Baldur

and here is tonight's musical moment... but is it about the music?

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=qybUFnY7Y8w

sandm

"Urcool" this video, better than domino-day. I esp liked the earth damaging the TV-screens:)

Baldur

Texas Guinan is born (1884)
Tex Ritter is born (1905)
A proposal to give women the right to vote is rejected by the US House of Representatives (1915)
Tim Horton is born (1930)
Kirstie Alley is born (1951)
Agatha Christie dies (1976)
An earthquake strikes Haiti killing approximately 316,000 and destroying Port-au-Prince (2010)

Baldur

Sadly there is no 'Tim Horton' donut shop nearby to celebrate his birthday at. We did have several in Southern New England until about a year ago.
They didn't survive the competition from Dunkin Donuts which locally is considered the epitome of donutdom

indigo

Unfortunately I can't celebrate his birthday today, too much freezing rain
and nasty weather but I will be out tomorrow for my "Timmies". :]

Baldur

Even the fabled Krispy-Kreme donut did poorly in its foray into the New England donut market.
The Rhode Island locations did not last very long at all

Baldur

Baldur rarely buys donuts, and buy rarely I mean that I did not buy any in 2011 and cannot be sure of 2010 either.
There are just other things I prefer in high-calorie items.
Ice Cream for example.

Baldur

Today is baking day at Boughbreak. A fine pumpkin pie just came out of the oven.
There was plenty of scrap pie dough to also make a secondary item.
In this case a rustic apple and pecan tart.
I knew those old apples in the bottom drawer of the refrigerator would come in handy.

Baldur

#9851 buy - u = by

Baldur

The beginning of the Great Fire of New Orleans (1830)
The Lexington burns off of Long Island, 139 die (1840)
Sophie Tucker is born (1884)
Fire strikes the Rhoad's Opera House in Boyerton, Pennsylvania killing 171 (1908)
Wyatt Earp dies (1929)
The Black Friday Brush Fire scorches 20,000 square kilometers of Australia, killing 71 (1939)
Johhny Cash performs a concert (including his hit song 'Ring of Fire)' at the Folsom State Prison (1968)

Baldur

oh, and it's also Friday the 13th

Baldur

This remains' the Winter that Wasn't' at Boughbreak.
There is no snow on the ground, we are consistently having days well above freezing. It seems rather odd.

Baldur

I suppose we should consider ourselves lucky that the Spring bulbs haven't come up yet. They are not due for 2 more months.
Probably the only thing stopping them is that they haven't had a long enough rest period.

marius

Well, here's some snow for you and someone certainly seems to be enjoying it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYcgL7Nif30

sandm

.... and without helmet! Very clever bilrds they are.

Baldur

That was indeed interesting, what's next? ice-dancing ?

Dragon

Loved that Marius!

I totally missed Tim Horton's birthday yesterday. With how incredibly popular Timmies is up here I'm surprised it wasn't a national holiday. We Canadians take our Timmies very seriously. Krispy Creme tried to make a go of it up here too and I believe every one of them (and there were quite a few) were closed down within a few months of opening. It seems to me that Tim Horton's is much more of a coffee shop that happens to carry lots of donuts rather than a donut shop. I would say its biggest competition is Starbucks.

Baldur

Marcus Antonius is born (83 BC)
Albert Schweitzer is born (1875)
Lewis Carroll died (1898)
Humphrey Bogart died (1957)
The 'Human Be-In' begins at Golden Gate Park on San Francisco (1967)
Anais Nin died (1968)
LL Cool J is born (1968)
An Elvis Presley concert 'Aloha From Hawaii' is televised 'live' via satellite (1973)
Ray Kroc died (1984)
Ricardo Montalban died (2009)

Happy Feast of the Ass

Dragon

Mmm, Feast of the Ass. I will definitly be looking that one up!

Baldur

It's all very innocent, really.