Friday Ride

Betty and I were able to take a ride this morning and our friend Molly took some pictures. First some pictures as we warm them up in the back lot.


Then we head out...

And to top the day off, I caught my finger in a door...

Ouch!


Today is February 27 and if today is your Birthday then you share your day with: Josh Groban (musician), Chelsea Clinton (daughter of the Clintons), Mary Frann (actress, wife on "Newhart"), Howard Hessman (actor, Johnny Fever on "WKRP in Cincinnati"), Ralph Nader (consumer advocate), Elizabeth Taylor (actress, "Cleopatra"), Joanne Woodward (actress, Paul Newman's wife), Ariel Sharon (Israel prime minister), John Steinbeck (author, "Grapes of Wrath"), Marian Anderson (opera singer), and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (poet, "Paul Revere's Ride").

On this day in 1801 the District of Columbia was placed under the jurisdiction of Congress. In 1890 boxers Danny Needham and Patsy Kerrigan fought 100 rounds in San Francisco before the match was declared a draw after more than 6 hours. In 1922 the Supreme Court unanimously upheld the 19th Amendment to the Constitution that guaranteed the right of women to vote. In 1925 Glacier Bay National Monument is dedicated in Alaska. In 1973 members of the American Indian Movement occupied the hamlet of Wounded Knee in South Dakota, the site of the 1890 massacre of Sioux men, women and children. (The occupation lasted until May.) And in 1974 a new magazine was issued by Time-Life. The magazine was "People." It had an initial run of one million copies.