Happy May 16th…..

loads of  nice things have happened on this date in the past.

 

 

1994
Jacqueline Onassis admitted to the hospital for cancer treatment

1992
U.S. space shuttle STS-49 lands (maiden voyage of Endeavour)

1991
Queen Elizabeth becomes 1st British monarch to address U.S. congress

1988
Surgeon General C. Everett Koop reports nicotine as addictive as heroin

1988
U.S. Supreme Court rules trash may be searched without a warrant

1986
"Top Gun," premieres

1986
Bobby Ewing (Patrick Duffy) comes back from dead on Dallas

1980
Brian May of rock group Queen collapses on stage with hepatitis

1980
Paul McCartney releases "McCartney II" album

1977
5 die as New York Airway helicopter topples on Pan Am building in New York City

1974
Helmut Schmidt becomes West German chancellor

1971
1st class postage now costs 8 cents (was 6 cents)

1969
U.S. nuclear sub Guitarro sinks off San Francisco

1968
Earthquake kills 47 in Japan

1965
Spaghetti-O's 1st sold

1963
Gordon Cooper completes 22 orbits in Faith 7, ends U.S. Proj Mercury

 

Birth of Birgit aka Mausie 1 in bad Kreuznach , at that time West Germany….

@ 7 lbs something ( mom can’t remember the something about 20 inches long

the first grandchild

 

1958
Eli Beeding experiences 83 g deceleration on a rocket sled, New Mexico

1958
Walter Irwin flies 2,259 KPH in F-104A Starfighter

1957
Major Irwin, USAAF flies a Lockheed Starfight to a record 1,404.18 MPH

1955
King Baudouin of Belgium visits Congo

1955
Ray Lindwall scores his 2nd Test Cricket century 118 at Bridgetown

1955
Rocky Marciano TKOs Don Cockell in 9 for heavyweight boxing title

1954
Babe Didrikson Zaharias wins LPGA National Capital Golf Open

1952
"New Faces (of 1952)" opens at Royale Theater New York City for 365 performances

1948
CBS news correspondent George Polk's body is found in Greece

1948
Israel issues its 1st postage stamps

1946
Musical "Annie Get Your Gun," starring Ethel Merman premieres in New York City

1945
Violent battles around Sugar Loaf/Half Moon Okinawa

1944
1st of 180,000+ Hungarian Jews reach Auschwitz

1941
1st U.S. radio performance of Bennett's "Symphony in D for the Dodgers"

1941
Germans made their last major air attack on Britain

1941
Italian army under Aosta surrenders to Britain at Amba Alagi Ethiopia

1941
Last great German air attack on Great Britain (Birmingham)

1941
Nazis forbid Dutch Organization of Actors (NOT)

1940
Nazi's forbid non-professional auto workers

1940
Premier Winston Churchill returns to London from Paris

1939
Food stamps are 1st issued

1938
1st animal breeding society forms in New Jersey

1938
38 die in Terminal Hotel fire in Atlanta, Georgia

1936
1st British air hostess (Daphne Kearley) flight to France

1930
6th Walker Cup: U.S., 10-2

1929
1st Academy Awards - "Wings," Emil Jennings and Janet Gaynor wins

1927
New York Yankee Bob Meusel steals 2nd, 3rd and home

1927
Supreme Court ruled bootleggers must pay income tax

1925
51st Kentucky Derby: Earl Sande aboard Flying Ebony wins in 2:07.6

1924
1914
Ewing Field, near Masonic Street, opens

1911
Remains of a neanderthal man found in Jersey UK

1911
Zeppelin "Deutscheland" wrecked at Dusseldorf

1910
U.S. Bureau of Mines forms

1903
1st transcontinental motorcycle trip begins at San Francisco (George Wymann)

1903
George Wyman makes 1st motorcycle trip across the US

1902
2 deaf-mutes face each other for 1st time as Dummy Hoy leads off for the Reds against Dummy Taylor of the Giants, Reds win 5-3

1901
Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Priory School"

 

anyhow you get the gist of things…..lol.. so not to make this post a mile long

gonna post some pics next….hugs Birgit

Happy Mothers Day to all

Wishing all my online friends a

very Happy Mothers Day,,,,,

hugs Birgit

Happy Nursing Week

A Nurse's Prayer

Give me strength and wisdom,

When others need my touch;

A soothing word to speak to them,

Their hearts yearn for so much.

Give me joy and laughter,

To lift a weary soul;

Pour in me compassion,

To make the broken whole.

Give me gentle, healing hands,

For those left in my care;

A blessing to those who need me,

This is a Nurse's prayer.

Allison Chambers Coxsey

c1997

Happy Nursing Week to all my Nursing friends

 

Hugs from Indiana…..Birgit

Flying our Flag

Per Bee Lady’s request who got it from

Granny Bee I will be flying our flag ….

Thank you to all our Service men and women

for all that you do…and lets not forget our police, firemen

and all the others that put their lives on the line daily

I salute you and say THANKS,,,

Hugs Birgit

Happy Sunday to All….

Well it is cloudy again  with chance of rain.. Now I do wish

it would go away I must be honest.. It was heavenly last couple of days

windows open, sitting outside..so nice……

I started work on a variegated  bag on my round yellow KK.

Not sure how large I am going to make it will see once I get a little farther

with it….Thinking about a lining in it….we shall see.

My keyboard  and mouse are acting up  big time…I’d say its time

for a new one of each….

Mouse does what it wants to even after update on it..

Either clicks once to open something or  I need to click 3 times ..hate that.

Oh well this too shall pass….

grandpa and Abby playing outside

She has so much fun with grandpa…He really goes into her fantasy world with her.

But that shouldn’t be new to me He has an imagination that’s incredible and kids just love that.

this was before the grass was cut yesterday.. Thank Heavens its short again.. right in between rains…lol.

My middle  grandson Kaleb was here yesterday  helping with mowing and  weed eating too.

Then when done he started chipping away at a piece of wood that came of the tree that came down the other day  He is trying to  make me some flower pots out of the wood….His idea.

Kids are great and what they come up with in ideas. Love it.

for now wishing all a wonderful rest Sunday…Hugs to all

Birgit

Hope Everyone had a Nice Easter

Since this was my first Easter with all my kids and grands it was really nice.

I had the girls since Katie’s and Roberts wedding friday nite and saturday

my son’s boys also came to spend some time so mom and dad could have some quiet time

I decided to boil my eggs  saturday afternoon, let them cool and let the kids decorate.

Put all the utensils on the kitchen table and Kaleb, Daegon and Abby  colored Easter eggs

and decorated them, I think they had fun.

Especially since I let them do it all by themselves..No big mess to clean up either,.

Sunday morning for me was spent making green bean salad ( for my son),Boiled my potatoes

and made  german apple cake…My Daughter in law made the main Easter dinner so off we went sunday eve  for  dinner at their house.That was really cool, Thanks Danielle….

no pic of it of none of it my digital camera is on the fritz.

Took tons of pics at Katie’s wedding and only half of them took..

I think the battery needs replacing the cam is not charging right anymore.

anyhoo……Now I am catching up on all the rain weather warnings waiting for Katie to

drop the girls off….

On the weather front we have our usual flooded roads  but we are still able to get where we need to go on main roads.or the long way( I have to laugh at the long way since its only like 5 minutes longer than the backroads..LOL

So off I go to wait for my grand girls……

Hugs to all stay safe and dry….

Birgit

Happy Easter to All

May you have loads of  Bunny eggs and rays of Sunshine

Hugs from Indiana….Birgit