Lazy

The weatherman says the monsoons are on the way. The weatherman is looking at the calendar…not the sky. While we are having clouds fill the sky, and they are dark, they just won’t drop any moisture down to us.

It was just a good day to be lazy…so that’s what I did.

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Random Fact
More than 2,500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people.

June is…

Adopt a Shelter Cat Month…Effective Communications Month…Gay & Lesbian Pride Month [National GLBT Month]…Great Outdoors Month…National Accordion Awareness Month…Rebuild Your Life Month…National Candy Month

Week of June 29
Fish are friends, not food Week
Freedom from Fear of Public Speaking Week
Special Recreation Week

June 29—180 days so far this year…185 days remain in 2009
Please Take The Children to Work
*Netherlands: Veterans Day

BIRTHS ON THIS DAY…
1805
Hiram Powers US sculptor (Greek Slave)
1858
George Washington Goethals engineer (built Panama Canal)
1861
William James Mayo surgeon/co-founder Mayo clinic in Minnesota
1863
James Harvey Robinson Ill, historian (Ordeal of Civilization)
1907
Joan Davis St Paul Minn, actress
1919
Slim Pickens (Louis Bert Lindley Jr.) actor:
1933
Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle actor
1936
Harmon Killebrew baseball player (Minnesota Twins)
1941
Kwame Toure (Stokley Carmichael) civil rights leader
1944
Gary Busey Goose Creek Tx, actor
1945
‘Little’ Eva Boyd singer: The Loco-motion

IT HAPPENED ON THIS DAY…
1613
Shakespeare's Globe Theater burns down
1854
Gadsden Purchase (parts of Az, NM) from Mexico for $10 million
1863
Very 1st First National Bank opens in Davenport, Iowa
1916
For his role in seeking German help for the Easter Rebellion in Ireland, Irish nationalist and longtime British diplomat Sir Roger Casement is executed by Britain for treason.
1927
1st flight from West Coast arrives in Hawaii
1949
South Africa begins implementing apartheid; no mixed marriages
1963
Beatles' 1st song "From Me to You" hits the UK charts
1969
1st Jewish worship service at White House
1810
Bradford, Massachusetts, the first U.S. missionary society was organized: the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.
1955
Bill Haley and His Comets reached the top of the pop music charts with Rock Around the Clock
1956
Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 bill into law. The National Interstate and Defense Highways Act was for the construction of 41,000 miles of interstate highways over a 20-year period and was the largest public works project ever undertaken. For each highway created 90 percent of construction costs were paid by the Federal budget and 10% from the local state. 936 : 3 millions job program launched as part of the relief and public works program the WPA average wage has been set at $25.00 per month  
2006
The US Supreme Court rules that President George W. Bush's plan to try Guantanamo Bay detainees in military tribunals violated U.S. and international law.

Word Puzzle from NPR Sunday Puzzler…1987

Each answer here is a compound word or familiar two-word phrase in which the first part is a color and the second part has been anagrammed as shown. Rearrange the second part to complete the answer.

EX: Orange BLOW Answer: Orange Bowl

1. Pink LIPS
2. Purple EARTH
3. Crimson DIET
4. Yellow GAPES
5. Blue DYNAMO
6. Red CADRE
7. White SEAL
8. Brown ARGUS
9. Black SILT
10. Silver CENSER
*Bonus: Rose STAPLE
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Answers:
1. Slip
2. Heart
3. Tide
4. Pages
5. Monday
6. Cedar
7. Sale
8. Sugar
9. List
10. Screen
*Bonus: Petals
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