Thursday

We had our weekly lunch today. Mary is headed for two weeks at her family compound in Oregon. They have a home at the beach. She is pretty excited, as this is the first time she has been able to go at this time of year. The many brothers and sisters have it scheduled and she always had to take a summer time, because of her teaching. This year her mother, 97, will be there for a couple of days. Cheryl may join her son, daughter-in-law and the four grandkids on a Cruise. She’s not sure yet. She says she’s waiting for the last minute tickets—as the price will go way down. I learned that one of our long time Navajo teachers, who retired about 10 years ago and is only 65, is in the last stages of brain cancer. So sad. She is here in Flagstaff, at a nursing home, so I’m trying to find out which one so I can visit.

We didn’t have any rain or any even any clouds today. It was nice, with a high of only 82°. The cooler nights are nice. The birds are certainly getting ready for something. They are cleaning up on bird seed. The smaller bird feeder has to be filled a little more than once a day. The larger one lasts for two days. This is about twice as often as often as just a week ago. Either I have more birds or the ones that are here are very hungry. It’s a small thing but is so much fun to watch the many birds feed. I just wish I could get hummingbirds to this area. I still can’t figure out if it is the altitude, the pine forest, what. I’ve tried feeders in the back, feeders in the front. I know there are hummingbirds in Flagstaff, just not in our forested area. I will keep trying, by keeping fresh liquid out there for them. Maybe before winter they will find the feeders and know that I am here to help.


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Random Facts…

There are 10 towns named Hollywood in the United States.

Crazy Stuff in the News…

WINONA, Minn. - Authorities in Minnesota said a goat found in the trunk of a woman’s car when she took it to a repair shop has been placed in the care of a veterinarian. James Prusci, an auto repairman with Tires Plus in Winona, said a woman came into the store just before noon Friday and informed him there was a live goat in her trunk, the Winona Daily News reported. Prusci said the woman told him she planned to butcher the animal but her car broke down en route to St. Paul, Minn. Workers heard the goal crying in the trunk. The goat was painted the Minnesota Vikings colors, purple and gold, and had the No. 4 — Vikings newcomer Brett Favre’s number — shaved into its side, Prusci said. The mechanic said he called animal control and a vehicle from the service arrived with two police cars as the woman was preparing to drive away.
Winona Police Sgt. Chris Nelson said the goat was placed in the care of a veterinarian. He did not say whether the woman or a man who was waiting for her outside of the repair shop was cited.


Month long events in August

Edinburgh Festival is an internationally famous arts festival that takes place during August National Immunization Awareness Month… National Psoriasis Awareness Month… Women's Small Business Month... National Back to School month…American Adventures Month…Golf Month…National Inventor’s Month…National Win with Civility Month…What will be your legacy Month

Week of Aug 25…

Be Kind to Humankind Week

28 Aug…

240 days so far this year…125 days remain in 2009
Race Your Mouse Around the Icons Day
*Hong Kong : Festival of Hungry Ghosts
*Jordon : Arab Renaissance Day

BIRTHS ON THIS DAY…

…ARTS…
1749….. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Frankfurt, social philosopher (Faust)

1828….. Leo Tolstoy, novelist and philosopher
1889….. Charles Boyer France, actor

1903….. Bruno Bettelheim US, writer (Uses of Enchantment)
1905….. Sam Levene actor
1906….. Sir John Betjeman poet laureate of England (Mt Zion)
1916….. C Wright Mills sociologist, writer (The Power Elite)
1921….. Nancy Kulp Penn, actress (Beverly Hillbillies)
1925….. Donald (David Dixon) O’Connor dancer, singer, actor: Singin’ in the Rain
1929….. Roxie Roker actress: The Jeffersons
1930….. Ben (Biagio Anthony) Gazzara actor
1943….. David Soul Chicago, actor (Starsky & Hutch)
1965….. Shania Twain (Eilleen Regina Edwards) Grammy Award-winning singer
1969….. Jason Priestley Vancouver BC, actor

…Athletics…
1946….. Bob Beamon US, long jumper (Olympic-gold-1968)
1958….. Scott Hamilton Olympic Hall of Famer and figure skating Gold Medalist

…POLITICS…
1592 George Villiers Duke of Buckingham, royal minister to James I
1831 Lucy Ware Webb Hayes 1st lady

…Religion…
1774….. Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton 1st American Catholic saint

…SCIENCE…
1878 George Hoyt Whipple US, astrophysicist (Nobel-1934)
1908 Roger Tory Peterson NY, ornithologist/writer (How to Know Birds)

Events on this day…

1789….. Sir William Herschel discovers Saturn's moon Enceladus

1811….. Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley eloped with Harriet Westbrook.
1867….. US occupies Midway Islands in the Pacific
1884….. 1st known photograph of a tornado is made near Howard SD

1907….. United Parcel Service begins service, in Seattle
1938….. Northwestern U awards honorary degree to dummy Charlie McCarthy
1949….. Riot prevents Paul Robeson from singing near Peekskill NY
1955….. Fourteen-year-old African-American Emmett Till is abducted and later murdered by two white men in Mississippi
1963….. 200,000 demonstrate for equal rights in Washington, DC & Martin Luther King Jr's "I have a dream speech" at Lincoln Memorial
1968….. At the democratic convention in Chicago 10's of thousands of Anti-Vietnam war protestors battle police in the streets
1996….. After four years of separation, Charles, Prince of Wales and his wife, Princess Diana, formally divorce.

Holy Mackerel…
1945….. Rationing for butter is to be decreased again with the red points required for butter going down to 12 points per pound, this is the second decrease since July when butter was 24 red points per pound.

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Can you guess what each of these riddles is describing?

1. At night they come without being fetched, and by day they are lost without being stolen. What are they? [2]
2. I'm where yesterday follows today, and tomorrow's in the middle. What am I?
3. From the beginning of eternity
To the end of time and space
To the beginning of every end
And the end of every place.
What am I?
4. In a marble hall white as milk
Lined with skin as soft as silk
Within a fountain crystal-clear
A golden apple doth appear.
No doors there are to this stronghold,
Yet thieves break in to steal its gold.
--Mother Goose
5. It is said among my people that some things are improved by death. Tell me, what stinks while living but in death smells good?
* Bonus:
All about, but cannot be seen,
Can be captured, cannot be held,
No throat, but can be heard.
What is it?
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Answers:
1. Stars or Dreams.
2. A dictionary.
3. The letter 'e'.
4. An egg.
5. A pig.
*Bonus: The wind.
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