Summer's Here

What a great way to start summer. We had a beautiful sunrise. We had a blue, cloudless sky. We had very little breeze. We had a 73° temperature. A great day to be outside. I took advantage of the day and washed, then detailed my vehicle. The wash is quick, through the nearby car wash. The detailing took a couple of hours. Vacuum, clean carpets, Armorall the inside, use Black Back on the black parts that have lost their black color to a dull grey. I don’t do this very often, as I get depressed looking at the new paint chips, a couple of cart dings, and the difficulty in removing the bug remnants from the bumper. However, when it is done, the ride looks a lot better. At least until the next spitting rain, which will undo the shine, undo the clean outside windows, and probably undo the shiny black. First day of summer brings out the joys of warm weather.

It is also Father’s Day. Only memories for those of us who are not fathers, and have lost our own fathers. It is mostly good memories for me. Many of my neighbors have been outside all day too. Not just the usual kids, but also moms and some dads. Watching the dads play with their kids is nice. Some of these dads don’t live here, but are here today. Each trying, in his own way, to be a father. Too bad they don’t realize that visiting kids on certain days seldom makes a man a father. On the other hand, these visits are better than nothing for most of the kids involved.

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Random Fact
n 1659, it was illegal to celebrate Christmas in Massachusetts.

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 21
Carpenter Ant Awareness Week
National Mosquito Control Awareness Week
National Old Time Fiddler’s Week

June 21—172nd day of the year…193 days remain in 2009
Stupid Guy Thing Day
El Salvador: Teacher’s Day
Croatia: Anit-Fascist Struggle Day

BIRTHS ON THIS DAY…
1837
Paul Morphy New Orleans, greatest chess player of all time (1857-61)
1858
Giacomo Puccini Italy, operatic composer (Madama Butterfly)
1887
Sir Julian Huxley London, biologist/philosopher
1903
John Dillinger one of America's Most Wanted
1906
Billy Wilder movie director
1922
Bill Blass Ft Wayne Ind, fashion designer
1928
Orson Bean Burlington Vt, comedian
1933
Dianne Feinstein1941 Ed Bradley Phila, CBS news correspondent
1936
Kris Kristofferson songwriter
1947
Don Henley drummer/singer (Eagles)
1948
"Pistol" Pete Maravich NBA star
1949
Meryl Streep NJ, actress
1953
Cyndi Lauper (Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper) Grammy Award-winning singer
1954
Freddie Prinze NYC, comedian/actor
1962
Clyde ‘The Glide’ Drexler--basketball

IT HAPPENED ON THIS DAY…
1342
Bilbo Baggins returns to his home at Bag End, (Shire Reconning)
1611
Henry Hudson & son set adrift in Hudson Bay by mutineers
1808
Zebulon Pike reaches his peak
1847
Doughnut created
1851
Fire destroys part of SF
1944
FDR signs "GI Bill of Rights" (Servicemen's Readjustment Act)
1959
The Battle of New Orleans, by Johnny Horton, started week number four at the top of the nation’s music
1990
Florida passes a law prohibits wearing a throng bathing suit
1991
Underwater volcano, Mount Didicas, erupts in Phillipines

Word Puzzle from NPR Sunday Puzzler…1987

In this puzzle, you’re given clues to some fanciful phrases. In each anser the first syllable is said three times in a row

EX: A very active errand-runner Answer: go-go gofer

1. One who transports a Hawaiian dress
2. Chanteuse at a New York state prison
3. Alpine song about a string toy
4. Crazy cents-off certificate
5. Where stupid, extinct birds lived
6. Likely person to do a French line dance
7. Huge configuration of chocolate candies
8. New England soup for a Chinese dog
9. Very stylish Australian girl
10. Flower made with an error and worn on the lapel

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Answers:
1. Muumuu mover
2. Sing Sing singer
3. Yo-yo yodel
4. Cuckoo coupon
5. Dodo domain or dodo domicile
6. Cancan candidate
7. Bonbon bonfire
8. Chowchow chowder
9. Chi-chi Sheila
10. Boo-boo boutonniere
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