Good 43º clear sunny morning.
Here's the basics.... got a project and need to get it done. Regular blog
to resume tomorrow...
Mowed yesterday for several hours ... until it got too hot. Hit 82º.
A very
special birthday today.... Marion Michael Morrison - John Wayne May 26th 1907
-June 11, 1979 ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wayne
A very
prominent Hollywood Republican!
HAPPY
BIRTHDAY DUKE!
A very close
friend of ours back in the day, was Sid Hackel. He was Capt of the Sheriff
Reserves at the BC Range. His brother was the Duke's official photographer. Sid
would go on the Wild Goose with Wayne fishing. They'd go hunting in Mexico. Sid
smoked cigars and this is a picture of Wayne smoking one of Sid's cigars....
Historically this date..
1783 – A Great Jubilee Day held at North Stratford,
Connecticut celebrated end of fighting in American Revolution.
1868 – The impeachment trial of U.S. President Andrew Johnson ends with Johnson being found not guilty by
one vote.
1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 10 returns to Earth after a successful eight-day test of all the
components needed for the forthcoming first manned moon landing.
1977 – George Willig climbs the South Tower of New York City's World Trade Center.
1983 – A strong 7.7 magnitude earthquake
strikes Japan, triggering a tsunami that kills at least 104 people and injures
thousands. Many people go missing and thousands of buildings are
destroyed.
1998 – The Supreme Court of the United
States rules that Ellis Island, the historic gateway for millions of
immigrants, is mainly in the state of New Jersey, not New York.
2004 – The United States Army veteran Terry Nichols is found guilty of 161 state murder charges
for helping carry out the Oklahoma City bombing.
And births this date
include....
1912 – Jay Silverheels, Canadian actor (d. 1980)
1923 – James Arness, American actor (d. 2011)
... another Hollyweird Republican!
Apparently that pissed off Lady Bird Johnson because she loved
Gunsmoke!
1949 – Hank Williams Jr., American singer
1951 – Sally Ride, American astronaut
(d.2012)
In the late afternoon Tim came over and helped me box up the gun forms and
ship them off to Michigan to the American Holster Company. Yes! More stuff out
of the barn!
Check Jay's holsters... he makes some beauties...
Enough for now. Ciao.
xo Sue Mom
Bobo
May 26th
National Blueberry Cheesecake Day
