Good Morning!
And a Happy Anniversary to Mumsee & Mike.
On this day in 1776 Richard Henry Lee’s resolution that the American Colonies “are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States” was adopted by the Continental Congress.
In 1857 New York City’s first elevated railroad officially opened for business.
In 1926 the U.S. Congress established the Army Air Corps.
In 1947 an object crashed near Roswell, NM. The U.S. Army Air Force insisted it was a weather balloon, but eyewitness accounts led to speculation that it might have been an alien spacecraft.
And in 1979 the U.S. Mint officially released the Susan B. Anthony coin in Rochester, NY.
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Quote of the Day
“Resolved, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved.
That it is expedient forthwith to take the most effectual measures for forming foreign Alliances.
That a plan of confederation be prepared and transmitted to the respective Colonies for their consideration and approbation.”
Richard Henry Lee
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Today is Melodee Devevo’s birthday. From Casting Crowns
And a random selection. From ThePianoGuys
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Wandering Views 
Just finished reading yesterdays comments. That is the most comments that I have seen on the News feed.
Safely home again, thanks for praying.
Such potholes in the roads. I was in the back row of a 15 passenger van and actually flew up several times as we hit a dip.
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Jo,
Sounds like fun. 🙂
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oh, Aj is fishing in the pond now and I’ll bet it’s stocked.
what was fun was finding things that I haven’t seen in months. oh, so fun to shop! My favorite crackers that I eat with my lunch everyday and even cream cheese!
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Atlanta
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Good Morning! And Happy Anniversary to Mumsee and Mike….praying for you this day and the Nest ❤
The photo reminds me of those "lazy hazy crazy days of summers" of growing up in Ohio…..so green, humid and hot….I would place myself right in that shady spot on the right with a book and lemonade… 🙂
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Good morning everyone.
Kim is in ‘Lanna. Evidently waiting for a plane. I’ve spent lots of hours in that airport.
A friend and I once ran a test on which is quicker going between terminals.
He took the tram, I walked, not ran, normal walk taking the walking transport. It’s a wash.
We met coming up the stairs. If you have more than one terminal, take the tram.
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Hello to Kim in the friendly skies of Atlanta. Glad to know you are on a fairly early flight and not getting tossed and juggled by the thunderstorms we seem to have daily. Our office may be about ten miles or less from the airport.
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The one time I changed planes in Atlanta, I sat on the floor in a quiet area and threw a tennis ball for my two-year old to catch while my pregnant body rested.
We were on a hunt for his father, sailing off the coast of Cape Kennedy (then) in a submarine. Headed for Orlando.
In those early days of airline deregulation giddiness, I’d got my son’s ticket for four box tops off Chex cereal on some now-long defunct start up that was new then. . .
To get to Orlando, we flew New London to New Haven to LaGuardia to Atlanta to Pensacola to Jacksonville to Orlando.
The trip home?
Orlando to Detroit to LaGuardia to New London, “it’s practically direct!”
Snowstorm in Detroit and I was down to the final diaper and no dry clothing . . .
It was then I coined a signature phrase that has kept me going ever since: “this will be over tomorrow!”
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Well, what wss I just saying? I just heard a loud rumble sounding much like thunder. My husband commented recently that our weather has gone back to what it was when he was growing up in this area. We use to always get afternoon thunderstorms in the summer. All the people at the area pools could count on having to get out until it passed.
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Mumsee and Mike: ¡Feliz aniversario be boda! Are you going to be together or is he still in Canada?
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I have decided to take the advice Phos gave me. I have an appointment with the doctor tomorrow to check out my right leg. Just to see if it’s something I need to be concerned about.
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Thanks, Chas. one prayer answered this morning and it’s only 7:20. 🙂
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BWI
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That was quick. The connection must have been better than usual,
Now where is it that you all are going?
Kim’s evidently driving up from Ballimere. Prayer for a safe and uneventful trip here.
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Happy anniversary mumsee and Mike & safe travels for Kim.
Chas, glad you’ve got an appointment.
Our weather hasn’t been bad, overcast in the mornings & late afternoons, mid 70s, but more humidity than usual for use so it “feels” warmer. Still, I spend most of my day inside an air-conditioned office lately so the weather doesn’t affect me much.
I’ve been putting the finishing touches on a very long feature I’ve been working on since January, really. I didn’t intend for it to take this long but there was no real time element that made it urgent to get in — and other more timely stories kept taking precedence. But I’ve been writing chunks of it all along so I didn’t have to spend time interpreting months’-old notes, at least.
