tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9174282052243575422024-03-19T03:48:24.681-05:00messymimi's meanderingsKids, Cats, and meandering alongmessymimihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10649529601786689712noreply@blogger.comBlogger5417125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-917428205224357542.post-20347267409959278082024-03-19T00:00:00.052-05:002024-03-19T00:00:00.131-05:00Hygiene and Sugar, a Random and Happy Tuesday Post<p><span style="color: #351c75;"> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt; text-size-adjust: auto;">***********************************</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf6NQ-RtzlE2dLbjAIcTlEoNxoGOIgGc3J_H5TwnxEwVzdP-4OMJYikycwUNKVQ4UPkD-YoWgJ44vAfvfpmak87Xmh_AUtm0L8d-G9DAH2DZMjb2j2kt4ICnrHTwOyA2Jm9La5C3RoL_x7WkJtirUYVrp8loNXZADaHxhtyn5HJumleQo7oRUNv-mB1P8p/s200/HappyTues-Blog-Hop-Badge-125-px-3.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf6NQ-RtzlE2dLbjAIcTlEoNxoGOIgGc3J_H5TwnxEwVzdP-4OMJYikycwUNKVQ4UPkD-YoWgJ44vAfvfpmak87Xmh_AUtm0L8d-G9DAH2DZMjb2j2kt4ICnrHTwOyA2Jm9La5C3RoL_x7WkJtirUYVrp8loNXZADaHxhtyn5HJumleQo7oRUNv-mB1P8p/s1600/HappyTues-Blog-Hop-Badge-125-px-3.jpeg" width="200" /></span></a></div><span style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikzO_RY7T0QPUl88668yqww7yZcuedIR54OrckkfbGjRPgMjKwdk_1V2kKf4rNUOPwFuR0ZueY1V-M6EINbzE_LS7kQazhPtn5ChdxNC6-OaPD-E5BGEsImKvWgA5YQX_ko8IBkY6IhPLfnjMG9H0dEaBRw68pnogY2r6AkvNGOzActYDOnN0oNEgBWLLT/s247/randomtuesday2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><img border="0" data-original-height="205" data-original-width="247" height="205" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikzO_RY7T0QPUl88668yqww7yZcuedIR54OrckkfbGjRPgMjKwdk_1V2kKf4rNUOPwFuR0ZueY1V-M6EINbzE_LS7kQazhPtn5ChdxNC6-OaPD-E5BGEsImKvWgA5YQX_ko8IBkY6IhPLfnjMG9H0dEaBRw68pnogY2r6AkvNGOzActYDOnN0oNEgBWLLT/s1600/randomtuesday2.jpg" width="247" /></span></a></div><span style="color: #351c75;"><br /><br /></span><p></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">It's time once again for a random and Happy Tuesday, linking up with Stacy's Random Thoughts at <a href="http://stacyuncorked.com" target="_blank">Stacy Uncorked</a> and Sandee at <a href="https://comedy-plus.com" target="_blank">Comedy Plus</a>. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Carl's bathroom light was on when i arrived yesterday, but he was dressed and still had the lights off in the room.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">I suggested i'd put his lunch together while he went to get breakfast as i switched on the overhead lights in the room.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Instead of heading to the kitchen, he grabbed the trash can and scissors and said, "Toenails!" sitting down to start clipping.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">I left him to it and searched the main kitchen for lunch fixings, as his fridge was empty of everything but a sad looking salad.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">When i got back to his room with lunch, he asked, "How was your weekend?"</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">I told him it was good and asked him about his.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"They were doing gaming at the library!" he said excitedly. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>"And I watched the video about 3D printing, and it makes a noise like vrrr-woosh and it makes these things..."</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; 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<br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">He stopped and thought a moment, then said, "Sydney! <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Never got in touch with Sydney," and he wandered off to find breakfast.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Later, i went to the kitchen to dispose of the sad salad in his fridge and noticed he had dried sugared mangos on the table.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">I thought your mom said no more sugar, i said. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>You're not supposed to buy anything with sugar in or on it.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"But it's for my cereal!" he said and snatched up the bag. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>"I have to have something on my cereal."</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">I'm just the hired monkey, i don't run the circus.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Later, after his mom was awake, she asked me, "Did he have everything picked up off the floor? <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I told him to pick up everything, it's a trip hazard."</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">He did have most of it, and that's one reason i found this.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; 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font-size: 17pt;">He'd taken most things off the floor and shoved them into drawers until they couldn't close, but without sorting. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Some was clean, some was dirty, most everything got rewashed just to make sure.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><br />
</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">He'd also used every single towel and dropped clean clothes still on a hanger in the hamper.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">It's much easier when his mom doesn't say anything, but i get why she does. He really could stand lessons.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">As he came running through his room to ask if he needed a coat (no, a light sweater will do, it will be hot before you finish for the day), he stopped to try grabbing more stuff off the floor and sighed, "So much to do!"</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">It's my turn to do it, now scoot, i told him, and he did.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; 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font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Today is:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Commemoration of the Victory over Kadhafi -- Libya</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Corn Dog Day -- some sites say the 20th; #2 Son will celebrate both days, if i can afford that many corn dogs</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Greater Dionysia -- Ancient Greek Calendar (largest festival to Dionysos, lasting five days; date approximate</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">National Agriculture Day -- US (if you eat, thank a farmer!) <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>agday.org</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><a href="https://www.readtomeday.com" target="_blank">International Read to Me! Day</a> -- a day for children to remind the adults in their lives to read to them often <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Kashubians' Unity Day -- among Kashubians in northern Poland</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Let's Laugh Day -- a holiday spread by ecard companies, because any day is a good day for a laugh</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Mojoday -- Discordianism</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">National Chocolate Caramel Day</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Oil Nationalization Day -- Iran</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Pet Passport Day -- today in 2000, the UK passed the pet passport law, allowing pets into Great Britian without quarantine if they met certain criteria</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Poultry Day -- a day to honor the role poultry plays in our lives</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Quinquatria -- Roman Empirical Calendar (celebration of Minerva and Mars, especially the birthday of Minerva today; through the 23rd)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Swallows Return to San Juan Capistrano Day -- despite what you think, the bird you saw there yesterday was not a swallow, the natives will tell you</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">St. Joseph's Day (Patron of bursars, cabinetmakers, carpenters, civil engineers, confectioners, craftsmen, dying people, emigrants, expectant mothers, families, fathers, happy death, holy death, house hunters, immigrants, interior souls, laborers, married people, Oblates of St. Joseph, people in doubt, people who fight communism, pioneers, protection of the church, social justice, travelers, unborn children, wheelwrights, workers; Universal Church; over 50 cities, diocese, and countries; against doubt and hesitation)</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>As Patron of fathers, his day is also Father's Day in Belgium, Bolivia, Honduras, Italy, Portugal, and Spain.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Valencia, Spain has it's biggest day of the Las Fallas Festival today, with the fireworks.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Time Zone Day -- US Congress passed the Standard Time Act to sort out the fact that different states and cities used different times, with no rhyme or reason</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Birthdays Today:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Michael Bergin, 1969</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Bruce Willis, 1955</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Glenn Close, 1947</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Clarence "Frogman" Henry, 1937</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Ursula Andress, 1936</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Phyllis Newman, 1935</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Renee Taylor, 1935</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Phillip Roth, 1933</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Ornette Coleman, 1930</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Patrick McGoohan, 1928</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Brent Scowcroft, 1925</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">John Joseph Sirica, 1904</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Earl Warren, 1891</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Edith Nourse Rogers, 1881</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Charles M. Russell, 1864</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">William Jennings Bryan, 1860</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Albert Pinkham Ryder, 1847</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Wyatt Earp, 1848</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Sir Richard Burton, 1821</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">David Livingstone, 1813</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Thomas Mckean, 1734</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">William Bradford, 1590</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Debuting/Premiering Today:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Kate and Allie"(TV), 1984</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"A Child of Our Time"(Oratorio), 1944</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Amos and Andy"(Radio), 1928</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Faust"(Opera), 1859</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Die Braut von Messina"(Schiller Play), 1803</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Today in History:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">A Mongolian victory in the Battle of Yamen ends the Song Dynasty in China, 1279</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle, searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River, is murdered by his own men, 1687</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The SS Georgiana, said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is destroyed on her maiden voyage with a cargo of munitions, medicines and merchandise then valued at over $1,000,000, 1863</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Pluto is photographed for the first time but is not recognized as a planet, 1915</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Eight American planes take off in pursuit of Pancho Villa, the first United States air-combat mission in history, 1916</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The U.S. Congress establishes time zones and approves daylight saving time, 1918</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Willie Mosconi sets a world record by running 526 consecutive balls without a miss during a straight pool exhibition at East High Billiard Club in Springfield, Ohio. The record still stands today, 1954</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Gumby makes his debut, 1957</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The wreck of the SS Georgiana, valued at over $50,000,000 and said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is discovered by then teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence exactly 102 years after its destruction, 1965</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Texas Western becomes the first college basketball team to win the Final Four with an all-black starting lineup, 1966</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">India and Bangladesh sign a friendship treaty, 1972</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The United States House of Representatives begins broadcasting its day-to-day business via the cable television network C-SPAN, 1979</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Argentinian forces land on South Georgia Island, precipitating the Falklands War with the United Kingdom, 1982</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Zimbabwe is suspended from the Commonwealth on charges of human rights abuses and of electoral fraud, following a turbulent presidential election, 2002</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">A cosmic burst, GRB 080319B, that is the farthest object visible to the naked eye is briefly observed, 2008</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">After two decades of being closed due to civil war, the Somali National Theater reopens in Mogadishu, 2012</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The papal inauguration ceremony for Pope Francis is held in St. Peter's Square, 2013</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The world's last male northern white rhino, 45-year-old Sudan, dies in Kenya, 2018</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">American Karen Uhlenbeck becomes the first woman to win mathematics' Abel Prize, 2019</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The Icelandic volcano Fagradalsfjall erupts for the first time in 800 years, 2021</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">In a deal brokered by the Swiss government, Switzerland's largest bank, UBS, agrees to buy its rival Credit Suisse to help ease global financial panic, 2023</span></p>messymimihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10649529601786689712noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-917428205224357542.post-14583009901868699682024-03-18T00:00:00.044-05:002024-03-18T00:00:00.137-05:00Many Paws Make Light Work (Awww Monday), Inspiring Quote of the Week, and Poetry Monday<p><span style="color: #351c75;"> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt; text-size-adjust: auto;">***********************************</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhA-VrMkQnZi1PJmmfWe983GxSBO-ZF_9Y_Yr6KC28JbDtAQ6bV00FktzkQYhdKDITLnrsi95X1rlwvNiR_APYL6s8NZan5FZDxynagTV22FGOUg2jff75RsfB-H-3qvL9WAq4uMo_wBPI5I3R0q1aKH0Kj5lRR6y76VcaKWdDrAo0hOhvX6_zByOKezH7/s200/AwwwMondays-Blog-Hop-Badge-300-px-1.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhA-VrMkQnZi1PJmmfWe983GxSBO-ZF_9Y_Yr6KC28JbDtAQ6bV00FktzkQYhdKDITLnrsi95X1rlwvNiR_APYL6s8NZan5FZDxynagTV22FGOUg2jff75RsfB-H-3qvL9WAq4uMo_wBPI5I3R0q1aKH0Kj5lRR6y76VcaKWdDrAo0hOhvX6_zByOKezH7/s1600/AwwwMondays-Blog-Hop-Badge-300-px-1.jpeg" width="200" /></span></a></div><span style="color: #351c75;"><br /><br /></span></div><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Awww Monday is hosted by Sandee at <a href="https://comedy-plus.com" target="_blank">Comedy Plus</a>.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Join us every Monday for Awww...Mondays. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Post a picture that makes you say Awww... and that's it.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Make sure you get the code from Sandee's site, linked above, and leave a link to your post so we can visit you. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>What better way to start the week than with a smile!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">A couple of weeks ago, I showed Abby doing the back yard perimeter check. Sometimes Abby has help with it from Jack and Lulu, and then it gets done quickly as many paws make light work.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiSNC9ueTZEEoRgtMsM0qc-d6eJm1rO1RiISTF-WxIGhC99dTCHVZS-7wx379Q-rQFubVSHJv38umGTifuivb8GjP5__J4zaAVB4QM9mT9fLGOIyjYjgKudM0v6EeEt1DtZSd6SVSBEV1ro7G-czHS4R3d6xCQmmp2rmQjBwG_gEynTdLfbx6dpXhOJFLX/s4624/20240316_114728.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2084" data-original-width="4624" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiSNC9ueTZEEoRgtMsM0qc-d6eJm1rO1RiISTF-WxIGhC99dTCHVZS-7wx379Q-rQFubVSHJv38umGTifuivb8GjP5__J4zaAVB4QM9mT9fLGOIyjYjgKudM0v6EeEt1DtZSd6SVSBEV1ro7G-czHS4R3d6xCQmmp2rmQjBwG_gEynTdLfbx6dpXhOJFLX/w400-h180/20240316_114728.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpkICNnYn9fltfClTJ8bRPck8RFQdK6uPpBWCQHN1SlWE4IbxWmDgfFa2NspQdkhyqyNHXA279FGuoz1-IzUqld75BxCjFe5yMT3VSMIYkbUimMqgfoIkNWVwYP1tr-7V5yIFkzXFUdzParfTDJGN_Sbl_UJzGL7aK7kNi__f7pjo65b4IyrAG1oNYRfev/s4624/20240316_114811.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2084" data-original-width="4624" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpkICNnYn9fltfClTJ8bRPck8RFQdK6uPpBWCQHN1SlWE4IbxWmDgfFa2NspQdkhyqyNHXA279FGuoz1-IzUqld75BxCjFe5yMT3VSMIYkbUimMqgfoIkNWVwYP1tr-7V5yIFkzXFUdzParfTDJGN_Sbl_UJzGL7aK7kNi__f7pjo65b4IyrAG1oNYRfev/w400-h180/20240316_114811.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNDF1i91b1s5syVu4z3EmoyoAIaMPRQRBXg92n7wR9yOtIdtTBqDxfk5BdM5adoqX_I8xxr75-kRm840baq6UoKB73_d0OGD7r0vHkhdAhoYjUrCIOay3uW9xZGqIM2DrBWeGZNHabV-_Z6R_gQyleR5u0yIP8Wj4lFVQPJpsO8CndadarVxMWJpCIlRLP/s4624/20240316_114821.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2084" data-original-width="4624" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNDF1i91b1s5syVu4z3EmoyoAIaMPRQRBXg92n7wR9yOtIdtTBqDxfk5BdM5adoqX_I8xxr75-kRm840baq6UoKB73_d0OGD7r0vHkhdAhoYjUrCIOay3uW9xZGqIM2DrBWeGZNHabV-_Z6R_gQyleR5u0yIP8Wj4lFVQPJpsO8CndadarVxMWJpCIlRLP/w400-h180/20240316_114821.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy0Wh9_Ti_0xVBEq0LmmSmA6UwHSwR10BaOzF9UmKqdHs7DRo9ofAQ8SEFA1rbg7p0ndvFaUww3l955UKGaGuNv2r4hAFRCjQsZ454gZmYiOZ0418XQnvHUcuD1gbFiPeVBXW_MxBN5VvibM-tMW7S05nVO0-dz8dKZAyuV2IkS0xuzUNMOQVTqsOzTgMp/s4624/20240316_114830.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2084" data-original-width="4624" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy0Wh9_Ti_0xVBEq0LmmSmA6UwHSwR10BaOzF9UmKqdHs7DRo9ofAQ8SEFA1rbg7p0ndvFaUww3l955UKGaGuNv2r4hAFRCjQsZ454gZmYiOZ0418XQnvHUcuD1gbFiPeVBXW_MxBN5VvibM-tMW7S05nVO0-dz8dKZAyuV2IkS0xuzUNMOQVTqsOzTgMp/w400-h180/20240316_114830.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
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<br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">***********************************</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Sparks is the brainchild of Annie of McGuffy's Reader, who wanted us to post something positive and uplifting at the start of the week. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>While she no longer blogs, i like to post an Inspiring Quote of the Week in her honor. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; 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font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">***********************************</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Our dear friend Diane is taking a break</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">accommodations we must make</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">we miss her poetry and wit</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">so carry on as Poetry Monday's a hit!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Poetry Monday was started by Diane at <a href="https://dlt-lifeontheranch.blogspot.com" target="_blank">On The Alberta/Montana Border</a>. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://krydderuglen.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Charlotte/Mother Owl</a> and i are keeping it going while she takes a blog break, we hope temporarily. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Anyone else is welcome to join in the fun, just let us know!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">This week the theme is Meaning. <a href="http://procrastinatingdonkey.blogspot.com/"><span class="s2" style="font-size: 17pt;"></span></a> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">*******</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s3" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt; text-decoration: underline;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">I went to search for the meaning</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">of life, so I could take note.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">I found it in the dictionary</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">right between lie and lifeboat.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">*******</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The man had asked his doctor,</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Will I see my hundredth year?"</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The doctor asked if ever</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">he smoked or had a beer.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"I do not drink or smoke,"</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">he said as the doc did nod his head,</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">then asked, "Is there a special</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">woman to share your bed?"</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"No, there isn't, doctor,</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">since years ago I lost my wife."</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Said doc, "Why live to 100,</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">what's the meaning of such a life?"</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">*******</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s3" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt; text-decoration: underline;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Future themes are:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Mar. 18 meaning (Today!)</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Mar. 25 happy news</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Apr. 1 shelf</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Apr. 8 order</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Apr. 15 tape</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Apr. 22 running</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Apr. 29 quiet</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">***********************************</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Today is:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Act Happy Week begins -- acting happy releases the body chemicals that aid health, mental and physical</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Awkward Moments Day -- harness the power of humor in life's more uncomfortable situations</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Asklepieia -- Ancient Greek Calendar (festival of Asklepios; date approximate)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Bindus Diena -- Ancient Latvain Calendar (believed to be the day bears woke from hibernation)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Celtic Tree Month Fearn (Alder) begins</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Cheikh Al Maarouf Day -- Comoros</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Dia de Benito Juarez -- Mexico (una Fiestas Patrias)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Electric Razor Day -- Schick, Inc., marketed the first one today in 1931</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Forgive Mom and Dad Day -- because we all make mistakes; sponsored by <a href="http://www.wellcat.com" target="_blank">Wellcat Holidays</a></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Goddess of Fertility Day -- a modern celebration of all goddesses of fertility</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Grandparents' and Grandchildren's Day -- Michigan, US</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Great Lent begins-- Orthodox Christian (a/k/a Clean Monday, Ash Monday, Pure Monday, Monday of Lent, Shrove Monday, Collop Monday, Rose Monday, Merry Monday or Hall Monday, and (in Cypress) Green Monday)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Jacques de Molay's Day -- death anniversary of the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Labour Day -- Christmas Island</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Men's and Soldiers Day -- Mongolia</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">National Anthem and Flag Day -- Aruba</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">National Biodiesel Day -- birth anniversary of Rudolph Diesel, who unveiled his engine at the World Fair in 1900</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">National Lacy Oatmeal Cookie Day</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Oide Matsuri -- Hakui, Japan (horse-back archery; through the 23rd)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Sheelah's Day -- Ireland (probably Sheela Na Gig, goddess of fertility; celebrated the day after St. Patrick's Day by those who say she was either his wife or his mother)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">St. Anselm of Lucca's Day (Patron of Mantua, Italy)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">St. Edward the Martyr's Day</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Supreme Sacrifice Day -- an internet generated holiday now used to honor those who have made a supreme sacrifice, all who have given their lives for others</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Usajingu Reitaisai -- Japan (offerings to the Kami from the Imperial Household are shared in this very important festival)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Wellderly Day -- and the start of Wellderly Week, focusing on the health of the elderly</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Anniversary Today:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Eddie Murphy marries Nicole Mitchell, 1993</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Birthdays Today:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Alexei Yagudin, 1980</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Dane Cook, 1972</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Queen Latifah, 1970</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Bonnie Blair, 1964</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Vanessa Williams, 1963</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Irene Cara, 1959</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Brad Dourif, 1950</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Kevin Dobson, 1944</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Wilson Pickett, 1941</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Charlie Pride, 1938</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Sashi Kapoor, 1938</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">F.W. deKlerk, 1936</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">John Updike, 1932</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">George Plimpton, 1927</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">John Kander, 1927</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Peter Graves, 1926</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">William H. Johnson, 1901</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Edward Everett Horton, 1886</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Rudolph Diesel, 1858</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Grover Cleveland, 1837</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">John Caldwell Calhoun, 1782</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Debuting/Premiering Today:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Do I Hear a Waltz?"(Musical), 1965</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Tovarich"(Musical), 1963</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Tales of Wells Fargo"(TV), 1957</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"The new Babylon"(Silent Film), 1929</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Verklarte Nacht"(Schonberg, Op. 4), 1902</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Today in History:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Crusaders kill 57 Jews in Bury St Edmonds England, 1190</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">German emperor Frederick II crowns himself king of Jerusalem, 1229</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Kraków is ravaged by Mongols, 1241</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">According to legend, Tenochtitlan is founded on this date, 1325</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton sells his part of New Jersey to the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as Quakers, 1673</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Henry Wells and William Fargo form American Express in Buffalo, NY, 1850</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Former Governor General Lord Stanley pledges to donate a silver challenge cup, later named after him, as an award for the best hockey team in Canada, 1893</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Mohandas Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience (he served only 2 years), 1922</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The first public celebration of Bat mitzvah, for the daughter of Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, is held in New York City, 1922</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The Tri-State Tornado hits the Midwestern US states of Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, killing 695 people, 1925</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Italy kills 26 and causes thousands to flee their homes, 1944</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space, 1965</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The U.S. Congress repeals the requirement for a gold reserve to back US currency, 1968</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">In Egypt, a 4,400-year-old mummy is found nearby the Pyramid of Cheops, 1989</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">White South Africans vote overwhelmingly in favour, in a national referendum, to end the racist policy of Apartheid, 1992</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Bosnia's Bosniaks and Croats sign the Washington Agreement, ending warring between the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia and the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and establishing the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1994</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">British Sign Language is recognised as an official British language, 2003</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">For the first time, a woman served as imam, leading a public, mixed-gender, Muslim congregation in Jum'ah prayer and delivering the sermon, 2005</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The Messenger spacecraft enters Mercury's orbit, 2011</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Russia formally annexes Crimea, previously part of Ukraine. by signing the Treaty on Accession, 2014</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">A bushfire in Tathra, New South Wales, Australia, destroys over 70 buildings, 2018</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Canadian PM Justin Trudeau and US President Trump agree to close the US-Canada border to non-essential travelers in an attempt to limit the spread of Covid19, 2020</span></p></div>messymimihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10649529601786689712noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-917428205224357542.post-71040266386298972542024-03-17T00:00:00.059-05:002024-03-17T00:00:00.128-05:00Wooly Dilemma (Cajun Joke), Sunday Selections and Sunday Selfie<p><span style="color: #351c75;"> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt; text-size-adjust: auto;">***********************************</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Just because Sandee of <a href="https://comedy-plus.com" target="_blank">Comedy Plus</a> is no longer hosting a Silly Sunday blog hop, do not expect me to quit telling Cajun jokes, especially as it has now become a habit.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Little Girl came to visit yesterday while i was cleaning at Grandma and Grandpa's house, she was in town for a friend's wedding.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Many topics were discussed over her visit, including the fact she can't go to church now as she works Sunday mornings, choosing wedding venues, and redecorating.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Clothile done be talkin' to her frien', Felicia, who we he'pin' de church wit' dey new decoratin'. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Felicia be saying, "I be tryin' get dem to choose de wool carpet, it done wear better an' I jes' t'ink it be de bes' choice."</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">A couple week later, Clothile done see Felicia at de hair dresser, an' ax, "Felicia, how it be goin' wit' de church? <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Did you done pull de wool over dey aisles?"</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">***********************************</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Sunday Selections was started as a way for bloggers to use photos that might otherwise just languish in their files. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The rules have been relaxed, and it is now simply a showcase for your photos, new or old, good or bad, although nothing rude, please. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It was hosted by <a href="http://river-driftingthroughlife.blogspot.com" target="_blank">River</a>, who still participates, and is now hosted by <a href="https://myjustsostory.blogspot.com/ " target="_blank">Elephant's Child</a> (who is taking needed blog break. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; 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font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">This week, Shamrock, Paddy and Clover want to join the Kitties Blue at <a href="https://thecatonmyhead.com" target="_blank">The Cat On My Head</a> for their Sunday Selfies Blog Hop. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(They also want you to know they've already been adopted.) <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; 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font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">***********************************</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">This year's Irish blessing:</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">May you always have</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">love to share,</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">cash to spare,</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">friends who care.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><span style="font-size: 22.6667px;">***********************************</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Today is:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Camp Fire USA Birthday Week</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Care Sunday / Carling Sunday -- England, 5th Sunday of Lent (possibly from the Old Saxon "carles", or husbandman)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Cheesefare Sunday/Forgiveness Sunday -- Orthodox Christian (final day upon which dairy products and eggs may be consumed before the Lenten fast; sometimes also called Forgiveness Sunday)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Ennensai -- Kyoto, Japan (festival and traditional performances)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Evacuation Day -- Suffolk County, Massachusetts, US (day the British troops left the city in 1776)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Festival of King Amenhotep I -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (rituals dramatizing his death and burial, held in the Valley; date approximate)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Kustonu Diena -- Ancient Latvian Calendar (no planting today, to ward off insects)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Liberalia -- Ancient Roman Empire (fertility festival in rural areas)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">National Corned Beef and Cabbage Day -</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Rubber Band Day -- patented in England this date in 1845 by Stephen Perry</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Saint Patrick's Day (Patron of engineers, excluded people, ophidiophobics; Ireland; Nigeria; over 20 other towns/dioceses around the world; against fear of snakes, snakes and snake bite)</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>a public holiday in the Canadian Province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Montserrat, and Ireland, and widely celebrated throughout the world, especially with parades</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Trefuilnid Treochair (Feast of Triple Bearer of the Triple Key) -- Ireland (Ireland's National Day)</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Saint Patrick's Day Parades -- various cities around the English speaking world hold their celebrations on the Saturday or Sunday nearest the Saint's day</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's Birth Anniversary -- Bangladesh</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">St. Gertrude's Day (Patron of cats, for accommodations and lodging while traveling, gardeners, mentally ill people, pilgrims, poor people, sick people, suriphobics, travelers, widows; Nivelles, Belgium; against fear of mice and rats, fever, insanity and mental disorders, mice and rats)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">St. Joseph of Arimathea's Day (Patron of funeral directors, morticians/undertakers, pallbearers, tin miners, tin smiths; Glastonbury Cathedral)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Submarine Day -- the sandwich or the submersible, your choice</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Anniversaries Today:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Wellesley Female Seminary is established, 1870</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Franklin D. Roosevelt marries Eleanor Roosevelt, 1905</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Birthdays Today:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Caroline Corr, 1973</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Mia Hamm, 1972</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Rob Lowe, 1964</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Arye Gross, 1960</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Vicky Lewis, 1960</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Gary Sinise, 1955</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Lesley-Anne Down, 1954</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Kurt Russell, 1951</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Patrick Duffy, 1949</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">John Sebastian, 1944</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Paul Kantner, 1941</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Rudolf Nureyev, 1938</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Paul Horn, 1930</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Nat "King" Cole, 1919</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Bayard Rustin, 1910</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Bobby Jones, 1902</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Shemp Howard, 1895</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Jim Bridger, 1804</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Roger B. Taney, 1777</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Debuting/Premiering Today:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Camino Real"(Play), 1953</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Kiss and Tell"(Play), 1943</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Welded"(Play), 1928</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"The Girl Friend"(Musical), 1926</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Wilhelm Tell"(Play), 1804</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Today in History:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">In his last victory, Julius Caesar defeats the Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus and Pompey the Younger in the Battle of Munda, BC45</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Marcus Aurelius dies leaving Commodus as the sole emperor of the Roman Empire, 180</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Led by Muhammad, the Muslims of Medina defeat the Quraysh of Mecca in the Battle of Badr, 624</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Edward, the Black Prince is made Duke of Cornwall, the first Duchy made in England, 1337</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Saint Patrick's Day is celebrated in New York City for the first time (at the Crown and Thistle Tavern), 1756</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">George Washington grants the Continental Army a holiday "as an act of solidarity with the Irish in their fight for independence," 1780</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The Italian Republic, with Napoleon as president, becomes the Kingdom of Italy, with Napoleon as King, 1805</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Henry Jones of Bristol patents "self-raising" flour, 1845</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Stephen Perry of London patents the rubber band, 1845</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">John Joseph Montgomery makes the first glider flight, in Otay, California, 1884</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The first practical submarine leaves the dock at NYC and submerges for one hour forty minutes, 1898</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">A showing of seventy-one Vincent van Gogh paintings in Paris, 11 years after his death, creates a sensation, 1901</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Luther Gulick and his wife Charlotte found Camp Fire Girls (now Camp Fire USA), 1910</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley announce the creation of element 98, which they name "Californium", 1950</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, flees Tibet for India, 1959</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Golda Meir becomes the first female Prime Minister of Israel, 1969</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">A referendum to end apartheid in South Africa is passed 68.7% to 31.2%, 1992</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">President Bush delivers an ultimatum to Saddam Hussein: leave Iraq within 48 hours or face an attack, 2003</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Scientists discover that a large number of bacterial life forms live in the deepest part of the world's oceans, the Mariana Trench, which is about 6.831 miles, 2013</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Scientists discover that a large number of bacterial life forms live in the deepest part of the world's oceans, the Mariana Trench, which is about 6.831 miles deep, 2013</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Archaeologists announce the discovery of an iron age warrior king burial ground that is about 2,500 years old and has 75 graves in Pocklington, Northern England, 2017</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Africa's only female head of state, Mauritian President Ameenah Gurib-Fakim, confirms she is resigning amid an expenses scandal, 2018</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Chad begins repaying a $100 million debt to Angola with cattle, sending more than 1,000 cows to Luanda, 2020</span></p>messymimihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10649529601786689712noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-917428205224357542.post-8850249460773086992024-03-16T00:00:00.026-05:002024-03-16T00:00:00.130-05:00Naps Needed, a Ten Things of Thankful Post<p><span style="color: #351c75;"> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt; text-size-adjust: auto;">***********************************</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNtvynovHuQSwpfIyXdFI_XnvHJKRv9g2KggrzDMIO6IThAq0-VCVT-MWZBJjju23u9nN-DBsDMy6Yuwo4g-1OPlPjUzFi8Px0UgI8QVwUZG8_TvSvK5-rNsGUmo7MYNptweNFpquzU-EN765ci54h97xAF5FV_P7DzeYUxZO4vtZQWApLVLhQshW-OB7j/s200/Kr6j62f.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNtvynovHuQSwpfIyXdFI_XnvHJKRv9g2KggrzDMIO6IThAq0-VCVT-MWZBJjju23u9nN-DBsDMy6Yuwo4g-1OPlPjUzFi8Px0UgI8QVwUZG8_TvSvK5-rNsGUmo7MYNptweNFpquzU-EN765ci54h97xAF5FV_P7DzeYUxZO4vtZQWApLVLhQshW-OB7j/s1600/Kr6j62f.png" width="200" /></span></a></div><span style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">It's been another rather quiet week, and I'll take it and be very thankful for it.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The time change always wreaks havoc on me, and i haven't slept much this week. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It's funny how driving to a different time zone, just one hour, but changing that hour in the day, doesn't seem to make much difference. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Changing it in the middle of the night does, and i'm thankful for a couple of quick much needed cat-naps.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Last week Becca and her whole family gathered for a family wedding. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I was thankful, on Sunday morning, to see her brothers and sister-in-law again, as well as her little one-year-old nephew.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">I'm thankful the tax organizer from the CPA finally got here.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">We're thankful our zoom meetings on Sunday evenings are still going well.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Last time i drove out to the country for the ladies' circle meeting, it was already deep dusk when i arrived. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This time it was still daylight and i was thankful to get to see more of the beautiful area out there.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Kevin and Lenny's place was on the list Tuesday and we're thankful to have gotten it down to just over 2 hours, start to finish.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">I'm also thankful for a new mop bucket. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Only a janitor would say that!)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Ms. G had a bunch of appointments Wednesday morning, so i was thankful to go do the shelter, then go home a do some stuff in the middle of the day (including one of those little naps), and then go with her in the afternoon.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span>
