Seems like I'm dancing...

Today has been one of those days when for each step forward, I have had to take two steps back...But I kept dancing and dodging "bullets" and am still standing at the end of this evening... Hear that world !!  I'M STILL HERE !!!

Special happening of the day was when i got a very grown up phone call from Amelia this afternoon.  She asked me if I knew how George Washington died.  I said "Of course, I did."  He died a day after riding around his house and farm on his horse.  He rode in the rain and caught a bad cold and that is why he died." 

Additionally information on his death.  He died on the 14th of December.  Apparently he knew his time was really close at hand because it is reported that he said his goodbyes to all and said something like "I know I am going to die but I am not afraid of it."  Then at about 10:00 pm, he composed himself, placed his hands over his chest and quietly breathed his last breathe. He was really old for a man of that time.  He was 67.  However, he was just a young whipper-snapper compared to Ole Ben Franklin who was in his 80's during the Constitutional Convention and because of his gout affliction, had to be carried up the stairs of Independence Hall every day by 4 "guests of the jail" just down the road.  

Note: Amelia called back later and wanted to know where Lincoln died and what he was doing when he died.   Ahhhhh... the love of history is safely in the hands of the next generation!