SugarPlum Artistry

Photo courtesy of my Palm Treo 680

The SugarPlum and I shared a bowl of strawberry ice cream in my belated birthday gift. Oh, it was delicious!

The bowl is an original design, it is a hand crafted and hand painted kiln-fired clay bowl that she created in summer camp last week.

This was evening our first opportunity to use my birthday bowl, since she was sent to bed last night without dinner for not completing her homework.

A Birthday Song for plezWorld

When plezWorld was born on this day, back in nineteen-sixty-something, Ray Charles had the #1 Billboard pop song in the US: "I Can't Stop Loving You."

Since that time, Paul McCartney (with either the Beatles, Wings, Stevie Wonder, or as a solo act) has had the most #1 songs to fall on my birthday with five. I looked at my wedding anniversary date (which is only three months later) from the year I was born until the present, and Paul McCartney shows up only once, with the Beatles ("Hey Jude"). Go figure!

Click here to see other interesting non-musical facts about my birthday.

Summer Solstice Saturday

No basketball. No football. No Tiger Woods golf. No interest in baseball. Seen all the movies on the DVR. Don't wanna go to the pool, but the SugarPlum will drag me down there anyway. Yesterday was one of my brother's birthday... he's a Gemini. Tomorrow is my birthday and I'm a Cancer... so now I'm more fifty than forty! Don't wanna fire up the grill, but can't stomach another fast food burger with fries. Can't post about Obama. Don't wanna read about Hillary. And McCain is just too easy. Don't wanna complain too much, but there's not much to cheer about. Gas is too high to just drive around. And it's too hot and humid to walk. Today is the Summer Solstice, well, it occurred just before midnight last night. Did I mention that tomorrow is another birthday in plezWorld?

It's My Birthday Meme

Go to Wikipedia and type in your birthday (month and day, only).

1. List 3 events that occurred on that day
2. List 3 important birthdays
3. List one notable death
4. List a holiday or observance, if any
5. Tag five of your friends.

plez sez: i found this meme when i stumbled upon Morphological Confetti a few months ago; as usual, i couldn't resist! i found some interesting facts about my birthdate: June 22.

This is my Birthday Meme for June 22:

1. List 3 events that occurred on that day
   1633 - The Holy Office in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to recant his scientific
   view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe.
   1812 - Napoleonic Wars- Napoleon invades Russia.
   1962 - An Air France Boeing 707 jet crashes in bad weather in Guadeloupe, West Indies killing 113
   
   
2. List 3 important birthdays
   1930 - Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., son of Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh (d. 1932)
   1941 - Ed Bradley, American journalist (d. 2006)
   1949 - Meryl Streep, American actress
   1962 - Clyde Drexler, former NBA All Star and Olympic Gold Medalist
   
   as usual, i cheated and listed 4 birthdays, but how many of you share a birthday with the Lindbergh Baby? i had to include Ed Bradley (of 60 Minutes fame) and Academy Award Winner Meryl Streep! and since Clyde Drexler and i were born on the same day, i had to include him.
   
   
3. List one notable death
   1987 - Fred Astaire, American dancer and actor (b. 1899)
   
   
4. List a holiday or observance
   Anti-fascist Struggle Day in Croatia
   
   
5. The Tag
   Tagging a certain number of blogs is like picking a team on the playground when you were a kid: who is the kid that gets picked last? or worse yet, who doesn't get picked at all? So, to relieve you of the angst of not seeing your blog listed here: if you've read this far down into this post, consider yourself tagged and join the fun.

Post a comment when you've completed the assignment. Thanks!