Happy Birthday To Me!

On this day in history:

The space between a woman's breasts was given a name by the International Federation of Associations of Anatomists: the intermammary sulcus. 

A camel at the Knowsley Safari Park on Merseyside, England was killed by lightning

On Victor Records, singer Allan Jones recorded "I'm Falling in Love with Someone".

At a poetry reading by Archibald MacLeish, fellow poet Robert Frost, in a fit of jealousy, set fire to some papers to disrupt the recital. 

 At the National Air Races in Cleveland, Ohio, John M. Miller, dazzled a large crowd as he executed a perfect loop-the-loop in his autogyro. 

AND

I was born 71 years ago in St Luke's Hospital in San Francisco, California.  After several months living at 45 Newton Street near the Cow Palace, my Dad, W E (Pete) Dobson went overseas as a tail gunner in a B25J named Tuff Stuff in the Rome Arno Air Campaign and my Mom, Isabelle Adams Dobson, accompanied by my maternal grandfather. William Theodore Adams aka Skeet (he was a railroad man so he and we traveled free) brought me home to Federalsburg, Maryland by train.  We only changed trains twice.  Once in Chicago and once in Philadelphia and were picked up at the train station in Bridgeville, DE by my maternal grandmother, Pauline Horsey Adams and taken to the town where I spent the next 24 years of my life, the memories of which today are buzzing around my head like lightning bugs on a warm summer's night.

College, US Air Force, marriages (that is not a typo), two children, two grandchildren and several dogs later, I sit here in Seaford Delaware trying to count my blessings.  It is difficult for me to do that because I don't know where to start as there are too many of them.  Suffice it to say I have led what many would called a "charmed life".  I simply call it blessed by God largely as a result of Godly family members and friends who have prayed for me from before my birth.

So to all the folks I have known before, who traveled in and out my door, I am glad you came along and if I could sing I would dedicate a song to the all the folks I have known before!!!   

PS:

To the uninformed, I celebrate my birthday for an entire week hence The Week O' Dan