<br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Of course, once the house chores were done, she decided errands were on the agenda and we went to measure a house she's going to be putting on the market for a friend. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It's in a not-quite-so-great-any-more section of town, and i was thankful the police were called to pick up the very drugged out man who was yelling and threatening to jump in front of cars.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">I'm very thankful we now have a place the police can take such people besides jail to try to get them some help, if they want it.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Mr. L has had an especially hard time this week with pain and the insomnia and the time change. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>He and Ms. V slept in until almost 11am, meaning i didn't get in to clean their room until about 2 hours later than usual. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I'm thankful i was able to change up some of my routine and still only leave about a half hour later than usual.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Ms. GA and Mr. BA and i are all thankful Buddy the cat came back out after hiding under the house for two days. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The little snot!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The shelter has had several adoptions this week, including two while i was there Friday night, and we're thankful for all of them.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">One is especially good, and it's the icing on the cake of my week.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Russel came to us when his owner was diagnosed with an immune system disease that she knew was going to leave her blind and unable to care for herself well, much less a cat. She thought she'd have to make plans to be in assisted living or some other type of group setting and not be able to take the cat.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">She mourned and grieved, and Russel grumped and groused, although he was okay once you were sitting and petting him, it was obvious he wasn't a happy camper.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Then the lady called and said a miracle had happened, her sister had agreed to move in with her and care for her, and told her to go get her cat back, she'd take care of the cat as well.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">She came over and walked in the door, stood at the front desk and said, "I'm here to adopt Russel back."</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Russel was in one of the offices, not a colony room, down a hallway and behind a closed door.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span>
<br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">He heard her voice and started howling and scratching at the office door to be let out. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>She heard him and ran down there, and the reunion made everyone who saw it cry.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Russel is home now, and we're all thankful for this happy ending.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Please write up your own list and link up to <a href="http://www.tenthingsofthankful.blogspot.com" target="_blank">Ten Things of Thankful</a>, where <a href="https://iwantbacksies.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Dyanne</a> and her co-hosts always have a warm welcome waiting. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><!-- starts InLinkz code --><div class="inlinkz-widget" data-uuid="6d8301e45db34e29ba0ec14e454e337d" style="width:100%;margin:30px 0;background-color:#eceff1;border-radius:7px;text-align:center;font-size:16px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><div style="padding:8px;"><p style="margin-bottom:15px;">You are invited to the <strong>Inlinkz</strong> link party!</p><a href="https://fresh.inlinkz.com/p/6d8301e45db34e29ba0ec14e454e337d" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" style="padding:5px 20px;background:#209cee;text-decoration:none;color:#efefef;border-radius:4px;">Click here to enter</a></div></div><span style="display: none;"><script async="true" src="https://fresh.inlinkz.com/js/widget/load.js?id=c0efdbe6b4add43dd7ef"></script></span><!-- ends InLinkz code -->
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margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Birthday of Sparky the Fire Dog -- can't confirm the exact date, but Sparky became an official fire prevention mascot in Mar. 1951</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Curlew Day -- Umatilla National Wildlife Refuge, OR, US (traditional date the long-billed curlew arrives, with up to 500 reported during their nesting season)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Day of the Book Smugglers -- Lithuania (recognizing the brave people who smuggled Lithuanian language books in the Latin alphabet into the country from 1866-1904, when the Russian Empire had banned such books)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Elaphebolia -- Ancient Greek Calendar (festival of Artemis; date approximate)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Everything You Do is Right Day -- another internet generated holiday designed to get you into trouble if you aren't careful</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Feast of Heru and His Companions -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Festival of Bacchus / Bacchanalia -- Ancient Roman Calendar (through tomorrow)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Freedom of Information Day -- on the birthday of James Madison, Father of the US Constitution and an advocate for openness in government</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Latvian Legion Day -- Latvia (no longer a formal national holiday, still celebrated by many in the region)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Lips Appreciation Day -- after all, where would you be without them, and how would you give kisses? <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>sponsored by <a href="http://www.wellcat.com" target="_blank">Wellcat Holidays</a></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">National Artichoke Hearts Day</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">National Quilting Day -- US, sponsored by the <a href="http://www.quiltalliance.org/" target="_blank">Quilt Alliance</a> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Save the Florida Panther Day -- FL, US</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">St. Heribert of Cologne's Day (Patron against drought)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">St. Urho's Day -- Finnish communities in Canada and the US (a made up saint, the Finns answer to St. Patrick, who supposedly drove the grasshoppers out of Finland)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Anniversary Today:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The United States Military Academy at West Point is established, 1802</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Birthdays Today:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Judah Friedlander, 1969</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Lauren Graham, 1969</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Kevin Tod Smith, 1963</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Isabel Huppert, 1955</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Alice Hoffman, 1952</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Kate Nelligan, 1951</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Erik Estrada, 1949</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Victor Garber, 1949</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Chuck Woolery, 1942</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Bernardo Bertolucci, 1940</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Jerry Lewis, 1926</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Mercedes McCambridge, 1916</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Patricia Nixon, 1912</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Henny Youngman, 1906</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Rosa Bonheur, 1822</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Georg Simon Ohm, 1787</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">James Madison, 1751</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">George Clymer, 1739</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Debuting/Premiering Today:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"The Gumby Show"(TV), 1957</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"1776"(Musical), 1969</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Der Unbestechliche"(Comedy), 1923</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"In the South / Alassio"(Elgar, Op. 50), 1904</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen"(Mahler Song cycle), 1896</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Thaïs"(Opera), 1894</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Freedom's Journal"(first African American newspaper in the US, in New York), 1827</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Today in History:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The Babylonians capture Jerusalem and replace Jehoiachin with Zedekiah as king, BC597</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Caligula becomes Roman Emperor after the death of his great uncle, Tiberius, 37</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The Jews of York England commit mass suicide rather than submit to baptism, 1190</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reaches Philippines, 1521</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Samoset, a Mohegan, visits the settlers of Plymouth Colony and greets them, "Welcome, Englishmen! My name is Samoset," 1621</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The US Army Corps of Engineers is established to found and operate the United States Military Academy at West Point, 1802</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Prince Willem of the House of Orange-Nassau proclaims himself King of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, the first constitutional monarch in The Netherlands, 1815</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">New York Stock Exchange slowest day ever (31 shares traded), 1830</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Susan Hayhurst becomes the first woman to graduate from a pharmacollogy college, 1830</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Edward Clark became Governor of Texas, replacing Sam Houston, who was evicted from the office for refusing to take an oath of loyalty to the Confederacy, 1861</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Joseph Lister's article outlining the discovery of antiseptic surgery is published in The Lancet, 1867</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Hiram R Revels makes the first official speech by an African American in the US Senate, 1869</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The Barnum and Bailey Circus debuts, 1881</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Sir Arthur Evans discovers the ancient city of Knossus, 1900</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts, 1926</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The Ford Motor Company produces its 50 millionth automobile, the Thunderbird, averaging almost a million cars a year since the company's founding, 1958</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Gemini 8 is launched, the 12th manned American space flight and first space docking with the Agena Target Vehicle, 1968</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">General Motors produces its 100 millionth automobile, the Oldsmobile Toronado, 1968</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Demolition of the radio tower Ismaning, the last wooden radio tower in Germany, 1983</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Associated Press newsman Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut; he will be held for 6 1/2 years, 1985</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Pope John Paul II asks God for forgiveness for the inactivity and silence of some Roman Catholics during the Holocaust, 1998</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Israel officially hands over Jericho to Palestinian control, 2005</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Voters in Crimea vote overwhelmingly to leave Ukraine and rejoin Russia amid international condemnation of its design, 2014</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Apple announces it will begin a web TV service in September, carrying 25 channels and including networks like CBS, Fox, and ABC, and costing less than most cable TV packages, 2014</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">A beached, dead whale in Mabini, Philippines, is found to have 88 pounds of plastic inside it, including 40 pounds of plastic bags, 2019</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Global numbers of cases and deaths from Covid19 overtake the numbers in China for the first time, 2020</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">US Federal Reserve raises interest rates for the first time since 2018, 2022</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The Houston Zoo announces their oldest resident Mr. Pickles (90) is finally a father, with Mrs. Pickles (53), the parents of three rare baby radiated tortoises, named Dill, Gherkin and Jalapeño, 2023</span></p>messymimihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10649529601786689712noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-917428205224357542.post-90568479291519418782024-03-15T00:00:00.038-05:002024-03-15T00:00:00.182-05:00Clawfish Etouffee and Shrimp Purr-Boy (Feline Friday) and Friendly Fill-Ins<p><span style="color: #351c75;"> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt; text-size-adjust: auto;">***********************************</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRDZ632AvJPp9TULwj6j85YX5T56FnZ5koASFFYEy2MqYT8rrEAkuS-5e0aqL8E1jm5OOtvKuBLNlEkPICAkiKh0hEv08OHWs7V3VmZ31W6L1BBEb8d6rvUSEX8haGOXz-RaYwwCB9e1zLL5TaPdiyd0Xc3NUsy-hiq3JkpjqLFip8kfjN_fiadStPoTlc/s200/FelineFriday-Blog-Hop-Badge-125-px-e1626886709700.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRDZ632AvJPp9TULwj6j85YX5T56FnZ5koASFFYEy2MqYT8rrEAkuS-5e0aqL8E1jm5OOtvKuBLNlEkPICAkiKh0hEv08OHWs7V3VmZ31W6L1BBEb8d6rvUSEX8haGOXz-RaYwwCB9e1zLL5TaPdiyd0Xc3NUsy-hiq3JkpjqLFip8kfjN_fiadStPoTlc/s1600/FelineFriday-Blog-Hop-Badge-125-px-e1626886709700.jpeg" width="200" /></span></a></div><span style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Feline Friday was originally started by Steve, The Burnt Food Dude (who no longer blogs), and i'm going to believe it's because he likes cats.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">He handed hosting duties off to Sandee at <a href="https://comedy-plus.com" target="_blank">Comedy Plus</a>, and now she's entrusting it to me.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Feline Friday is simple to join. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>All you have to do is: Post a picture, drawing, cartoon or video of a cat (they may be silly or cute). <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Then add your link!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">One thing for sure is this is a fun and easy meme to do. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>So come and join us in Feline Friday.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">What better way to start the weekend than with a feline!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Sometimes the shelter people come up with fascinating names, and these are appropriate.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span></div><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1L3QTLBIglkI-_tw5XpRrrMhn63FNEPhAtS-xhEs26vTbhMN2Mz_byqKWoto2xDbnmWyCeZu5EawQUI7y5gnurDE2-S8_3chDKl5ilqyl_bcJSnpKXG93di4drzeYYtk4y0l5jORdvFbvTrCwb7eUcESxxHOVvoB5QrkWfhVum2MHUSx5bHpIVXNPftnW/s4624/20240313_074405.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4624" data-original-width="2084" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1L3QTLBIglkI-_tw5XpRrrMhn63FNEPhAtS-xhEs26vTbhMN2Mz_byqKWoto2xDbnmWyCeZu5EawQUI7y5gnurDE2-S8_3chDKl5ilqyl_bcJSnpKXG93di4drzeYYtk4y0l5jORdvFbvTrCwb7eUcESxxHOVvoB5QrkWfhVum2MHUSx5bHpIVXNPftnW/w180-h400/20240313_074405.jpg" width="180" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Shrimp Purr-boy</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYG29eNIQ03epwGz888Ie6TudboKOggC1PJby_9aFBVnE4D0ZjZ34sji7JJI47o6k3W6AGZSGvVmvyMQIlDu_CaLDPeG7fW1zPkt0Dz8GAqbJJCcbuWeV2WJ_Ocsvo43jxjtIfQRBShoXtKRLpU_Duu-O1_ihl4w0CgkcaQL0fSJ_LJ6Z8cnfmP2qr-l9C/s4624/20240313_074414.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4624" data-original-width="2084" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYG29eNIQ03epwGz888Ie6TudboKOggC1PJby_9aFBVnE4D0ZjZ34sji7JJI47o6k3W6AGZSGvVmvyMQIlDu_CaLDPeG7fW1zPkt0Dz8GAqbJJCcbuWeV2WJ_Ocsvo43jxjtIfQRBShoXtKRLpU_Duu-O1_ihl4w0CgkcaQL0fSJ_LJ6Z8cnfmP2qr-l9C/w180-h400/20240313_074414.jpg" width="180" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Clawfish Etouffee</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span><p></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><!--start LinkyTools script--><script src="https://www.linkytools.com/basic_linky_include.aspx?id=313640" type="text/javascript"></script>
<!--end LinkyTools script--><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">***********************************</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwI4P4djJMwrXQfzvfqTzxeXgoqMALk-OFbJTfLAsQSvufyc8bxUayy8JfC6re7g1TjRiarTavswYvS3EOuwRhIW4Bp5C86HaaJbSr5lV1yDW2kXS7gQsmxgGYMz61wIsIA_unma-L02v0RCFmvFSY6aIE-mPp3gT-SDzMDv4sabPOQQ2vv9FjFxH8koAU/s150/ellen_cat_badge_3.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><img border="0" data-original-height="150" data-original-width="150" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwI4P4djJMwrXQfzvfqTzxeXgoqMALk-OFbJTfLAsQSvufyc8bxUayy8JfC6re7g1TjRiarTavswYvS3EOuwRhIW4Bp5C86HaaJbSr5lV1yDW2kXS7gQsmxgGYMz61wIsIA_unma-L02v0RCFmvFSY6aIE-mPp3gT-SDzMDv4sabPOQQ2vv9FjFxH8koAU/s1600/ellen_cat_badge_3.png" width="150" /></span></a></div><span style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Friendly Fill-Ins are easy to do. There are four statements: the first two statements are provided by Ellen of <a href="http://www.15andmeowing.com" target="_blank">15AndMeowing</a>, and the final two are offered by Lorianne The Menagerie Mom of <a href="http://fourleggedfurballs.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Four-Legged Furballs</a>. They try to make sure the statements will be fun to both answer and share. The linky will be posted at or about 12:00 AM on Friday. Please head over to one of their sites, link up, and share your thoughts! <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Here are this week's statements with my responses underlined:</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">1. I enjoy watching _________.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">2. I _________ on St. Patrick's Day.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">3. Others come to me when they need help with _________.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">4. _________ is my lucky charm.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">1. I enjoy watching <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="s3" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt; text-decoration: underline;">sunrises and sunsets</span><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">.</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">2. I <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="s3" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt; text-decoration: underline;">do whatever is on the schedule </span><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>on St. Patrick's Day <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="s3" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt; text-decoration: underline;">which this year will be go to church. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Before Covid, we Protestants would celebrate the Catholic saint by going to the local synagogue for their corned beef sandwich sale fundraiser, but they have not resumed it.</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">3. Others come to me when they need help with <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="s3" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt; text-decoration: underline;">just about anything, because if i can't do it, i will work to help you figure out who can.</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">4. _________ is my lucky charm. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="s3" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt; text-decoration: underline;">No answer, i really don't have a lucky charm.</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">***********************************</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Today is:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">1848 Revolution Day -- Hungary</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Ag Day, Celebrating Our Bountiful Food Supply -- according to a foodie website</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting -- Denver, CO, US (a meeting of top scientists; who knows what these people will come up with next, because science is amazing! through Sunday)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Brutus Day -- for obvious reasons; watch for backstabbers today, because they are as numerous now as they were in ancient Rome</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Constitution Day -- Belarus</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Everything You Think is Wrong Day -- begun by someone who wants you to keep an open mind, apparently</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Fallas de Valencia -- Valencia, Spain (a five day carnival/fiesta of partying that ends with turning off all the city lights and setting fire to hundreds of massive papier-mâché statues stuffed with fireworks to celebrate St. Joseph's Day; sometimes called Fallas de San Jose)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Girl Scout Sabbath -- US (encouraging Girl Scouts to wear their uniforms to synagogue services this evening or tomorrow and represent their troop to their congregations; the final day of Girl Scout Week in the US)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Honen Matsuri -- Tagata-jinja Shrine, Inuyama, Japan (festival for a good harvest and fertility)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Ides of March -- Ancient Roman Calendar; other observances</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Day Sacred to Anna Parenna and River Nymphs -- goddess of the returning year</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Day You Don't Want to Go Out if Your Name is Julius Caesar</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Festival of Attis and Cybele</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Guild Festival -- for guilds practicing the arts of Minerva, with weapons purified at her temple on this day</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">International Day Against Police Brutality</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Joseph Jenkins Roberts' Birthday -- Liberia</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Kashiram Jayanti -- UP, India (birth anniversary of politician Kashi Ram)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">National Pears Helene with Chocolate Sauce and Brandy Day</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Offerings to Ra, Osiris, Horus, Ptah, Sokar, and Atum -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">St. Clement Mary Hofbauer's Day (Patron of Vienna, Austria)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">St. Louise de Marillac's Day (Patron of disappointing children, loss of parents, people rejected by religious orders, sick people, social workers, widows; Vincentian Service Corps)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Tagata Honen-Sai/Honen Matsuri -- Inuyama, Japan (fertility festival)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">True Confessions Day -- sponsored by <a href="http://www.wellcat.com" target="_blank">Wellcat Holidays</a>, because confession is good for the soul; if you are afraid to confess to the world, there's always your mirror</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Turkey Buzzards Day -- Hinckley, OH, US (Two theories about why the turkey buzzards return on this date each year have to do with either witchcraft of a hunting story; festival in honor of them will be held this coming Sunday)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><a href="https://www.consumersinternational.org/what-we-do/world-consumer-rights-day" target="_blank">World Consumer Rights Day</a> -- International <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><a href="http://worldsleepday.org/" target="_blank">World Sleep Day®</a> -- sponsored by the World Association of Sleep Medicine, aiming to lessen the burdens of sleep problems on society; this year's theme is "Sleep Equity for Global Health" </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Youth Day -- Palau</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Anniversaries Today:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Richard Burton marries Elizabeth Taylor, 1964</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The University of Toronto is chartered, 1827</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Maine becomes the 23rd US state, 1820</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Birthdays Today:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Kellan Lutz, 1985</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Sean Biggerstaff, 1983</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Eva Longoria, 1975</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Kim Raver, 1969</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Mark McGrath, 1968</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Bret Michaels, 1963</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Fabio, 1961</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Mary Carillo, 1957</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Park Overall, 1957</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Dee Snyder, 1955</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Craig Wilson, 1954</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Sly Stone, 1944</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Mike Love, 1941</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Phil Lesh, 1940</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Judd Hirsch, 1935</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 1933</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Alan Bean, 1932</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Norm Van Brocklin, 1926</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Harry James, 1916</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Joe E. Ross, 1914</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Macdonald Carey, 1913</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Samuel "Lightnin" Hopkins, 1912</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Andrew Jackson, 1767</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Debuting/Premiering Today:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"The Wonder Years"(TV), 1988</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Eight is Enough"(TV), 1977</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Three's Company"(TV), 1977</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"The Godfather"(Film), 1972</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Purlie"(Musical), 1970</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Lady Madonna"(Music single), 1968</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"My Fair Lady"(Musical), 1956</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Rapsodie Espagnole"(Ravel's Orchestral rapsody), 1908</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Caesar and Cleopatra,"(Play), 1899</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"She Stoops to Conquer"(Comedy), 1773</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Today in History:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March, BC44</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Liu Bei, a Chinese warlord and member of the Han royal house, declares himself emperor of Shu-Han and claims his legitimate succession to the Han Dynasty, 221</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">A Jew hating Monk in Seville, Spain stirs up people in that city to attack Jews, 1391</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Christopher Columbus arrives back in Spain after his first trip to the New World, 1493</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The first meeting of the Council of Trent, 1545</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">South Carolina becomes the first American colony to declare its independence from Great Britain and set up its own government, 1776</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">In an emotional speech in Newburgh, New York, George Washington asks his officers not to support the Newburgh Conspiracy; the plea is successful and the threatened coup d'état never takes place, 1783</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">A revolution breaks out in Hungary, and the Habsburg rulers are compelled to meet the demands of the Reform party, 1848</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Jesse W. Reno patents an "inclined elevator" (escalator), 1892*</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Rolls-Royce Limited is incorporated, 1906</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Czar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates the Russian throne and his brother the Grand Duke becomes Tsar, 1917</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Symbolics.com registers the very first Internet domain name, 1985</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first President of the Soviet Union, 1990</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">French President Jacques Chirac signs the law on secularity and conspicuous religious symbols in schools, commonly known as the "headscarf ban", 2004</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Lazarus Project scientists reveal that they successfully recovered frozen tissue from the 1970's and rejuvenated the cells of Rheobatrachus silus, a species of frog that has been extinct since 1983, 2013</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">French fashion house Givenchy appoints it first female designer, Englishwoman Clare Waight Keller, 2017</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Toys ‘R Us announces it will close all of its stores, 2018</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">More European countries impose restrictions on travel and borders to try to combat Covid19, while the US Federal Reserve slashes interest rates to near zero in an attempt to support the economy, 2020</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Deb Haaland becomes the first Native American to lead a cabinet agency after being confirmed by the Senate as the new US Secretary of the Interior, 2021</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">An atmospheric river creates a storm across California, bringing widespread flooding and power outages, 2023</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">*The first actual working model, at Coney Island, was built four years later.</span></p>messymimihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10649529601786689712noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-917428205224357542.post-19078677240887991472024-03-14T00:00:00.037-05:002024-03-14T00:00:00.125-05:00Gotcha! (Six Sentence Story), Good Fences, Sammy’s Poetry Day and Brian’s Thankful Thursday<p><span style="color: #351c75;"> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt; text-size-adjust: auto;">***********************************</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVaT-SvQg7kCnkjyW3kKboQSPwOUJqdXtJxON9Ew0uIVcENlm8lAlvRSp3KCZVXiPiMqObW7d-RdQEPQWwO4Zu6wjAXNUI27Rc-SfxwsiilQ0VY9Rcvc-N338bSGrV_zYtr7QWMDU7wF7pyTgmpqNd5mmEJdSniUDBbNXviM_swpI-JqQjeuD3KVLH4t1q/s200/Six%20Sentence%20Story%20Girlie.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVaT-SvQg7kCnkjyW3kKboQSPwOUJqdXtJxON9Ew0uIVcENlm8lAlvRSp3KCZVXiPiMqObW7d-RdQEPQWwO4Zu6wjAXNUI27Rc-SfxwsiilQ0VY9Rcvc-N338bSGrV_zYtr7QWMDU7wF7pyTgmpqNd5mmEJdSniUDBbNXviM_swpI-JqQjeuD3KVLH4t1q/s1600/Six%20Sentence%20Story%20Girlie.jpg" width="200" /></span></a></div><span style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">She was having a lovely day.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Strolling through the shopping mall, she stopped wherever her fancy took her, tried things on, bought some, left others, she even stopped at the food court and treated herself to an ice cream.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">A couple of her favorite scented candles were last on her list to look for, so she went to the shop and took time to sniff at several of the different ones, choosing her two favorites and one new one to try.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">As she checked out, digging through her purse for her wallet, the clerk noticed she had what looked like a TV remote control in there.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">With a smile the clerk said, "Um, did you mean to put the TV remote in your purse today?"</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">She laughed and answered, "My husband wouldn't come shopping with me, and this was the meanest thing I could think of to do to get him back!"</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Linking up with Denise at <a href="http://www.girlieontheedge1.wordpress.com" target="_blank">Girlie On The Edge Blog</a>, where she hosts <a href="https://fresh.inlinkz.com/party/2977bfefb3e945dba4e5e66444d8f63f" target="_blank">Six Sentence Stories</a>, and the cue is Remote. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; 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<br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">***********************************</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">While Good Fences Around the World seems to have gone the way of the dodo bird, i still enjoy looking for and posting interesting fences, so i will!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdlldGa59Osv8wD3jE6m-bPzbjgHyMQGo0Ryas7gYZ9430IjEn_TzrjpEjBiJBltsGF6Rx6mQC2gKAWwuiADH1zKm1SJdKtbP6ucBVob5eNPJuoFvz-rOrcKA_tCIaRuEcjq1INpZD87z6r-h0g0tXArQQWVMqpxoBflSF7qxRemt9pClPxaQXKsiMWsXR/s651/sams-poetrycorner-logo2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><img border="0" data-original-height="488" data-original-width="651" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdlldGa59Osv8wD3jE6m-bPzbjgHyMQGo0Ryas7gYZ9430IjEn_TzrjpEjBiJBltsGF6Rx6mQC2gKAWwuiADH1zKm1SJdKtbP6ucBVob5eNPJuoFvz-rOrcKA_tCIaRuEcjq1INpZD87z6r-h0g0tXArQQWVMqpxoBflSF7qxRemt9pClPxaQXKsiMWsXR/s320/sams-poetrycorner-logo2.png" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">It's <a href="https://onespoiledcat.wordpress.com" target="_blank">Angel Sammy's Poetry Day</a>! <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This week's image and my poem: <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="554" data-original-width="554" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNv67IqGwV5U6s9OZybE-r-AVAQdBtT4QRRvEsEUtGflIn4iEKGDGfXIdusTG-Zpckt6OA955Tv_0E_92Z6pJ3m50D3CjwjuKIH2XBN3V9QWwzeCd_2QD41u_Vl0IMlMzcnJzGMVfoaS4Ud_ZJuO1WNwLla7Rf5Ls8pIt8DZAMvHHvbYEblwVXjj7qHXv2/w400-h400/photopoemmar6-2024.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span>
