Saturday Odds and Ends

Just a few odds and ends on this windy, cool Saturday. First, it's the last day of February. Even though we can still have cold, wind and even snow in March - Spring comes in March!

We took our friend Molly back to the airport after her good visit with us. She's winging her way back to Cincinnati.

Betty and I are taking it easy today and watching old movies.

I ran across these pictures of some of our military folks... enjoy...


Finally, Betty and Sugar were selected for a magazine cover...

Just kidding. I found a website - magmypic.com - that allows you to put your pictures into magazine covers.

Have a great Saturday.


Today is February 28 and if today is your Birthday then you share your day with: Robert Sean Leonard (actor, Dr. Wilson on "House"), Gilbert Gottfried (comedian), Bernadette Peters (actress, "Young Frankenstein"), Brian Jones (original member of The Rolling Stones), Mario Andretti (race car driver), Gavin MacLeod (actor, "Love Boat"), Charles Durning (actor), Zero Mostel (Broadway actor, "Fiddler on the Roof"), Linus Pauling (Nobel prize winning chemist), and Mary Lyon (pioneer in higher education for women - my son stayed in a residence hall at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio that was named for her).


On this day in 1066 Westminster Abbey opens. In 1643 Roger Scott was tried in Massachusetts for sleeping on the Sabbath. In 1784 John Wesley signed the "deed of declaration," formalizing the establishment of the Wesleyan faith, or Methodists. In 1827 the first U.S. railroad chartered to carry passengers and freight, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Co., was incorporated. In 1940 the first televised college basketball games were broadcast, by New York City station W2XBS, as Pittsburgh defeated Fordham, 57-to-37, and New York University beat Georgetown, 50-to-27, at Madison Square Garden. And in 1966 the famous Cavern Club in Liverpool, England closed because of financial difficulties. During its peak of success, the club was best known as the home of the Beatles.