It Was a Good Weekend

Saturday afternoon, while walking in the yard playing guitar and listening to the ipod, Uncle M asked me to go fishing with him. I don't fish often so we were off to the lake. We caught 2 Bass and 2 Jack. It was a blast.

Uncle M and I 3-22-08




Us again 3-22-08





I spent Easter with the Sullivans. 3-23-08






They had Green Eggs and Ham. Gotta love their sense of humor.


Mitsy thought it was corny.





I Love Cupcakes!!!!!



Getting ready for dinner. Mmmmmm!!!



Mmmmm Good!!!!


A Blonde Moment



After dinner hickups.


Too full to do anything else, we played Mexican Train (dominos).
Nap time!!!!



Today in History:
1603 - James VI of Scotland also becomes James I King of England.



1765 - American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain passes the Quartering Act that requires the Thirteen Colonies to house British troops. Crazy Red Coats.

1882 - Robert Koch announces the discovery of the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis (mycobacterium tuberculosis).

1944 - World War II: In an event later dramatized in the movie The Great Escape, 76 prisoners begin breaking out of Stalag Luft III.

1965 - NASA spacecraft Ranger 9, equipped to convert its signals into a form suitable for showing on domestic television, brings images of the Moon into ordinary homes before crash-landing. How cool.



1989 - Exxon Valdez oil spill: In Prince William Sound in Alaska, the Exxon Valdez spills 240,000 barrels (42,000 m³) of petroleum after running aground.

1998 - Jonesboro massacre: Two students, ages 11 and 13, fire upon teachers and students at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas; five people are dead and ten are wounded.


Happy Birthday:
1725 - Thomas Cushing, American Continental Congressman and acting Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1788)



1874 - Harry Houdini, (Weisz Erik), Hungarian-born magician (d. 1926)

1887 - Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, American actor (d. 1933)



1909 - Clyde Barrow, American crime figure (d. 1934)

1911 - Joseph Barbera, American cartoonist (d. 2006)

1930 - Steve McQueen, American actor (d. 1980)



1944 - R. Lee Ermey, American actor

1951 - Tommy Hilfiger, American fashion designer

1953 - Louie Anderson, American comedian


1970 - Lara Flynn Boyle, American actress


Deaths on this Day:
1603 - Queen Elizabeth I of England (b. 1533)

1776 - John Harrison, English clockmaker (b. 1693)

1882 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American author (b. 1807)



1905 - Jules Verne, French author (b. 1828)

1953 - Mary of Teck, queen consort to George V of the United Kingdom (b. 1867)