1. And it has arrived, the shortest month of the year. Welcome to the first Monday of February. There are 47 Mondays remaining in 2025!
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Tulips on the Table Tequesta, FL February 1, 2025 |
2. Yesterday was a strange day in that there were no NFL games for the first Sunday since September. The Pro Bowl doesn't count as it is not full-contact. The Super Bowl is set for next Sunday and it should be super as the match-up looks like it is very even. Will the Chief's three-peat?
3. I bought Chris some tulips, just because, the other day and then I tried to do some creative imaging of them. I kinda like what I came up with. I do enjoy playing with the depth of field to create a sense of depth.
4. Well, the new administration in Washington is off to a great start between igniting worldwide trade wars and firing federal employees it is hard to keep up with the confusion and chaos. Here come higher prices and less income for Americans. To my Canadian and Mexican friends, all I can say is, I'm sorry and we are all caught in the crossfire.
5. Today in History. February 3, 1959, Rising American rock stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson, along with the pilot, are killed when their chartered Beechcraft Bonanza plane crashes in Iowa a few minutes after takeoff from Mason City on a flight headed for Moorhead, Minnesota. Investigators blamed the crash on bad weather and pilot error. Holly and his band, the Crickets, had just scored a No. 1 hit with “That’ll Be the Day.”
After mechanical difficulties with the tour bus, Holly had chartered a plane for his band to fly between stops on the Winter Dance Party Tour. However, Richardson, who had the flu, convinced Holly’s band member Waylon Jennings to give up his seat, and Ritchie Valens won a coin toss for another seat on the plane.
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-- Bob Doan, Tequesta, FL