Hopefully we’ll have enough space in one of the upcoming papers to get it in before next week, maybe it can run over the long weekend coming up. We have a lot of photos to run with it and I transferred 4 longish videos I’d taken in January over to the editors yesterday from my home laptop which I took into work.
Surprised it’s Wednesday already. This week is flying …
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Happy Anniversary Mumsee & Mike!
I need a signal to help locate my glasses. I had about given up, but finally found them on the hood of the truck out in the driveway.
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Thanks, and no, he is still in Canada.
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What kind of guy leaves his wife home alone with ten of their children on their thirty fifth wedding anniversary? Mine and he is the best there is so I am okay with that. We often forget it altogether anyway.
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We usually forget ours, too, which will be 35 for us on the 28th of this month.
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Wow, you guys have been married for longer than I’ve been alive. 😯
OK, well almost. 🙂
Seriously though, congratulations. In this day and age, it becomes rarer and rarer to see that. A tip of my hat to M&M, and to the S’s. Well done, and thanks for showing us youngsters how it’s done. 🙂
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Just following the example of a long line of committed folk. Right Chas?
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So why do some people more or less ignore anniversaries and others expect their spouses to remember Mother’s / Father’s Day in addition to the anniversary? Should this be on a premarital checklist? “Which of the following holidays do you expect your spouse to remember once you are married and have children?”
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I have been blessed by the example being always “you marry for life.” My parents only made it to 31 or 32 years because of Dad’s death, and I didn’t really know any of my uncles and aunts, but among them only one uncle was divorced. And all my married siblings have had till-death marriages. (Two have seen the “premature” death of a spouse, mid-forties to early fifties.) My in-laws, as well, are heading toward 60 years next summer. I’ve simply never known anything else; a fundamental commitment to the permanence of marriage was a requirement of anyone I married, and he is the same way. But yes, it is definitely helpful to be surrounded by others with the same mindset, and not have to worry that some friend or relative is looking for a way to maneuver to get between a husband and wife! (A friend of mine dealt with that recently, with a wife of someone else on the pastoral staff where her husband is pastor. Very ugly.)
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Mumsee, the secret is choosing correctly in the first place.
But both of us were mature (in those terms). She was almost 25 and I almost 27.
TSWITW went shopping this afternoon. She usually takes the entire afternoon.
She’s back!
She forgot the envelope that contains her coupons.
Who’s ever heard of going shopping without coupons?
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Cheryl, I can’t answer your question but can say that my husband treats me like a queen everyday. So I don’t need a special occasion to be reminded that he loves me. And a store-bought gift would pale in comparison to continuous loving behavior. That being the case, it just doesn’t even cross my mind to celebrate our love once a year.
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Yes, I was very selective. He liked me. He was a drinking smoking motorcycle driver when I met him. He had not attended church in years. He did not own a Bible. But he said he was a Christian so I married him. Very selective indeed.
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What Linda said. Why settle for once a year when it is a daily experience?
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Crab cakes. Chick n Ruth’s
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Where KimH? Where?
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Crab cakes? Mid-Atlantic region I’m guessin’. Maybe even Maryland already, ‘cuz that’s where Chik and Ruth’s are. In fact, Annapolis has one I believe.:)
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We already know Md. Ajj. She checked in at BWI a couple of hours ago.
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Oh. I missed that.
But I guess my guess was correct though anyway.
It’s a gift. 🙂
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In March 2015 it will be 30 years for us. I do not really expect gifts for occasions such as anniversary, Mother’s Day, etc. It was not part of my background with my parents. They never made a big deal out of such things and neither did my husband’s parents.
I just got to the office a little while ago. I brought my crock pot so I could cook turkey drumsticks. After I got that started, husband asked me to listen to a song he had arranged on his computer. It was a Paul Wilbur song he had never heard before until he stumbled across it on the internet. The computer played the organ version and my husband sang the song to share with me. It was very nice. ❤ Does that count as a gift?
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HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, MUMSEE & MIKE !!
❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤
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We haven’t given gifts for our anniversaries either (just two so far), though I did use our second anniversary as an “excuse” to put our love letters into book form. We went out to a nice restaurant for our first anniversary, but it didn’t cost us anything–we used a gift card from our wedding. And we went out of town on our anniversary last year, to an area my husband had long wanted to see “that time of the year,” so our wedding gave us a handy opportunity.
He does spoil me all year long, though, so if all I got on our anniversary was a kiss and a “happy anniversary” and some time alone with him, that would be “enough.”
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