Today Thursday chiropractor, yesterday yearly mammogram, Tuesday podiatrist. Guess it's why I'm doing fine @ 69. Be proactive about your health.
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
I'm scared!
The person who took all the great pictures on our trip finally put them up on flickr but with a private setting so I'm showing just a few I took on our fun Friday-Monday oldfriendshangout.
This guy was scary!!
Friday, July 24, 2009
skinny in ac
Going downa shore until Monday. But if I win $$ @ the casino, I'll be back later. Will be flying around the country in a private jet giving $$ to people in need of health plan. Wish me luck!!
Monday, July 20, 2009
firetruck!
July 19 Joseph Lee’s birth in 1849 is celebrated on this date. He was an African-American who invented machinery for processing food and became very prominent in the food industry.He decided that instead of simply throwing stale bread away, he would use it to make breadcrumbs. He thus set out to invent a device that could mechanize tearing, crumbling, and grinding bread into crumbs. He was finally successful and patented the invention on June 4,1895.
www.aaregistry.com/detail.php?id=2540
After I cam home from Relish, I was lying on the couch resting. Heard lots of sirens. Finally got up and looked out of kitchen window to see firetrucks, ambulances, etc. There was a fire in an apartment down the way; but as they didn't stay long and no one was carried out in the ambulance, I surmised everything was OK.
Got to make time to volunteer for 67 minutes in honor of Mandela's birthday (although I'm disturbed by his support of Jacob Zuma).
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Sandyupsidown
July 15 On this date in 1867, Maggie Lena Walker was born. She was a noted African-American businesswoman, civics leader, and the first Black female bank president in America.In 1903, she founded the Saint Luke Penny Saving Bank in Richmond, (her hometown). She retired for health reasons in 1933 and died a year later. The bank survived the depression and remains solvent to this day. www.aaregistry.com/detail.php?id=1752
Sandy, the chiropractor's dog, lay there waiting for patients coming in and going out to scratch her belly; but she fell asleep before getting any takers 8>D
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
gerbera
July 14 Earl Francis was born on this date in 1935. He was an African-American baseball player and businessman.
He was the Pittsburgh Pirates’ opening day starter in 1963 and a rookie pitcher on their 1960 World Series championship team. Francis was 16-23 with a 3.77 ERA in 52 games and six major league seasons, all but one with the Pirates.
Going poolside later to watch All Star Game. President Obama'd better throw out a good first pitch or they'll be all over him for that too.
Sunday, July 12, 2009
@ the market
After completing shopping @ the farmers' market on Saturday, I sat with a sandwich and an iced tea and listened to some good jazz and snapped pictures.
Love the Reading Terminal Market!!
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Beautiful people
July 11 This date marks the founding of the Niagara Movement, the first significant black organized protest movement of the 20th century in America. It also represented the attempt of a small yet articulate group of radicals to challenge the then dominant ideals of Booker T. Washington. At the turn of the century there were divisions in African-American political life: those who believed in accommodation, led by Booker T. Washington; and the more militant group, led by W.E.B. Du Bois and William M. Trotter. aaregistry.com/detail.php?id=1005
@ Produce Junction buying flowers for the balcony
Thursday, July 09, 2009
July 9 On this date in 1893, the first successful American open-heart surgery was performed by a Black surgeon, Dr. Daniel Hale Williams.Dr. Daniel Williams completed the operation on a young man named James Cornish. He had been rushed to Provident Hospital in Chicago--a hospital which Dr. Williams had founded and one of the few hospitals that welcomed African Americans--with a stab wound. Williams repaired the wound with the use of sutures.
The Mural Arts have finished the mural for Roxborough/Manayunk. You see the turtle indigenous to this area. Names of our streets are on his shell.
Tuesday, July 07, 2009
Saturday, July 04, 2009
Independence Day
"January 1st should be celebrated in the same manner
as July 4th."---Frederick Douglass following the
Emancipation Proclamation January 1,1863
What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?
Frederick Douglass
July 5, 1852
teachingamericanhistory.org/
library/index.asp?document=162
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