Betty's Good Friend Molly

Betty and I have been blessed to have many friends over the years. We've lost contact with many of those friends over the years as our lives diverged and took different paths.

However, there are a few who have remained an important part of our lives. One of those people is Molly Dutina from Batavia, Ohio (East of Cincinnati) who flew into Albuquerque today.

Molly and her husband, Bob, have been our good friends for many years. Even after we moved from Ohio to New Mexico we have kept in close touch with them. We visit with them whenever we're in Cincinnati and they have been out to visit us several times.

Molly came for an 11-day visit. This is kind of retreat for her, but it will be a good time for all of us and especially for her and Betty.

It's always good to have friends visit - especially those friends who have been such an important part of our lives.


Today is February 17 and if today is your Birthday then you share your day with: Joseph Gordon-Levitt (actor, "3rd Rock From The Sun"), Paris Hilton (not sure what she is), Jerry O'Connell (actor, "Sliders"), Richard Karn (actor, "Home Improvement"), Larry the Cable Guy (comedian), Michael Jordan (great basketball player), Rene Russo (actress, "Lethal Weapon"), Jim Brown (NFL hall of fame player), Alan Bates (actor, "Zorba the Greek"), Hal Holbrook (actor, "Mark Twain Tonight"), and Red Barber (baseball announcer).

On this day in 1621 Miles Standish appointed Military Commander of Plymouth Colony. In 1801 the House of Representatives chose Thomas Jefferson as third president of the United States. Aaron Burr, who tied with Jefferson in the Electoral College, became vice president. In 1817 Baltimore became the first U.S. city with gas-burning street lights. In 1897 the forerunner of the National PTA, the National Congress of Mothers, was founded in Washington. In 1933 "Blondie Boopadoop," the title role and flapper in the comic strip "Blondie," married "Dagwood Bumstead." The marriage took place three years after the popular comic strip debuted in the nation's newspapers. And in 1986 Johnson & Johnson pulled Tylenol from store shelves after a woman died from taking the pain reliever. It was later found that the medication had been tampered with.