<br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Don't think I'm rude</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">I'm a real cool dude</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Don't mean to make anyone mad.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">I plain love to ride</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Show my wheels with pride,</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">I want to be just like my Dad!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">***********************************</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzxrRQ4VtfiCJH8EWJiBOaKRaLl5dzfAcOSxUytBeNvgHH_bHRUUcbmi98x35t524lrhVNPMQRZHblMillGIa7-7Tb6kHCrizoaYvDjqBUkeX2GZ3eP8GZvl37QdZ6EPZsbHMkXZ6uLjOxjkBoPlEYk5s5mY7wOjJ1ybvWNlnpwf55fZBIfbDc1Ti6rXiH/s500/BriansHome-ThankfulThursday-BlogHop.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzxrRQ4VtfiCJH8EWJiBOaKRaLl5dzfAcOSxUytBeNvgHH_bHRUUcbmi98x35t524lrhVNPMQRZHblMillGIa7-7Tb6kHCrizoaYvDjqBUkeX2GZ3eP8GZvl37QdZ6EPZsbHMkXZ6uLjOxjkBoPlEYk5s5mY7wOjJ1ybvWNlnpwf55fZBIfbDc1Ti6rXiH/s320/BriansHome-ThankfulThursday-BlogHop.png" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Angel Brian's Family of <a href="https://brianshomeblog.com/" target="_blank">Brian's Home</a> hosts the Thankful Thursday Blog Hop. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It's time to share something for which i am thankful. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Today i am thankful we have been able to let Tripod SissyCat sit on the porch a while in the evenings again. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>She does love her time on the porch.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; 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<br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">***********************************</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Today is:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Constitution Day -- Andorra</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Dita e Veres -- Albania (Summer Day)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Festival of Veturius Mamurius -- Ancient Roman Calendar (festival of armor makers)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Genius Day -- for Einstein, of course</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">International Ask A Question Day -- because that's what geniuses do</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Learn about Butterflies Day -- if you go looking for who started this holiday, you will find out lots about butterflies and nothing about him/her, which i guess makes it a success</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Moth-er Day -- for all individuals and museums that have moth collections; some websites have this listed as the day before Mother's Day</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Mother Tongue Day -- Estonia</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">National Heroes Day -- Saint Vincent and Grenadines</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">National Potato Chip Day</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">National Pi Day - Why today? Because today is 3.14, the value of Pi.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">National Write Your Story Day</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Runic Half Month Beorc (Birch) begins</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Shopping Cart Day -- patent filed today in 1938 by Sylvan Goldman</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">St. Matilda, Queen of Germany's Day (Patron of dying children, disappointing children, falsely accused people, large families, people ridiculed for their piety, queens, second marriages, widows)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Ten Most Wanted Day -- the FBI started its list this day in 1950</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><a href=" https://www.unimentalhealthday.co.uk" target="_blank">University Mental Health and Wellbeing Day</a> -- UK (to focus on ensuring the positive wellbeing of people with <a href="http://www.umhan.com/" target="_blank">mental health difficulties</a>) <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">White Day -- China; Japan; South Korea; Taiwan (One month after Valentine's Day, which is the day women give gifts to men; today, the men return the favor.)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><a href="http://www.worldkidneyday.org/" target="_blank">World Kidney Day</a> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Birthdays Today:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Justin Bieber, 1994</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Colby O'Donis, 1989</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Taylor Hanson, 1983</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Grace Park, 1974</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Kirby Puckett, 1961</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Tamara Tunie, 1959</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Rick Dees, 1951</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Pam Ayres, 1947</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Billy Crystal, 1947</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Rita Tushingham, 1942</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Michael Caine, 1933</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Quincy Jones, 1933</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Frank Borman, 1928</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">S. Truet Cathy, 1921</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Hank Ketcham, 1920</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Horton Foote, 1916</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Les Brown, 1912</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Albert Einstein, 1879</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Casey Jones, 1864</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Lucy Hobbs Taylor, 1833</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Johann Strauss, Sr., 1804</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Debuting/Premiering Today:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"10 Most Wanted"(FBI list), 1950</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"The Mikado; or, The Town of Titipu"(Comic Opera), 1885</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"MacBeth"(Opera), 1847</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Today in History:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The Queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro, sells her kingdom to Venice, 1489</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">England grants a patent for Providence Plantations (now Rhode Island), 1644</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Scotland dismisses Willem III & Mary Stuart as king & queen, 1689</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin, 1794</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church founded in New York, 1821</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Gilbert and Sullivan's Mikado premiers in London, 1885</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">During the Great Blizzard of 1888, New York receives its second largest snowfall on record, 21", 1888</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The United States goes on the gold standard, 1900</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Hugo de Vries rediscovers Mendel's laws of genetics, 1900</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The first theater for rear movie projection is built, in NYC, 1931</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">A jury in Dallas, Texas, finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, assumed assassin of John F. Kennedy, 1964</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released, 1994</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on-board a Russian launch vehicle, 1995</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The Chinese city of Chongqing (formerly Chunking) is upgraded to a centrally administered municipality, 1997</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Over a million Lebanese people take to the streets of Beirut to protest against Syrian military presence, in what comes to be called the Cedar Revolution, 2005</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">After measuring its spin and parity, scientists at the Large Hadron Collider announce they firmly believe the particle discovered in July 2012 is a Higgs boson, 2013</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">President Putin orders Russian troops out of Syria, 2016</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">NASA releases data showing February 2016 warmest month ever recorded globally - 1.35C above the long-term average, 2016</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The European Court of Justice rules companies can ban staff from wearing religious symbols, including headscarves, 2017</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The world's oldest golf club, Muirfield in Scotland, votes to admit women as members after 273 years, 2017</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The NASA twin study finds that astronaut Scott Kelly is no longer identical to his twin brother after one year in space, 7% of his genes altered, 2018</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The World Happiness Report names Finland as world's happiest country and Burundi the unhappiest, 2018</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Angela Merkel is sworn in for her fourth term as German Chancellor, 2018</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Google announces its employee Emma Haruka Iwao has broken the world record for calculating pi, to 31.4 trillion digits, on pi day using Google Cloud, 2019</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">An Air Tahiti Nui plane safely completes the longest-ever scheduled passenger flight by distance, 15,715km/9,765m from French Polynesia to mainland France, 2020</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Czech free diver David Vencl completes a record dive beneath ice to 52.1 meters without a wetsuit in Switzerland’s Lake Sils in temperatures between 1C and 4C (34F to 39F), 2023</span></p>messymimihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10649529601786689712noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-917428205224357542.post-45174569795167912472024-03-13T00:00:00.022-05:002024-03-13T00:00:00.137-05:00Handy Kitchen Magnet (Wordless Wednesday) and Words for Wednesday<p><span style="color: #351c75;"> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt; text-size-adjust: auto;">***********************************</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOlb9XlVrBwExgn2ISZCnHcV7uoU_5clCGwjvOmUPP_p2b-v1364YhKKNwng8_bG-sjnUn8apHiWEn1s9Dfc52cOBNiskWWxBW9UsJpRIpej6-OKk52rTmTXpGvldVdsCkkfHfIoCGSLjYfgkdLKfU92JsWDjq9Zu4G4xqwrNPlwo-1Mi2MonrVh3Gs0Q7/s2138/20240308_100457.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2518" data-original-width="2084" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJmMZM3LzAoTkj_AVxNXzxhRVbEu16eafYEe2R_lahNS8mSqToG7pChensHcTEOEyOoYSL-inlhZRJjVjq1rmQaOlpmQEIvAZLMbYlBrElUz7vJgL2ez9kmURwPdypuxul2rgDC6JLwfJlxokvVz287xBsr10BSlrjshv67mSVHRFf8ST4xn1t5QWw1w7N/w331-h400/20240308_100543.jpg" width="331" /></span></a></div><span style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span></p><span style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Linking up with <a href="http://www.wordlesswednesday.blogspot.com" target="_blank">Wordless Wednesday</a>, <a href="http://www.bethere2day.com" target="_blank">BeThere2Day</a>, and Sandee at <a href="https://comedy-plus.com" target="_blank">Comedy Plus.</a> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; 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<br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">***********************************</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN2rdzVImsxD1dRXGe92abYM9SkxCSjX04oAq1xe2pmAMOZbnIGfseLkdr1mJzmXgFcrXhiYBaqWPqEpYqkmvZfqg4btY9DXwDDClwbdjEFDiF3wOQvsh6FGUSJyiFsvoOqi2iWi3WtvkT7qPog7blBPp3xiZyjGISVSP-ievmhfsKBWtzQOCmCD7NXj-1/s320/Words%20for%20Wednesday.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><img border="0" data-original-height="211" data-original-width="320" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN2rdzVImsxD1dRXGe92abYM9SkxCSjX04oAq1xe2pmAMOZbnIGfseLkdr1mJzmXgFcrXhiYBaqWPqEpYqkmvZfqg4btY9DXwDDClwbdjEFDiF3wOQvsh6FGUSJyiFsvoOqi2iWi3WtvkT7qPog7blBPp3xiZyjGISVSP-ievmhfsKBWtzQOCmCD7NXj-1/s1600/Words%20for%20Wednesday.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Words for Wednesday was begun by Delores and has become a moveable feast of word or picture or music prompts to encourage us to write stories, poems, or whatever strikes our fancy. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">This month, the prompts are being provided by <a href="https://river-driftingthroughlife.blogspot.com" target="_blank">River</a>. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s3" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt; text-decoration: underline;">This week's words/prompts are: </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">1. tinkering </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">2. vagabond </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">3. dreamed </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">4. sometimes </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">5. running </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">6. choose </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">7. Sunday</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Charlotte/Mother Owl's color of the month is Olive Yellow.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Some called him a VAGABOND, or tramp, or worse, beggar. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>He preferred Hobo, the traditional term, but like so many things these days, you had to be careful what word you chose. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Migrant worker was the current iteration, so he went with it, finding it easier to do that than enter a long explanation.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">After all, he didn't expect to be given anything, he expected to work and earn it. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The fact he moved around for his work as his fancy would CHOOSE didn't make him any less proud of his accomplishments. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>He always left behind a job well done, even for employers who were less than honest knowing they'd get theirs someday, and he wanted to be welcomed back to work again by the good ones if he came that way later.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">When he couldn't get work, he'd do some TINKERING, making things to sell. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Seldom did he just accept a handout and only once, when he was very ill, did he actually beg for help. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>He didn't want to wear out the good will of generous people when he was able to provide for himself. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>After all, there might always be another hobo coming along who would need the assistance worse than he did.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">SOMETIMES he DREAMED of settling down in one area, but always his feet would get itchy after a while and he'd be on his way. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>He knew he was RUNNING from his past but in order not to do too much thinking about it, he preferred to keep on the move.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Today was SUNDAY, a good day in his estimation. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>He had a respect for most churches and church people, not letting the bad apples spoil his opinion. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>He'd put on his best Olive Yellow shirt and he'd go to the service, letting it be known he was in town looking for work. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Usually he'd get invited to come out to a farm and spend a few days working, often getting a good Sunday dinner into the bargain.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">If that didn't happen, sometimes business owners had things they needed done but didn't want to hire on another full time employee, or a local owner of a large home would want garden or yard work done.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Anyway, it gave him a chance to not think too much about days gone by keeping busy with work, and besides eating, that was the main reason he lived this life anyway.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">***********************************</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Today is:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Africa Scout Day -- Africa (celebration of all Boy Scouts and Girl Guides in Africa)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Anniversary of the Election of Pope Francis</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Ear Muff Day -- invented by Chester Greenwood in 1873, when he was only 15; if you need them today, keep a good thought for Chester</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Good Samaritan Involvement Day -- emphasizing the importance of unselfish aid to others</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Kasuga Matsuri -- Kasuga Grand Shrine, Nara, Japan (Monkey Festival)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">K-9 Veterans Day -- US (on the day in 1942 the US Army K-9 Corps was established)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">National Coconut Tort Day</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">National Decoration Day -- Liberia</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">National Jewel Day -- for no other reason than that someone who liked jewels wanted a holiday for them</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">National Open An Umbrella Indoors Day -- an experiment in whether or not bad luck ensues</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><a href="http://www.eatright.org/resource/food/resources/national-nutrition-month/registered-dietitian-nutrition-day" target="_blank">Registered Dietitian Nutritionist Day</a> -- US <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">St. Ansovinus of Camerino (Patron protector of crops)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Uranus Day -- the planet was discovered this day in 1781</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Birthdays Today:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Emile Hirsch, 1985</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Rachael Bella, 1984</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Will Clark, 1964</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Adam Clayton, 1960</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Glenne Headly, 1957</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Dana Delany, 1956</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Deborah Raffin, 1953</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Charo, 1951</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">William H. Macy, 1950</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Neil Sedaka, 1939</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Helen "Callaghan" Candaele Saint Aubin, 1929</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">William Casey, 1913</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">L. Ron Hubbard. 1911</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Sammy Kaye, 1910</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Walter Annenberg, 1908</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Percival Lowell, 1855</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Lorenzo Delmonico, 1813</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Joseph Priestly, 1733</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Debuting/Premiering Today:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"The Larry King Show"(TV), 1983</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Same Time, Next Year"(Play), 1975</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Brigadoon"(Musical), 1947</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Three Musketeers"(Musical), 1928</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"The Pink Lady"(Musical), 1911</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Marie Magdalena"(Opera), 1846</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Médée"(Opera), 1797</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Today in History:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Twelfth recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet, 607</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Spanish explorer Cortez lands in Mexico, 1519</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The Spanish fleet occupies Djerba, at Tripoli, 1560</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Cambridge College is renamed Harvard for clergyman John Harvard, 1639</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Jews are denied the right to build a synagogue in New Amsterdam, 1656</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Massachusetts gains title to Maine for $6,000, 1677</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The twenty-seventh recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet, 1759</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">William Herschel discovers Uranus, 1781</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The Uncle Sam cartoon figure makes its debut in the NY Lantern weekly, 1852</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The US Senate begins Pres Andrew Johnson's impeachment trial, 1868</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Oxford defeats Cambridge in their first golf match, 1878</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The Siege of Khartoum, Sudan begins, Madhist Sudanese against the Egyptian, British, and loyalist Sudanese forces, 1884</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">In France the length of the workday for women and children is limited to 11 hours by law, 1900</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Mongolia (formerly Outer Mongolia) declares independence from China, 1921</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">A law is passed in the US state of Tennessee prohibiting the teaching of evolution, 1925</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Clyde Tombaugh announces the discovery of Pluto at Lowell Observatory, 1930</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Rotaract begins as a youth program of Rotary International, 1968</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module, 1969</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The Seikan Tunnel, the longest undersea tunnel in the world, opens between Aomori and Hakodate, Japan, 1988</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">India's Missionaries of Charity chooses Sister Nirmala to succeed Mother Teresa as its leader, 1997</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Gold prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange hit $1,000 per ounce for the first time, 2008</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">A Harvard Medical School study claims that red meat increases the risk of death and has additional negative health implications, 2012</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">In Greenland, the Siumut party wins the parliamentary election, setting up Aleqa Hammond to become the country's first female Prime Minister, 2013</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio is elected the new pope, taking the papal name Pope Francis, 2013</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Scientists announce they have concluded that a large ocean exists beneath the icy surface of Ganymede, the largest moon of Jupiter; the discovery was made by using the Hubble Space Telescope to observe aurora movements at the moon's poles, 2014</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The home of civil rights activists Medgar and Myrlie Evers is established as a national monument in Jackson, Mississippi, by a land bill signed President Trump, 2019</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Covic19 is declared a national emergency in the US, 2020</span></p>messymimihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10649529601786689712noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-917428205224357542.post-48486543664557786992024-03-12T00:00:00.052-05:002024-03-12T00:00:00.131-05:00It’s Not Easy Being Grown, a Random and Happy Tuesday Post<p><span style="color: #351c75;"> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt; text-size-adjust: auto;">***********************************</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7yqK7WCIs93J8Ko_d5EbzRw2y-1Akt6mrc0aj67X6NX3STGdsOlH0Uxl3Mwdj3tRTrc2QqI4ciCa0Ncl2edFyQ7VTu0mMewQiBbTzu2peM9DPVEWe8GzFqiX_QW6zQE-U57dfysH4C6xff3vwYeAcVEXq2K6dHWyfldekc7pPRVQaamGtUDbMEBKbDVkV/s200/aabHappyTues-Blog-Hop-Badge-125-px-3.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7yqK7WCIs93J8Ko_d5EbzRw2y-1Akt6mrc0aj67X6NX3STGdsOlH0Uxl3Mwdj3tRTrc2QqI4ciCa0Ncl2edFyQ7VTu0mMewQiBbTzu2peM9DPVEWe8GzFqiX_QW6zQE-U57dfysH4C6xff3vwYeAcVEXq2K6dHWyfldekc7pPRVQaamGtUDbMEBKbDVkV/s1600/aabHappyTues-Blog-Hop-Badge-125-px-3.jpeg" width="200" /></span></a></div><span style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_SUNbinZsqoTw5oSaOoJ7uqnekDO-Yb5hZwq6p3RsjjeA3ije9oBuSvxtBJzZT2_Mi7QZU8GbFRzfmWAxK_ablTS0Y5maY0RSIafae5cPdeFhtZ8vt2koDDxqVr5beVOpFVFq-k6I-5xLMQxoGN-oTPUfpBkZKvnlGx5PwsosLnQyo0e4AhTHO18CbqDw/s247/aabcrandomtuesday2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><img border="0" data-original-height="205" data-original-width="247" height="205" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_SUNbinZsqoTw5oSaOoJ7uqnekDO-Yb5hZwq6p3RsjjeA3ije9oBuSvxtBJzZT2_Mi7QZU8GbFRzfmWAxK_ablTS0Y5maY0RSIafae5cPdeFhtZ8vt2koDDxqVr5beVOpFVFq-k6I-5xLMQxoGN-oTPUfpBkZKvnlGx5PwsosLnQyo0e4AhTHO18CbqDw/s1600/aabcrandomtuesday2.jpg" width="247" /></span></a></div><span style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">It's time once again for a random and happy Tuesday, linking up with Stacy's Random Thoughts at <a href="http://stacyuncorked.com" target="_blank">Stacy Uncorked</a> and Sandee at <a href="https://comedy-plus.com" target="_blank">Comedy Plus</a>. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">I knew from checking the schedule the week before Carl has work every day this week, but things were eerily quiet when i arrived yesterday.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">He was still showering, so i decamped to the laundry room to asses and to make sure i wasn't there if he came out of the shower without dressing first, which he sometimes does, especially if he doesn't know i'm there.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">I found some work cut out for me.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi30KhxRNRhqO18A6P0mB6pK4SoqakQUcePWv-MMlFeYeXHGaYznNqyU4n6wrJBTniJsu2RFVQB2fR2U0lblQv36t__K3n026d50MIx9aFI1P2I9TxCKM7O3KYkEQg1ori0vaBKttJ7Q8qCnBYOLIJG2OTu0fVgzv2YrbPf2fBhYx97YN09-09cFeCxTA_-/s4624/20240311_062556.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span>
<br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">When i did see him, the first thing he said was, "I had an oopsie. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Tissue. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Um..."</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">I took care of it, i told him. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It happens.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">He continued to the topic of church. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>He'd gone to a different church this weekend, and the pastor's topic was evangelism.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Carl's take away from that was, "It's not very comfortable."</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Yep, it can be uncomfortable, sharing your faith. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>These days, it can sadly also be dangerous.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">As he headed to the sink to brush his teeth, i handed him an apron and he put it on, and when i'd turned around, he'd already discarded it. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Under ten seconds, a new record. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I stopped him and got him to put it back on.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">His next topic was something about noises worms make. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I didn't <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>know they make noise, but he saw something which makes him think they do. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>He says it sounds weird. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I'll pass on looking that one up.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"It's getting hard," he said. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>What is? i asked. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>"Getting together with friends on weekends. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>You try to make plans...busy."</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">It's not easy being a grown-up, i noted. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Everybody has jobs and stuff to do.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">He enjoyed every bite of his breakfast as long as he possibly could, then rushed for the door, stopping over and over to pick up and try to tidy.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Shoo! i told him. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Once i arrive, that's my job.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">He shooed and i found myself not only picking tissue out of the washer, dryer, and clothes but finding it all over the floor, and even almost behind the furniture.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><br />
</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGA6duS3V0WXqhp9RgaLG9Db7DXH3BDA-x4Ww5fYwiU1UqnBdUAvC8miJjdnLVxqQSVMlpLQs4emQs6xM7ja6IKMcufMgeIDcmlawt2YB_Z00lGYjPltlLcRCGRQvU2fbg8WbNJ7QCXaRsaMKKKrvsXJdsOZks3cjshkzUSpDi-buhmuJf5iPXUq1roewH/s4624/20240311_071035.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2084" data-original-width="4624" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGA6duS3V0WXqhp9RgaLG9Db7DXH3BDA-x4Ww5fYwiU1UqnBdUAvC8miJjdnLVxqQSVMlpLQs4emQs6xM7ja6IKMcufMgeIDcmlawt2YB_Z00lGYjPltlLcRCGRQvU2fbg8WbNJ7QCXaRsaMKKKrvsXJdsOZks3cjshkzUSpDi-buhmuJf5iPXUq1roewH/w400-h180/20240311_071035.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; 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margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Carl has talent, you gotta admit.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">In honor of weekend get-togethers that don't happen as often as we want when we grow<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>up, some funnies.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikdWz7yD23LPqHsn1K4WKTS03Acs0p3ZUpE3lAcPVqKDKWdbpmxVOgY3MZp31KNdev-0_zyD9gvIxiCZPn9dpWdctBBHmepAy83xQT5py5eaZ3dRFpeKdFkLsPMd7zvxim-yBm4ZTvMGMHu0k9nX3RJc3VMDn3clTJBtiyF0uVIke3KOTT6DQJ5_I9wDuY/s626/570324af-d02a-4d08-b471-f489c65f28eb.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Arbor Day -- China; Taiwan</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Birthday of Wenchang Wang, the God of Literature -- China</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Donkey Appreciation Day -- formerly celebrated, but the lowly donkey is no longer as indispensable as he was; if you share my fondness for beasts of burden, celebrate it anyway</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Girl Scouts Birthday -- US</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Kronprinsessans Namnsdag -- Sweden (Name Day of HRH Crown Princess Victoria, the Heir Apparent; an official flag day)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Lesser Eleusinian Mysteries -- Ancient Greek Calendar (three day festival, dates approximate; celebrates the marriage of Kore and Dionysos)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Martyrdom of Hypatia of Alexandria -- in 415, she was murdered for the three crimes of being intelligent, female, and pagan</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">National Baked Scallops Day</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">National Day -- Mauritius (anniversary of independence in 1968)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Organize Your Home Office Day -- Lisa Kanarek wants everyone to organize their home office on the second Tuesday in March; my response is: <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>in one day! <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is she out of her mind!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Plant a Flower Day -- sponsored by the <a href="http://www.nwf.org/news-and-magazines/national-wildlife/gardening/archives/2010/plant-a-flower-day.aspx" target="_blank">National Wildlife Federation</a>; now's a good time to give wildlife friendly perennials a head start, starting them indoors if you have to </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">St. Gregory the Great's Day (Patron of choir boys, educators, masons, musicians, popes, schoolchildren, singers, stonemasons, stone cutters, students, and teachers; England; Kercem, Malta; Legazpi, Philippines; Montone, Italy; San Gregorio nelle Alpi, Italy; West Indies; against gout and plague)</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>note that Pope St. Gregory is also celebrated on Sept. 3, the date he was elected pope</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Graekarismessa (Mass of St. Gregory) -- Torshavn, Faroe Islands (traditional day on which the oystercatcher, their symbolic national bird, returns)</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Gregoru Diena -- Ancient Latvian Calendar (Gregory's Day, similar to Groundhog Day for weather prediction)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">St. Seraphina's Day (Patron of the disabled and handicapped, and of spinners)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">World Day Against Cyber Censorship -- sponsored by Reporters Without Borders and Amnesty International</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Youth Day -- Zambia</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Anniversaries Today:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Mick Jagger marries Bianca Perez Morena de Macias, 1971</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Paul McCartney marries Linda Louise Eastman, 1969</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Birthdays Today:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Frank Catalano, 1978</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Aaron Eckhart, 1968</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">David Daniels, 1966</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Darryl Strawberry, 1962</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Marlon Jackson, 1957</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Rob Cohen, 1949</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">James Taylor, 1948</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Liza Minnelli, 1946</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Al Jarreau, 1940</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Barbara Feldon, 1933</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Andrew Young, 1932</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Edward Albee, 1928</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Wally Schirra, 1923</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Jack Kerouac, 1922</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Gordon MacRae, 1921</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, 1881</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Simon Newcomb, 1835</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Charles Cunningham Boycott, 1832</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Clement Studebaker, 1821</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Debuting/Premiering Today:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Moses und Aaron"(Opera), 1954</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Fervaal"(Opera; d'Indy Op. 40), 1897</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Simon Boccanegra"(Opera), 1857</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Today in History:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Martyrdom of Hypatia of Alexandria, philosopher, 415</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Witiges, king of the Ostrogoths ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving the city in the hands of the victorious Roman general, Belisarius, 538</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Orvieto, Italy, rules it will behead and burn Jewish-Christian couples, 1350</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Jews are expelled from Syria, 1496</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">New Jersey becomes an English colony, 1664</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The first steam engine in America installed, to pump water from a mine, 1755</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Andrew Watson makes his Scotland debut as the world's first black international football player and captain, 1881</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">In Vicksburg, Mississippi, Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time, 1894</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The first main line electric train in UK, from Liverpool to Southport, begins running, 1904</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the United States, by Juliette Gordon Lowe, 1912</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The foundation stone of the new Australian capital in Canberra is laid, 1913</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Mohandas Gandhi begins 200m (300km) march protesting British salt tax, 1930</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism, 1947</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The Church of England ordains its first female priests, 1994</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO, 1999</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Financier Bernard Madoff plead guilty in New York to scamming $18 billion, the largest in Wall Street history, 2009</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The U.S. Census Bureau reports the world now has 7 billion people, 2012</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">JOGMEC becomes the first to successfully extract methane hydrate from seabed deposits, 2013</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Research shows Chinese cites have decreased pollution by 32 percent on average in just four years, 2018</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Tens of thousands of farmers from Indian state Maharashtra end protests over loan waivers, prices and land rights after promises from state officials and walking 167km to Mumbai, 2018</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Researchers claim more births are resulting in twins than ever before in history, with almost 1 in 42 pregnancies resulting in multiples, 2021</span></p>messymimihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10649529601786689712noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-917428205224357542.post-91258587211367099462024-03-11T00:00:00.051-05:002024-03-11T00:00:00.139-05:00Where You Goin'? (Awww Monday), Inspiring Quote of the Week and Poetry Monday<p><span style="color: #351c75;"> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt; text-size-adjust: auto;">**********************************</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrKN72STqDML-_soaTwaSEM442D6BLdKK_GajL3B3ncq75b6gjOQxNsVPIO5wSSDMgUm_eQGNh3FRPNtLNjhxEX5N7-jBqI7oyOQvpvCHEGzeF5iMbYxDDLL5KHnYPF_AZApgmc-elMwxc4THDiZ_n4c6aZBwDjGjJfA3uV81V5NT5KoOXgN1_5g-_jsWX/s200/AwwwMondays-Blog-Hop-Badge-300-px-1.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrKN72STqDML-_soaTwaSEM442D6BLdKK_GajL3B3ncq75b6gjOQxNsVPIO5wSSDMgUm_eQGNh3FRPNtLNjhxEX5N7-jBqI7oyOQvpvCHEGzeF5iMbYxDDLL5KHnYPF_AZApgmc-elMwxc4THDiZ_n4c6aZBwDjGjJfA3uV81V5NT5KoOXgN1_5g-_jsWX/s1600/AwwwMondays-Blog-Hop-Badge-300-px-1.jpeg" width="200" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span></div><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Awww Monday is hosted by Sandee at <a href="https://comedy-plus.com" target="_blank">Comedy Plus</a>.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Join us every Monday for Awww...Mondays. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Post a picture that makes you say Awww... and that's it.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Make sure you get the code from Sandee's site, linked above, and leave a link to your post so we can visit you. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>What better way to start the week than with a smile!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Even though he goes for a walk with us on Sunday mornings, Mr. Cal always seems to be wondering what's up when we head to church, he does not like being left behind.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; 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<br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">***********************************</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Sparks is the brainchild of Annie of McGuffy's Reader, who wanted us to post something positive and uplifting at the start of the week. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>While she no longer blogs, i like to post an Inspiring Quote of the Week in her honor. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; 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min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">***********************************</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Our dear friend Diane is taking a break</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">accommodations we must make</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">we miss her poetry and wit</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">so carry on as Poetry Monday's a hit!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Poetry Monday was started by Diane at <a href="https://dlt-lifeontheranch.blogspot.com" target="_blank">On The Alberta/Montana Border</a>. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://krydderuglen.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Charlotte/Mother Owl</a> and i are keeping it going while she takes a blog break, we hope temporarily. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Anyone else is welcome to join in the fun, just let us know!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">This week the theme is Distancing. <a href="http://procrastinatingdonkey.blogspot.com/"><span class="s2" style="font-size: 17pt;"></span></a> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s3" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt; text-decoration: underline;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">To keep distance from</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">brother-in-law lent money</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">fifty's worth losing</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">*******</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The scientists who smash atoms</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">know the danger from being too near</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">they have to keep a distance</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">if they hold their lives to be dear.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">So how to watch what's going on,</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">do they have any hope?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Of course, the just had to build</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">a big collide-oscope!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">*******</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s3" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt; text-decoration: underline;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Future themes are:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Mar. 11 distancing (today!)</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Mar. 18 meaning</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Mar. 25 happy news</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Apr. 1 shelf</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Apr. 8 order</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Apr. 15 tape</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Apr. 22 running</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Apr. 29 quiet</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">***********************************</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Today is:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Australia Celebrations:</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Adelaide Cup Day -- SA</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Labour Day -- VIC</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Canberra Day -- ACT</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Eight Hours Day -- Tas (a/k/a Labour Day)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><a href="http://www.brainawareness.org/" target="_blank">Brain Awareness Week</a> begins-- the global campaign to increase public awareness of the progress and benefits of brain research <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Charter Day -- Pennsylvania, US</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Commonwealth Day -- Commonwealth of Nations (the 54 Countries which today celebrate their ties to one another; His Majesty the King will issue a special message to all Commonwealth Nations citizens through their respective Presidents and Prime Ministers)</span><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Debunking Day -- internet holiday possibly started by someone tired of internet myths</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Feast Day of Hercules/Herakles -- Ancient Roman and Greek Calendars</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Feast of Tou Tei -- Macau (earth god; celebrated on the second day of the second lunar month, so if i've mixed up the date in Gregorian, i'm sorry, i tried)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Frankenstein's Birthday -- Mary Shelley's famous tale was published today in 1818</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Johnny Appleseed Day / Apple Appreciation Day -- death anniversary of John "Johnny Appleseed" Chapman; some say March 18</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">King Moshoeshoe I's Anniversary -- Lesotho</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">National Heroes and Benefactors Day -- Belize</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">National No Smoking Day -- UK (for help quitting, <a href="http://www.bhf.org.uk/heart-health/risk-factors/smoking" target="_blank">go here</a>) </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">National Oatmeal-Nut Waffles Day</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Ramadan -- Islam (began sunset yesterday, through April 21)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Reestablishment of Independence -- Lithuania (independence from the USSR)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">St. Eulogius of Cordova's Day (Patron of carpenters, coppersmiths)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Taranaki Provincial Anniversary Day -- Taranaki, New Zealand</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Workplace Napping Day -- on this, the Monday after DST begins, show your boss the studies that highlight the benefit of power naps</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>some sites call it National Napping Day; either way, lie down and be counted!