Short One Today

Not much to write about. We had hoped to go riding this morning to take advantage of the beautiful weather, but it wasn't to be.

Our clothes washer has gone on the blink so Betty spent this morning getting a service call set up for tomorrow morning.

And this afternoon we meet with a couple for counseling and another couple tonight.

So that's it for today.



PS: Happy Ash Wednesday!



Today is February 25 and if today is your Birthday then you share your day with: Sean Astin (actor, Samwise Gamgee in "Lord of the Rings"), George Harrison (singer, The Beatles), Tom Courtenay (actor, "The Dresser"), Bob Schieffer (news commentator), Sally Jessy Raphael (TV talk host), Anthony Burgess (British author, "A Clockwork Orange"), Jim Backus (actor, Thurston Howell on "Gilligan's Island"), Zeppo Marx (the youngest and sanest of the Marx Brothers), and Pierre Auguste Renoir (French painter).

On this day in 1751 Edward Willet of New York City displayed the first trained monkey act in the United States. For the price of one shilling, the audience saw the monkey walk a tightrope, dance and "exercise" a gun. In 1793 the department heads of the U.S. government met with President Washington at his home for the first cabinet meeting on record. In 1836 Samuel Colt patents the first revolving barrel multi-shot firearm - the "revolving gun" or revolver. In 1919 Oregon became the first state to tax gasoline. The one cent per gallon tax was to be used for road construction. And in 1950 "Your Show of Shows," starring Sid Caesar, Inogene Coca, Carl Reiner and Howard Morris made its debut on NBC. (We didn't see it because we didn't get a TV until 1951.)