Sad Ending

Our Thanksgiving celebration did have a sad ending.

Brother-in-Law came over that evening for leftovers, as he does every year. When he left, he took a small container of food with him, and set it on the seat of his truck, then came back in to tell Sweetie one more thing.

When he got back outside, someone had slashed two tires on his truck and, adding insult to injury, opened the door and taken the food.

We are still trying to work out how to get new tires for him.


Today is:

Asatru -- Ancient Norse Calendar, a feast of Ullr.

Bargle Day -- Fairy Calendar

Electric Guitar Day

Flossing Day

Freckle Pride Day

Lancashire Day -- Lancashire, England

Maize Day

National Bavarian Cream Pie Day

Pie in the Face Day

Pins and Needles Day

St. Maximus' Day (patron of babies, the dying)



Anniversaries Today:

William Shakespeare marries Anne Hathaway, 1582


Birthdays Today:

Jaleel White, 1976
Brooke Langton, 1970
Robin Givens, 1964
Caroline Kennedy, 1957
Rick Rockwell, 1956
Jimi Hendrix, 1942
Eddie Rabbit, 1941
Bruce Lee, 1940
"Buffalo" Bob Smith, 1917
Chick Hearn, 1916
James Agee, 1909
L. Sprague de Camp, 1907
Forrest Shaklee, 1894
Anders Celcius, 1701
Emperor Xiaozong of China, 1127


Today in History:

The first elected representatives from Lancashire were called to Westminster by King Edward I to attend what later became known as "The Model Parliament", 1295
The first Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed in the Great Storm of 1703
The Portuguese Royal Family leaves Lisbon to escape from Napoleonic troops, 1807
Adoption of Constitution of the Kingdom of Poland, 1815
NY Times dubs baseball "The National Game", 1870
Alfred Nobel establishes the Nobel Prize, 1895
In New York City, the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held, 1924
The Soviet space program's Mars 2 orbiter releases a descent module; it crashes, but still becomes the first man-made object to be on Mars, 1971
The left-wing Labour Party takes control of the New Zealand government with leader Helen Clark becoming the first elected female Prime Minister in New Zealand's history, 1999
A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet, 2001
The Canadian House of Commons endorses Prime Minister Stephen Harper's motion to declare Quebec a nation within a unified Canada, 2006