Friday, April 2, 2010

Happy Spring Break!

Happy Spring Break!
To those who celebrate them,
Happy Good Friday!
Happy Easter!
Happy Passover! (March 29 - April 6, 2010) 
Happy General Conference Weekend!
Happy Washington Irving's Birthday!   He wrote The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
Happy National Reading a Road Map Week!  (That fits with all the traveling that will happen over our spring break!)
Happy Johanna Reiss's Birthday   (She wrote The Upstairs Room.)
Happy Richard Peck's Birthday!  (He's one of my favorite authors!  He wrote A Year Down Yonder and many others.  See http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=23514)
Happy anniversaries of the discovery of the North Pole and the invention of Teflon!
Happy anniversary of the end of the Civil War on April 9, 1865  -- surrender of Lee to Grant.

This is me and my friend, Richard Peck --