Today is Matt Lang's birthday! He and Carter Rae Beatty survived through Hurricane Helene's recent ravaging floods around Asheville, NC. He gave me this moonscape tie for Christmas in 2016. Other years I've worn my steam locomotives tie for him, but this time I'm happy to show off these craters.
It's National Noodle Day! Tomorrow (7 October) is National Flower Day! The latter might be better styled as National-Flower Day, because it marks its origin in the 1986 presidential proclamation of the rose as the national flower of the United States. My tie celebrates roses and my tie bar features a bow-tie pasta.
It's National Coffee Day! I don't like coffee myself, but I fully support and enable Beth's several-cups-a-day passion/dependence. My steaming coffee tie originally belonged to my friend Allan Stephens (1940-2010).
Hurricane Helene (now a tropical depression) has been with us in central Kentucky for two days now. We have been staying "Weather Aware"! My tie shows two radar maps for past storms in a region near Lake of the Ozarks, southeast of Kansas City, MO. One section runs north-south from Warsaw to Aldrich, and the other from Camdenton to Lebanon. The TV image shows our local radar map from Friday afternoon, after the big winds and very heavy rain had passed us. Our family in Asheville, NC saw a lot more activity from Helene. They lost power but had no property damage.
Where's Waldo? All over my tie! The first "Where's Waldo?" book was published on 21 September 1987 -- titled "Where's Wally?" in Great Britain. And Martin Handford, Waldo/Wally's creator, was bon on 27 September 1956. This wonderful tie came to me from the collection of my EKU comrade Richard Day, who wore it when he was an elementary school principal to the great amusement of his teachers and students.
Grandson BM's school is having a "Grandparents' Ice Cream Social" today, along with a book fair to sell Scholastic® books. So I'm wearing my ice cream cone tie!
This is Wilma Wollenweber's official birthday #95! She has always loved this tie covered with books! Happy birthday, Mom!
The second day for celebrating Wilma Wollenweber's 95th birthday featured an excellent family dinner at Outback Steakhouse. Twelve adults and seven kids shared good food and conversations! Later a bunch of us went to Lake Reba Park for some photos, walks and talks. And of course my tie is another of Mom's flowery favorites!
Today was the first of three celebrations for Wilma Wollenweber's 95th birthday! More than 60 family and friends gathered at Richmond First United Methodist Church for a party-reception. I gave Mom the opportunity-order to pick my tie, and she chose one of her all-time favorites with flowers on dark green.
Granddaughter TR chose this tie for me to wear on her birthday! She picked it out of four I offered. It may seem odd to wear snowpeople in September, but we have had some very hot weather at the end of August, so this is actually cool.
On 1 September 1878: the first telephone operator, Emma Nutt, ushered in the era where women would dominate the job. She worked for the Edwin Holmes Telephone Dispatch Company in Boston. Alexander Bell suggested replacing the boys operating the phone lines with a calm, soothing female voice. On my tie, Charlie Brown and his friends are having a party conversation!
I think that I must follow my annual obeisance to National Bow Tie Day! This time the Rubber Duckies get to swim. As usual, Beth helped me get it tied nicely. And even in hot August I am wearing my special bow tie dress shirt!
Today (27 August) counts as a special day for pacifists (who generally get very little to celebrate among national holidays, etc.). In 1928, the international community signed the Kellogg-Briand Pact, an international treaty that declared war illegal. You may say that its effects are nonexistent, but its passage represents a moment when people actually agreed that violent altercations are nonsensical. Also worthy of note is Friday's historical reference to 1146, when European leaders outlawed the crossbow, intending to end war for all time. My tie's design shows the peace symbol and a single peace dove.
Today we are celebrating granddaughter EM's first day of preschool, so my tie is covered with children at play. Grandson BM is in kindergarten, and granddaughter TR stays in care with Beth and me. Meanwhile, grandchildren MJE, NDH, PRW, JWS and DRA continue in homeschool with their principal Jonathan!
Today's pink and blue tie honors tomorrow's celebration (26 August) of Women's Equality Day. It commemorates the certification of the 19th Amendment in 1920, which is often described as guaranteeing women the same right to vote as men. Technically the amendment only prevented states from excluding women from voting based solely on their sex.
"While the 19th Amendment was ratified and signed into law in 1920, many women of color were still unable to exercise their right to vote. Though these women rallied alongside white suffragists, many women of color remained disenfranchised until the mid-20th century: Native American women (1924); Chinese American women (1943); and Japanese and other Asian American women (1952). As late as 1962, some states still prevented women of color from voting on contrived obstacles, such as literacy tests, poll taxes, voting ID requirements, intimidation and claims regarding the legitimacy of residence. It was not until the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, 45 years after the enactment of the 19th Amendment, that Black women were able to exercise this right without restrictions."
