Good Morning!
A twofer!
On this day in 1735 freedom of the press was established with the acquittal of John Peter Zenger. The writer of the New York Weekly Journal had been charged with seditious libel by the royal governor of New York. The jury said that “the truth is not libelous.”
In 1790 the Revenue Cutter Service was formed. This U.S. naval task force was the beginning of the U.S. Coast Guard.
In 1914 Britain declared war on Germany in World War I. The U.S. proclaimed its neutrality.
In 1944 Nazi police raided a house in Amsterdam and arrested eight people. Anne Frank, a teenager at the time, was one of the people arrested.
And in 1983 New York Yankee outfielder Dave Winfield threw a baseball during warm-ups and accidentally killed a seagull. After the game, Toronto police arrested him for “causing unnecessary suffering to an animal.” 😯
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Quote of the Day
“If you have to ask what jazz is, you’ll never know.”
Louis Armstrong
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Today is Mr. Armstrong’s birthday.
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Wandering Views 
Good morning!
How is everyone today? L. has to take a placement test in Spanish this morning at 8:30. I’ve got a doctor’s appointment in town at 11:00, then I’m having lunch with my best friend.
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Ah, this picture is easy. Gray squirrel, juvenile male downy woodpecker.
Great shot!
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Now that picture is truly a slice of home. Thanks Aj.
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There is a Beatrix Potter story somewhere in the header photo. It should be a good day since I am starting it off with Louis Armstrong. Some years back the words to Wonderful World were put in a book form. I had several lesson plans based on it.
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Cheryl makes a good point in one of yesterday’s threads.
Can we trust our data to any format? Things are changing so quickly.
This stuff stored in the cloud? Do we know we can always retrieve it?
I still have lots of cassettes I haven’t converted to CD yet, and CD’s are already going out.
One of the reason, not the only, is that I can play cassettes in my Merc. Not the truck.
I was in a panic a couple of years ago when I thought my slide projector had broken. But I found that I could buy another online so I got up enough courage to mess with it and fixed it.
Without a slide projector, hundreds of pictures would not be viewable.
Good point Cheryl.
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So Mrs L shares a birthday with Louis Armstrong? That’s better than the other famous person who has a birthday today, one of which she would rather not be reminded.
Michelle- The disk Chas sent is a regular 3.5 floppy with a Kodak label. I remember when stores first started offering digital photos they came on a dik with the brand name on them and instructions of how to view the pictures.
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My little brother was killed when he was 13.
He would be 75 today.
What famous person?
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My twelve year old boy turns thirteen today. Is he famous?
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Good Morning and oh what a fantastic photo up there on the header!!
Louis Armstrong has always been a favorite…since Hannah was just a wee one, she insisted we stop and listen closely when It’s a Wonderful World came on the radio…or CD….we would sit and listen through it’s playing…with smiles upon our faces… 🙂
Happy Birthday Mrs. L……and to Anonymous’s teenager as well…. a most blessed day to celebrate our Lord’s creation of His children 🙂
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What a Wonderful World makes me cry. My son had it played at his wedding for the mother-son dance so he could watch me cry . . .
Love the photo.
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This is the one I used.
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I did not know I was anonymous. I must be just like anonymous as we look so much alike in our picture. Maybe that is why nobody talks to me when I go out in public.
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I see it is not retroactive. But it is when you folks change your picture. I must be more different than I thought.
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Kim,
SPAM filter grabbed it. It considers anything from Amazon as SPAM because it’s an ad. Sorry. 🙂
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I assume Peter is referring to the poser in the White House. It’s his birthday too.
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I adore the header photo! What a neat shot!
Happy Birthday to all the good folks who share this day.
Bosley likes to jump on top of my husband’s chair back and go around since it is a swivel chair. The force of her jump puts it in motion. She is a homeschooling cat doing her physics experiment. An object in motion stays in motion.
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Squirrel! Woodpecker! Bosley spinning in a chair!
Lots of animals here today.
On our walk last night Tess sniffed something in someone’s grass and began rolling in it before I could get her off. It was dark, but I figured it was fertilizer as that’s one of her favorite smells.
I’d forgotten about it by the time we got home and as I was unleashing her caught a whiff of something ever so foul.
I still don’t know what it was, but there was a wet, gooey patch on the fur around her shoulder that was absolutely the vilest smelling stuff I’ve ever encountered.
I used some of those pre-packaged wet grooming wipes (it took several) and some baking soda to get it out and neutralize whatever might have been left.
For some reason dogs love rolling in bad smells.
Death, disgusting poop, rotten substances of a wide variety, they all smell wonderful to your dog.
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I have this one on of my CDs in the car.
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And if I’m no mistaking, it looks like Reagan was in that audience?
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I just read the end of yesterdays discussion. I have all most of my pictures on a Kodak program. I know they no longer run it, but another photo outfit does. I have not put the photos in the Cloud yet. I do have them on cds and I have most of them printed. I know my brother has had some cds of photos go bad already. I spent several hours putting labels online on the latest pictures and making cds. It all seems like a lot of work. These are mostly made for grandchildren’s memory’s sake.
One of my daughters had “What a Wonderful World” for her father/daughter dance.
I was once laughed at by an employee in a large department store when I asked about cassette players. He was sure no one had them anymore. I was able to find several in another large department store. Many people have these and VHS tapes yet. Some people are technological snobs and it shows. Such things will only hurt your business, however.
