Good Morning!
On this day in 1836 Sam Houston was inaugurated as the first constitutionally elected president of the Republic of Texas.
In 1907 the Panic of 1907 began when depositors began withdrawing money from many New York banks.
And in 1962 President Kennedy went on radio and television to inform the United States about his order to send U.S. forces to blockade Cuba.
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Quote of the Day
“Well being as there’s no other place around the place, I reckon this must be the place, I reckon.”
Curly Howard
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Woo Hooo!!!!
And it’s Franz Liszt’s birthday too. From Seeli Toivio (the cellist, accompanied by her brother, pianist Kalle Toivio )
Love it!
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Wandering Views 
Morning all.
hmm… Aj posts, but where is Aj? Will he return from this vacation? and we know that he is not fishing.
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I’m here, but not for long…. 🙂
After that I’ll be there, but still here too, some of the time. I will return eventually, I only paid for a week, after that they’ll probably ask me to leave. 🙂
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Good evening, Jo. Good morning, Aj. Hope you’re having a great time in your vacation.
Becca has her first field trip today. I was going to go, but awakened with a migraine. They’re leaving early–8:15–so, I may not make it. She’s excited.
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Morning, evening, and all between greetings!
At the doctor’s right now in the wait and then see room. Later, it’s another T-Mobile day since husband’s phone has no sound. It has vibration to indicate calls but no ring. Worse is the caller can’t be heard. Nothing works in that realm. Must be a bad sound chip or something. T-Mobile will soon need to put me on payroll.
Bosley is sad to have to give up the bats, bop, and bites game. She’s suffering withdrawal as my husband does the same in regards to cigarettes. It’s always best to have company in suffering. 🙂 ❤ ❤
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Annms, I loved doing field trips with my son. We only had two during all 12 of my public school years so it was like finally getting my fair share of field trips as an adult. There are a lot of neat things to see here in Atlanta. Some that I did not go on were to see the cyclotron here at Emory (his chemistry teacher’s husband worked with that), and mock trials with Emory law students (another teacher had a lawyer husband with access). The Carlos Museum here at Emory is great, too.
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Have a great vacation, AJ. This is the best time of the year for vacations!
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Ricky will verify that the DC area is an excellent place for field trips.
My grandkids learned a lot from visiting there also.
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Good Morning Everyone. I have been scarce lately. I am working on bolstering my confidence to teach. I have to teach agents to use two of our systems and I have to teach Chapter 7 of Surprised by Hope. I am scared.
I continue to watch NCIS New Orleans in hopes that it will get better…it hasn’t so far. The character from Alabama sounds like he has cotton in his mouth when he speaks. I suppose I am making a game of it. 😉
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Aj on vacation? Well, you know what they say about when the cat’s away? Control yourselves, folks.
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Here’s a QOD. What is that a picture of?
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Kim, re: NCIS, NO – it bothers me and I’m not even remotely local! Last night they said some woman was allergic to flower DANDER! What?!!! Dumb.
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QoD @ 9:44 – It looks like an upside-down blue jay.
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QoD. It’s an upside down bird of some sort. Most birds don’t care which side is up as long as they aren’t flying.
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Have a great vacation AJ — Janice is right, fall is the best time of year to go most anywhere.
I’m watching NCIS NO, too, but mostly because it comes on right after the “real” NCIS, not sure I’d watch it weren’t in that time slot and I had to hunt it down independently. (They moved the LA one to late Monday nights, and that I always watch, it’s pretty good in its own right.)
Maybe it’ll take a while for the NO version to find its footing. But so you’re saying that you don’t all sound like the NO people on that show? 😉
This has been a very busy week for me and it’s not even half over. I still have 3-4 stories to get done before I go home Friday & today will be mostly shot with an hours-long staff meeting at one of our sister papers in Pasadena. I’ve somehow been added to a cold-case homicide project all the papers are doing, but I’m still not sure why I’m there (most of the others are our various cop reporters from all the different areas).