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">World Day of Muslim Culture, Peace, Dialogue and Film -- International</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Worship of Tools Day -- begun by someone who knew we would be nowhere without tools</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Zhonghe/Longtaitou -- China (Double Second Festival and Blue Dragon Festival, the time to wake the dragons that control the rains; celebrate the 2nd day of the 2nd lunar month the modern way now by cleaning the house, getting a hair cut, and eating popcorn, pancakes, and noodles)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Anniversaries Today:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Romeo & Juliet's wedding day, according to Shakespeare, 1302</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Emperor Napoleon married by proxy to Archduchess Marie Louise, 1810</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Birthdays Today:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Terrance Howard, 1969</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Alex Kingston, 1963</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Curtis Brown, Jr., 1956</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Douglas Adams, 1952</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Bobby McFerrin, 1950</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Jerry Zucker, 1950</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Dominique Sanda, 1948</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Charles W. Swan, 1942</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Antonin Scalia, 1936</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Sam Donaldson, 1934</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Rupert Murdoch, 1931</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Ralph Abernathy, 1926</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Mercer Ellington, 1919</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Ezra Jack Keats, 1916</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Harold Wilson, 1916</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Lawrence Welk, 1903</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Robert Treat Paine, 1731</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Torquato Tasso, 1544</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Debuting/Premiering Today:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Cops"(TV), 1989</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"A Raisin in the Sun"(Play), 1959</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Don Carlos"(Opera), 1867</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Rigoletto"(Opera), 1851</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"I Capuleti e i Montecchi"(Opera), 1830</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"The Daily Courant"(Newspaper; first British daily paper), 1702</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Today in History:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Thutmose III, Pharaoh of Egypt, dies (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th Dynasty),BC1425</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Volcano Etna in Italy erupts killing 15,000, 1669</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The first English daily newspaper "Daily Courant," begins publishing, 1702</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Queen Anne withholds Royal Assent from the Scottish Militia Bill, the last time a British monarch vetoes legislation, 1708</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is published, 1818</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Unhappy with translational differences regarding the Treaty of Waitangi, chiefs Hone Heke, Kawiti and Maori tribe members chop down the British flagpole for a fourth time and drive settlers out of Kororareka, New Zealand, 1845</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine and Robert Baldwin become the first Prime Ministers of the Province of Canada to be democratically elected under a system of responsible government, 1848</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The Great Sheffield Flood: The largest man-made disaster ever to befall England kills over 250 people in Sheffield, 1864</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The Meiji Japanese government officially annexes the Ryukyu Kingdom into what would become the Okinawa prefecture,1872</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The Great Blizzard of 1888 begins, lasting 4 days, 1888</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The first confirmed cases of the Spanish Flu are observed at Fort Riley, Kansas, 1918</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The Bank of Canada opens, 1935</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Reginald Weit became the first African American to play in the US Tennis Open, 1948</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun," the first Broadway play by a black woman, opens, 1959</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Mt. Etna in Sicily erupts, 1974</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Pakistan successfully conducts a cold test of a nuclear weapon, 1983</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Mikhail S Gorbachev replaces Konstantin Chernenko as Soviet leader, 1985</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Infosys becomes the first Indian company listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange, 1999</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Michelle Bachelet is inaugurated as first female president of Chile, 2006</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">An earthquake measuring 9.0 in magnitude strikes 130 km (81 mi) east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami killing thousands of people and triggering the second largest nuclear accident in history, 2011</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">England retains the Six Nations Rugby Championship with a 61-21 win over Scotland at Twickenham; this is England's 11th consecutive Six Nations win and equals NZ's record of 18 consecutive international wins, 2017</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">China's National People's Congress approves removal of term limits for a leader, which will allow Xi Jinping to retain the presidency for life, 2018</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Covid19 is declared a pandemic by the WHO, 2020</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The journal Nature reports on the smallest dinosaur ever discovered; its skull was preserved in a piece of amber smaller than an average human fingertip, 2020</span></p>messymimihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10649529601786689712noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-917428205224357542.post-8544970216287004452024-03-10T00:00:00.045-06:002024-03-10T00:00:00.385-06:00How Old? (Cajun Joke), Sunday Selections and Sunday Selfie<p><span style="color: #351c75;"> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt; text-size-adjust: auto;">***********************************</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Just because Sandee of <a href="https://comedy-plus.com" target="_blank">Comedy Plus</a> is no longer hosting a Silly Sunday blog hop, do not expect me to quit telling Cajun jokes, especially as it has now become a habit.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Grandma asked me if i knew what #2 Son was doing for his birthday, meaning the snake catching. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>We discussed a bit about birthdays and how hers is coming up in May.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Clothile done ax Boudreaux, "You t'ink I be goin' live to be a hunnert?"</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">An' Boudreaux say, "Mais, non, not if'n you stay t'irty-nine ever' birfday de res' o' you life!"</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">***********************************</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Sunday Selections was started as a way for bloggers to use photos that might otherwise just languish in their files. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The rules have been relaxed, and it is now simply a showcase for your photos, new or old, good or bad, although nothing rude, please. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It was hosted by <a href="http://river-driftingthroughlife.blogspot.com " target="_blank">River</a>, who still participates, and is now hosted by <a href="https://myjustsostory.blogspot.com/ " target="_blank">Elephant's Child</a> who is on a short blog break. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Pickings are still a bit slim, but I'm trying. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Next Sunday, i hope to have more.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; 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font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">***********************************</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoJERK3Xb1z9u_HieCH1EIvSe4uyQzql_ruJOsAOBJ2jev_5jiz6yIrMlnHaBHeOlJhuTDcN74KAkGghiuHEAGWGGt64YZ5qlav7niyPTeiCFfSCaAWgpTrSFvxnZaKM3-y8vqvHz8lIFJe-lsqICGMzROMA1Fg9L7_j_6XzPaeBr7z-kAE9WGPwCe00PE/s300/Cat4-001-300x300.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoJERK3Xb1z9u_HieCH1EIvSe4uyQzql_ruJOsAOBJ2jev_5jiz6yIrMlnHaBHeOlJhuTDcN74KAkGghiuHEAGWGGt64YZ5qlav7niyPTeiCFfSCaAWgpTrSFvxnZaKM3-y8vqvHz8lIFJe-lsqICGMzROMA1Fg9L7_j_6XzPaeBr7z-kAE9WGPwCe00PE/s1600/Cat4-001-300x300.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">This week, Link Linker the Stinker wants to join the Kitties Blue at <a href="https://thecatonmyhead.com" target="_blank">The Cat On My Head</a> for their Sunday Selfies Blog Hop. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">He insisted it be his "under the table" selfie.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1w7hWQo2hexPa-CFhxa4MoZ3y9l5UJNoyU047FubEyJobsrkT17f7CXrGG_4iNg4Qzt5NWd-cxcwPoWOsm_M7iHW6YZfTcotw3upVbNEzCuuAzcN3E_G31ZDNIOFSNosw0DKkHHYEXjRCWvfQqIUPiSuse4GYJzLZwGChCADJ94BxQKpTFIuF6twjWUy5/s3218/20240309_173943.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="3218" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1w7hWQo2hexPa-CFhxa4MoZ3y9l5UJNoyU047FubEyJobsrkT17f7CXrGG_4iNg4Qzt5NWd-cxcwPoWOsm_M7iHW6YZfTcotw3upVbNEzCuuAzcN3E_G31ZDNIOFSNosw0DKkHHYEXjRCWvfQqIUPiSuse4GYJzLZwGChCADJ94BxQKpTFIuF6twjWUy5/w400-h250/20240309_173943.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><br /></span></div>I told him he looked like a hippie, you can't see his eyes, and he was proud of it!<br /></span><p></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">***********************************</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Today is:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Daylight Saving Time -- if your area is observing this, it switched over at two o'clock this morning; if you are just finding this out, you are already late!</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Check Your Smoke Alarms and Carbon Monoxide Detectors Day -- make sure the batteries are fresh and that they are in good working order</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Doctor's Day -- Venezuela</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Dream Day -- supposedly begun by an instructor at Columbia University as a day to concentrate on how to make your dreams come true</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Farvardigan -- Ancient Persia, Zoroastrians (10 day festival for the dead before Nowruz, the New Year)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Festival of Life in the Cracks Day -- internet holiday declared because this is where most of us are, and we deserve to be celebrated!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Girl Scout Sunday -- US (encouraging Girl Scouts to wear their uniforms to church services and represent their troop to their congregations; the first day of Girl Scout Week in the US)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Harriet Tubman Day -- anniversary of her death in 1913</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">International Day of Awesomeness -- Celebrate what is awesome about you - always on Chuck Norris' birth anniversary, because no one is more awesome than Chuck</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Laetare Sunday -- Western Christianity, 4th Sunday of Lent; related Observances</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Carnaval de la Laetare -- Stavelot, Belgium</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Mothering Sunday -- UK (fourth Sunday of Lent, originally a day to visit your "mother church" in the parish where you were raised, now celebrated as Mother's Day)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Mario Day -- for gamers, based on the date Mar 10</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Meatfare Sunday -- Orthodox Christian (final day on which meat may be consumed before the Lenten fast); related event:</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Maslenitsa -- Russia (between Meatfare Sunday and Cheesefare Sunday is Butter Week or Pancake Week, when you stuff yourself before the Orthodox Church Great Lent)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">National Blueberry Popover Day</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">National Pack Your Lunch Day -- because it's cheaper and healthier</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day -- US</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Ramadan begins -- Islam (at sunset, through the evening of April 10)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Shiogama Jinja Hote Festival -- Shiogama, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan (mikoshi parades and Shinto music)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">St. Kessog's Day (Patron of Lennox, Scotland; Scotland)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Telephone Day -- Bell sent the first message by phone, to Watson in the next room, this day in 1876</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Tibetan Uprising Day -- Tibetan Independence Supporters commemoration of the 1959 uprising</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Turkey Vultures Return to the Living Sign -- Canisteo, NY (San Juan Capistrano has swallows, and Canisteo has living trees planted to spell out the name of the valley where the turkey vultures/buzzards return each year, traditionally on St. Patrick's Day; through the 17th)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><a href="https://www.worldglaucomaweek.org/" target="_blank">World Glaucoma Week</a> begins -- to expand global awareness of the Silent Thief of Sight </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Birthdays Today:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Emily Osment, 1992</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Carrie Underwood, 1983</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Shannon Miller, 1977</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">John Hamm, 1971</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Edie Brickell, 1966</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Prince Edward, 1964</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Jasmine Guy, 1964</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Rick Rubin, 1963</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Pam Oliver, 1961</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Sharon Stone, 1958</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Shannon Tweed, 1957</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Kim Campbell, 1947</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Bob Greene, 1947</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Tom Scholz, 1947</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Chuck Norris, 1940</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Dave Rabe, 1940</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">James Earl Ray, 1928</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Pamela Mason, 1918</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Bix Beiderbecke, 1903</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Clare Boothe Luce, 1903</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Debuting/Premiering Today:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Buffy the Vampire Slayer"(TV), 1997</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"The Incredible Hulk"(TV), 1978</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Sweet Bird of Youth"(Play), 1959</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Today in History:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The Romans sink the Carthaginian fleet bringing the First Punic War to an end, BC241</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Jews are excluded from public office in the Roman Empire, 418</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">King Charles I dissolves Parliament; he calls it back 11 years later, 1629</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">English Quaker William Penn receives charter from Charles II, making him sole proprietor of colonial American territory Pennsylvania, 1681</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">French Huguenot Jean Calas, who was wrongly convicted of killing his son, dies after being tortured by authorities; the event inspired Voltaire to begin a campaign for religious tolerance and legal reform, 1762</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">John Stone, of Concord, Massachusetts, patents a pile driver, 1791</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">England begins its first modern census, 1801</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">In St. Louis, Missouri, a formal ceremony is conducted to transfer ownership of the Louisiana Territory from France to the United States, 1804</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The French Foreign Legion is established by King Louis-Philippe to support his war in Algeria, 1831</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Abraham Lincoln patents a device to help free ships in rivers from shallow water; he built a small scale model, but no full-size device was ever built, and makes him the only US president to hold a patent, 1849</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call by saying "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you," 1876</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Commissioner George Scott Railton and seven women officers landed at New York to officially begin the work of the Salvation Army in the US, 1880</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Almon Strowger, an undertaker in Topeka, Kansas, patents the Strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching, 1891</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The Courrières mine disaster, Europe's worst ever, kills 1099 miners in Northern France, 1906</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">After Bob Fitzsimmons KOs much larger Jim Corbett to win world HW championship he says, "The bigger they are, the harder they fall," 1896</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">China ends slavery, 1910</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in India, tried for sedition, and sentenced to six years in prison, only to be released after nearly two years for an appendicitis operation, 1922</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">In Memphis, Tennessee, James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King Jr.; he later retracts his guilty plea, 1969</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Astronomers discover rings around Uranus, 1977</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">In Haiti, Prosper Avril is ousted 18 months after seizing power in a coup, 1990</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The NASDAQ Composite stock market index peaks at 5132.52, signaling the beginning of the end of the dot-com boom, 2000</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars, 2006</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Carlos Slim becomes the first Mexican and person from an emerging economy to top Forbes Richest Person list, with net worth of US$53.5 billion, 2010</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">South Korean judges uphold their parliaments' decision to impeach President Park Geun-hye, 2017</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Washington University researchers put the global death toll of Covid-19 at 18.2 million, 2022</span></p>messymimihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10649529601786689712noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-917428205224357542.post-6580080734144917462024-03-09T18:50:00.000-06:002024-03-09T18:50:36.556-06:00Flying Ace (Six Sentence Story)<p><span style="color: #351c75;"> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt; text-size-adjust: auto;">***********************************</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTnkYea9WUHN02CCo8M_KBGojfeoUBHpGZsQOxW7XidlKEjJoxfaqTWoPjAbR3Pp4cyfH_5nbPL-ex6tSCY47q3RnFRqLDjigbus_0U8DRGdkJkRuw5BEXXei2qp3fimg9bZWl1wh74Wtr73owwiQ3es7_TPrBjf8DxdgY2eDn2J2OMAyU94ucwKTUeDcE/s200/Six%20Sentence%20Story%20Girlie.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTnkYea9WUHN02CCo8M_KBGojfeoUBHpGZsQOxW7XidlKEjJoxfaqTWoPjAbR3Pp4cyfH_5nbPL-ex6tSCY47q3RnFRqLDjigbus_0U8DRGdkJkRuw5BEXXei2qp3fimg9bZWl1wh74Wtr73owwiQ3es7_TPrBjf8DxdgY2eDn2J2OMAyU94ucwKTUeDcE/s1600/Six%20Sentence%20Story%20Girlie.jpg" width="200" /></span></a></div><span style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">His sons never knew, until they grew up, how difficult it was for their father to be the kind of man he was, deeply loving of his boys, supportive, a man they could admire and respect and who raised them well.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">They'd known their grandfather as a silent and rather solemn man; they had no idea he'd given so little of himself to their father, instead belittling and talking him down his whole life.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">When their father told his father he was joining the military to become a fighter pilot, his father told him flat out he'd never make it, he'd never be good enough; when he came home, he had been declared a flying ace in the ETO during WWII and awarded several medals, and his father never, ever said a word about it.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">When he started his own business, married, raised four fine young men, his father never said a word.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">At a marriage seminar he and his wife attended once, one assignment had been to write down the memories of positive interactions with your own father, and after 30 minutes all he'd come up with was the one time his uncle's hat had blown out the open window of the car while he, age 5, was in the back seat and the uncle accused him of throwing it out on purpose, his father had actually come to his defense and said, "He didn't do it, the wind did."</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Despite the austerity and severity of his own upbringing, he'd been a man and father to admired and emulated, very likely because he became to his boys everything he wished he'd had for himself.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Linking up with Denise at <a href="http://www.girlieontheedge1.wordpress.com" target="_blank">Girlie On The Edge Blog</a>, where she hosts Six Sentence Stories, and the cue is Ace.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">(Based on a true story I once read, and every time I think of "ace" or "flying ace," I think of this man.)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">***********************************</span></p>messymimihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10649529601786689712noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-917428205224357542.post-22472937192081049922024-03-09T00:00:00.018-06:002024-03-09T00:00:00.130-06:00Visits, Repairs, and Birthdays, a Ten Thinks of Thankful Post<p><span style="color: #351c75;"> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt; text-size-adjust: auto;">***********************************</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6FzYmSPXLog3BVO94BJHga4fBPU3upi2WTXORIMfSV5YczicUs0Xic4iA6x6jr8nzZ_o7VHdaaKC6PNzB7H3LmZArXcA7h0tiLcZWotqDzF5t_ouiU0aTjo8LaDjzfG5VTfQNq7l7DeP5VQJ01G3WLr2QiFx6buGtJaLf2G6MkI9Y9BQ4lFANU0xflnnN/s200/Kr6j62f.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6FzYmSPXLog3BVO94BJHga4fBPU3upi2WTXORIMfSV5YczicUs0Xic4iA6x6jr8nzZ_o7VHdaaKC6PNzB7H3LmZArXcA7h0tiLcZWotqDzF5t_ouiU0aTjo8LaDjzfG5VTfQNq7l7DeP5VQJ01G3WLr2QiFx6buGtJaLf2G6MkI9Y9BQ4lFANU0xflnnN/s1600/Kr6j62f.png" width="200" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">There are plenty of things for the Thankful Day list this week and one of my favorites was something I saw Grandpa doing last week.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">He sat me down at his computer to show me something and i noticed his mousepad is set to left-handed so he doesn't have to keep reaching for the far side of the pad. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I usually set a computer mouse to left-handed because i got used to doing it that way for the children (i have four lefties). <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Now my computer, which sits to my left, has the mousepad set that way so when i'm crossing over to hit it, i'm not having to reach for that far side either. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>A simple change but it makes things so much easier and i'm thankful.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Becca came to rEcess last Friday, her parents went out Saturday night and i went to sit with her, and then i got to take her to church as usual on Sunday. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Trifecta weekend!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Ms. JAI is no longer having sitters with her 24/7, which has her thrilled and me worried as she is still a huge fall risk. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I'm thankful she has been answering my good night texts checking up on her. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>She knows if she doesn't answer after two nights, i'm gonna bust the door down if i have to in order to check on her.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Ms. V and i had a great time on Tuesday going to the Ladies' Circle meeting. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It was a small turnout, only six of us, but we resisted the urge to just sit around the table and snack and directed ourselves to the book discussion, which was lively and we were thankful as we enjoyed it very much.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">(At least one person will ask, so i'll answer now. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>We are discussing J.I. Packer's </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt; text-decoration: underline;">Praying the Lord's Prayer, </span><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">and we were on the chapters about Deliver Us and From Evil. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>A lively discussion of the nature of evil and the Evil One was entered into by all.)</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">#1 Son needed some work on his car. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I'm thankful Sweetie got him to work the morning he dropped it off and we both finished work Thursday just in time to pick him up and take him to get the car and go to work an evening shift.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">I'm also thankful my Thursday client's husband texted me that evening to thank us for the work we do. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Mom and dad both have demanding jobs and with two kids at two different schools and in sports and other after school fun, well, it's hard and it makes me both thankful we can help them by cleaning the house twice a month and thankful all my kids are past that stage.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span>
<br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Ms. G only wanted two bags of bird seed, one case of soda, one case of sparkling water and one flat of litter, and i'm thankful, it was a lot less lifting than usual.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Red-headed Alec came to visit, quite out of the blue (he doesn't live in town any more) and i was so thankful to see him.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The cat shelter is quiet, and we are resting up for kitten season and thankful for the respite. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>We're also thankful the two cats brought in on an emergency basis Friday evening were feline leukemia and FIV negative. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(The elderly man who lived in a trailer and tamed them and got them to be friendly just died this week, an no one else in the trailer court can take them. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>They're sweet and will be put up for adoption soon.)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Best of all, yesterday was #2 Son's birthday! <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I'm thankful for him, for His Bride, and thankful he got to spend the day out in the swamp catching snakes, or as he likes to put it, making new friends!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Please write up your own list and link up to <a href="http://www.tenthingsofthankful.blogspot.com" target="_blank">Ten Things of Thankful</a>, where <a href="https://iwantbacksies.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Dyanne</a> and her co-hosts always have a warm welcome waiting. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><!--starts InLinkz code--></span></p><div class="inlinkz-widget" data-uuid="295a963f311947a4a9edc42951d662e8" style="background-color: #eceff1; border-bottom-left-radius: 7px; border-bottom-right-radius: 7px; border-radius: 7px; border-top-left-radius: 7px; border-top-right-radius: 7px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 30px 0px; text-align: center; width: 100%;"><div style="padding: 8px;"><p style="margin-bottom: 15px;"><span style="color: #351c75;">You are invited to the <strong>Inlinkz</strong> link party!</span></p><a href="https://fresh.inlinkz.com/p/295a963f311947a4a9edc42951d662e8" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: #209cee; background: rgb(32, 156, 238); border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; border-radius: 4px; border-top-left-radius: 4px; border-top-right-radius: 4px; padding: 5px 20px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #351c75;">Click here to enter</span></a></div></div><span style="display: none;"><script async="true" src="https://fresh.inlinkz.com/js/widget/load.js?id=c0efdbe6b4add43dd7ef"></script></span><span style="color: #351c75;"><!--ends InLinkz code-->
<br /></span><p></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">***********************************</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Today is:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Armored Warships Day -- the first battle between armored warships, the Monitor and the Merrimac, was this day in 1862</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Baron Bliss Day -- Belize</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Celebrate Your Name Week -- Saturday: <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Geneology Day, begin or continue the journey to learn about your family</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Daylight Saving Time begins tomorrow -- Bermuda; Canada (most regions); Cuba; Greenland (Thule Air Base only) Haiti; Mexico (some areas); Saint Pierre and Miquelon; The Bahamas; Turks and Caicos Islands; US (most areas)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Day to Mourn Slavery -- commemorates the day slavery was outlawed worldwide in 1927, and to mourn that it still exists</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Eid Al Moalim -- Lebanon (Teacher's Day)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><a href="http://www.getoveritday.com/" target="_blank">Get Over It Day™</a> -- halfway between Valentines and April Fools, a day to just get over something or someone that is bugging you </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">International Fanny Pack Day -- started by someone who really likes the things (although i do admit they come in handy for keeping your money with you at all times when you have a garage sale)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">National Crabmeat Day</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">National Meatball Day</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Panic Day -- a day in which to run around in a panic and tell everyone you can't take it any more, to get it all out of your system, i guess; sponsored by <a href="http://www.wellcat.com" target="_blank">Wellcat Holidays</a></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Saitousai -- Kashima-shi, Ibaraki-ken, Japan (festival to pray for good harvest that dates back to the Nara period of 710-794, and still includes traditional dress)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">St. Catherine of Bologna's Day (Patron of art, artists, Bologna Academy of Art, liberal arts, painters; against temptation)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">St. Dominic Savio's Day (Patron of boys, children's choirs, choir boys, choirs, falsely accused people, juvenile delinquents, and Pueri Cantores)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">St. Frances of Rome's Day (Patron of automobile drivers/motorists, cabbies/taxi drivers, lay people, people ridiculed for their piety, Roman housewives, widows)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Strinennia -- Slavic Pagan Calendar (festival to call birds and spring to come back)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Takaosan Hiwatari Matsuri -- Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(fire walking festival, usually on this date but can vary)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Anniversaries Today:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Napoléon Bonaparte marries his first wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais, 1796</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Gustav Mahler marries Alma Schindler, 1902</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Birthdays Today:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Emmanuel Lewis, 1971</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Juliette Binoche, 1964</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Terence John "Terry" Mulholland, 1963</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Linda Fiorentino, 1960</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Jeffrey Osborne, 1948</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">David Hume Kennerly, 1947</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Bobby Fischer, 1943</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Trish Van Devere, 1943</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Raul Julia, 1940</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Marty Ingels, 1936</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Mickey Gilley, 1936</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Joyce Van Patten, 1934</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Yuri Gagarin, 1934</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Keely Smith, 1932</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Ornette Coleman, 1930</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Wally Bronner, 1927</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Irene Papas, 1926</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Mickey Spillane, 1918</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Samuel Barber, 1910</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Will Greer, 1902</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, 1890</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Amerigo Vespucci, 1454</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Debuting/Premiering Today:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Family"(TV), 1976</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Rising of the Moon"(Play), 1907</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Hamlet"(Opera), 1868</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor/The Merry Wives of Windsor"(Opera), 1849 </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Ernani"(Opera), 1844</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Nabucco"(Opera), 1842</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Horace"(Play), 1640</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Today in History:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Liu Che, posthumously known as Emperor Wu of Han, assumes the throne over the Han Dynasty of China, BC141</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">First known mention of Lithuania, in the annals of the monastery of Quedlinburg, 1009</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Jews are expelled from Carintha Austria, 1496</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Nicolaus Copernicus makes his first recorded astronomical observation, 1497</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Marten Luther preaches his first Invocavit sermon, 1522</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Kissing in public is banned in Naples, punishable by death, 1562</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Publication of the economics book The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, 1776</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Prussian government limits work week for children to 51 hours, 1839</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The Amistad Ruling: <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The US Supreme Court rules that captive Africans who had seized control of the ship carrying them had been taken into slavery illegally, and were to be set free, 1841</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The first documented discovery of gold in California occurred at Rancho San Francisco, six years before the California Gold Rush, 1842</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Albert Potts of Philadelphia patents the street mailbox, 1858</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The Westmoreland County Coal Strike, involving 15,000 coal miners </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">represented by the United Mine Workers, begins, 1910</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Pancho Villa leads nearly 500 Mexican raiders in an attack against Columbus, New Mexico, 1916</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Pink's War: The first Royal Air Force operation conducted independently of the British Army or Royal Navy begins, 1925</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">President Franklin D. Roosevelt submits the Emergency Banking Act to the Congress, the first of his New Deal policies, 1932</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">CBS television broadcasts the See It Now episode, "A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy", produced by Fred Friendly, in which Edward R. Murrow criticizes the senator, 1954</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The Barbie doll makes its debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York, 1959</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Dr. Antonia Novello is sworn in as Surgeon General of the United States, becoming the first female and Hispanic American to serve in that position, 1990</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Observers in China, Mongolia and eastern Siberia are treated to a rare double feature as an eclipse permits Comet Hale-Bopp to be seen during the day, 1997</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Space Shuttle Discovery makes its final landing after 39 flights, 2011</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) spacecraft transmits images that for the very first time, allow scientists to create a 3D reconstruction of ancient water channels below the surface of Mars, 2013</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; 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font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Notebooks and sketches by naturalist Charles Darwin are mysteriously returned to the Cambridge University Library from which they were stolen 22 years earlier, 2023</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The Recording Industry Association of America publishes it's annual report for 2022, noting vinyl album sales topped CD sales for the first time since 1983, 2023</span></p>messymimihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10649529601786689712noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-917428205224357542.post-27948490280700466042024-03-08T00:00:00.040-06:002024-03-08T00:00:00.142-06:00One Sunday Morning (Feline Friday) and Friendly Fill-Ins<p><span style="color: #351c75;"> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt; text-size-adjust: auto;">***********************************</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSTddp832S8LMfaLXc0gMvI8OviMCnSQ9jEnZJNskMstamUgc3XGLNLMPnFoXYBKAz5Adh1wk3jq1-tt463qA-W7dceg1YfdLqOkXnCE5HrjgZ3o9EDXAI5EmL43_hO67uCSfYyuWmppVrUC1sQF1pWcEFiyyYaOdV6Ib5lTllI8g8us-VVl_goca_G7gm/s200/FelineFriday-Blog-Hop-Badge-125-px-e1626886709700.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSTddp832S8LMfaLXc0gMvI8OviMCnSQ9jEnZJNskMstamUgc3XGLNLMPnFoXYBKAz5Adh1wk3jq1-tt463qA-W7dceg1YfdLqOkXnCE5HrjgZ3o9EDXAI5EmL43_hO67uCSfYyuWmppVrUC1sQF1pWcEFiyyYaOdV6Ib5lTllI8g8us-VVl_goca_G7gm/s1600/FelineFriday-Blog-Hop-Badge-125-px-e1626886709700.jpeg" width="200" /></span></a></div><span style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Feline Friday was originally started by Steve, The Burnt Food Dude (who no longer blogs), and i'm going to believe it's because he likes cats.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">He handed hosting duties off to Sandee at <a href="https://comedy-plus.com" target="_blank">Comedy Plus</a>, and now she's entrusting it to me.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Feline Friday is simple to join. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>All you have to do is: Post a picture, drawing, cartoon or video of a cat (they may be silly or cute). <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Then add your link!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">One thing for sure is this is a fun and easy meme to do. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>So come and join us in Feline Friday.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">What better way to start the weekend than with a feline!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Walking Mr. Cal one Sunday, we noted a couple of the areas cats that are allowed outdoors. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The orange one especially didn't seem worried about a dog walking past.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; 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There are four statements: the first two statements are provided by Ellen of <a href="http://www.15andmeowing.com" target="_blank">15AndMeowing</a>, and the final two are offered by Lorianne The Menagerie Mom of <a href="http://fourleggedfurballs.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Four-Legged Furballs</a>. They try to make sure the statements will be fun to both answer and share. The linky will be posted at or about 12:00 AM on Friday. Please head over to one of their sites, link up, and share your thoughts! <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Here are this week's statements with my responses underlined:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">1. If someone offered me a free _________, I would accept it.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">2. If someone offered me a free _________, I would refuse it.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">3. I have _________ memorized.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">4. _________ has really changed since I was younger.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">1. If someone offered me a free <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="s3" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt; text-decoration: underline;">newer car with air conditioning</span><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">, <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I would accept it. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="s3" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt; text-decoration: underline;">I'm not looking forward to driving this summer</span><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">.</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">2. If someone offered me a free <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="s3" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt; text-decoration: underline;">steak dinner</span><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">, <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I would refuse it. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="s3" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt; text-decoration: underline;">Weirdo vegetarian, that's me</span><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">.</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">3. I have <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="s3" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt; text-decoration: underline;">several Bible verses and my work schedule </span><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>memorized.</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">4. </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt; text-decoration: underline;">More than i can think to write about, especially technologically</span><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>has really changed since I was younger. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="s3" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt; text-decoration: underline;">One thing has not changed, human nature</span><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">.</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">***********************************</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">In other news, I wish many happy returns of the day to #2 Son!