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Great header photo! And Donna’s comment, “Squirrel!…” reminded me of Chevy Chase in Christmas Vacation. 😉
Love Louie’s distinctive voice. He’s good. I also love the “Wonderful World” song so many of you enjoy, too.
Thanks again for the book recommendation on the prayer thread yesterday, Karen (and the “second” by Michelle). I visited a library just down the street from where I had a dentist appointment this morning and found the book there right on its shelf. Perfect. 😉 I’m looking forward to starting it.
Happy Birthday to the birthday people here!
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I do not have ADD….look! There’s a squirrel!
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Kim – I actually did that. I was talking to myself while clicking on to Wandering Views. In the middle of a sentence…”Oh, a squirrel!” And then I had a good laugh at myself. 🙂
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Turns out R did not cut F’s hair after all. We’re happy about that.
E thinks it may be because she didn’t argue too much about it with him, but did say, “I guess F won’t be able to have his hair the way he wants until he can physically stop you from buzzing it.”
Or it could have been that F put up a fuss about it. When they got home, E wanted to just trim it up a bit more, fine tune it, so to speak, & F fussed a bit, as he was afraid she was going to cut it.
Ah, such fuss over a three-year-old’s hair.
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Nice phone conversation with hubby a bit ago. He had to leave for work before I was home from my dentist appointment and errands, so on a break during a slow time at work, he called to see how I was feeling after the dental work. Sweet guy.
We talked about other things, too, and he seemed to want to linger more on the phone than he usually does. He calls home from work each night, but the average length of our conversations may be something like 45 seconds. 😉
This afternoon we were on the phone together for 15 minutes and 15 seconds! It was so nice to have an unhurried conversation with him, and to see how God is already answering prayers about setting aside some of the frantic pace for more leisurely interactions. I feel special and very loved today by both my husband and our Lord. An incredible blessing.
Off to begin reading The Power of a Praying Wife. 🙂
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My wife just took the time to organize all my photos into files. She even went thru the blog photos and organized folders for them by name of who sent them in. I have some of my older stuff on disc, but I plan on putting everything on flash drives too, personal and blog stuff on their own stick. Technology so rocks. 🙂
Cheryl is much better at this stuff than I, and way more patient, so THANK YOU Honey! 🙂
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I have some VCR tapes. And a player. I have an interesting movie on VCR. A made for TV movie. It’s “The Last Mission” . About the last B-29 mission over Japan at the end of the war. Both bombs had been dropped and several B-29’s went on a mission to the farthest place they had been before. They took out defensive weapons to increase the gas load. True story told by the radio operator on the mission. Their plane was named “Boomerang” They were all listening for the code word APPLE which was a signal to turn back. But they completed the mission. The war ended on their return..
Lots of pictures of B-29’s to take up time, but the story is interesting. No one was lost on that mission. I think some planes landed at Iwo.
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I have that book in my classroom, Kim. However it is hard to sing along as after hearing Louie, nothing else sounds right.
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Music appreciation. Read the book, then play the song. While the music is playing they can make a collage of all the wonderful things….
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I love combining art/craft activities with music. I have a three-CD set with Mozart music specially selected for specific purposes. For example, the second volume is entitled “Relax, Daydream & Draw”, and contains more restful excerpts of Mozart’s music. The other two volumes, “Tune Up Your Mind” and especially “Mozart in Motion” have more vigorous pieces. 😉
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When I hear squirrel I instantly think of the movie, “Up”. What a great animated movie.
Hair wars. We had friends who insisted on long hair on all the girls. Of course, as soon as there was a divorce the other parent had to insist on short.
I have an aunt who actually cut my hair into a cut with bangs. My mother never gave me bangs. There seemed to be no big deal made out of it, but when I look back, it somewhat amazes me my aunt would do that without permission.
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I think if “Up,” too, kathaleena.
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If you don’t know who the other famous person is, it’s the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. He is the exact same age as Mrs L. But she has the birth certificate to prove it.
And today, to celebrate, she and D3 went to her mother’s in Iowa for SWEET CORN!! I love the corn her mother grows. the best I’ve tasted. Now, what to do with all those ears.
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Peter, I had a co-worker a few years ago who had the same birthday (including year) as Hillary. She didn’t like it much!
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A former co-worker of mine graduated from high school with Hillary. She (my co-worker) speculated about possible high school reunions at the White House after Clinton got elected the first time. I never heard if that happened or not, as I resigned from school teaching the summer after his inauguration.
I think she kind of liked the idea! Wouldn’t have been my cup o’ tea. 😉
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Happy Birthday to President Obama!
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I didn’t know it was his BD until I heard it tonight on FoxNews. I should have known, because, as I said, it’s the same as my brother’s.
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You’re surprised to see me up this late, aren’t you?
I went to bed and discovered that I wasn’t sleepy. So here I am. but it won’t be long.
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Chas at 10:00 at night? That is a treat. 🙂
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where is your melatonin?
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Said like a true mom. 😉
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Chas is partying tonight.
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I’m back up too. But it isn’t as unusual for me to be up this late.
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Time for me to walk the dogs. Be good while I’m gone.
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let’s have a party while Donna is out walking.!!
Wait, everyone is asleep, I will have to party alone.
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