Greetings. Today is a sunny, crisp day in Chester County, PA. I rhymed. Yesterday continued the bizarre happenings that I have been experiencing these past several days. I guess the universe is trying to tell me something and I sure wish that it would be a bit more clear for me. I had a nice lunch with my great friend yesterday but lines got crossed later in the day through no fault of mine...regarding a work schedule, Penn Dot, another large company and find it so odd that this type of thing can happen so often. Maybe people are simply overworked and stressed beyond comprehension. I don't know. I am sure that things will get back to normal very soon as they always do. Speaking of normal, on this day in 1863 world-famous dwarfs, (now called little people) General Tom Thumb and Lavinia Warren got married in New York City. General Tom Thumb was the stage name of Charles Sherwood Stratton (January 4, 1838 – July 15, 1883), a little person who achieved great fame under circus pioneer P.T. Barnum. Now days people who are not exactly like most everyone else are not paraded in circuses. Born in Bridgeport to parents who were of medium height, Charles was a relatively large baby, weighing 9 pounds 2 ounces (4.14 kg) at birth. The parents were without any concerns as he developed and grew normally for the first six months of his life, at which point he was 25 inches (64 cm) tall and weighed 15 pounds (6.8 kg). Then he stopped growing. His parents became concerned when, after his first birthday, they noticed he had not grown at all in the previous six months. They showed him to a relative who served as their family doctor, who offered little hope that the child would ever reach normal height. By late 1842, Stratton had not grown an inch in height or put on a pound in weight from when he was six months old. Apart from this, he was a totally normal, healthy child. His parents were reportedly embarrassed by the fact of his diminutive stature. Stratton, however, had several siblings who were of average size. Also on this day but in 1998 voters in Maine repealed a gay rights law that passed in 1997 becoming the first state to abandon that law. How mighty big of them. As the years pass and people learn, differences become less of an obstacle and more of a blessing. How boring it would be if we were all exactly the same. Have a great day and if given the chance, do something nice. It doesn't matter if it is big or small. Todays photo is of Beach House Sea Shell Fabric.
'There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.' Henry Ford
