Rocking White Dove

Just a short post today. It's been a good, but full day. We're getting ready to have friends over for dinner.

Besides feeding two horses, one dog, one cat, and ourselves (and guests), we also feed birds. We have Finches, Roadrunners, Sparrows, Quail, Curved Bill Thrashers, Mourning Doves, and, new last year and this, Rock Doves.

Rock Doves are also known as Pigeons. However, since these are not city birds, I like to call them Rock Doves. We started last year with just 2 or 3 Rock Doves at a time. This year we've had as many as 7 or 8 at a time with the other birds. For the most part, they have been the variations of light gray, dark gray and white.

However, yesterday we were visited by this one pretty, mostly white Rock Dove which was nice. He didn't come back today so he may have been passing through.

Today is October 18 and if today is your Birthday then you share your day with: Wynton Marsalis, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Martina Navratilova, Pam Dawber, Mike Ditka, Lee Harvey Oswald, Dawn Wells, George C. Scott, Chuck Berry, and Jesse Helms.

On this day in in 1767 the boundary line between Maryland and Pennsylvania, the Mason-Dixon Line, was agreed upon. In 1867 the United States took possession of Alaska from Russia. In 1892 the first long distance telephone line between New York and Chicago was opened. In 1931 Thomas Alva Edison died. In 1969 the federal government banned the artificial sweetener Cyclamate. And in 1977 Reggie Jackson became the second person to hit three home runs in a World Series game.