The past two days, we have been blessed with sunshine. Yesterday was cold and in the 40s and today is slightly warmer. We are to have temperatures in the 60s for the next several days.

I have an event to house manage at Dayton Live, this evening.

On November 2, 1983, in history, President Ronald Reagan signed a bill designating the third Monday in January a national holiday in memory of Martin Luther King, Jr. Reagan’s predecessor, President Jimmy Carter, was elected president of the United States, narrowly defeating President Gerald R. Ford. In 1964, King Saud of Suadi Arabia was formally deposed and succeeded by his brother, Faisal, and the year before, South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem was killed in a coup. Irish playwright, George Bernard Shaw, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925, died at age 94 in 1950. And in 1766, Marie-Antoinette, the queen consort of King Louis XVI of France, (1774-1793) was born.

There was a surprise jar of homemade pumpkin chili on my front porch, a thoughtful gift from Emily Webb. Thank you, Emily!

Tomorrow, Colonel Deeds will turn one year old. It will also be the nine-month anniversary of his Gotcha Day.

Make it a great day!

PHOTO: Taken in 2014.