This has been a comfortable week for weather and Tuesday was too beautiful for words. Cool, but a brilliant sun lit up the sky and gave the earth a terrific glow.

Today was even better than Tuesday and I accomplished a good deal of leaf blowing in Mama Kay’s yard.

I spent several more hours in bed after feeding the dogs, rising at 10 AM. I still feel worn. Hopefully, the energy will return, as it always does, when I arrive downtown this evening.

On this date:  2011: Duke University basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski recorded his 903rd career win, surpassing Bob Knight to become the winningest coach in NCAA Division I men’s history. 1978: American anthropologist Margaret Mead, whose great fame owed as much to the force of her personality and her outspokenness as it did to the quality of her scientific work, died at age 76.  1959: The Clutter family was discovered murdered on their Kansas farm, and their deaths—as well as the capture, conviction, and execution of two drifters—inspired Truman Capote‘s classic nonfiction novel In Cold Blood.  1904: American inventor King Camp Gillette was granted a U.S. patent for the first razor with disposable blades.  1889: Emperor Pedro II of Brazil was forced to abdicate by a group of military officers led by Manuel Deodoro da Fonseca.  1864: Union General William Tecumseh Sherman began his March to the Sea from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia, laying waste to the economic resources of the state as he sought to crush white Southern civilians’ support of the Confederate cause; his campaign helped end the American Civil War.

In a short while I will be shaved, showered, and dressed for another round of GRINCH at Schuster Center. I saw tons of Grinchy T-shirts last evening and everyone seemed to have a great time.

Make it a great day!