Ain't you the funny man.

It is with great personal inconvenience and duress that this post comes to you this morning... been without power since 10PM last nite. AGAIN!

Today is Saturday, October 31st.

On this day in 1517 - Martin Luther posted the 95 Theses on the door of the Wittenberg Palace Church. The event marked the start of the Protestant Reformation in Germany.

1860 - Juliette Low, the founder off the Girl Scouts, was born.

1864 - Nevada became the 36th state to join the U.S.

1868 - Postmaster General Alexander Williams Randall approved a standard uniform for postal carriers.

1922 - Benito Mussolini became prime minister of Italy.

1926 - Magician Harry Houdini died of gangrene and peritonitis resulting from a ruptured appendix. His appendix had been damaged twelve days earlier when he had been punched in the stomach by a student unexpectedly. During a lecture Houdini had commented on the strength of his stomach muscles and their ability to withstand hard blows.

1940 - The British air victory in the Battle of Britain prevented Germany from invading Britain.

1941 - Mount Rushmore was declared complete after 14 years of work. At the time the 60-foot busts of U.S. Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln were finished.

1941 - The U.S. Navy destroyer Reuben James was torpedoed by a German submarine near Iceland. The U.S. had not yet entered World War II. More than 100 men were killed.

1952 - The U.S. detonated its first hydrogen bomb.

1959 - Lee Harvey Oswald, a former U.S. Marine from Fort Worth, TX, announced that he would never return to the U.S. At the time he was in Moscow, Russia.

1961 - In the Soviet Union, the body of Joseph Stalin was removed from Lenin's Tomb where it was on public display.

1968 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson ordered a halt to all U.S. bombing of North Vietnam.



And, as an added bonus, The History of Halloween!

* The origins of Halloween date back to the ancient Celtic festival known as Samhain (pronounced sow-in).

* The Celts lived the area known as Ireland, the United Kingdom and France about 2,000 years ago.

* The Celts celebrated their new year on November 1. This was the end of summer and the beginning of winter and when it was believed that ghosts of the dead returned to earth.

* The Celts believed that during the season transition that the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead became blurred.

* By 43 A.D. the Romans had conquered most of Celtic territories. Two festivals of Roman origin were combined with the Celtic festival Samhain.

* In the seventh century, Pop Boniface IV designated November 1 as All Saint's Day. It is believed that this move was an attempt to replace the Celtic festival with a state sanctioned holiday that was related. This celebration was called All-hallows or All-hallowmas. The night before All Saint's Day (All-hallows) became known as All-hallows Eve…and eventually Halloween.

* American eventually reinvented Hallowmas by removing the religious overtones and made it into a harvest festival.

* Colonial Halloween celebrations included ghost stories and mischief making.

* In the mid-1800s, Americans began to dress up in costumes and go house-to-house asking for food or money….later known as trick-or-treat.

* By the 1950s, Halloween had evolved to a holiday that catered mainly to children. The practice of trick-or-treating was revived during this time.



chaikwa.

 

Morning folks Coffee is hot but chaikwa ate all the sinkers before i could get them on the table.

HAPPY Halloween.

 

Tulum is a baby compared to Chitzen Itza - - it is huge with a pyramid that will make you quake when you climb it. You can also climb up the inside of it. The Mayans were amazing in their knowledge and how they used it in building, calendars, positioning of buildings for the planets and stars - - all shown at Chitzen Itza.

Soooo, are you surprised???

Mornin gang - - happy Booooo day. Have to get ready for them critters tonight. Think I will hide in the bushes in my chaikwa costume and scare the bejeebers out of them - - cheaper than handing out candy.

OK, grabbing my ph00 and heading for the lanai for breakfast - - gorgeous out there. See ya,

Bob

 

It is official on the 10th I become Fred Meyers newest Fish Monger... Has a ring to it. >((()))">

 

I've heard of dirt baggers but what is a fish monger.

Hey, I've done my pink chores for the day - - cleaned all floors (hard and soft), picked up all the stuff off the floor in my office and found my desk and a bunch of other stuff I lost, cleaned the lanai and watered the orchids, cleaned the garage floor, and -- - - - now I am exhausted. I think it is time for another foo and head for the lanai and get some suntan. I am getting too white. Sure looks nice out there. Interesting to watch the sun sneak under the lanai roof a little further each day as fall progresses. Also watching the sunset move further south each day. God did good.

OK, I'm done - - going to drink my ph00. Bye.

ExhaustedBob

 

AFTERNOON FELLOW DTROTRIONS>

Storm that blew through last night took down a dead popular tree on our property > actully fell on the road >So wife and i been out cleaning up the mess!

put a chain on the main trunk and raked up the branches and smaller pieces of trunk and put them in the ranger > we have a burn pile so now its a little larger

still raining up here can stop any time now ! we have enough thank you !

claude
Hey SCOTT> you still with out power ?

 

poking head in for Hallowe'en candy....... finding only dragon 'presents'...

cleaning up the breakroom- let's see what title awaits us tonight!! woooooo

wow- great shots Matt- enjoy the blissful honeymoon period! (that joint account will be the end of it)trip of a lifetime for a purpose of a lifetime. tsk tsk, FISHING? before the wedding? if you caught anything, would you make her clean it? and on and on.....

Great to hear from Shortround! wonder how his mill is working?

ofc marc- I was thinking the same thing- razor and clippers for the janitor.
very nice pub relation piece. tv spot, not Michael or maybe?
sorry your electrical system- isn't. let me know if you want my Mike out there to put in a direct line. you know I ain't touching live wires...

politics as usual here, some cowardly acts of stuffing mailboxes with hate mail about me. getting phone calls of support and plainly, people are mad as hell that someone is messing with their mail. no pictures/no investigation from the Post office. can't control other people, so I try not to worry about it. I will just see what happens election day....

 

dont make me get my engineer scale out and crack you across the nuckels ....

 

promise! best behavior here with halo shining......

(was a tough prison guard learning CPR, had a Catholic nun do that to me..too stunned to react, thank Goodness! will NEVER forget that feeling!)

Hope all is well in Okie land for ya! your kids still do halloween?

 

Come up here and watch the sunset around the middle of January, THEN tell me how good God did!

WHOA! Another Claude post without any spelling errors! I think that makes 2 this year!
I think we got power back around 4 this afternoon. I wasn't here when it came on. We were over at Lowe's doing the smoke detector gig. Gave away almost 1000 of them and around 600 batteries for those folks that had detectors but needed batteries for them. All the publicity and effort that went into this project this year and we'll STILL have some fires this winter where people either won't have any smoke detectors in the house at all, or the ones that are there won't work. Makes me quite irritated to say the least. And it's almost always the kids that pay the price for the stupid parents.

Bite your tongue!

Thanks!

That's the problem... they ain't alive!

That's because they aren't smart enough to be able to do anything legitimately. What are you running for Heidi?

Evening all.

chaikwa.

 

What did every one do go trick-or-treating ?
Ours have been done for 1 1/2 hrs.

dead in here tonight >not eaven any gost`s

Claude

 

watching night of the living dead marathon...

 

OH your watching DTR tonight

 

that too....

 

You don't understand - - God made different areas for certain people. Some people haven't earned the right to be in the places where it is soooo good. Like, you have to be old and crotchety to be in heaven. You are close, but not there yet - - keep working on it. You just look it.

Heading for the beddy bye - - 6 am comes early. Sleep tight, gang.

Bobby