</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><span style="font-size: 22.6667px;">***********************************</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Today is:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Celebrate Your Name Week -- Friday: <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Middle Name Pride Day, established by Jerry Hall as a day in which to tell at least 3 people who don't know it what your middle name is, and be proud of it</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Girls Write Now Day -- on International Women's Day, encouraging girls as the makers of future history to put pen to paper and make their voices heard</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">International Women's Day -- also celebrated as:</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Day for Women's Rights and International Peace -- UN</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Mother's Day -- Afghanistan; Albania; Armenia; Azerbaijan; Belarus; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Bulgaria; Kazakhstan; Kosovo; Laos; Macedonia; Montenegro; Republic of Moldova; Russia; Serbia; Slovenia; Tajikistan; Vietnam</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Maha Shivaratri -- Hindu (festival in honor of Lord Shiva and his marriage to Goddess Parvati; local observances and government official days off will vary)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">National Peanut Cluster Day</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">National Proofreading Day -- to promote accuracy in written messages</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Revolution Day -- Syria</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">St. John of God's Day (Patron of alcoholics, bookbinders, booksellers, dying people, firefighters, heart patients, hospitals, hospital workers, nurses, publishers, printers, sick people; Tultepec, Mexico; against alcoholism, bodily ills and sickness)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Anniversary Today:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Harry Hamlin marries Nicollette Sheridan, 1991</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Birthdays Today:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Marcia Newby, 23, 1988</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Bob, Clint, and Dave Moffatt, 1984</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Kat Von D, 1982</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">James Van der Beek, 1977</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Freddie Prinze, Jr., 1976</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Kathy Ireland, 1963</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Camryn Manheim, 1961</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Aidan Quinn, 1959</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">James Edward "Jim" Rice, 1953</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Carole Bayer Sager, 1947</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Micky Dolenz, 1945</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Lynn Redgrave, 1943</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Susan Clark, 1940</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Raynoma Gordy Singleton, 1937</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Cyd Charisse, 1923</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Alan Hale, Jr., 1921</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Claire Trevor, 1909</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Louise Beavers, 1902</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Kenneth Grahame, 1859</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., 1841</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, 1714</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Debuting/Premiering Today:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Mary, Mary"(Play), 1961</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Symphony No. 2 in D major(Sibelius Op. 43), 1901</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Don Quixote"(Straus Op. 35), 1898</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Emilia Galotti"(Play), 1772</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Today in History:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">William Claxton completes his translation from French into English of Mirror of the World; as England's first printer, he will soon turn this into England's first illustrated print book, 1481</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">John Casor becomes the first legally-recognized slave in what will be the United States, 1655</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Anne Stuart, sister of Mary II, becomes Queen regnant of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1702</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Thomas Paine's "African Slavery in America," the first article in the U.S. calling for the emancipation of slaves and the abolition of slavery is published, 1775</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Gnadenhütten massacre: Ninety-six Native Americans in Gnadenhutten, Ohio, who had converted to Christianity are killed by Pennsylvania militiamen in retaliation for raids carried out by other Indians, 1782</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The New York Stock Exchange is founded, 1817</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The first train crosses the first US railway suspension bridge at Niagara Falls, 1855</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Everett Horton of Connecticut patents a fishing rod of telescoping steel tubes, 1887</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">International Women's Day is launched in Copenhagen, Denmark, by Clara Zetkin, leader of the Women's Office for the Social Democratic Party in Germany, 1911</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Mahatma Gandhi starts civil disobedience in India, 1930</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Daytona Beach Road Course holds their first oval stock car race, 1936</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Phyllis M Daley is the first black nurse sworn-in as US Navy ensign, 1945</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Ghana joins the United Nations, 1957</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The first radio episode of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, is transmitted on BBC Radio 4, 1978</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Philips demonstrates the Compact Disc publicly for the first time, 1979</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Martina Navratilova becomes the 1st tennis player to earn $10 million, 1986</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the murder convictions of Timothy McVeigh for the Oklahoma City bombing, 1999</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The first comprehensive map of the debris field of the RMS Titanic is revealed, 2012</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The Aboriginal DNA study by University of Adelaide shows that the Aboriginal population dates back 50,000 years from one migration, 2017</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon formally apologises to the 4,000 Scots, mostly women, accused of witchcraft between 1563 and 1736, 2022</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Danish scientists reveal the discovery of the oldest known reference to the Norse god Odin, <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>from a fifth century gold disc from Vindelev hoard, Western Denmark, 2023</span></p>messymimihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10649529601786689712noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-917428205224357542.post-62449907845770120902024-03-07T18:13:00.000-06:002024-03-07T18:13:22.485-06:00Happiness<p><span style="color: #351c75;"> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt; text-size-adjust: auto;">***********************************</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyszJEV4ehnFvxTmo1NXrGiOMK6kj7Q8zuQQ9Rzd6IlcM0VHrlVU9o-Q_jgK36TrcqsSzHzizG16LEv3IvPIl63ySdfSnT1M8cw4EXFmA0elZXh79aXWeetCSwEP1eKmib5j4HzK6LouSVhtZ19J4MNtoQysaMw1et6d0ucblXCMl3xqHOoTJ3dQyS1uRi/s200/aacsss-logo-200x200959-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Mimi missed the Bartender.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Of course, she missed all her friends when they were absent, but this was different and she couldn't put her finger on why.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">What the Gatekeeper was saying about her whereabouts just seemed...off, as did he, he was worried and she knew it.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">She did what she always did in these cases, prayed, scrubbed, tidied, cooked and read.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">There was one other thing that cheered her, too, she considered it her ace in the hole.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Pulling out Hunga's lead, they headed for their nearby sanctuary for a while; happiness is a warm puppy.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhJm78KO9RpsomGjXZjEdOPY-wF0iT6UWwbNj2uuXYL8QaM_cT5bQkcKYr7roiuzxy8XDzBAsofblxEwUvbtK23SPcSMsWZsOHpm0y7Er5Haty6Xt7-XBOakzQNWL7wazps93t0d1pAPFXow5Qj20HNlQsEXszW7pcGGifqWXBOBtscgLy3uus-Bz8RjWu/s474/aafth-1944966379.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><img border="0" data-original-height="292" data-original-width="474" height="197" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhJm78KO9RpsomGjXZjEdOPY-wF0iT6UWwbNj2uuXYL8QaM_cT5bQkcKYr7roiuzxy8XDzBAsofblxEwUvbtK23SPcSMsWZsOHpm0y7Er5Haty6Xt7-XBOakzQNWL7wazps93t0d1pAPFXow5Qj20HNlQsEXszW7pcGGifqWXBOBtscgLy3uus-Bz8RjWu/s320/aafth-1944966379.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="color: #351c75;"><br /><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Linking up with Denise at <a href="http://www.girlieontheedge1.wordpress.com" target="_blank">Girlie On The Edge Blog</a>, where she hosts <a href="https://fresh.inlinkz.com/party/9937f6545b004c50b8e30ee8607e2e2e" target="_blank">Six Sentence Stories</a>, and the cue is Ace. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSSeF96BY2VRKUQ3Wo63T040ieOoTCdsq0g22ON7vhsP_Bvnq-7ylgN5dKwK-PjEdq-gxF0A3YEaFTUbgUC9_FPvXu9SNH_Ofg-kdOAxC9t46mhXk5-dJEwpwzfsOloCselBxDFrHj26N2CG8NpOJHngQVDqOCOCLJG5B4EGYZ8OIyiP5FO1V9_CIHf3jU/s320/aagsix_sentence_cafe_and_bistro.png" style="margin-left: 1em; 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font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">***********************************</span></p>messymimihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10649529601786689712noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-917428205224357542.post-80450495852018666942024-03-07T00:00:00.038-06:002024-03-07T00:00:00.340-06:00Adventurer (Six Sentence Story), Good Fences, Sammy’s Poetry Day and Brian’s Thankful Thursday<p><span style="color: #351c75;"> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt; text-size-adjust: auto;">***********************************</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsWj5JjW8FKucyFquS06CpcCeAMcnd-e0bo9HyFAG0y-xI9mIJ2qFXUVoQbJsQU_vnM0XsjhQu5wj9w8qF1eKD7Al2OL0LCXj-QUoj8a_mFOHP5SkP0ZOGsLv6jQwnpEWNUm4FyH1Uyp16KJ4eViJET75ohqrZe3d_e5AUxc5ryAHtCGyZWe5O8wJVWb0s/s200/Six%20Sentence%20Story%20Girlie.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsWj5JjW8FKucyFquS06CpcCeAMcnd-e0bo9HyFAG0y-xI9mIJ2qFXUVoQbJsQU_vnM0XsjhQu5wj9w8qF1eKD7Al2OL0LCXj-QUoj8a_mFOHP5SkP0ZOGsLv6jQwnpEWNUm4FyH1Uyp16KJ4eViJET75ohqrZe3d_e5AUxc5ryAHtCGyZWe5O8wJVWb0s/s1600/Six%20Sentence%20Story%20Girlie.jpg" width="200" /></span></a></div><span style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Hey, Mom, got an Ace bandage?" #2 Son called as he came in the kitchen, grabbing for the first aid kit.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">What's up this time? i asked, and he held up his right (non-dominant) hand.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Jammed my pinkie finger and I want to wrap it to the finger next to it for a couple of days, keep it from moving and give it a chance to heal."</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">I told him an Ace bandage would be too big for that, unless he wanted the whole hand wrapped, which he did not, so he used a "popsicle stick" (tongue depressor) cut to the appropriate length and some thick gauze to wrap the two digits and stabilize them.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Let me know if it's not healing, i told him, knowing it was useless to try to convince him to go to the doctor if he didn't want to as he was bigger and taller than me by this age, then i added, also if it starts to turn any colors at all or loses feeling.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"I will," he said and headed for the door, yelling back, "thanks, Mom, I'll be back in time for supper!" as he was off on his next adventure.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Linking up with Denise at <a href="http://www.girlieontheedge1.wordpress.com" target="_blank">Girlie On The Edge Blog</a>, where she hosts <a href="https://fresh.inlinkz.com/party/9937f6545b004c50b8e30ee8607e2e2e" target="_blank">Six Sentence Stories</a>, and the cue is Ace. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">***********************************</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span>
<br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">While Good Fences Around the World seems to have gone the way of the dodo bird, i still enjoy looking for and posting interesting fences, so i will!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; 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font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">It's <a href="https://onespoiledcat.wordpress.com" target="_blank">Angel Sammy's Poetry Day</a>! <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This week's image and my poem: <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; 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<br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Weird Al and Dr. Demento</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Are each to me a hero,</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">I really like their funky, unique style.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Ray Stevens makes the list,</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">and Nervous Norvus, you get the gist,</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">I've enjoyed them all for quite a while.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Spike Jones and His City Slickers</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">can make me laugh lots quickers</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">than even a good comedy on TV.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">As for Benny Grunch and the Bunch,</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">I'm sure you have a hunch,</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">that's a show I really want to see.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">If you like the madness,</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">don't sit around in sadness,</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">put on Tom Lehrer and do the Vatican Rag.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The Roto Rooter Good Time Christmas Band</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">to cheer you up will lend a hand,</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">go ahead and fly your weirdo flag!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">***********************************</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO6hq7R_caceSV55BH_ZFFNNIptEoNUfZDlDNkx0Kt6BL8HeWNhYnJm-rzAgzXbD9L0LPJdxDDqv6ydsDbBzbG1VzFOfrfVarNH2pVZPXzoekU9vQuD7xmZtnwZC30tT5cA-LM0YZo0bY1WIuPO6_dLsdsMwx5twHbHV1vkSUJr37IbcUGR1kEMwyWRpkl/s500/BriansHome-ThankfulThursday-BlogHop.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO6hq7R_caceSV55BH_ZFFNNIptEoNUfZDlDNkx0Kt6BL8HeWNhYnJm-rzAgzXbD9L0LPJdxDDqv6ydsDbBzbG1VzFOfrfVarNH2pVZPXzoekU9vQuD7xmZtnwZC30tT5cA-LM0YZo0bY1WIuPO6_dLsdsMwx5twHbHV1vkSUJr37IbcUGR1kEMwyWRpkl/s320/BriansHome-ThankfulThursday-BlogHop.png" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; 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<br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Angel Brian's Family of <a href="https://brianshomeblog.com/" target="_blank">Brian's Home</a> hosts the Thankful Thursday Blog Hop. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It's time to share something for which i am thankful. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Today i am thankful for the sunshine after several days of steady rain. I'm also thankful #2 Son, mentioned above, lived to grow up!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><!--start LinkyTools script--><script src="https://www.linkytools.com/basic_linky_include.aspx?id=313564" type="text/javascript"></script><!--end LinkyTools script-->
<br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">***********************************</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Today is:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Bird Day and Arbor Day -- California, US (on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luther_Burbank" target="_blank">Luther Burbank's</a> birth anniversary) </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Celebrate Your Name Week -- Thursday: <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Name Tag Day, celebrating those silly tags that say, "Hello, My Name is Illegible"!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Crufts Dog Show -- Birmingham, England (the World's Greatest Dog Show; Best in Show here is the most prestigious award in the world of dogs; through Sunday)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Get Grandma to Write Down Her Meatloaf Recipe -- or spaghetti, or pound cake, or whatever she specialized in, because if you don't, you will someday regret it</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Masaryk Day -- Czech Republic; Slovakia (birth anniversary of Tomas Masaryk, politician, sociologist, philosopher, and advocate of Czechoslovakian independence)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">National Be Heard Day -- originally a day for small businesses to speak up, but the website promoting the materials is no longer working</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">National Cereal Day</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">National Crown Roast of Pork Day</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Nones of March -- Ancient Roman Calendar; related observances</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Festival of Junonalia -- for Juno</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Festival for Vedovus -- god of the dead, swamps, and volcanic movements</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Say Hello Day -- Bell received a patent for the telephone this day in 1876 (although he always believed it should be answered by saying, "Ahoy!" <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Yes, really.)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">St. Felicity's and St. Perpetua's Day (Patrons of cattle, martyrs; Santa Perpetua de Mogoda, Spain)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Teacher's Day -- Albania</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">World Book Day -- UK and Ireland (most other countries celebrate this on April 23; more information is <a href="http://www.worldbookday.org" target="_blank">here</a>) <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Birthdays Today:</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Jenna Fischer, 1974</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Denyce Graves, 1974</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Rachel Weisz, 1971</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Taylor Dayne, 1962</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Ivan Lendl, 1960</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Rik Mayall, 1958</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Bryan Cranston, 1956</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Franco Harris, 1950</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">John Heard, 1946</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Peter Wolf, 1946</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Michael Eisner, 1942</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Tammy Faye Bakker, 1942</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Daniel J. Travanti, 1940</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Janet Guthrie, 1938</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Willard Herman Scott, 1934</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Anthony Armstrong-Jones, Lord Snowdon, 1930</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Maurice Ravel, 1875</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Piet Mondriaan, 1875</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Luther Burbank, 1849</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">John Herschel, 1792</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Stephen Hopkins, 1707</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Rob Roy MacGregor, 1671</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Henry Purcell, 1659</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Kano Tanju, 1602</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Debuting/Premiering Today:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The Nashville Network(TV network), 1983</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown"(Musical), 1967</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"The Grand Duke; or, The Statutory Duel"(Operetta), 1896</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Today in History:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Roman Emperor Constantine I decrees that the dies Solis Invicti (sun-day) is the day of rest in the Empire, 321</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">King Henry VIII's divorce request is denied by the Pope; Henry then declares that he, not the Pope, is supreme head of England's church, 1530</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Massachusetts enacts the first bicameral legislature in the colonies, 1664</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The French army enters Rome: the birth of the Roman Republic, 1798</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Shrigley Abduction: Ellen Turner is abducted by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a future politician in colonial New Zealand, 1827</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Charles Miller patents the first US sewing machine to stitch buttonholes, 1854</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The City of Lábrea in Amazonas, Brazil was founded, 1886</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Roald Amundsen announces that, on Dec. 14, 1911, his expedition had reached the South Pole, 1912</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">An 8.0 earthquake strikes Tango, Japan, 1927</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Bloody Sunday: <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Alabama state troopers and 600 black protestors clash in Selma, 1965</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Divers from the USS Preserver locate the crew cabin of Challenger on the ocean floor, 1986</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The U.S. Supreme Court rules that parodies of an original work are generally covered by the doctrine of fair use, 1994</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">British House of Commons votes to make the upper chamber, the House of Lords, 100% elected, 2007</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The largest solar flare in five years, occurring March 6, 2012, nears the Earth, threatening to disrupt airline flights, GPS systems and power grids, 2012</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Malta's famous landmark the Azure Window collapses into the sea after a storm, 2017</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain shares her first Instagram post, pictures of a letter between mathematician Charles Babbage and Prince Albert, 2019</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Thailand's Constitutional Court dissolves the opposition party Thai Raksa Chart after it nominates the King's sister as candidate for Prime Minister, 2019</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The global death toll from Covid-19 passes 6 million according to Johns Hopkins figures, 2022</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">British architect David Chipperfield is awarded Architecture's Pritzker Prize, 2023</span></p>messymimihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10649529601786689712noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-917428205224357542.post-60616082764153843952024-03-06T00:00:00.021-06:002024-03-06T00:00:00.240-06:00Remember These? (Wordless Wednesday) and Words for Wednesday<p><span style="color: #351c75;"> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt; text-size-adjust: auto;">***********************************</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdH5aal4MF7OKri4W8nH0aTcVUk9hxwsewMTf5MVupLf7RmgEp2i8VAGLz6F4c2tokyJjyx-RgY3WwQpzhxqtDq4HrCxQOrv4eLTf4xVWvkqem05PcLk9YcfHF8ILwxuPQSe2cz9tuvcebyH6mTIwbUB8fnp2YLq1DFYeBt7jntlqmPPMZDDg7YVxlehfo/s4624/20230501_130520.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4624" data-original-width="2084" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdH5aal4MF7OKri4W8nH0aTcVUk9hxwsewMTf5MVupLf7RmgEp2i8VAGLz6F4c2tokyJjyx-RgY3WwQpzhxqtDq4HrCxQOrv4eLTf4xVWvkqem05PcLk9YcfHF8ILwxuPQSe2cz9tuvcebyH6mTIwbUB8fnp2YLq1DFYeBt7jntlqmPPMZDDg7YVxlehfo/w180-h400/20230501_130520.jpg" width="180" /></span></a></div><span style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Linking up with <a href="http://www.wordlesswednesday.blogspot.com" target="_blank">Wordless Wednesday</a>, <a href="http://www.bethere2day.com" target="_blank">BeThere2Day</a>, and Sandee at <a href="https://comedy-plus.com" target="_blank">Comedy Plus</a>. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><!--start LinkyTools script--><script src="https://www.linkytools.com/basic_linky_include.aspx?id=313544" type="text/javascript"></script><!--end LinkyTools script-->
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font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1xB-8zHf9cJuLG4ot4r1ajmz_SlguBq694xvKo23zAFqboXHDKk-qRe86C5ejgWekqUrZRq0UvqwN9RUKSrDJqCwSIdmI7vlcmMG6s_sqwG4UpVGp_xdSolUG5mp4Ybb4-vO79MoG1A6Ks7UhkZBXF09f-UOP7RTdfg_z6q7ZNazEzJ6AeWLf8NGkDpvY/s320/Words%20for%20Wednesday.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><img border="0" data-original-height="211" data-original-width="320" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1xB-8zHf9cJuLG4ot4r1ajmz_SlguBq694xvKo23zAFqboXHDKk-qRe86C5ejgWekqUrZRq0UvqwN9RUKSrDJqCwSIdmI7vlcmMG6s_sqwG4UpVGp_xdSolUG5mp4Ybb4-vO79MoG1A6Ks7UhkZBXF09f-UOP7RTdfg_z6q7ZNazEzJ6AeWLf8NGkDpvY/s1600/Words%20for%20Wednesday.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Words for Wednesday was begun by Delores and has become a moveable feast of word or picture or music prompts to encourage us to write stories, poems, or whatever strikes our fancy. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Much thanks to <a href="https://postcardsfromthebookstore.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Lissa</a>, who provided the prompts last month. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">This month, the prompts are being provided by <a href="https://river-driftingthroughlife.blogspot.com" target="_blank">River</a>. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">This week's words/prompts are: </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">1. poised </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">2. reef </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">3. crashing </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">4. bridge </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">5. wrecked </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">6. turquoise </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">7. glitter</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Charlotte/Mother Owl's color of the month is Olive Yellow.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">It had been a long two weeks.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Arriving in the college dorm that would be my home at least for a semester, I'd explored the building and found the laundry room, but not used it yet. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Those weeks were spent just getting accustomed to the classes and the pace, and I'd left laundry until, like a coral REEF that builds up little by little until it's an atoll, I had what my mom would have called a Mount Washmore POISED to come CRASHING down.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Not wanting to be caught with no clean underwear and the desperate need wash this minute or go buy more to prevent disaster, I bit the bullet and dragged everything down and started loading it into washers.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Another student came in a few minutes later, and we nodded at each other, then he got to work. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>He dumped everything on the floor and began to divide and sort everything into three separate piles.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Now, I know the importance of not washing some things together. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I'll never forget the mess it made when my little sister's shirt with TURQUOISE and Olive Yellow GLITTER got into a load of bathroom towels and we all found the stuff on towels in the bathroom, and on us after drying off, for weeks. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Or the time "nobody" left a permanent marker in a pocket and it WRECKED a whole load of clothes.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">I thought this guy was being a bit too meticulous, but who am I to judge? <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I'd just put detergent in the first of my two machines and turned it on when I saw him stand back and look at the three piles and nod with a smile of satisfaction.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Then he picked up all three and stuffed them in one machine!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">I lost it and laughed out loud, I couldn't help it, and he looked up and with an impish grin said, "I've always promised my mom I'd sort, but I never said I'd wash them that way!"</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">We both laughed and I said, "Your secret is safe with me!"</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">When we'd stopped laughing, he introduced himself and asked if this was my first semester. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I told him it was, and he asked, "Do you play Rook, by any chance?"</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Yes," I told him. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>"My parents taught all of us, we played a lot. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>They tried to teach me BRIDGE, too, but it was boring and I never learned."</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Come join us in the commons room on weekends, we get a Rook-a-Rama going, there are several of us, 3 or 4 tables. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>We can always use more players."</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">I'll always be glad I did laundry that day.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">(Loosely based on two true stories from college days.)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">***********************************</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Today is:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Alamo Day -- Texas, US</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Celebrate Your Name Week -- Wednesday: <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Learn What Your Name Means Day, go look it up, it's probably very interesting</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Feast of Excited Insects -- China; Korea (sometimes called Chinese Groundhog Day, the day insects are supposed to awaken for spring; date approximate)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Foundation Day -- Norfolk Island, Commonwealth of Australia</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Headache Relief Day -- aspirin was patented by the Bayer company today in 1899</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Independence Day -- Ghana(1957)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Kirishima Jingu Otaue-sai -- Kirishima Jingu Shrine, Kirishima, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan (rice planting festival)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Mi-Careme -- Guadeloupe; Saint Barthelemy; Saint Martin (Mid-Lent)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">National Frozen Food Day</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">National White Chocolate Cheesecake Day</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Oreo Cookie Day -- no history found on why this day, but if you like Oreos, do you need a reason?</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Stoneware Pottery Appreciation Day</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">St. Colette's Day (Patron of Corbie, France; against the death of parents)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">St. Rose of Viterbo's Day (Patron of exiles, people rejected by religious orders, tertiaries; Viterbo, Italy)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><a href="http://worldeducationgames.com" target="_blank">World Maths Day</a> -- International <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Birthdays Today:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Ryan Nyquist, 1979</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Shaquille O'Neal, 1972</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Amy Pietz, 1969</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Connie Britton, 1968</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">D.L. Hughley, 1963</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Tom Arnold, 1959</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">David Gilmour, 1946</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Rob Reiner, 1945</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Kiri Te Kanawa, 1944</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Dave Gilmour, 1944</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Ben Murphy, 1942</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Willie Stargell, 1941</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Valentina Tereshkova-Nikolaeva, 1937</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Lorin Maazel, 1930</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Gabriel Garcia-Marquez, 1928</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Alan Greenspan, 1926</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Ed McMahon, 1923</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Will Eisner, 1917</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Lou Costello, 1906</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Bob Wills, 1905</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Ring Lardner, 1885</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1806</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Anna Claypoole Peale, 1791</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Cyrano de Bergerac, 1619</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Michelangelo Bounarroti, 1475</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Debuting/Premiering Today:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Lend me a Tenor"(Play), 1986</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Deep Blue Sea"(Play), 1952</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Both Your Houses"(Play; Pulitzer Prize for Drama), 1933</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"La Traviata"(Opera), 1853</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"La Sonnambula"(Opera), 1831</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Today in History:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Guam, 1521</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The First Fleet arrives at Norfolk Island (an external territory of Australia) in order to found a convict settlement, 1788</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">York, Upper Canada is incorporated as Toronto, 1834</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">After a thirteen day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, the 187 Texas volunteers defending the Alamo are defeated and the fort is captured, 1836</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Giuseppe Verdi's opera La Traviata receives its premiere performance in Venice, 1853</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society, 1869</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Bayer registers "aspirin" as a trademark, 1899</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins, 1951</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">United Kingdom colonies Gold Coast and British Togoland become the independent Republic of Ghana, 1957</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">After 19 years of presenting the CBS Evening News, Walter Cronkite signs off for the last time, 1981</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Michelangelo computer virus begins to affect computers, 1992</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">A referendum in Moldova results in the electorate voting against possible reunification with Romania, 1994</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Picasso's painting Tête de Femme is stolen from a London gallery, and is recovered a week later, 1997</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Microsoft is fined €561 million for not providing E.U. residents with an alternative web browser to Internet Explorer, 2013</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The Crimean parliament votes unanimously to make the Crimea part of Russia, 2014</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">NASA's Dawn space probe enters orbit around the dwarf planet Ceres, 2015</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The world's oldest message in a bottle is found in Western Australia, thrown from the German ship Paula 132 years ago (12 June 1886), 2018</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">On his first visit to Iraq, Pope Francis meets with Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani in the Shiite cleric's home in Najaf, 2021</span></p>messymimihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10649529601786689712noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-917428205224357542.post-65529358385777113922024-03-05T00:00:00.001-06:002024-03-05T00:00:00.127-06:00Quasars and Nature Hikes, a Random and Happy Tuesday Post<p><span style="color: #351c75;"> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; 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margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><img border="0" data-original-height="205" data-original-width="247" height="205" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbVtr78ILrIP6ZHHp6ZntJxhGrz8SgovNXlOkFWM1wjEnaxrpErV-Qn4tDLNV6n_NJ16NpkWXvRpLreYG6YaEikAqq6THa2jt3G5TcGV-GIzGzFhp9ptQsXLnypWUDrL_Bnza8g6U6GCK39bKebBKvdjC58-5RzDCPPR0A7WU6WweJ3UUmC7KXFZI5IohS/s1600/randomtuesday2.jpg" width="247" /></span></a></div><span style="color: #351c75;"><br /><br /></span><p></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">It's time once again for a random and happy Tuesday, linking up with Stacy's Random Thoughts at <a href="http://stacyuncorked.com" target="_blank">Stacy Uncorked</a> and Sandee at <a href="https://comedy-plus.com" target="_blank">Comedy Plus</a>. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Mr. L was up but Carl wasn't as he doesn't have work the early part of this week.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">I went to roust him and get him to the sleep chair. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>He rousted easily enough and after negotiating on how many pillows and my getting him clean pillowcases for those (the ones on them needed washing), he settled down.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Then he came back to his room to tell me, "I tried to tidy."</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4XHJlNegOV2oMnEqoD4upwbS6HEybCyY9Vm_WM2KSYNzBOoeKqXf1y9Iq-Op4ZEYx9VCkSqSEcIOvD-m-ONxIALrqKoC7ZQMqZ24IRIjNRS9WyfDTr76NQylzzyICNfECK6qMzvnxyfJxFPnQXAPQb-Vv9Q0UjUjLfZbWqFnslXshB6tVb_pjSePkb6nG/s4624/20240304_061342.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4624" data-original-width="2084" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4XHJlNegOV2oMnEqoD4upwbS6HEybCyY9Vm_WM2KSYNzBOoeKqXf1y9Iq-Op4ZEYx9VCkSqSEcIOvD-m-ONxIALrqKoC7ZQMqZ24IRIjNRS9WyfDTr76NQylzzyICNfECK6qMzvnxyfJxFPnQXAPQb-Vv9Q0UjUjLfZbWqFnslXshB6tVb_pjSePkb6nG/w180-h400/20240304_061342.jpg" width="180" /></a></span></div><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">He did try, but he left me an obstacle course of shoes and clothes.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">He also came in and brushed his teeth, then came back because, "They're still fuzzy!"</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span>
<br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">I found out last Thursday why he was eating the old gingerbread house that was making him not feel so well. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>His doctor has said he's pre-diabetic and his mom has declared the house off limits to sugar as of the last day of February. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>He was trying to eat it all ahead of time!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">While cleaning in and the top of the fridge, i ran across the missing Beano, four cups of mystery contents, avocado, old grapes, and the one thing that made me smile.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsB9zm1IBW3XTyJAV8eJnUOXNNg2cRREh6hFMVxO8pm-t4RyFrapp0I57HlE4l7usOjjDhYf3meMcyGRn9_fOZSeZbLTya3JDHd9qrau_V3Tu_t0CAYBhn1KzfVs8LICH5wksbAwCEZzcnp1nMIpujHvdcWV6Gw6opv9Eb_3gcNDP0ihsDCp3KcN98WM55/s4624/20240304_074652.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4624" data-original-width="2084" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsB9zm1IBW3XTyJAV8eJnUOXNNg2cRREh6hFMVxO8pm-t4RyFrapp0I57HlE4l7usOjjDhYf3meMcyGRn9_fOZSeZbLTya3JDHd9qrau_V3Tu_t0CAYBhn1KzfVs8LICH5wksbAwCEZzcnp1nMIpujHvdcWV6Gw6opv9Eb_3gcNDP0ihsDCp3KcN98WM55/w180-h400/20240304_074652.jpg" width="180" /></a></span></div><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">He's a big kid.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Once he'd slept a while, he came in, grabbed an ice pack from the freezer and rubbed it over his head. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>When i looked at him suspiciously and asked him if he felt feverish and was trying to cool off, he said, "No, headache."</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">I've never heard of that cure, but if it works for him...</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">He started chattering about all kinds of things, most of which i only half caught. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Pictures online of people i don't know, videos of quasars and gas clouds (he really has a science brain, just not the ability to organize it), dates of upcoming events -- i even think i heard him mention rollerblading, of all things -- and then announced this morning he was going on a conservation hike.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">He needed a shower.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">I'd already gotten all the towels gathered, so i passed him a fresh towel, made sure he had pants, shirt, underwear and socks in the bathroom with him, put down the mat, and i told him not to come out until he was dressed.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">He yelled from within, "Washcloth?"</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">I called back, telling him i had one, and he stuck his hand out the door for it.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span>
