They really like to listen to people come play the piano. HE plays the third Monday of every month at 1:30pm.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Chat and Chew - Thomas Crapper Day
Probably not the best day to have Apple Juice with Eclairs
Today's Chat and Chew we celebrated "Thomas Crapper Day!" That's right. Lenore found some interesting trivia in news letter and wanted me to share it with the group. Come to find out that There is actually a Thomas Crapper day. January 17th according to the Chase's calender of event day, is the day set aside to honor, who else Thomas Crapper.
Thomas Crapper (1836-1910) did exist and is credited with improving the functionality of the early flush toilet (or "water closet," as it was then called), but he did not, contrary to popular belief, invent the pseudo-eponymous bathroom appliance from scratch. Credit for that goes to 16th-century author Sir John Harrington, who not only came up with the idea but installed an early working prototype in the palace of Queen Elizabeth I, his godmother. The first patent for a flushing water closet was issued to Alexander Cummings in 1775, sixty years before Thomas Crapper was born.The son of a Yorkshire steamboat captain, Tom Crapper's destiny was fixed when he was apprenticed to a master plumber at the age of 14. He owned his own plumbing shop in London by the time he was 25. Crapper was awarded nine patents for plumbing innovations during his lifetime, three of them consisting of improvements to the flushing water closet. Though he made his name as a sanitary engineer to blueboods, Crapper himself was lowborn and never knighted, so it's a mystery why storytellers consistently award him the title "Sir."
The date of Crapper’s death has also been a source of confusion for many years. For example, Chase's Annual Events, the authoritative book for listing special days and dates, has listed January 17 as Thomas Crapper Day and January 17, 1910 as the date of his death.
Lenore's Bird
For those of you who may have heard the tale of Lenore's bird...the mystery continues.
There are some that think that the bird is simply a shadow being cast from a sign, but don't tell Lenore this. She is convinced that there is a bird that comes out about the same time each day but only when the sun is out. It stays near the sign. Sometimes its on the grass and sometime it sits on that post on the sign.
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Bountiful High School's Production of Annie
The whole cast from Bountiful High Schools production of Annie came and gave us a few numbers. Lenore guesses around 100 kids came. They were everywhere. I think we found one in the cupboard the next day. Thanks Bountiful High.
Sit and Fit
Are these ladies:A. Getting ready to ride a roller coaster.
B. Practicing for a stick up.
C. Getting ready for a revival.
This is either the give yourself a hug pose or Esther giving the invocation.
Andrea lead the ladies in Sit and Fit three times a week.
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