Good Morning!

The header pic is from Cheryl. 

And Janice sent us some music. 🙂

Great Is Thy Faithfulness Hymn – Acapella Arrangement

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Good Morning!

Welcome to the weekend. 🙂 

Here’s some more lovely butterfly pics from Cheryl, and a dragonfly for her husband. 🙂

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Good Morning!

It’s Friday!!!

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On this day in 2002 my daughter ‘Liz was born. 🙂

This is for her, since she requested it. 🙂

From American Greetings

And since you can’t have a party without balloons….

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Good Morning!

I’m hoping that by next week I’ll have things more settled and we can get back to our regular routine. Thanks for your patience and understanding. 🙂

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Good Morning!

It’s another wide open post today.

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Good Morning!

For obvious reasons, today’s daily thread is a little thin on content. So you pick the music, and pretty much everything else. 🙂

I’m off to the hospital to hopefully retrieve my lovely wife. I’ll check in later.

Have a good day!

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Good Morning!

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On this day in 1663 the British Parliament passed a second Navigation Act, which required all goods bound for the colonies be sent in British ships from British ports.

In 1775 Benjamin Rush began his service as the first Surgeon General of the Continental Army.

In 1804 the 12th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. With the amendment Electors were directed to vote for a President and for a Vice-President rather than for two choices for President.

In 1909 Orville Wright set a record for the longest airplane flight. He was testing the first Army airplane and kept it in the air for 1 hour 12 minutes and 40 seconds.

And in 1940 Bugs Bunny made his official debut in the Warner Bros. animated cartoon “A Wild Hare.”

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Quote of the Day

“Eh, what’s up, doc?”

Bugs Bunny

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“A Wild Hare”

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Good Morning!

Welcome to the weekend!

Here’s another of it screeching loudly at a smaller bird who was trying to chase it away. 

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On this day in 1759 British forces defeated a French army at Fort Niagara in Canada.

In 1850 gold was discovered in the Rogue River in OR.

In 1941 the U.S. government froze all Japanese and Chinese assets.

In 1946 the U.S. detonated an atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific. It was the first underwater test of the device.

And in 1952 Puerto Rico became a self-governing commonwealth of the U.S.

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Quote of the Day

“The hard part is how to plan a picture so as to give to others what has happened to you. To render in paint an experience, to suggest the sense of light and color, of air and space.”

Maxfield Parrish

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Let’s have reader’s choice for the music selections this weekend. 

So what’ll it be?

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Good Morning!

It’s Friday!!!

The fuzzball and the flowers are from Janice. 🙂

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On this day in 1849 Georgetown University in Washington, DC, presented its first Doctor of Music Degree. It was given to Professor Henry Dielman.

In 1866 Tennessee became the first state to be readmitted to the Union after the U.S. Civil War.

In 1974 the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Nixon had to turn over subpoenaed White House tape recordings to the Watergate special prosecutor.

And in 1978 Billy Martin was fired for the first of three times as the manager of the New York Yankees baseball team.

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Quote of the Day

“Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.”

Oswald Chambers

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Today is Ernest Bloch’s birthday. From The Violin Channel

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Today’s header is from Roscuro. 

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On this day in 1829 William Burt patented the typographer, which was the first typewriter.

In 1877 the first municipal railroad passenger service began in Cincinnati, Ohio.

In 1938 the first federal game preserve was approved by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The area was 2,000 acres in Utah.

And in 1954 a law was passed that stated “The Secretary of the Navy is authorized to repair, equip, and restore the United States Ship Constitution, as far as may be practicable, to her original appearance, but not for active service, and thereafter to maintain the United States Ship Constitution at Boston, Massachusetts.”

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Quote of the Day

“If I had my career to play over, one thing I’d do differently is swing more. Those 1,200 walks I got, nobody remembers them.”

Pee Wee Reese

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This song was released today in 1977.

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