Deer Migration Sunny and calm morning, about 32 degrees at 9 a.m. Joe has been getting the snow machines ready for storage for the summer - running the gas out of the tanks and parking them out of the way. He has sure had a job keeping the garage floor clean - it's been so full of mud and melting snow falling off the vehicles.
Yesterday I got Sparky all brushed clean and his toenails cut. It's Raven's turn today, if I can capture her. As soon as she sees the nail clippers she disappears. Then will need to vacuum up all the toenail bits off the studio carpet. It's a good incentive, since the room needs to be cleaned badly. Yesterday (and in the middle of the night last night) I got all our medical records sorted and filed into one of the file drawers I emptied earlier. They have been in folders on the book shelf, in various random piles, so this was a large job. I've let that go for several years just stacking them up and am glad to have it neatly organized. Another big trash bag of old papers went to the burn barrels.
It was on this day, Good Friday, in 1865 that President Abraham Lincoln was shot in the back of the head while watching a performance of the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C. Lincoln had received word of Robert E. Lee's surrender and the end of the Civil War just a few days before he died.
On this day in 1894 that Thomas Edison's first kinetoscope appeared in a New York City arcade, and the viewer would see a series of pictures flipped rapidly enough to create the illusion of movement. ...... MOVIES!!
Black Sunday, On this day in 1935, the weather was sunny and calm. a windstorm hit a part of the Great Plains known as the Dust Bowl. Witnesses said it was like a black tidal wave came down from the sky.