I’m just really feeling frazzled, though. Had to let my friend Carol know I wouldn’t be able to come up to visit her this Saturday as planned (I have a casserole to make for church and will have to get up to the vet’s to pick up one of Tess’ meds, plus make a visit to Norma who should be in a rehab by then, we hope — everything just gets pushed to Saturday).
Yesterday morning I was running around in such a hurry to get out of here that I knocked over a glass of Pomagranate juice (it went ALL over the kitchen floor and cabinets). Then I sliced a chunk out of one of my fingers as I was chopping up some celery. Boy, that hurt.
Praying things kind of slow down soon.
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Donna, several people here have met me in person and know my Southern accent. If I am saying his sounds fake and like a mouthful of cotton–it has to be so. No one I know would say they were from ‘Bama
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That looks more like a gray jay or lumberjack, as my husband refers to them.
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You are right, Kim. Bama? No way. My mother was born and raised in NW Alabama. Never ever heard her or cousins call it Bama.
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Birds just want to get a good angle for digging out tasty bites hiding out in the bark. Upside down or right side up does not matter as long as the wings work.
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God is good in giving husband a sympathetic doctor. She was a smoker in the past and knows how tough it is to quit. She said after 15 years she still desires them and if she heard the world would end tomorrow she would think of going to pick up a pack from the grocery store before she picked up her children. This is helpful rather than having a doctor who treats the habit as disgusting and smokers as lepers. I use to be on that other side and was a member of GASP, Georgians Against Smoker’s Pollution. As I have probably stated here before, love is blind, and it can’t smell either.
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It did not look like a bird on the Ipad . . . Thanks for clarifying!
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Janice, I once heard the same from a guy who had quit smoking decades ago. His remark, “I want one now.” I smoked on occasion, but never acquired the habit.
I don’t know what show you’re talking about, but “Bama” is used only referring to a football team. That may be the way they got it.
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I tried smoking. First of all I do not look good waving something around held between two fingers. Second, it made me so sick I lay on the bathroom floor praying to die.
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Good Afternoon, Y’all!
(said without sounding like I have a mouthful of cotton!)
Really…”bama”???
That is some kind of woodpecker…A very similar character put an enormous hole in my mailbox post the other day…
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My husband thinks it is a blue jay. Some of them are very lightly blue and it may be the light (or my computer) that makes it look so gray. We have a lot of woodpeckers, but none like that. I will be interested to know for sure what it is.
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Kim, I remember the comment that turned the idea of smoking from Becky. She was early teens, and I wasn’t talking to her, but I was talking FOR her benefit.
I was talking to Chuck and happened to say,
“But cigarettes give you bad breath and stain your teeth.”
That does more for a young girl than a book about lung cancer.
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Anonymous at 9:44. I’m pretty sure that’s a white-breasted nuthatch in the header photo.
AJ, that was a great Liszt video! Thanks for sharing it. Excellent cellist and pianist!
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I see on TV that they are increasing security at the national monuments. That is a wise decision. They especially need to increase vigilance at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington, and possibly Quantico. (I don’t know about that, I’ve never been to Quantico, though Chuck’s FIL is buried there.).
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Lee & I watch the original NCIS, but not the others. I like Scott Bakula, but wasn’t impressed with the introductory episode on NCIS last year.
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Wonderful helpers I did have tonight with supper preparation — 5th and 6th Arrows. We had baked salmon on a bed of green leaf lettuce; multigrain pasta containing rice, quinoa and amaranth, with tomato sauce using seasonings 5th Arrow and I selected; and cooked carrots, buttered, salted and peppered. A colorful and delicious meal from the hand of our gracious Creator.
And 3rd and 4th Arrows are now taking care of kitchen cleanup.
I am blessed.
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Well, I never made it to the field trip, but Becca had a great time, anyway. This afternoon, Connie took her to pottery class while I drive L. to a new barn for a riding lesson. Both girls had good days.
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Ann – Are you feeling better?
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It’s a nuthatch. He’s also upside down. 🙂
It was 50 when we left up north and 80 when we arrived here 2 1/2 hours later. 🙂
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Aj, I forgot where you said you were going, but you reminded me of the time we left Florida with the air conditioner on and arrived in Annandale with the heater on.
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