<br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">When he came out, clothed and in search of shoes, i reminded him to put socks on his shopping list, as he's lost several pair recently due to developing holes in them.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"I need pants, too," he said. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>How could you need pants, i asked, you've got plenty.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"I almost ran out one day," he protested.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">I counted. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>He has 3 pair of jeans, 6 pair of khakis, and 6 pair of shorts. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>If he can go through that much in a week, he's more talented than even i give him credit for.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; 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margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Arivee de l'Evangile -- French Polynesia (Gospel Day)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Babysitter Safety Day</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Celebrate Your Name Week -- Tuesday: <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Unique Names Day, a day to appreciate friends, acquaintances, and loved ones with unique names</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Crispus Attucks Day*</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Custom Chief's Day -- Vanuatu</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Diasia -- Ancient Greek Calendar (festival of Zeus Meilikhios; date approximate)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">National Absinthe Day</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">National Cheese Doodle Day</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Navigium Isis/Ploiaphaesia: The Festival of Navigation -- Ancient Roman Calendar/Ancient Egyptian Calendar (Sailing Festival, honoring Isis as sea goddess and goddess of sailing, on the traditional start of the sailing season)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Scouts' Day -- Taiwan (celebration of Boy Scouts and Girl Guides in Taiwan)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">St. Piran's Day (Patron of miners, tin miners, tinners; Cornwall, England; Piran, Slovenia)</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>St. Piran's Day Celebrations -- Cornwall, England; Kansas City, KA, US</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Stop the Clocks Day -- another of those with-no-explanation web holidays that sounds like a good idea</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Temperance Day -- North America's first Temperance Law was passed in Virginia this day in 1623</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Town Meeting Day -- Vermont, US (giving all citizens the right to speak out about local government, an official state holiday the first Tuesday of March allows towns to have a daylong public meeting of voters to elect town officers, approve budgets, and deal with town business)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Anniversary Today:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Channel Islands National Park is established, 1980</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Birthdays Today:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Jake Lloyd, 1989</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Niki Taylor, 1975</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Kevin Connolly, 1974</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Eva Mendes, 1974</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Andy Gibb, 1958</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Penn Jillette, 1955</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Marsha Warfield, 1954</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Michael Warren, 1946</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Paul Sand, 1944</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Samantha Eggar, 1939</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Fred Williamson, 1938</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Dean Stockwell, 1936</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">James Noble, 1922</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Rex Harrison, 1908</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Zhou Enlai, 1898</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Emmett J. Culligan, 1893</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Heitor Villa-Lobos, 1887</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Howard Pyle, 1853</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">James Merrit Ives, 1824</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">William Blackstone, 1595</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Gerhardus Mercator, 1512</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Debuting/Premiering Today:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"What the Butler Saw"(Play)1969</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Leningrad"/Symphony No. 7 in C major(Shostakovich Op. 60), 1942</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Mefistofele"(Opera), 1868</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Today in History:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Roman Emperor Julian moves from Antioch with an army of 90,000 to attack the Sassanid Empire, in a campaign which would bring about his own death, 363</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Naser Khosrow begins the seven-year Middle Eastern journey which he will later describe in his book Safarnama, 1046</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">English king Henry VII hires John Cabot (Giovanni Caboto) and his sons to explore unknown lands for England, 1496</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Smoking tobacco is introduced in Europe by Francisco Fernandes, 1558</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Copernicus' "de Revolutionibus" is placed on Catholic Forbidden index, 1616</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Antonio de Ulloa, the first Spanish governor of Louisiana, arrives in New Orleans to take possession of the Louisiana territory from the French, 1766</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">*Boston Massacre: British troops kill 5 in a crowd, including a young boy and Crispus Attackus, the first black to die for American freedom, in an event that would contribute to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War five years later, 1770</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The Dutch city of Leeuwarden forbids Jews to go to synagogues on Sundays, 1820</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Samuel Colt makes the first production-model revolver, the .34-caliber, 1836</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">George Westinghouse Jr patents the triple air brake for trains, 1872</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Nikola Tesla, in Electrical World and Engineer, describes the process of the ball lightning formation, 1904</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Winston Churchill uses the phrase "Iron Curtain" in his speech at Westminster College, Missouri, 1946</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations, 1970</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Soviet probes Venera 11, Venera 12 and the American solar satellite Helios II all are hit by "off the scale" gamma rays leading to the discovery of soft gamma repeaters, 1979</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">America's Voyager 1 spacecraft has its closest approach to Jupiter, 172,000 miles, 1979</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The Soviet probe Venera 14 arrives at the planet Venus, 1982</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The graves of Czar Nicholas II and his family are found near St. Petersburg, 1995</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, dies in office in the nation's capital, Caracas, at age 58, 2013</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">A survey by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights reports that about 1/3 of women in the European Union have experienced physical or sexual violence since the age of 15, 2014</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">North Korean leader Kim Jong-un meets with South Korean officials for the first time since taking office, hosting a dinner in Pyongyang, 2018</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The journal Nature publishes a study of the second person ever cured of HIV by stem cell transplant therapy, 2019</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Explorer Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance, which sank in 1915 in the Weddell Sea, Antarctica, is rediscovered in excellent condition, 2022</span></p>messymimihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10649529601786689712noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-917428205224357542.post-86442220536467725182024-03-04T00:00:00.039-06:002024-03-04T00:00:00.134-06:00Thorough (Awww Monday), Inspiring Quote of the Week and Poetry Monday<p><span style="color: #351c75;"> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt; text-size-adjust: auto;">***********************************</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; 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font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Awww Monday is hosted by Sandee at <a href="https://comedy-plus.com" target="_blank">Comedy Plus</a>.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Join us every Monday for Awww...Mondays. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Post a picture that makes you say Awww... and that's it.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; 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line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Sparks is the brainchild of Annie of McGuffy's Reader, who wanted us to post something positive and uplifting at the start of the week. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>While she no longer blogs, i like to post an Inspiring Quote of the Week in her honor. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="712" data-original-width="474" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHfGHMFAEXIx_1e5rslyfBNNYopryPd4oH-PO7AGNqCoRNDzwU4mOXHD9yOzS_XjUwR1peTjBkKDpEzyRMVJB5dzM7HJFJTN-GESjafu0btks38NmyzvhkSXG-AFYbgm8OyKOIG-veaNi1It8omlvczsd5mkZWSqIEyk1QEIbrI9Vnkfpbk0k-2q5LD9Sb/w266-h400/th-1679937439.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><br /></span><p></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">***********************************</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Our dear friend Diane is taking a break</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">accommodations we must make</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">we miss her poetry and wit</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">so carry on as Poetry Monday's a hit!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Poetry Monday was started by Diane at <a href="https://dlt-lifeontheranch.blogspot.com" target="_blank">On The Alberta/Montana Border</a>. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://krydderuglen.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Charlotte/Mother Owl</a> and i are keeping it going while she takes a blog break, we hope temporarily. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Anyone else is welcome to join in the fun, just let us know!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">This week the theme is Swan Lake. <a href="http://procrastinatingdonkey.blogspot.com/"><span class="s2" style="font-size: 17pt;"></span></a> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s3" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt; text-decoration: underline;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s3" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt; text-decoration: underline;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The ballet company put on</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">a special version of Swan Lake,</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">wanting children to enjoy it,</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">not an hour it would take.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">One little girl in the audience</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">watched the whole with huge eyes,</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">and at the very final scene she gave</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">them all a sweet surprise.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">At the end the child cried out,</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">but her sweet voice made no one mad,</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Oh, mommy, the pretty bird is dying</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">and it makes me so very sad!"</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The prima ballerina heard it</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">and with dignity and grace</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">danced the dying scene</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">beatific smile upon her face.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">(True story.)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s3" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt; text-decoration: underline;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s3" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt; text-decoration: underline;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Future themes are:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Mar. 4 Swan Lake (or one of the words)(today!)</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Mar. 11 distancing</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Mar. 18 meaning</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Mar. 25 happy news</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Apr. 1 shelf</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Apr. 8 order</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Apr. 15 tape</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Apr. 22 running</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Apr. 29 quiet</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">***********************************</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Today is:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Casimir Pulaski Day -- Illinois, US (celebration of the Polish-American Revolutionary War Hero)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Celebrate Your Name Week -- Monday: <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Fun Facts About Names Day, enjoy looking up things like, what is the name of the Monopoly dog, or do Ken and Barbie have last names</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Charter Day -- St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada (1881)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Courageous Follower Day -- because leaders have to have someone to lead, and it can take as much courage to follow a great leader as to be the leader</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Feast of Ra in His Barge at Heliopolis -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Guam History and Chamorro Heritage Day -- Guam (formerly Discovery Day / Magellan Day)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Hamilton Lavity Stoutt Holiday -- British Virgin Islands (in lieu of Mar. 7)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Holy Experiment Day -- try something religious today</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Hug a GI Day -- just don't get in trouble sneaking on base to do it</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">International Scrapbooking Industry Day -- can't find proof the industry actually set this day, but if you love scrapbooking, celebrate</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Labour Day -- WA, Australia (a/k/a Eight Hour Day)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">March Forth - Do Something Day</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">National Grammar Day -- sponsored by The Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar on March 4th, which is both a date and an imperative</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">National Poundcake Day</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">St. Casimir's Day (Patron of bachelors, kings, princes, single laymen; Lithuania; Poland; against plague)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Tavern Day -- US (the first tavern in the US, a Puritan public house in Boston, MA, opened this date in 1634)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Toy Soldier Day -- Dr. Steel's Army, building a utopian playland and embarking on a worldwide mission of fun</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Waltz Day -- some say National Waltz Day, and some Dance the Waltz Day, but no one says why this day; i say, waltz if you want to</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Anniversaries Today:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Hot Springs National Park is established, 1921</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Vermont becomes the 14th US state, 1791</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Birthdays Today:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Patsy Kensit, 1968</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Jason Curtis Newsted, 1963</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Stephen Weber, 1961</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Patricia Heaton, 1958</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Catherine O'Hara, 1954</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Emilio Estefan, 1953</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Kay Lenz, 1953</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Chris Squire, 1948</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Mary Wilson, 1944</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Paula Prentiss, 1938</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Miriam Makeba, 1932</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Joan Greenwood, 1921</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Charles Rudolph Walgreen, Jr., 1906</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Knute Rockne, 1888</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Garrett Morgan, 1877</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Casimir Pulaski, 1747</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Antonio Vivaldi, 1678</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Prince Henry the Navigator, 1394</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Debuting/Premiering Today:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"People Magazine"(Publication), 1974</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"The Dick Cavett Show"(TV), 1968</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Nosferatu"(Horror Film), 1922</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Pénélope"(Fauré Opera), 1913</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Swan Lake"(Tchaikovsky Op. 20), 1876</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Today in History:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Croatian Duke Trpimir I issued a statute, a document with the first known written mention of the Croats name in Croatian sources, 852</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Ramathibodi becomes King of Siam, 1351</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Christopher Columbus arrives back in Lisbon, Portugal, from his first voyage, 1493</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Hernan Cortez arrives in Mexico in search of Aztec gold, 1519</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The Massachusetts Bay Colony is granted a royal charter, 1629</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">John Flamsteed is appointed the first Astronomer Royal of England, 1675</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">France is divided into 83 départements, which cut across the former provinces in an attempt to dislodge regional loyalties based on noble ownership of land, 1790</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The first Jewish member of the US Congress, Israel Jacobs of Pennsylvania, takes office, 1791</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">A Constitutional Act is introduced by the British House of Commons in London which envisages the separation of Canada into Lower Canada (Quebec) and Upper Canada (Ontario), 1791</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">In the first ever peaceful transfer of power between elected leaders in modern times, John Adams is sworn in as President of the United States, succeeding George Washington, 1797</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">In the Castle Hills Rebellion, in New South Wales, Australia, Irish convicts (some of whom had been involved in Ireland’s Battle of Vinegar Hill in 1798) lead the colony’s only significant convict uprising, 1804</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Carlo Alberto di Savoia signs the Statuto Albertino that will later represent the first constitution of the Regno d'Italia, 1848</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The day without a US president -- Zachary Taylor refuses to be sworn in on the Sabbath (Sunday), so there is, technically, no president on this day, 1849</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The longest bridge in the Great Britain, the Forth Bridge (railway) (1,710 ft) in Scotland is opened, 1890</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The great fire of Shanghai damages over 1,000 buildings, 1894</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Victor Berger of Wisconsin becomes the first socialist congressman in the U.S., 1911</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first female member of the United States House of Representatives, 1917</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia's renunciation of the throne is made public, and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia publicly issues his abdication manifesto, 1917</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Frances Perkins becomes the United States Secretary of Labor, the first female member of the United States Cabinet, 1933</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, announces the first successful kidney transplant, 1954</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The S&P 500 stock market index is introduced, replacing the S&P 90, 1957</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The United States Atomic Energy Commission announces that the first atomic power plant at McMurdo Station in Antarctica is in operation, 1962</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The first Cray-1 supercomputer is shipped to the Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, 1976</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Nationalist leader Robert Mugabe wins a sweeping election victory to become Zimbabwe's first black prime minister, 1980</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Bertha Wilson is appointed the first woman to sit on the Supreme Court of Canada, 1983</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The Soviet Vega 1 begins returning images of Comet Halley and the first images ever of its nucleus, 1986</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The Supreme Court of the United States rules that federal laws banning on-the-job sexual harassment also apply when both parties are the same sex, 1998</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">No response is received in the final attempt to contact Pioneer 10 by the Deep Space Network, 2006</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Approximately 30,000 voters take advantage of electronic voting in Estonia, the world's first nationwide voting where part of the votecasting is allowed in the form of remote electronic voting via the Internet, 2007</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The Papal Conclave begins to select the successor of Pope Benedict XVI, 2013</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The Italian government sets aside 2 million euros for repairs to the ancient city of Pompeii after damage caused by heavy rains highlights the general decay of this World Heritage site, 2014</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Four tons of rocket debris crashes into the far side of the Moon, possibly the booster from China's Chang'e 5-T1 mission, in the first unintentional collision with the Moon, 2022</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Most United Nations member countries agree to a new High Seas Treaty, aiming to place 30% of the seas into protected areas, 2023</span></p>messymimihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10649529601786689712noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-917428205224357542.post-61374494885692974342024-03-03T00:00:00.049-06:002024-03-03T00:00:00.126-06:00Litterbugs (Cajun Joke), Sunday Selections and Sunday Selfies<p><span style="color: #351c75;"> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt; text-size-adjust: auto;">***********************************</span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Just because Sandee of Comedy Plus is no longer hosting a Silly Sunday blog hop, do not expect me to quit telling Cajun jokes, especially as it has now become a habit.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Grandma and Grandpa live right on a main street where the traffic is constant. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It's sad to say, many people seem to think anywhere is a good place to toss trash out of their cars, and it's common to have to go out and pick up wrappers, cups, and other items from the front yard.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Ever' time Boudreaux an' hims garçon, Tee, go out in de pirogue to gets de crawfish, he done make sure he take hims de lunch an' a bag fo' de trash, to brung it all back an' not leave it in de swamp.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">One day, dey done had dem some bananas wit' dey lunch, an' Tee say, "Père, can' I jes' t'row de banana peel in de water?"</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">An' Boudreaux done say, "Non, garçon, dat be litterin'."</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">An' Tee say, "Mais, I done t'ink de banana peel be bayou-degradable!"</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; 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text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Sunday Selections was started as a way for bloggers to use photos that might otherwise just languish in their files. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The rules have been relaxed, and it is now simply a showcase for your photos, new or old, good or bad, although nothing rude, please. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It was hosted by <a href="http://river-driftingthroughlife.blogspot.com" target="_blank">River</a>, who still participates, and is now hosted by <a href="https://myjustsostory.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Elephant's Child</a> (who is taking a short blog break). <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_-8CVbB2Mhsa45deeCg_vnM7shyxuo-5GUSSImCceKoHsMOgwlwkxbT5dROpZBxW4blhqQwMCIzEZ9AEfiF9w0OxlNqQdlJLlcO39NWMvvxIkzIU9jDw5NEvO7iZf-Js4JVvHfR3fGiyqQOWRjJKPKe6Wcea2Yp8oF2918pWr-XUYn3P_FfC-xe66PumO/s300/Cat4-001-300x300.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_-8CVbB2Mhsa45deeCg_vnM7shyxuo-5GUSSImCceKoHsMOgwlwkxbT5dROpZBxW4blhqQwMCIzEZ9AEfiF9w0OxlNqQdlJLlcO39NWMvvxIkzIU9jDw5NEvO7iZf-Js4JVvHfR3fGiyqQOWRjJKPKe6Wcea2Yp8oF2918pWr-XUYn3P_FfC-xe66PumO/s1600/Cat4-001-300x300.jpg" width="300" /></span></a></div><span style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">This week, Mr. Cal wants to join the Kitties Blue at <a href="https://thecatonmyhead.com" target="_blank">The Cat On My Head</a> for their Sunday Selfies Blog Hop.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">It’s a special Sunday Selfies celebration of Dr. Seuss, and our hosts prepared wonderful picture frames for our selfies, if we wanted to use them. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The problem is even after looking on several sites, i couldn’t for the life of me figure out how in the world to put my picture in a frame someone else designed. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>So Mr. Cal agreed to pose for his selfie with a much beloved Dr. Seuss book. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh749rON8sZ6KbA6Q70V0ZkBEWToJPrDz4tMNhqk9ZZnMckSw7LU4e5i_xEDBXPAj7clrYtfiAUfT1vePC6d4ldt-q4FQhXVgwneUuwWAogDu7bv5kS95bi1Yr5fzos92Ecadu7DabfnxZbmc-dhdnfR9cRvhW6lhxnVzp8hWj_6kNgvRfXwZ9qu-SU-YBs/s4624/20240302_181632.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2084" data-original-width="4624" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh749rON8sZ6KbA6Q70V0ZkBEWToJPrDz4tMNhqk9ZZnMckSw7LU4e5i_xEDBXPAj7clrYtfiAUfT1vePC6d4ldt-q4FQhXVgwneUuwWAogDu7bv5kS95bi1Yr5fzos92Ecadu7DabfnxZbmc-dhdnfR9cRvhW6lhxnVzp8hWj_6kNgvRfXwZ9qu-SU-YBs/w400-h180/20240302_181632.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">***********************************</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Today is:</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Bonza Bottler Day™</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebrate_Your_Name_Week" target="_blank">Celebrate Your Name Week</a> -- Sunday: <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Namesake Day, a day to think about how you got your name (week begun in 1997 by onomatology hobbyist Jerry Hill) </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Day of Remembrance for Prince Igor -- Asatru/Slavic Pagan Calendar</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Heart-Accelerating Sodium-Enriched Cold Cuts Day -- internet generated by someone who has no intention of letting anything healthy past his/her lips</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Hina Matsuri -- Japan (Doll Festivals throughout the country, where women and girls dedicate dolls to shrines which are then floated out to sea to take away evil and sicknesses that afflict women)</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">If Pets Had Thumbs Day -- because if you are going to imagine something silly today, it might as well be this; sponsored by <a href="http://www.wellcat.com" target="_blank">Wellcat Holidays</a></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">I Want You to be Happy Day -- a day to devote some time to making someone else truly happy about something</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">International Irish Whiskey Day</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">International Omega-3 Awareness Day</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Joshi-no-Sekku -- Shinto (festival to honor girls)</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Liberation Day/National Day -- Bulgaria</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Martyr's Day -- Malawi</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Mother's Day -- Georgia</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">National Anthem Day -- US (current US anthem adopted this date in 1931)</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">National Cold Cuts Day</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">National Mulled Wine Day</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><a href="http://wordsmatter.naiwe.com" target="_blank">National Words Matter Week</a> -- US (focusing on the importance of words, particularly the written word; week originally sponsored by The National Association of Independent Writers and Editors) <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Peach Blossom Day - coincides with the start of the Peach Blossom Festival around this time of year in Hunan, China, where you celebrate the beauty of peach blossoms, and girls celebrate being girls</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Prodigal Son Sunday -- Orthodox Christian</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Sportsmen's Day -- Egypt</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Stop Bad Service Day -- spread around the internet by someone who got lousy service</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">St Casimir' Eve / Kaziukas Fair -- Vilnius, Lithuania (traditional craft fair dates back to the 17th century, celebrating Lithuania's patron saint; through tomorrow)</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">St. Cunegunda's Day (Patron of Bamberg, Germany; Lithuania; Luxembourg; Poland)</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">St. Winnal's Day (First comes David, Next comes Chad, Then comes Winnal, roaring mad! -- Traditional English saying about the storminess of March 3; St. Winwaloe or Winnal was the Christianized version of the Teutonic Aegir, god of the sea and controller of weather)</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Thanks to the Maple Festival -- Iroquois (date approximate, held when sap began flowing, usually early March)</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><a href="http://www.languagelizard.com" target="_blank">World Folk Tales and Fables Week</a> -- encouraging all people to explore the cultural background and lessons learned from folk tales, fables, myths, and legends from around the world; originally sponsored by Language Lizard </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Anniversaries Today:</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Florida becomes the 27th US state, 1845</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Colegio Militar of Portugal is founded, 1803</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Birthdays Today:</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Jessica Biel, 1982</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">David Faustino, 1974</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Julie Bowen, 1970</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Jackie Joyner-Kersee, 1962</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Herschel Walker, 1962</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Ira Glass, 1959</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Miranda Richardson, 1958</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Tim Kazurinsky, 1950</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Caroline Lee Bouvier Radziwill, 1933</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Doc Watson, 1923</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Diana Barrymore, 1921</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">James Doohan, 1920</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Jean Harlow, 1911</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Matthew Bunker Ridgway, 1895</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Norman Bethune, 1890</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Alexander Graham Bell, 1847</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">George Pullman, 1831</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Debuting/Premiering Today:</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Moonlighting"(TV), 1985</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Goodtime Charley"(Musical), 1975</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"The Lion in Winter"(Play), 1966</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Mr Wizard"(TV), 1951</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Juno and the Paycock"(Play), 1924</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Time Magazine", 1923</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Carmen"(Opera), 1875</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Symphony No. 3 in A minor(Scottish)"(Mendelssohn Op.56), 1842</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Symphony No. 101 in D major(The Clock)"(Haydn), 1794</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Today in History:</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The Statute of Rhuddlan incorporates the Principality of Wales into England, 1284</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The Olympic Theatre, designed by Andrea Palladio, is inaugurated in Vicenza, 1585</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The first amphibious landing of the United States Marine Corps begins the Battle of Nassau, 1776</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The first US Jewish governor, David Emanuel, takes office in Georgia, 1801</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The US declares war on Algeria for taking US prisoners and demanding tribute, 1815</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The Missouri Compromise, an attempt to keep the US half Slave and half free, is passed by the US Congress, 1820</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The Battle of Pelee Island takes place, Ontario, Canada, 1838</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Tsar Alexander II emancipates the serfs of Russia, 1861</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, the founding member of the HSBC Group, opens, 1865</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The first ever organized indoor game of ice hockey is played in Montreal, Canada as recorded in The Montreal Gazette, 1875</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Georges Bizet's opera Carmen receives its première at the Opéra Comique in Paris, 1875</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Bulgaria regains its independence from Ottoman Empire, 1878</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood becomes the first female attorney to argue before the US Supreme Court, 1879</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The US Geological Survey is created, 1879</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Anne Sullivan arrives to begin teaching Helen Keller, 1887</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Tsar Nicholas II of Russia agrees to create an elected assembly, the Duma, 1905</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Toronto's Dr Banting & Dr Best announce discovery of insulin, 1921</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Time Magazine begins publication, 1923</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The United States officially adopts The Star-Spangled Banner as its national anthem, 1931</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia, 1938</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">In Mumbai, Mohandas Gandhi begins to fast in protest of the autocratic rule in India, 1939</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Jackie Brenston, with Ike Turner and his band, records "Rocket 88", often cited as "the first rock and roll record", at Sam Phillips' recording studios in Memphis, Tennessee, 1951</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers, 1991</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere, Sky Tower in downtown Auckland, New Zealand, opens after two-and-a-half years of construction, 1997</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Citizens of Switzerland narrowly vote in favor of their country becoming a member of the United Nation, 2002</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly an airplane non-stop around the world solo without refueling, 2005</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">A 2-year-old Mississippi girl born with HIV/AIDS is pronounced HIV negative after receiving treatment for the virus within 30 hours after her birth, 2013</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The Dragon capsule from SpaceX successfully docks with the International Space Station during its demonstration run, 2019</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Irishwomen Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamar, of Grafton Architecture, become the first women to share the Pritzker Architecture Prize, 2020</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Great apes at the San Diego Zoo are given an experimental COVID-19 vaccine designed for animals after an earlier outbreak among them, 2021</span></p>messymimihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10649529601786689712noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-917428205224357542.post-45585871431159124382024-03-02T00:00:00.020-06:002024-03-02T00:00:00.237-06:00Reading and Resting and rEcess,. a Ten Things of Thankful Post<p><span style="color: #351c75;"> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt; text-size-adjust: auto;">***********************************</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRnNXKPKdj2yOZ3_tpSPu_6qbPiKf5emhENH6br97DBO5i2xsrFP6u4sK48VuGzfJ9Ihueb9QsNemkBRu8YfzZxRUr46kbXASSV7U3Oh3Q7_dZOJmWtfbCbedG8M7kTS8Xt364_GBVKrC9YiK0lFrgzqWFkEmUdCVL3U-lCjQ94dT9tL76rQICpVETnZpb/s200/biKr6j62f.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRnNXKPKdj2yOZ3_tpSPu_6qbPiKf5emhENH6br97DBO5i2xsrFP6u4sK48VuGzfJ9Ihueb9QsNemkBRu8YfzZxRUr46kbXASSV7U3Oh3Q7_dZOJmWtfbCbedG8M7kTS8Xt364_GBVKrC9YiK0lFrgzqWFkEmUdCVL3U-lCjQ94dT9tL76rQICpVETnZpb/s1600/biKr6j62f.png" width="200" /></span></a></div><span style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">As always, there’s more to be thankful for than i will probably have time to get to, but that’s a thankful in itself.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Two weeks ago, Sweetie got a spaghetti dinner from a restaurant in the NOLA area where we sometimes pick up lunch (Grandpa’s treat) and bring it back to eat while working. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>They mangled his order.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">This week, he called and told them what happened, and we’re thankful they gave us the price difference on what they didn’t include last time. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>We’re also thankful for food from a delicious place (they make an excellent salad).</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Sunday started our Zoom meetings for our small group Lent study. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It’s great to see everyone, and some new faces bringing new perspectives.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The work week has gone almost perfect. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Ms. G and i got a lot done as she told me all about the drama in her extended family (i’m thankful for the relative peace and calm in my life!), Ms. V and i got the refrigerator coils vacuumed (and all the other work done), no major drips, runs or errors.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Tuesday i had a genuine, real as can be day off! <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I went no further than my own mailbox, my personal definition of a good day off.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Then there’s Read Across America Day. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I’m thankful anyone, anywhere can participate by reading. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I’m thankful for Dr. Seuss and his delightful and insightful writings. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I’m thankful to know how to read and to have books at my fingertips.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Finally, rEcess!