...on Mother's Day?
If you guessed "stood in the middle of the road taking pictures?" you're close.
We drove around Holland taking pics of all the beautiful tulips...
...and by "we", I mean of course Karen took the pics...all I did was drive and follow instructions..."pull over here..."
"...ok, now over there..."
Then we drove over to Windmill Island...everything's closed because of the widespread panic - no Tulip Time this year for the first time in 91 years...
...but you can still walk around and look at all the flowers...
...and it's free...
So Happy Mother's Day, y'all...hope it was a good one.
We also drove by our next home...
...a beautiful art deco masterpiece built in 1926...
Can't you see my brand new 1927 Model T parked out front?
Yeah...neither can I...but it is a beautiful home...
...filled with exquisite hand crafted tile, gorgeous woodwork and elegant chandeliers...
Unfortunately I seem to have mislaid that $650,000 I was planning to use to buy it...
I've looked in all my usual hidey holes...
...so far without success.
Oh well...I'll keep looking...gotta be around here someplace...
Dropped below freezing this weekend and chapped many of the blossoms we had, but here are a couple of pics I took before the frost:
...mostly gone now, unfortunately.
Also saw a tree top daredevil while I was walking around the property...
Did you spot him? Here's a closer look...
Brave little bugger.
Ah yes...Unhappy Man...
...managed to shed another 3 pounds this past week...now at 201, down from 220.
Still feels and looks like another 5 or 6 to go unfortunately.
Seems like the closer I get the farther away the goal line is.
Maybe I should just forget the whole thing and photoshop the results I need.
Hey look! There I am now...
That was a lot easier...should have thought of that weeks ago.
In The History Corner...
...recognize these guys?
Well of course you do...the portly gentleman in the center is Leland Stanford of the Central Pacific railroad, who on May 10th of 1869 drove in the ceremonial gold spike to mark the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad.
That signified the joining of the Union and Central Pacific railways which changed our country forever.
Instead of taking weeks by boat or months by Wagon train, it now took days to cross our great country from the East to the West Coast.
Not surprisingly, the next 50 years were marked by explosive growth as people and goods now had a far more efficient and less expensive way to travel.
Also on this day in 1877, President Rutherford B. Hayes...
...had the very first telephone installed in the White House.
Any idea what the White House phone number was in 1877?
If you guessed "1" you're either a gentle(wo)man and a scholar, or a pretty good guesser.
Rutherford may have wondered why no one ever called him...
...but back then there were no telephone exchanges in existence yet - it would be another year before the first one was established in Connecticut.
At least he was ready.
And that, gentle reader, marks the blessed conclusion of yet another week of excellence in blogging.
Not here of course...at the AMC we just churn out the same ol' grist, week after week.
But someone, somewhere, is doing a truly excellent job of web logging, or at least we hope they are.
And with all our friends and associates, we salute them...
Hee Haw aficionados, you know what I'm talking about...
later, mcm fans...
