9.3.2020. Do you ever just sit and wonder what this day will bring? I usually do. It’s the first thing I do in the morning. This may be a reflection of being retired because when I was working, the first thing I’d do was to think about what I had get done. There was always a long list. We do live in unpredictable times. How many times each day do you feel like saying “WTF?” Nuff said. Today we have a short list of celebratory events. It’s National Skyscraper Day, US Bowling League Day and National Welsh Rarebit Day. For those of you who don’t know, Welsh Rarebit is a cheese sauce over toasted bread. Top it with a poached egg and put a couple of strips of bacon by it’s side and you a great breakfast. Now to the footnotes: On this day in 301, San Marino, the fifth smallest nation in the world and the oldest republic still in existence, is founded. It’s surrounded by Italy. On this day in 1783 the Revolutionary War ends with the signing of the Treaty of Paris by the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain. In 1855 on this day, 700 soldiers under General William S. Harney attack a Sioux village in Nebraska killing 100 men, women, and children. This is the day in 1916 that President Woodrow Wilson signed the Adamson Act, providing an 8-hour work day on interstate railroads to preventing a national railroad strike. And, in 1930 on this date a hurricane kills 2,000, injures 4,000 in the Dominican Republic. Today is the day Bessie Delany was born in 1891. She was a dentist and a civil rights pioneer. Bessie said, “I thought I could change the world. It took me a hundred years to figure out I can’t change the world. I can only change Bessie. And honey, that ain’t easy either.” This is also the day in 1970 that Vince Lombardi (Green Bay Packers) stopped living at the age of 57. Vince said, “We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time.” We’re all going to run out of time so don’t put off what you want to do. With that, have a great day. Abide.
