A fun opening....

Humming birds... They left Woodhaven a week ago. Toward the end if the season, we had 8 I think... Neighbors took their feeders down. I think mine go back to Texas, but theirs go all the way back to Chile.

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1901 - Daredevil Anna Edson Taylor became the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a wooden barrel. She was 63 years old.

A Rhode Island bartender named Steven Trotter made the trip in a barrel wrapped in inner tubes.
August 18th 1985. Steven was fined a total of $5,503.00

Steve lived in Barrington R.I. in the house next to my folks.
Always lived on the edge. more here... did it again with his girlfriend. ummm went over the falls.
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1825 - The Erie Canal opened in upstate New York. The 363-mile canal connected Lake Erie and the Hudson River at a cost of $7,602,000.

First and last National project that finished ahead of schedule, and yeah!... under budget. A fascinating Story. We lived in Clifton Park NY, about 200 yard from the canal, back in 1978.
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1955 - The microwave oven, for home use, was introduced by The Tappan Company.

Ummm... not quite... The first commercial oven yes... but they didn't make and market the first for home use until 1967. I questioned this because I was doing demonstrations of the Radar Range soon after it was introduced... sometime in late 1967. $650. The most fun a person could have and get paid for... Yes Ma'am... bake a potato in 4 minutes... boil water in a minute... explode a hotdog in 30 seconds... and ya say ya want something to dry your cat after his bath? Completely safe... four interlocks... Whoaaa!!! please don't stand so close.... ROTFMOL
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Happy Birthday, Amy ... Halloween... Great timing smile