</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; 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margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Adwa Victory Day -- Ethiopia</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Iditarod Sled Dog Race - Last Great Race on Earth® begins -- Anchorage to Nome, AK, US (1,000 miles along the historic Iditarod Trail)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Feast of 'Ala (Loftiness) -- Baha'i (first full day of the 19 day fast)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Going Forth of Set, Son of Nut -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Highway Numbers Day -- US (a joint board of state and federal highway officials created the first uniform system for numbering interstate highways, as well as standardizing design of road signs, in 1925)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">James Ronald Webster's Birthday -- Anguilla</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">March Nymph's Parade -- Fairy Calendar</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; 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font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Old Stuff Day -- if you are doing the same old stuff, think about how you can change that</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Peasants' Day -- Myanmar</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">St. Chad of Mead's Day (Patron of St. Chad's College of the University of Durham in England; Birmingham, England; Lichfield, England)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Texas Independence Day -- Texas, US (anniversary of declaration of independence from Mexico in 1836)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Anniversary Today:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Mt. Rainier National Park is established, 1899</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Birthdays Today:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Henrik Lundquist, 1982</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Bryce Dallas Howard, 1981</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Chris Martin, 1977</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Daniel Craig, 1968</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Jon Bon Jovi, 1962</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Ken Salazar, 1955</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Laraine Newman, 1952</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Karen Carpenter, 1950</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Eddie Money, 1949</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Lou Reed, 1944</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">John Irving, 1942</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Mikhail Gorbachev, 1931</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Tom Wolfe, 1931</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">John Cullum, 1930</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Doc Watson, 1923</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Jennifer Jones, 1919</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Desi Arnaz, 1917</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Martin Ritt, 1914</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Mel Ott, 1909</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Theodore Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss), 1904</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Bedrich Smetana, 1864</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Carl Schurz, 1829</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Melissa Burton Coray, 1828</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Sam Houston, 1793</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Juvenal, 54</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Debuting/Premiering Today:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Bubbling Brown Sugar"(Musical), 1976</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"The Sound of Music"(Film), 1965</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Bus Stop"(Play), 1955</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"King Kong"(Film), 1933</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Morning Chronicle"(London daily newspaper), 1769</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Today in History:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The Loves of Mars and Venus becomes the first ballet performed in England, 1717</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">A semaphore machine that will speed communication is introduced in Paris, 1791</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The US Congress outlaws the import of slaves, 1897</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The Republic of Texas declares its independence from Mexico, 1836</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Aleksandr Romanov becomes the tsar of Russia, 1855</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Tsar Aleksandr outlaws serfdom in Russia, 1861</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The Convention of Constantinople is signed, guaranteeing free maritime passage through the Suez Canal during war and peace, 1888</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">In New York City the Martha Washington Hotel opens, becoming the first hotel exclusively for women, 1903</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The original film version of King Kong premiers, 1933</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Captain James Gallagher lands his B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II in Fort Worth, Texas after completing the first non-stop around-the-world airplane flight in 94 hours and one minute, 1949</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The first automatic street light is installed in New Milford, Connecticut, 1949</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">In Toulouse, France the first test flight of the Anglo-French Concorde is conducted, 1969</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Rhodesia declares itself a republic, breaking its last links with the British crown, 1970</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The Pioneer 10 space probe is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida with a mission to explore the outer planets, 1972</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Czech Vladimír Remek becomes the first non-Russian or non-American to go into space, when he is launched aboard Soyuz 28, 1978</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">CD players and discs are released for sale for the first time outside of Japan, 1983</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Twelve European Community nations agree to ban the production of all chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) by the end of the century, 1989</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, San Marino, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan join the United Nations, 1992</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Data sent from the Galileo spacecraft indicates that Jupiter's moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice, 1998</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">In his book 'Jesus of Nazareth Part II', Pope Benedict XVI exonerates the Jewish people for the responsibility of the death of Jesus, 2011</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">New findings from the University of Leicester indicate decreasing sitting time by 90 minutes each day can result in major heath advantages, including reducing the risk of Type II Diabetes, 2013</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The longest non-stop scheduled commercial flight by distance, Emirates A380 flies 14,200km (8,824 miles) Dubai to Auckland, remains in the air for 17 hours, 15 minutes, 2016</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The oldest known land fossil (Tortotubus - 440 million years old) from Gotland, Sweden, is revealed by British scientists, 2016</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko and US astronaut Scott Kelly return to earth after nearly a year (340 days), setting an ISS record, 2016</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Australian wonder horse Winx sets the world record for Group 1 wins in the Chipping Norton Stakes in Sydney, stretching her unbeaten run to 31 races, with this being her 23rd in the highest class of thoroughbred racing, 2019</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Dr. Seuss Enterprises announces that six Dr. Seuss books will no longer be published because they are now considered racially insensitive, 2021</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Dolly Parton receives her first Moderna Covid-19 vaccine that she donated $1million to help develop, 2021</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">United Nation states agree to create a legally binding plastic pollution treaty, to be confirmed in 2024, after talks in Nairobi, Kenya, 2022</span></p>messymimihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10649529601786689712noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-917428205224357542.post-75167789628141372572024-03-01T00:00:00.050-06:002024-03-01T00:00:00.238-06:00Bettina (Feline Friday) and Friendly Fill-Ins<p><span style="color: #351c75;"> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt; text-size-adjust: auto;">***********************************</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzF47oNc5TEI3VOeK8D198nd6B2uIaOpADbsT2IX7oYvkNqhxiadsMGsrhBhTNKZSPF-TX50U0f4uNSgCpHFDxfzhOxtow4p9eQ-RpwajH6qRGzji7k8ki6NYWgzgk9_IrRJLaANBCxEMumDXLWPu5rFaS2lY5DTJkmbZz2HzjWKZpbphzpZyRy33dHMYG/s200/FelineFriday-Blog-Hop-Badge-125-px-e1626886709700.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzF47oNc5TEI3VOeK8D198nd6B2uIaOpADbsT2IX7oYvkNqhxiadsMGsrhBhTNKZSPF-TX50U0f4uNSgCpHFDxfzhOxtow4p9eQ-RpwajH6qRGzji7k8ki6NYWgzgk9_IrRJLaANBCxEMumDXLWPu5rFaS2lY5DTJkmbZz2HzjWKZpbphzpZyRy33dHMYG/s1600/FelineFriday-Blog-Hop-Badge-125-px-e1626886709700.jpeg" width="200" /></span></a></div><span style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Feline Friday was originally started by Steve, The Burnt Food Dude (who no longer blogs), and i'm going to believe it's because he likes cats.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">He handed hosting duties off to Sandee at <a href="https://comedy-plus.com" target="_blank">Comedy Plus</a>, and now she's entrusting it to me.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Feline Friday is simple to join. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>All you have to do is: Post a picture, drawing, cartoon or video of a cat (they may be silly or cute). <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Then add your link!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">One thing for sure is this is a fun and easy meme to do. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>So come and join us in Feline Friday.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">What better way to start the weekend than with a feline!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">I knew i had to feature Bettina, with her solid black face and solid white whiskers, although i had a bit of a time getting a good shot.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; 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<br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">***********************************</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyfNas0eLI6TIidTUxP3029__TQJv773cDz6Iua0ylRTUja_lY6lTUrK3M3k7pxAMloqodhDkGvW1fOZF5jyXQaV5P4_JqozbBbJJDi9QEX9VPN60E69CbxYzGVexBE-3vHksiB8b0SkwkNe9lYBuUr-yrRUkfWn-5a8zH6mFl4TECa81J8oJbOSA3FN_Z/s300/DrSeuss.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><img border="0" data-original-height="147" data-original-width="300" height="157" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyfNas0eLI6TIidTUxP3029__TQJv773cDz6Iua0ylRTUja_lY6lTUrK3M3k7pxAMloqodhDkGvW1fOZF5jyXQaV5P4_JqozbBbJJDi9QEX9VPN60E69CbxYzGVexBE-3vHksiB8b0SkwkNe9lYBuUr-yrRUkfWn-5a8zH6mFl4TECa81J8oJbOSA3FN_Z/w320-h157/DrSeuss.webp" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Friendly Fill-Ins are easy to do. There are four statements: the first two statements are provided by Ellen of <a href="http://www.15andmeowing.com" target="_blank">15AndMeowing</a>, and the final two are offered by Lorianne The Menagerie Mom of <a href="http://fourleggedfurballs.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Four-Legged Furballs</a>. They try to make sure the statements will be fun to both answer and share. The linky will be posted at or about 12:00 AM on Friday. Please head over to one of their sites, link up, and share your thoughts! <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Here are this week's statements with my responses underlined:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">1. My favorite place to read is _________.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">2. My favorite genre to read is _________.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">3. _________ is a book I could read over and over again.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">4. The book _________ inspired me to _________.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">1. My favorite place to read is <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="s3" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt; text-decoration: underline;">anyplace! <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I always keep a book handy.</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">2. My favorite genre to read is <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="s3" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt; text-decoration: underline;">variable, like the music i enjoy.</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">3. </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt; text-decoration: underline;">The Bible</span><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is a book I could read over and over again. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="s3" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt; text-decoration: underline;">In fact, i read it over every year.</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">4. The book <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="s4" face="".SFUIText-Italic"" style="font-size: 17pt; font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline;">Intercessory Prayer </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt; text-decoration: underline;">by Dutch Sheets </span><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>inspired me to <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="s3" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt; text-decoration: underline;">dive deeper into my prayer life.</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">***********************************</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Today is:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Baba Marta Day -- Bulgaria (Grandmother Spring Day, martenitsa are worn until you see a stork or a tree blooming.)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Beer Day -- Iceland (marks the end of the prohibition of beer in 1989)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Be Positive, Do Something Positive Day -- the way to start Optimism Month</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Bravo Day/Nuclear Victims Remembrance Day -- Marshall Islands</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Chalandra Marz -- Engandine, Switzerland (various cities of this province have the traditional spring event where costumed young people, ringing bells and cracking whips, drive out the demons of winter)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Day to Mourn Victims of Land Mines -- anniversary of the day they were outlawed worldwide in 1999</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Dia de las Islas Baleares -- Iberia, Spain</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Dress in Blue Day -- US, for colorectal cancer awareness</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Elves, Woodworkers, and Mechanics' Day -- Fairy Calendar</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Employee Appreciation Day</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">First Day of Autumn -- Australia (they go by months, not equinoxes, like the rest of the world used to)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Humorists Are Artists Month begins -- any coincidence this spells HAAM?</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Independence Day -- Bosnia and Herzegovina(1992)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><a href="http://www.womenofcolorday.com/htdocs/origins.htm" target="_blank">International Association for Women of Color Day</a> -- on the first day of Women's History Month <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><a href="http://internationalwheelchairclub.com/international-wheelchair-day/" target="_blank">International Wheelchair Day</a> -- a day when wheelchair users celebrate the positive impact a wheelchair has had in their lives </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Martisor -- Romanians and Aromanians, especially in Romania and Moldova (similar tradition to Baba Marta; first days of March are Zilele Babei, Days of the Old Woman, when Old Woman Winter, Baba Dokia, who lives in the mountains, might come back with ferocity.)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><a href="http://www.nationaldayofunplugging.com" target="_blank">National Day of Unplugging</a> -- powered by <a href="http://www.sabbathmanifesto.org" target="_blank">Reboot/Sabbath Manifesto</a>, encouraging recharging your spiritual life by unplugging your technology from sunset today to sunset tomorrow <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">National Fruit Compote Day</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">National Heroes' Day -- Paraguay</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">National Horse Protection Day -- US; sponsored by the <a href="http://www.horseprotectionday.com/" target="_blank">Animal Miracle Foundation</a> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">National Pig Day -- sponsored by Ellen Stanley and Mary Lynne Rave, who want you to know that pigs are amazing animals that place fourth on the animal intelligence list!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">National Peanut Butter Lovers' Day -- different from National Peanut Butter Day, which is January 24</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">National Salesperson Day</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Navii's Day / Vjunitci -- Asatru/Slavic Pagan Calendar (a Day of the Dead, bringing sacrifices and inviting the ancestors to attend the feast)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">New Year's Day -- Ancient Roman Pre-Julian Calendar; related observances</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Birthday of Mars Pater (Feriae Marti)</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Chalanda Marz -- Kalends of March (now a festival in Egandine, Grisons Canton, Switzerland, in which the children ring bells to ring out the winter)</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Matronalia -- Ancient Roman Calendar (Women's Festival to Juno)</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Renewal of the Vestal Fire</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Nineteen Day Fast -- Baha'i (begins at sundown)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific Day -- in remembrance of the destruction of Bikini Atoll</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Omizutori Matsuri -- Todai-ji Temple, Nara, Japan (Water-Drawing Festival of 1,200 year old Buddhist ceremonies, through the 14th)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Peace Corps Birthday / National Day of Action -- US</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Peanut Butter Lovers' Day -- according to some foodie sites</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Plan a Solo Vacation Day -- Solo Travel Portal wants you to dream big and plan what you would do if you could get away, solo.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">ReFIRED, Not Retired Day -- the day to get Fired Up about Life, Part II; you aren't retired, you are reFIRED!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Republic Day -- NE, Switzerland</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Samiljeol (March 1st Movement Remembrance Day) -- South Korea</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Self-Injury Awareness Day -- International (for information about self-injury, or to get started getting help, <a href="http://www.lifesigns.org.uk/" target="_blank">go here</a>)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><a href="https://njop.org/" target="_blank">Shabbat Across America/Canada</a> -- sponsored by the National Jewish Out-reach Program, encouraging Conservative, Orthodox, Reform, and Reconstructionist Jews to observe the Sabbath from sundown tonight until sundown tomorrow <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">St. David of Wales' Day (Patron of doves; Patron of Wales, where it is called Dydd Gwyl Dewi Sant)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><a href="http://www.dementiauk.org/get-involved/do-your-own-thing/time-for-a-cuppa/" target="_blank">Time for a Cuppa</a> -- UK (raising awareness of dementia and raising funds for research; through Mar. 8) </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Whuppity Scoorie Day -- Lanark, Scotland (Spring festival, children run around the church and pick up coins thrown for them.)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">World Civil Defense Day -- <a href="http://www.icdo.org/Pages.aspx?Lng=2&page=13#.UugF1ftMFto" target="_blank">International Civil Defense Organisation</a> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><a href="http://www.wdp-usa.or" target="_blank">World Day of Prayer</a>-- International and Ecumenical; a day for Informed Prayer and Prayerful Action, this year's theme is "I Beg You...Bear With One Another in Love"; this year's call to prayer was written by the women of Palestine <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Yap Day -- Micronesia (festival celebrating the heritage of the Yap peoples)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Anniversaries Today:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Johnny Cash marries June Carter, 1968</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Yellowstone National Park established, 1872</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Nebraska becomes the 37th US State, 1867</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Howard University in Washington, D.C., is chartered, 1867</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Ohio becomes the 17th US State, 1803</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Birthdays Today:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Justin Bieber, 1994</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Mark-Paul Gosselaar, 1974</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Javier Bardem, 1969</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">George Eads, 1967</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Russell Wong, 1963</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Nik Kershaw, 1958</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Timothy Daly, 1956</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Ron Howard, 1954</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Catherine Bach, 1954</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Alan Thicke, 1947</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Dirk Benedict, 1945</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Roger Daltry, 1944</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Robert Conrad, 1935</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Harry Belafonte, 1927</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Pete Rozelle, 1926</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Donald "Deke" K. Slayton, 1924</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">William M. Gaines, 1922</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Richard (Purdy) Wilbur, 1921</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Ralph Ellison, 1914</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Harry Caray, 1914</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">David Niven, 1910</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Glenn Miller, 1904</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Watsuji Tetsuro, 1889</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Oskar Kokoschka, 1886</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Augustus Saint-Gaudens, 1848</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Frederic Chopin, 1810</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Debuting/Premiering Today:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Sophisticated Ladies"(Musical), 1981</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street"(Musical), 1979</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Believe It or Not"(TV), 1949</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Captain America Comics #1"(Comic book), 1941</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Native Son"(Publication date), 1940</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Today in History:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Romulus, first king of Rome, celebrates the first Roman triumph after his victory over the Caeninenses, following the Rape of the Sabine Women, BC752</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Lucius Cornelius Sulla, at the head of a Roman Republic army, enters Athens, BC86</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Hulagu Khan, grandson of Genghis, conquerors Damascus, 1260</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The Unitas Fratrum is established in the village of Kunvald, on the Bohemian-Moravian borderland. It is to date the second oldest Protestant denomination, 1457</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">23 Huguenots are massacred by Catholics in Wassy, France, marking the start of the French Wars of Religion, 1562</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The Uppsala Synod is summoned to confirm the exact forms of the Lutheran Church of Sweden, 1593</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Samuel de Champlain reclaims his role as commander of New France on behalf of Cardinal Richelieu, 1633</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba are arrested for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, 1692</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"The Spectator" begins publishing, in London, 1711</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The first US census is authorized, 1790</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Napoleon returns to France from his banishment on Elba, 1815</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Rebecca Lee Crumpler becomes the first African-American female to earn a medical degree, 1864</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Yellowstone becomes the world's first national park, 1872</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">E. Remington and Sons in Ilion, New York begins production of the first practical typewriter, 1873</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Nikola Tesla gives the first public demonstration of radio in St. Louis, Missouri, 1893</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity, 1896</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Battle of Adwa, Abyssinia (Ethiopia) defeats invading Italians, the first defeat of a colonizing European nation by an African colony, 1896</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Albert Berry makes the first parachute jump from an airplane, 1912</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The Republic of China joins the Universal Postal Union, 1914</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The March 1st Movement, demonstrations for independence from Japan, begins in Korea, 1919</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Charles Lindbergh, Jr., is kidnapped, 1932</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The Hoover Dam is completed, 1936</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">US Steel raises workers wages to US$5/day, 1937</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Trans-Canada Air Lines (forerunner of Air Canada) begins transcontinental operations (between Vancouver and Montreal), 1939</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The International Monetary Fund begins financial operations, 1947</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Chiang Kai-shek resumed the presidency of National China on Formosa, 1950</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb, is detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in the worst radioactive contamination ever caused by the United States, 1954</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The Peace Corps is established, 1961</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Villarrica Volcano begins a strombolian eruption causing lahars that destroy half of the town of Coñaripe, Chile, 1964</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Venera 3 Soviet space probe crashes on Venus becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet's surface, 1966</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Bosnia and Herzegovina declares its independence from Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, 1992</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Yahoo! was incorporated, 1995</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The Envisat environmental satellite successfully reaches an orbit 800 kilometers (500 miles) above the Earth on its 11th launch, carrying the heaviest payload to date at 8500 kilograms (9.5 tons), 2002</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The International Criminal Court holds its inaugural session in The Hague, 2003</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">English-language Wikipedia reaches its one millionth article, Jordanhill railway station, 2006</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The tomb of a 700 year old female mummy, discovered by road workers, opened in Taizhou, Jiangsu, China, 2011</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Two Guatemalan military officers are convicted of sexual slavery during country's civil war, the first ever prosecution of sexual slavery during an armed conflict, 2016</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The discovery of the gene for grey hair (IRF4) is announced by Scientists from University College London in "Nature Communications", 2016</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The earliest evidence for figural tattoos (bull and sheep) on two naturally mummified bodies from Egypt’s predynastic period (3351-3017BC) is published in "Journal of Archaeological Science", 2018</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Canadian-American singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell receives the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize, 2023</span></p>messymimihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10649529601786689712noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-917428205224357542.post-10672304316296607002024-02-29T00:00:00.031-06:002024-02-29T00:00:00.266-06:00Up to Her (Six Sentence Story), Good Fences, Sammy’s Poetry Day and Brian’s Thankful Thursday<p><span style="color: #351c75;"> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt; text-size-adjust: auto;">***********************************</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxpGWrZPa5u_aFqqG6GIPc-ZjCLFM8lHiME9Ja1dJLdoiU1LWVevS32GNUQt0ugPJOU6lWyJAA5_vwsS2WlauRCDY3Ac69YszLGis07-GeOdjn6aghrDbHp8E9TwjOjmok9KEPCEY2g5gmDuv_FVvDKcjn7Z861RYgtIT8c9OfZO56xnAHiVe2-5v42RPv/s200/Six%20Sentence%20Story%20Girlie.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxpGWrZPa5u_aFqqG6GIPc-ZjCLFM8lHiME9Ja1dJLdoiU1LWVevS32GNUQt0ugPJOU6lWyJAA5_vwsS2WlauRCDY3Ac69YszLGis07-GeOdjn6aghrDbHp8E9TwjOjmok9KEPCEY2g5gmDuv_FVvDKcjn7Z861RYgtIT8c9OfZO56xnAHiVe2-5v42RPv/s1600/Six%20Sentence%20Story%20Girlie.jpg" width="200" /></span></a></div><span style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">She was a whiz kid, according to Ms. G, straight A student with AP classes up the wazoo, scholarship money for school, and her eyes on becoming a pediatrician someday.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">She flunked out of her single disastrous semester of college, losing her scholarship and her way, taking up with the high school football star who also didn't live up to his potential and went to seed in a bad way.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">She and boyfriend ended up living with her mom, he couldn't get a job because he couldn't pass a drug test, she drifting and uncertain.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The nail in her coffin was his convincing her to pawn a couple of items of jewelry he claimed he'd had for years but actually had been stolen from their landlord's house across the street, resulting in both of their arrests and, of course, the landlord evicting the whole group effective immediately.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">This past weekend Ms. G spent helping mom and mom's sister pack up everything and move to mom's sister's house while she agreed to a 28-day inpatient stay at rehab as opposed to being left on the street with no food, money or phone; boyfriend will cool his heels in jail until and unless he can make bond, which is doubtful in the near future and probably right where he needs to be.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">She now has to decide to either get on the straight and narrow for real and do whatever she has to do to get the court and the landlord to drop the charges and let her pay restitution, or face a life of no options because of a criminal record, and she has until the end of the 28 days to make up her mind.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Linking up with Denise at <a href="http://www.girlieontheedge1.wordpress.com" target="_blank">Girlie On The Edge Blog</a>, where she hosts <a href="https://fresh.inlinkz.com/party/e9d12286c9b14fdaa81727264a2adf85" target="_blank">Six Sentence Stories</a>, and the cue is Nail. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; 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<br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">(Another of those true stories Ms. G somehow gets mixed up in.)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">***********************************</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">While Good Fences Around the World seems to have gone the way of the dodo bird, i still enjoy looking for and posting interesting fences, so i will!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">I really like white picket fences.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFGlw7HiIOB_A3SyuMzHbFGRoZ_xhCWmOFrA4tLMOahMF0FyK3l0jTSqvaPX-UCBEhGsDg9Yk7q9R2SmercGNkyzQ4e2wbg4XO9Sraa_5N_vE81bWMUN1L7FbQJ69BvX96wH6_hgDOItqAAoc7dPnSGEiaOZt920t6VYq847WnRatSeSK3gpAMoKbNEwao/s2634/20240228_094357.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhufVpJyj75_7Gj1-pb3RH_pxwPnY1DsFcvkdEQ7yjRSLARP19TnaIR30TVK5nDrBs0j9n7-tYUaCkhIu9pT8o29Fcq8hkALf1mC8lfriWZ4sRtQe466rYVBgOm-K257D0ZI6F5Rg-y9ZwycLCbii9OSNBqsmPeuHjdGGfvU0mzs-wqrLP04-S2HBvxp4em/s651/sams-poetrycorner-logo2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><img border="0" data-original-height="488" data-original-width="651" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhufVpJyj75_7Gj1-pb3RH_pxwPnY1DsFcvkdEQ7yjRSLARP19TnaIR30TVK5nDrBs0j9n7-tYUaCkhIu9pT8o29Fcq8hkALf1mC8lfriWZ4sRtQe466rYVBgOm-K257D0ZI6F5Rg-y9ZwycLCbii9OSNBqsmPeuHjdGGfvU0mzs-wqrLP04-S2HBvxp4em/s320/sams-poetrycorner-logo2.png" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">It's <a href="https://onespoiledcat.wordpress.com" target="_blank">Angel Sammy's Poetry Day</a>! <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This week's image and my poem: <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span>
<br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrGPE7HWJWhNwAEYg3WBsjk3vB1Kl-2mYZEJ0IYyf7t-hPLYLQpodKsyGuE5ePAellJQYLEVL05I0TRpYHGPpnQVKfWfOtA8pD-A1psA_wjaUwjG_0sp0khu5srg1gS0U5DKJOHT6O6EdHmcyLgsly6i8AoIa6ltZEIfml1nY-4tDX_bs9mb1DSpf-XyVr/s960/photopoemfeb28-2024.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="960" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrGPE7HWJWhNwAEYg3WBsjk3vB1Kl-2mYZEJ0IYyf7t-hPLYLQpodKsyGuE5ePAellJQYLEVL05I0TRpYHGPpnQVKfWfOtA8pD-A1psA_wjaUwjG_0sp0khu5srg1gS0U5DKJOHT6O6EdHmcyLgsly6i8AoIa6ltZEIfml1nY-4tDX_bs9mb1DSpf-XyVr/w400-h266/photopoemfeb28-2024.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><br /><br /></span><p></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">I'm going to live my best life,</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">not boring, meek and mild,</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">adventure's what I long for,</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">to make it wet and wild!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">I can't believe I'm finally here,</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">I'm living out my dream,</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">We're on the rapids goin' for broke</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">and I can't help but scream!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">***********************************</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2MjKp4iVPl6RaSHuHiQvB3JykuJURt9orC8r2OUzSVK71qJKrLL2gkFI05OS6Pb8JB1NFi8gVI5NwzaDAvhZMc-zXXU9BTJZq8D9ytwGKAVXM2_fLR0XP91ngH0OZ-t5cQZ92YAqkCTNktRYYFCGaJACsOdv9iTFgeJJLCoviSXaGZMWqF5wzELzA2nVD/s500/BriansHome-ThankfulThursday-BlogHop.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2MjKp4iVPl6RaSHuHiQvB3JykuJURt9orC8r2OUzSVK71qJKrLL2gkFI05OS6Pb8JB1NFi8gVI5NwzaDAvhZMc-zXXU9BTJZq8D9ytwGKAVXM2_fLR0XP91ngH0OZ-t5cQZ92YAqkCTNktRYYFCGaJACsOdv9iTFgeJJLCoviSXaGZMWqF5wzELzA2nVD/s320/BriansHome-ThankfulThursday-BlogHop.png" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Angel Brian's Family of <a href="https://brianshomeblog.com/" target="_blank">Brian's Home</a> hosts the Thankful Thursday Blog Hop. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It's time to share something for which i am thankful. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Today i am thankful for my mostly drama-free life!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><!-- start LinkyTools script --><script src="https://www.linkytools.com/basic_linky_include.aspx?id=313514" type="text/javascript" ></script><!-- end LinkyTools script -->
<br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">***********************************</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Today is:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Bachelors' Day -- according to legend, and you may pick which you prefer:</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>a) women are allowed to propose to men on this day, because of a deal St. Bridget made with St. Patrick, and a man who refuses such a proposal must pay her a penalty, or</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>b) this is the one day of the year bachelors are immune from marriage proposals</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">International Underlings' Day -- created by Peter D. Morris for all of us who are neither a boss nor a professional assistant, as both of those have their own day; unofficially celebrated on Feb. 28 or Mar. 1 in non leap years, but this year it's official!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Leap Year Day</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><a href="http://www.rarediseaseday.org/" target="_blank">Rare Disease Day</a> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">St. Oswald of Worcester's Day</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Surf and Turf Day</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Birthdays Today</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Antonio Sabato, Jr., 1972</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Tony Robbins, 1960</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Gretchen Christopher, 1940</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Jack Lousma, 1936</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Dinah Shore, 1916</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Jimmy Dorsey, 1904</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">William Wellman, 1896</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Herman Hollerith, 1860</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Gioacchino Rossini, 1792</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Ann Lee, 1736</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Today in History</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The Romans create the first Leap Year by adding a day to their calendar, BC46</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The Scottish Parliament makes it illegal for a man to refuse to marry a woman who proposes on Leap Day, the only day women could propose; his penalty for refusing would be to give her a kiss, some gold, and a pair of gloves (to hide the fact that she didn't have a wedding ring), 1288</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Christopher Columbus uses his knowledge of a lunar eclipse that night to convince Native Americans to provide him with supplies, 1504</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">February 29 is followed by February 30 in Sweden, in a move to abolish the Swedish calendar for a return to the Old style, 1712</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The Jay Treaty between the United States and Great Britain comes into force, facilitating ten years of peaceful trade between the two nations, 1796</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">St. Petersburg, Florida, is incorporated, 1892</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">In South Carolina, the minimum working age for factory, mill, and mine workers is raised from twelve to fourteen years old, 1916</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Baby Snooks, played by Fanny Brice, debuts on the radio program The Ziegfeld Follies of the Air, 1936</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">For her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind, Hattie McDaniel becomes the first African American to win an Academy Award, 1940</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">In a ceremony held in Berkeley, California, because of the war, physicist Ernest Lawrence receives the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics from Sweden's Consul General in San Francisco, 1940</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">An earthquake in Morocco kills over 3,000 people and nearly destroys Agadir in the southern part of the country, 1960</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The Family Circus comic strip debuts, 1960</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">In Sydney, Australian swimmer Dawn Fraser sets a new world record in the 100-meter freestyle swimming competition (58.9 seconds), 1964</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Hank Aaron becomes the first player in the history of Major League Baseball to sign a $200,000 contract, 1972</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Gordie Howe of the then Hartford Whalers makes NHL history as he scores his 800th goal, 1980</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau announces he will retire as soon as the Liberals can elect another leader, 1984</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">South African archbishop Desmond Tutu is arrested along with 100 clergymen during a five-day anti-apartheid demonstration in Cape Town, 1988</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Jean-Bertrand Aristide is removed as President of Haiti following a coup, 2004</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Construction of the Tokyo Skytree is completed, the tallest tower in the world and the second tallest artificial structure in the world, 2012</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The US and The Taliban sign a deal to end 18-year war in Afghanistan, 2020</span></p>messymimihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10649529601786689712noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-917428205224357542.post-71703304323950056152024-02-28T00:00:00.033-06:002024-02-28T00:00:00.256-06:00How Much Rice Can They Eat!?! (Wordless Wednesday) and Words for Wednesday<p><span style="color: #351c75;"> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt; text-size-adjust: auto;">***********************************</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPoDcgeN0jjZoUKxLU9WTe8pOXOUx9d1_8HpUJQdwM7rx09mvcUYcNSYyc5azM2xq6NwfgRjFsXJHSCVga-lFhZxQHSzBWxEuE6Sec4CoG4C11J66mqq4ByDvGYm67Mb_hC2Gsk7rToQ70B5PKhPE42c8Jq8pRUaIPfnt55rzcryGh_9MOe35sZXcV5of-/s2585/20230613_182115.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2585" data-original-width="1799" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPoDcgeN0jjZoUKxLU9WTe8pOXOUx9d1_8HpUJQdwM7rx09mvcUYcNSYyc5azM2xq6NwfgRjFsXJHSCVga-lFhZxQHSzBWxEuE6Sec4CoG4C11J66mqq4ByDvGYm67Mb_hC2Gsk7rToQ70B5PKhPE42c8Jq8pRUaIPfnt55rzcryGh_9MOe35sZXcV5of-/w279-h400/20230613_182115.jpg" width="279" /></span></a></div><span style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Linking up with <a href="http://www.wordlesswednesday.blogspot.com" target="_blank">Wordless Wednesday</a>, <a href="http://www.bethere2day.com" target="_blank">BeThere2Day</a>, and Sandee at <a href="https://comedy-plus.com" target="_blank">Comedy Plus</a>. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><!-- start LinkyTools script --><script src="https://www.linkytools.com/basic_linky_include.aspx?id=313495" type="text/javascript" ></script><!-- end LinkyTools script -->
