Today will be sunny wih a southwest wind at 20 km/h (12 mph) becoming light this morning. A high of -7C(19F) is expected.
Tonight will remain clear with an overnight low of -20C(-4F).
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I found my history link today and put the facts in. Thank you Uncle Mush for keeping it up to date.
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Today's History from BrainyHistory.Com
1997 At age 25, Jeff Gordon is youngest winner in Daytona 500 history
1988 1st documented combat action by U.S. military advisors in El Salvador
1932 1st patent issued for a tree, to James Markham for a peach tree
1887 1st newspaper convention in Rochester, New York
1878 Silver dollar became U.S. legal tender
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Interesting about the silver dollar. When I was given a few as gifts - Christmas, birthdays and such. I still have them, tucked into one of my little purses. I still think they're neat, too.
It's in the 30s here but sunny, and I finally got some work in yesterday. Off to do more today, and then some more tomorrow. I hope we can turn this into a routine!
Have a great day!
Oh - did you get those prisms in your glasses? Did they help?
Spouse tends to snore when the air is dry,One of the only perks of this cold weather, is I sneak out on the couch in the middle of the night and Hope jumps up and cuddles close.
Have a good one.
ROB
Today is Shrove Tuesday, Feb. 16, the 47th day of 2010. There are 318 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Feb. 16, 1960, the nuclear-powered radar picket submarine USS Triton departed New London, Conn. on the first-ever totally submerged circumnavigation by a vessel, a voyage which took nearly three months.
On this date:
In 1804, Lt. Stephen Decatur led a successful raid into Tripoli Harbor to burn the U.S. Navy frigate Philadelphia, which had fallen into the hands of pirates.
In 1862, during the Civil War, some 14,000 Confederate soldiers surrendered at Fort Donelson, Tenn. (Union General Ulysses S. Grant's victory earned him the nickname "Unconditional Surrender Grant.")
In 1868, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks was organized in New York City.
In 1918, Lithuania proclaimed its independence, which lasted until World War II (it again declared independence in 1990).
In 1923, the burial chamber of King Tutankhamen's recently unearthed tomb was unsealed in Egypt by English archaeologist Howard Carter.
In 1945, American troops landed on the island of Corregidor in the Philippines during World War II.
In 1959, Fidel Castro became premier of Cuba a month and a-half after the overthrow of Fulgencio Batista.
In 1968, the nation's first 911 emergency telephone system was inaugurated, in Haleyville, Ala.
In 1977, Janani Luwum, the Anglican archbishop of Uganda, and two other men were killed in what Ugandan authorities said was an automobile accident.
In 1998, a China Airlines Airbus A300-600R trying to land in fog near Taipei, Taiwan, crashed, killing all 196 people on board.
Ten years ago: Lucy Edwards, a former Bank of New York executive, and her husband, Peter Berlin, pleaded guilty in federal court in Manhattan to conspiring to launder billions of dollars from Russian bankers in one of the biggest such schemes in U.S. history. (The couple was fined, put under house arrest for six months and given suspended sentences.)
One last day Tony.I can't help myself. :)
We've just been experiencing our first band of beautifully large but melting (thus far) snowflakes around here. Supposedly, we're getting around six to ten inches accumulatively today into tomorrow am. I guess Mother Nature adjusted her compass and finally found our part of the Northeast. LOL's!
Hope you fare better in your location and are continuing to do progressively well! BEST WISHES TO YOU AND YOURS!
Oh Mush! One can truly get lost and caught up in that beautiful picture you posted. Thanks for the wonderful reprieve from my snowy scenes!
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