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Happy Birthday, pentapus!
Happy 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.)
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dremiel 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