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font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXPoDpqp4TDgbq_wkeX8hQcr1WTCaFm0dQgSJ7NLahNhkV0JnaypXEimLBzniM8JJyZ10OaLX-u3AunSZ-HGsHk0N13ZSOM0aIn449V-hy1qiCc9jNISvZZobwx7D0HrPuDfsWgoQQqjib2ldcv5GUTccDB3glFmEOk5lnhdcGkpN4ZTd7Zd2jBDFDEMRt/s320/Words%20for%20Wednesday.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><img border="0" data-original-height="211" data-original-width="320" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXPoDpqp4TDgbq_wkeX8hQcr1WTCaFm0dQgSJ7NLahNhkV0JnaypXEimLBzniM8JJyZ10OaLX-u3AunSZ-HGsHk0N13ZSOM0aIn449V-hy1qiCc9jNISvZZobwx7D0HrPuDfsWgoQQqjib2ldcv5GUTccDB3glFmEOk5lnhdcGkpN4ZTd7Zd2jBDFDEMRt/s1600/Words%20for%20Wednesday.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Words for Wednesday was begun by Delores and has become a moveable feast of word or picture or music prompts to encourage us to write stories, poems, or whatever strikes our fancy. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">This month, the prompts are being provided by <a href="https://postcardsfromthebookstore.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Lissa</a>. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Thank you, Lissa, for providing the prompts for February. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Next month the prompts will be provided by <a href="http://river-driftingthroughlife.blogspot.com" target="_blank">River</a> on her blog. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s3" face="".SFUIText-Bold"" style="color: #351c75; font-size: 17pt; font-weight: bold;">This week's prompts are:</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">1. tomorrow</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">2. coffee</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">3. direction</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">4. echo</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">5. sunshine</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Charlotte/Mother Owl has chosen Graphite Black as the color of the month.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"What's on the work agenda today?" Blake asked, sitting down at the break room table.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Alyssa sighed and said, "Same old stuff, every day is an ECHO of the day before."</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Sounds like somebody needs a vacation," Blake said, taking a sip of the COFFEE he'd poured in his cup and making a face. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It had been left on the burner so long it was almost Graphite Black. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>"Smooth!" he said in a gasping voice, making them both laugh.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"It would have to be someplace with SUNSHINE," Alyssa noted.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Take a cruise. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>You get plenty of sunshine on those Caribbean island cruises."</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Alyssa shook her head. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>"Being on a ship with thousands of other people isn't my idea of a good time, but that sounds like it's the right DIRECTION. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Maybe Cozumel, or someplace similar."</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Now you're talking. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>See? <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Just thinking about it has you more chipper. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>You have vacation time saved up, don't let it go to waste."</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Smiling, Alyssa said, "You sound like my husband, I think he's itching to get away, too. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I guess we should start making plans, and TOMORROW I can talk to HR about what vacation slots are left. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I can't plan to be gone at the same time as my team members."</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"That's the spirit!" Blake said, then took another sip of coffee and made a face. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>"Ugh! <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It will be time to get back to it for today, as soon as I brew another pot."</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">***********************************</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Today is:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Dia de Andalucia -- Andalucia, Spain</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">DNA Day -- day in 1953 when Watson and Crick determined the double helix structure of DNA</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Februalia -- Ancient Roman Calendar (purification of Rome performed by citizens making sacrifices to the dead)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Floral Design Day -- a day to acknowledge this art form, sponsored by <a href="http://www.floralschool.com" target="_blank">Rittners Floral School</a> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><a href="http://www.InconvenienceYourself.com" target="_blank">Inconvenience Yourself™ Day</a> -- enrich your life by looking for ways to make a positive impact on the world, even if it inconveniences you </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Kalevala Day -- Finland (Finnish Culture Day)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">National Chocolate Souffle' Day</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">National Science Day -- India</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">National Tooth Fairy Day - and/or August 22, depending on whom you ask</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Nylon Day -- the first aliphatic polyamides were produced on this day in 1935</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Peace Memorial Day -- Taiwan</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Public Sleeping Day -- this one even has a <a href="http://www.wikihow.com/Enjoy-Public-Sleeping-Day" target="_blank">wikiHow page</a> </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">St. Hedwig of Poland's Day (Patron of queens)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">St. Romanus' Day (Patron of the mentally ill; against drowning, insanity)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Teacher's Day -- Algeria; Bahrain; Egypt; Jordan; Libya; Morocco; Oman; Saudi Arabia; Tunisia; United Arab Emirates; Yemen</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Teal Ribbon Day -- Australia (wear a teal ribbon, raise awareness of <a href="http://www.ovariancancer.net.au/" target="_blank">ovarian cancer</a>) </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Anniversaries Today:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">University of Pittsburgh is chartered, 1787</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Birthdays Today:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Ali Larter, 1976</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Robert Sean Leonard, 1969</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">John Tuturro, 1957</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Gilbert Gottfried, 1955</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Bernadette, Peters, 1948</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Charles Aaron "Bubba" Smith, 1945</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Brian Jones, 1942</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Mario Andretti, 1940</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Tommy Tune, 1939</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Gavin MacLeod, 1930</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Frank Gehry, 1929</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Svetiana Allilueva, 1926</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Charles Durning, 1923</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Zero Mostel, 1915</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Earl Scheib, 1907</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Milton Caniff, 1907</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, 1906</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Vincente Minnelli, 1903</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Linus Pauling, 1901</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Ben Heckt, 1894</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Charles Blondin, 1824</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">John Tenniel, 1820</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Mary Lyon, 1797</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, 1533</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Debuting/Premiering Today:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"On Golden Pond"(Play), 1979</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"La Reine de Saba"(Opera), 1862</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling(Publication date), 1749</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Today in History:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Coronation ceremony of Liu Bang as Emperor Gaozu of Han takes place, initiating four centuries of the Han Dynasty's rule over China, BC202</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The first edition of Henry Fieldings' "Tom Jones" is published, 1749</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">John Wesley charters the Methodist Church, 1784</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The first commercial railroad in US, Baltimore & Ohio (B&O) is chartered, 1827</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Robert Nelson, leader of the Patriotes, proclaims the independence of Lower Canada (today Québec), 1838</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Regular steamboat service from the west to the east coast of the United States begins with the arrival of the SS California in San Francisco Bay, 4 months 22 days after leaving New York Harbor, 1849</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The Bulgarian Exarchate is established by decree of Sultan Abd-ul-Aziz of the Ottoman Empire, 1870</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The American Telephone and Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York State as the subsidiary of American Bell Telephone, 1885</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The USS Indiana, the lead ship of her class and the first battleship in the United States Navy comparable to foreign battleships of the time, is launched, 1893</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Queen Ranavalona III, the last monarch of Madagascar, is deposed by a French military force, 1897</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Egypt regains independence from Britain, but British troops remain, 1922</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">DuPont scientist Wallace Carothers invents Nylon, 1935</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Basketball is televised for the first time, 1940</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">In Taiwan, civil disorder is put down with the loss of 30,000 civilian lives, 1947</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">James D. Watson and Francis Crick announce to friends that they have determined the chemical structure of DNA; the formal announcement takes place on April 25 following publication in April Nature (pub. April 2), 1953</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The first-ever color television sets using the NTSC standard are offered for sale to the general public, 1954</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The United States and People's Republic of China sign the Shanghai Communiqué, 1972</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Andalusia approves its statute of autonomy through a referendum, 1980</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">GRB 970228, a highly luminous flash of gamma rays, strikes the Earth for 80 seconds, providing early evidence that gamma-ray bursts occur well beyond the Milky Way, 1997</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">First flight of RQ-4 Global Hawk, the first unmanned aerial vehicle certified to file its own flight plans and fly regularly in U.S. civilian airspace, 1998</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Over 1 million Taiwanese participating in the 228 Hand-in-Hand Rally form a 500-kilometre (300-mile) long human chain to commemorate the 228 Incident in 1947, 2004</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Jupiter flyby of the New Horizons Pluto-observer spacecraft, 2007</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Egypt annunces the discovery of a granite head from a statue of King Tut's grandfather, Amenhotep III, 2010</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Scientists announce they've been able to connect the brains of two rats so that they share information, 2013</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The Caravaggio painting "Judith and Holofernes" (1607), lost for many years and rediscovered in an attic in Toulouse in 2014, is finally brought to auction, selling for to $171 million, 2019</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">A United Nations climate report states climate change is outpacing human efforts to adapt and could result in a real threat of extinction of up to 14% of the world's species of plants and animals, 2022</span></p>messymimihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10649529601786689712noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-917428205224357542.post-75081743839332743352024-02-27T00:00:00.046-06:002024-02-27T00:00:00.143-06:00It’s How Old? a Random and Happy Tuesday Post<p><span style="color: #351c75;"> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt; text-size-adjust: auto;">***********************************</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx58hRPnJD08_Nuzgl1JOHSbCkSRI1sMrVaZ6ljV29q7ZJ7ofa8HCylGPIoCwZ74xy_7QIrtdE8SnzGwP4cK_dRSFwvowHgpXm3zGeUKJsJzL47wf0AuefQbKNK-mvxUlSbRecVgVFaFwgjI_2-0otiLLdjjMjXEGrPY7ThLFO07aetp1CYJukVzg13o4Z/s200/HappyTues-Blog-Hop-Badge-125-px-3.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx58hRPnJD08_Nuzgl1JOHSbCkSRI1sMrVaZ6ljV29q7ZJ7ofa8HCylGPIoCwZ74xy_7QIrtdE8SnzGwP4cK_dRSFwvowHgpXm3zGeUKJsJzL47wf0AuefQbKNK-mvxUlSbRecVgVFaFwgjI_2-0otiLLdjjMjXEGrPY7ThLFO07aetp1CYJukVzg13o4Z/s1600/HappyTues-Blog-Hop-Badge-125-px-3.jpeg" width="200" /></span></a></div><span style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7iC4SNHM4mmmg-X84YUpMHmEJ__bLKSLCtEgA_TCy0J30t0aSLNHQv8AJHPlOpzZuvfm6qLlZuN0dFtMin3CgBwoFDCbn9dGxM7c00_txhlN92CLca_F7yy7ENoNIOJn7wyvT2s251LbBF4wPJmiHXCrMcf_-Kl8JV8yW99DuVDwJcnHxC33MtKudAhyphenhyphen8/s247/randomtuesday2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><img border="0" data-original-height="205" data-original-width="247" height="205" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7iC4SNHM4mmmg-X84YUpMHmEJ__bLKSLCtEgA_TCy0J30t0aSLNHQv8AJHPlOpzZuvfm6qLlZuN0dFtMin3CgBwoFDCbn9dGxM7c00_txhlN92CLca_F7yy7ENoNIOJn7wyvT2s251LbBF4wPJmiHXCrMcf_-Kl8JV8yW99DuVDwJcnHxC33MtKudAhyphenhyphen8/s1600/randomtuesday2.jpg" width="247" /></span></a></div><span style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">It's time once again for a random and happy Tuesday, linking up with Stacy's Random Thoughts at <a href="http://stacyuncorked.com" target="_blank">Stacy Uncorked</a> and Sandee at <a href="https://comedy-plus.com" target="_blank">Comedy Plus</a>. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The light fixture still doesn't work in the laundry room at Carl's, but other than that the laundry room itself was in pretty good shape when i arrived. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The clothes in the washer smelled clean and checking the cycle showed he washed them on delicate. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>A little overcautious, but at least it's a true wash cycle and the dryer was empty so i moved them and got it started.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Making my way into his room, he was dressed and ready to get breakfast as i opened the fridge to see if he had anything resembling a lunch to put in his cooler.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">There were several empty grocery bags, one with a plastic fork in it, and the horrible looking remains of an avocado in a zip bag in the door.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Ugh! i said, grabbing the bag and Carl said, "Are you throwing it away?" <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Um, yes, i told him, and we both went to the big kitchen.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Once in there, i noticed what he was wearing. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It wasn't a work shirt, it was a Sunday shirt.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Why are you wearing that, it's the wrong shirt, i told him, and he looked down at his shirt in confusion, then realized what i was saying and went back in his room.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span>
<br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">I did not bother to tell him to hang up the one he was wearing, i knew it would fall on deaf ears, and i found that shirt later on top of the dresser and hung it back up myself. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Much easier.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Meanwhile, he returned to the kitchen with a work shirt on and i greeted him with an apron to wear, then hunted for lunch. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>As i was making a sandwich, he opened the fridge and grabbed a deli container with one serving of cole slaw left.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Should I take this?" he asked, and i told him it was a great idea, adding it to everything else i was gathering.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">I took everything to his room and packed the lunch cooler and he came in soon after. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>as he stood at the counter, muttering about something i didn't catch, i noticed he'd grabbed that stick of deodorant that keeps coming out of the actual container and was using it. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>He made an attempt to put what was left of the stick in the container top, but it didn't quite stick the landing.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Then he asked me if he should put more money on his phone card. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Before i could formulate an answer, he'd moved on.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"I'm having health problems," he confided.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">I told him i was sorry to hear that and he said, "Tummy trouble. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Do you think I should stop eating the gingerbread house?"</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">My eyes flew open and i looked to the top of his fridge, where he had stowed a gingerbread house two months ago. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I'd thought he kept it just to look at and didn't realize he'd been breaking pieces off the back and eating them.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Yes, i told him, you need to let me throw the rest away, it's what's making you sick.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Oh, you think that's why I'm having trouble?"</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">I'd say old, stale gingerbread could do it, and the rest of this one got pitched.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">He's never sure i've given him enough lunch, so he started to dig in his snack bin. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>He came out with a fig bar, already opened.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span>
<br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"It's hard as a brick!" he said, and i told him if he left it open with a bite out of it, of course it was going to get hard and stale.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"I'd better eat it today," he said, taking it to throw in his lunch cooler.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">No wonder he has "tummy trouble."</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">How about some funnies?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span>
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font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">***********************************</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Today is:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Aspirin Day -- Bayer received its US patent for the medicine on this day in 1900</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Day of Selene -- Ancient Greek Calendar (goddess of the moon, date approximate)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Equirria -- Ancient Roman Calendar (Cavalry Horse Festival)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Feast of St. Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows/Gabriel Possenti (Patron of clerics, students, young people; Abruzzi, Italy; Catholic Action)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Independence Day -- Dominican Republic(1844)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Majuba Day -- South Africa (celebration of the Boers victory at Majuba Hill)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">National Kahlua Day</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">National Strawberry Day -- no, i don't know why this isn't in June, when the berries are best; maybe the person who put it here had too much Kahlua</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">No Brainer Day - this day is for me! created by Adrienne Sioux Koopersmith, "America's Premier Eventologist"</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Polar Bear Day -- as declared by Polar Bears International</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Read Five Pages in the Dictionary Day -- internet generated, and am i the only one who likes the idea?</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Runic Half Month Tyr commences (cosmic pillar)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Single-Tasking Day -- encouraging you to do one thing at a time, and not feel guilty; begun by Theresa Gabriel, who claims multitasking is inefficient and hurts your brain! she suggests it be on the 4th Tuesday of the month, although other sites list other dates</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">St. Galmier of Lyon's Day (Patron of locksmiths)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The Hop -- Fairy Calendar</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Threepenny Day -- Eton College, England (By the last will of two Provosts in the 16th century, each boy receives a threepenny piece on this day -- enough to buy half a sheep back then.)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><a href="https://www.worldspayday.org/" target="_blank">World Spay Day</a> -- don't let your pets litter! <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>related observance <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Spay Day USA -- sponsored by the <a href="http://www.humanesociety.org" target="_blank">HSUS</a>; Sit! Stay! Spay! Good Owner! </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Anniversary Today:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">African Burial Ground National Monument is established, 2006</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Birthdays Today:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Josh Groban, 1981</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Chelsea Clinton, 1980</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Rozanda "Chilli" Thomas, 1971</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Grant Show, 1963</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Adam Baldwin, 1962</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Michael Bolton, 1953</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Alan Guth, 1947</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Mary Fran, 1943</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Charlayne Hunter-Gault, 1942</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Howard Hesseman, 1940</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Ralph Nadar, 1934</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Elizabeth Taylor, 1932</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Joanne Woodward, 1930</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Ariel Sharon, 1928</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">John Connally, 1917</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">James Thomas Farrell, 1904</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">John Steinbeck, 1902</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Gene Sarazen, 1902</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Marian Anderson, 1897</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">David Sarnoff, 1891</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Hugo La Fayette Black, 1886</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Alice Hamilton, 1869</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Ellen Terry, 1847</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1807</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Constantine I, 272</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Debuting/Premiering Today:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"What Makes Sammy Run?"(Musical), 1964</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Road to Utopia"(Film), 1946</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Today in History:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The first Russian Embassy arrives in London, 1557</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The Treaty of Berwick, which would expel the French from Scotland, is signed by England and the Congregation of Scotland, 1560</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Yuan Chonghuan is appointed Governor of Liaodong, after he led the Chinese into a great victory against the Manchurians under Nurhaci, 1626</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Jews are expelled from Austria by order of Leopold I, 1670</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The Pacific island of New Britain is discovered, 1700</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Poet Lord Byron gives his first address as a member of the House of Lords, in defense of Luddite violence against Industrialism in his home county of Nottinghamshire, 1812</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti, 1844</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Composer Robert Schumann is saved from a suicide attempt in Rhine, 1854</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Russians shoot at Poles protesting Russian rule of Poland, 1861</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The current flag of Japan is first adopted as the national flag for Japanese merchant ships, 1870</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Charlotte E. Ray becomes the first African American woman to earn a law degree, from Howard University, 1872</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Lord Kitchener opens Khartoum-El Obeid (Nyala) railway, 1912</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14, 1940</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The government of Italy asks for help to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over, 1964</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The American Indian Movement occupies Wounded Knee, South Dakota, 1973</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">People magazine is published for the first time, 1974</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">U.S. President George H. W. Bush announces that "Kuwait is liberated", 1991</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">A Muslim mob kills 59 Hindu pilgrims returning from Ayodhya, 2002</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The Shanghai Stock Exchange falls 9%, the largest drop in 10 years, 2007</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Central Chile is hit with an 8.8 magnitude earthquake, 2010</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Wikileaks begins releasing 5 million emails from Stratfor, a private intelligence company, 2012</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">At Vatican City, Pope Benedict XVI delivers his farewell address, 2013</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The smallest baby boy ever born who grew enough to be released from the hospital goes home from a Tokyo hospital, after an original birth weight of 268g (9.45oz), 2019</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Doctors announce the world's second known case of semi-identical twins, a boy and girl from Brisbane, Australia, 2019</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Astrophysical Journal publishes the results of a study of the largest cosmic explosion ever detected from a supermassive black hole in the Ophiuchus galaxy, 2020</span></p>messymimihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10649529601786689712noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-917428205224357542.post-15598368510738749492024-02-26T00:00:00.049-06:002024-02-26T00:00:00.154-06:00Puppy Walk (Awww Monday), Inspiring Quote of the Week, and Poetry Monday<p><span style="color: #351c75;"> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; 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text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Awww Monday is hosted by Sandee at <a href="https://comedy-plus.com" target="_blank">Comedy Plus</a>.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Join us every Monday for Awww...Mondays. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Post a picture that makes you say Awww... and that's it.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Make sure you get the code from Sandee's site, linked above, and leave a link to your post so we can visit you. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>What better way to start the week than with a smile!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: .SFUIText;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: 22.6667px;">Mr. Cal loves his walks! I wish i could show how high he jumps when i’m trying to attach his leash.</span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: .SFUIText;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: 22.6667px;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: .SFUIText;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: 22.6667px;">Yesterday he had a pre-walk snack.</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ5q0ig4YzrbsRPcIHJOGfFJ1uomPRldOtVNBfowuDEWRw88f840B_Jg60_SFwiOK8VlG8Ly6tD9vG2gWY_RlQKPheD48X5vWAbwXbsAcVQHXgC199CVQb2jzSfXD78U1NYDOGoGgU8MO4UTceMIi-9m3DlAB5Cb4rqSGqdP_tUG2X8NY3kVWfbnw8OKaj/s4624/20240225_070556.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4624" data-original-width="2084" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ5q0ig4YzrbsRPcIHJOGfFJ1uomPRldOtVNBfowuDEWRw88f840B_Jg60_SFwiOK8VlG8Ly6tD9vG2gWY_RlQKPheD48X5vWAbwXbsAcVQHXgC199CVQb2jzSfXD78U1NYDOGoGgU8MO4UTceMIi-9m3DlAB5Cb4rqSGqdP_tUG2X8NY3kVWfbnw8OKaj/w180-h400/20240225_070556.jpg" width="180" /></a></span></div><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLaHpm9onO4B-8ol6eGxaoqBb6iyDANhi_JIm0vaVeIS0JpJRet7eGKHndzVX1lno0mymFabFBqZwuCnr1XBk41Zenott1AGgE7-bUPP9gMmwGwNH3Zw5zph6qghUoD8cpSJ9njPiKgP1_OK3QoAHU0UGp4evsjFYPi3IOkGvKgrTtai3tpLWOp359JNr0/s4624/20240225_070949.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4624" data-original-width="2084" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLaHpm9onO4B-8ol6eGxaoqBb6iyDANhi_JIm0vaVeIS0JpJRet7eGKHndzVX1lno0mymFabFBqZwuCnr1XBk41Zenott1AGgE7-bUPP9gMmwGwNH3Zw5zph6qghUoD8cpSJ9njPiKgP1_OK3QoAHU0UGp4evsjFYPi3IOkGvKgrTtai3tpLWOp359JNr0/w180-h400/20240225_070949.jpg" width="180" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrfYh7y1M_9XOJvo0HrIO55UEpVBYpWWSLcLSUIE1KlFCDafWjaa1eCZ05v2bg-3nx-oU-RM7HTevRAZx3KTRTygxVu-83zvrnTHXbhr1WrsdU13GyVpMdWHD3YZuC7g9GLOUKaKe2ca09mpmlcTWBWpGLarvKQjDQTUy_WNwDv5RL_BL2IDngPOhaIRsw/s4624/20240225_072728.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4624" data-original-width="2084" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrfYh7y1M_9XOJvo0HrIO55UEpVBYpWWSLcLSUIE1KlFCDafWjaa1eCZ05v2bg-3nx-oU-RM7HTevRAZx3KTRTygxVu-83zvrnTHXbhr1WrsdU13GyVpMdWHD3YZuC7g9GLOUKaKe2ca09mpmlcTWBWpGLarvKQjDQTUy_WNwDv5RL_BL2IDngPOhaIRsw/w180-h400/20240225_072728.jpg" width="180" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJHlrW0ajDH1ClftCKcTTBEmCKltETAJsWroVIFRObgo6A5SFAyyNao-Pzl5kyDhhUo8nfY_XJ3-f-m2dzf3j4dNsv4KhqomKamiQyQ1Nk8RSsUakjyE1AujxMruztaiMOOucBgDoSGGUI8HeoajrpdZtSfcRi_4SjHIE31BfWBI4ITIuMAFOUZvT3wzey/s4624/20240225_073654.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4624" data-original-width="2084" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJHlrW0ajDH1ClftCKcTTBEmCKltETAJsWroVIFRObgo6A5SFAyyNao-Pzl5kyDhhUo8nfY_XJ3-f-m2dzf3j4dNsv4KhqomKamiQyQ1Nk8RSsUakjyE1AujxMruztaiMOOucBgDoSGGUI8HeoajrpdZtSfcRi_4SjHIE31BfWBI4ITIuMAFOUZvT3wzey/w180-h400/20240225_073654.jpg" width="180" /></a></div>
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<br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">***********************************</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Sparks is the brainchild of Annie of McGuffy's Reader, who wanted us to post something positive and uplifting at the start of the week. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>While she no longer blogs, i like to post an Inspiring Quote of the Week in her honor. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; 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font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">***********************************</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Our dear friend Diane is taking a break</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">accommodations we must make</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">we miss her poetry and wit</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">so carry on as Poetry Monday's a hit!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Poetry Monday was started by Diane at <a href="https://dlt-lifeontheranch.blogspot.com" target="_blank">On The Alberta/Montana Border</a>. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://krydderuglen.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Charlotte/Mother Owl</a> and i are keeping it going while she takes a blog break, we hope temporarily. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Anyone else is welcome to join in the fun, just let us know!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">This week the theme is Ants. <a href="http://procrastinatingdonkey.blogspot.com/"><span class="s2" style="font-size: 17pt;"></span></a> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s3" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt; text-decoration: underline;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s3" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt; text-decoration: underline;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">I was an odd child,</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">didn't want a Christmas toy,</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">instead got an ant farm,</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">it was my const-ant joy!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">*******</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The ant wanted to make a splash,</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">for a new outfit payed all his cash,</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">his mom got mad and started to rant,</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">but he said, "Now I am eleg-ant!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">*******</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Tech guru ant stays busy,</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">yes, he's always inundated</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">with requests to fix old gear,</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">but it's all too ant-iquated!</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">*******</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s3" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt; text-decoration: underline;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s3" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt; text-decoration: underline;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Future themes are:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Feb. 26 ants (today!)</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Mar. 4 Swan Lake (or one of the words)</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Mar. 11 distancing</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Mar. 18 meaning</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Mar. 25 happy news</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">***********************************</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Today is:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Ayyám-i-Há -- Baha'i (intercalary days, devoted to service and gift giving; through Mar. 1)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">For Pete's Sake Day -- <a href="http://www.wellcat.com" target="_blank">Wellcat Holidays</a> asks us, who is Pete, and why do things for his sake? <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>think about that as you celebrate this today</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Intercalary Days -- Baha'i (through Mar. 1)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Levi Strauss Day -- his birth anniversary</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Liberation Day -- Kuwait</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">National Personal Chef Day -- heaven knows we all have one of those; some websites list it today, some on July 16</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">National Pistachio Day</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Rooks Nesting Day -- Olde England (12 days after Candlemas on the Julian Calendar)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">St. Alexander's Day (Patriarch of Alexandria)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">St. Isabella of France's Day (Patron of the sick)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The Man In Black Day -- Johnny Cash's birth anniversary</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Thriller Day -- Michael Jackson's album "Thriller" hit #1 today, and stayed there for 37 weeks</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Anniversaries Today:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Grand Teton National Park is established, 1929</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Grand Canyon National Park is established, 1919</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Birthdays Today:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Marshall Faulk, 1973</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Erykah Badu, 1972</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Mark Dacascos, 1964</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Michael Bolton, 1953</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Johnny Cash, 1932</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Fats Domino, 1928</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Betty Hutton, 1921</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Tony Randall, 1920</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Jackie Gleason, 1916</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Margaret Leighton, 1922</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Tex Avery, 1908</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Madeleine Carroll, 1906</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Jean Vercors, 1902</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">William Frawley, 1887</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Herbert Henry Dow, 1866</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">John Harvey Kellog, 1852</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">William "Buffalo Bill" Cody, 1846</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Levi Strauss, 1829</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Honore Daumier, 1808</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Victor Hugo, 1802</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Debuting/Premiering Today:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Jerome Robbins' Broadway"(Musical), 1989</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">"Deathtrap"(Play), 1978</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Today in History:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Origin of the Epoch of Ptolemy's Nabonassar Era, BC747</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">An earthquake in Lisbon leaves 20,000-30,000 dead, 1531</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Christiansborg Castle, Copenhagen burns down, 1794</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The Bank of England issues its first banknotes, 1797</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Vice-admiral William Bligh ends the siege of Fort Amsterdam, Willemstad, 1804</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from Elba, 1815</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">In New York City a demonstration of the first pneumatic subway opens to the public, 1870</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">HMS Britannic, sister ship to the Titanic, is launched at Harland & Wolff, Belfast, 1914</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The Original Dixieland Jass Band records the first jazz record, for the Victor Talking Machine Company in New York, 1917</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Robert Watson-Watt carries out a demonstration near Daventry which leads directly to the development of RADAR in the United Kingdom, 1935</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">British Prime Minister Winston Churchill announces that his nation has an atomic bomb, 1952</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Vincent Massey is sworn in as the first Canadian-born Governor-General of Canada, 1952</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">National Public Radio incorporates as a non-profit corporation, 1970</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Egypt and Israel establish full diplomatic relations, 1980</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The Sandinistas are defeated in Nicaraguan elections, 1990</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">On Baghdad Radio Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein announces the withdrawal of Iraqi troops from Kuwait, 1991</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">In New York City, a truck bomb parked below the North Tower of the World Trade Center explodes, killing 6 and injuring over a thousand, 1993</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The United Kingdom's oldest investment banking institute, Barings Bank, collapses, 1995</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Mount Hekla in Iceland erupts, 2000</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Republic of Macedonia President Boris Trajkovski is killed in a plane crash near Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2004</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">After winning a Liberal Party of British Columbia ballot, Canadian politician Christy Clark becomes the second woman to be Premier of British Columbia, 2011</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Scientists in Illinois, announce they've developed stretchable batteries that can power a new generation of flexible electronics, 2013</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The Global Seed Vault in Svalbard, Norway, receives its 1 millionth seed on its 10 year anniversary, 2018</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">The city of Venice, Italy, introduces a day visitor tax, 2019</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Scientists publish research about a possible "lost continent," Balkanatolia, that may have linked southern Europe with Asia, providing passageway for animal migrations 35 to 38 million years ago, 2022</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: ".SF UI Text"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="color: #351c75; font-family: ".SFUIText"; font-size: 17pt;">Winter storm deposits snow in parts of southern California for the first time in decades, 2023</span></p></div></div>messymimihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10649529601786689712noreply@blogger.com15