Happy Birthday, pentapus!
Apr. 16th, 2007 09:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lillian13Happy birthday, kiddo! May the coming year bring you much happiness and success!
The swap meet at the Gem & Mineral Society was a success, despite the fact that the wind blew very hard all day and it was very chilly. I managed to get rid of quite a bit of my old bead stash and all of the display stuff I no longer use. I acquired: 2 years of Lapidary Arts for $10, ~20 teeny, tiny cut and polished "tabasco" geodes that will go into jewelry for $75, a gorgeous purple crystal vug from Morocco for $10 that I'm going to use for display, several big quartz lumps I traded beads and half a big geode for with three 8-year-old entrepreneurs, and a nice black agate slab with a drusy pocket, just the right size for wire wrapping, given to me by an older lady who was flattered by my enthusiastic admiration of her collection. I did not make it to the company picnic that evening--I had already been outside all day, thank you very much, and I didn't see much point in driving for a half an hour for mediocre barbeque and more wind. (Plus, lots of annoying kids.)
Anddremiel bought the necklace and earrings she has been drooling over admiring since the Celebrations show on St. Patrick's day, so my weekend was a success. I even made one of my huge pots of spaghetti sauce last night, so I won't have to do much cooking this week!
You share your birthday with:
Martin Lawrence (42)
John Cryer (42)
Jimmy Osmond (44)
Ellen Barkin (53)
Lukas Haas (31)
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (59)
Dusty Springfield (67)
George "The Animal" Steele (69)
Henry Mancini (82)
Peter Ustinov (85)
Pope Benedict XVI (80)
Selena (d. 1995)
..and Gabriel Buczek, a lovely boy, turns 6 today. :-)
On this date:
1178 BC - A solar eclipse may have marked the return of Odysseus, legendary King of Ithaca, to his kingdom after the Trojan War.
73 - Masada, a Jewish fortress, falls to the Romans after several months of siege, ending the Jewish Revolt.
1746 - Battle of Culloden
1862 - American Civil War: Battle at Lee's Mills in Virginia.
1881 - In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle.
1912 - Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
1919 - Mohandas Gandhi organizes a day of "prayer and fasting" in response to the British slaughter of Indian protestors in the Amritsar Massacre.
1926 - Lolly Willows by Sylvia Townsend Warner is distributed as the first Book-of-the-Month Club selection.
1943 - Dr. Albert Hofmann discovers the psychedelic effects of LSD.
1945 - The Red Army begins the final assault on German forces around Berlin.
1945 - The United States Army liberates Nazi Sonderlager (high security) Prisoner of War camp Oflag IVc .
1946 - Syria gains independence.
1947 - Texas City Disaster: An explosion on board a freighter in port causes the city of Texas City, Texas, to catch fire, killing almost 600.
1947 - Bernard Baruch coins the term "Cold War" to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.
1963 - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. pens his famous Letter from Birmingham Jail while incarcerated in Birmingham, Alabama for protesting against segregation.
1964 - Sentences totalling 307 years were passed on 12 men who stole £2.6m in used bank notes in what became known as the Great Train Robbery.
1972 - Apollo program: Apollo 16 launches towards the Moon from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
1998 - The Nashville Tornado of 1998, one of the most serious urban tornadoes causes one death and significantly damages downtown Nashville, Tennessee.
2003 - The Treaty of Accession is signed in Athens admitting 10 new member states to the European Union.
Your recipe will come later when I get home and I can double-check some measurements. :-)
Martin Lawrence (42)
John Cryer (42)
Jimmy Osmond (44)
Ellen Barkin (53)
Lukas Haas (31)
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (59)
Dusty Springfield (67)
George "The Animal" Steele (69)
Henry Mancini (82)
Peter Ustinov (85)
Pope Benedict XVI (80)
Selena (d. 1995)
..and Gabriel Buczek, a lovely boy, turns 6 today. :-)
On this date:
1178 BC - A solar eclipse may have marked the return of Odysseus, legendary King of Ithaca, to his kingdom after the Trojan War.
73 - Masada, a Jewish fortress, falls to the Romans after several months of siege, ending the Jewish Revolt.
1746 - Battle of Culloden
1862 - American Civil War: Battle at Lee's Mills in Virginia.
1881 - In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle.
1912 - Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
1919 - Mohandas Gandhi organizes a day of "prayer and fasting" in response to the British slaughter of Indian protestors in the Amritsar Massacre.
1926 - Lolly Willows by Sylvia Townsend Warner is distributed as the first Book-of-the-Month Club selection.
1943 - Dr. Albert Hofmann discovers the psychedelic effects of LSD.
1945 - The Red Army begins the final assault on German forces around Berlin.
1945 - The United States Army liberates Nazi Sonderlager (high security) Prisoner of War camp Oflag IVc .
1946 - Syria gains independence.
1947 - Texas City Disaster: An explosion on board a freighter in port causes the city of Texas City, Texas, to catch fire, killing almost 600.
1947 - Bernard Baruch coins the term "Cold War" to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.
1963 - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. pens his famous Letter from Birmingham Jail while incarcerated in Birmingham, Alabama for protesting against segregation.
1964 - Sentences totalling 307 years were passed on 12 men who stole £2.6m in used bank notes in what became known as the Great Train Robbery.
1972 - Apollo program: Apollo 16 launches towards the Moon from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
1998 - The Nashville Tornado of 1998, one of the most serious urban tornadoes causes one death and significantly damages downtown Nashville, Tennessee.
2003 - The Treaty of Accession is signed in Athens admitting 10 new member states to the European Union.
Your recipe will come later when I get home and I can double-check some measurements. :-)
The swap meet at the Gem & Mineral Society was a success, despite the fact that the wind blew very hard all day and it was very chilly. I managed to get rid of quite a bit of my old bead stash and all of the display stuff I no longer use. I acquired: 2 years of Lapidary Arts for $10, ~20 teeny, tiny cut and polished "tabasco" geodes that will go into jewelry for $75, a gorgeous purple crystal vug from Morocco for $10 that I'm going to use for display, several big quartz lumps I traded beads and half a big geode for with three 8-year-old entrepreneurs, and a nice black agate slab with a drusy pocket, just the right size for wire wrapping, given to me by an older lady who was flattered by my enthusiastic admiration of her collection. I did not make it to the company picnic that evening--I had already been outside all day, thank you very much, and I didn't see much point in driving for a half an hour for mediocre barbeque and more wind. (Plus, lots of annoying kids.)
And
dremiel bought the necklace and earrings she has been 