old place. Sounds good to me. One more good work day and we'll be done. Then Ty and I are going to tear down the old leaning garage.

Lonnie.....I saw that the other day, and liked it too.

Then at dinner, after unloading stuff and visiting with my new neighbor guy, and grilling burgers on the charcoal grill.....Shay drops the bomb.

New thread to follow.