Sunday

A very good Sunday. Great weather—80° and no wind. A nice day on the deck. Spent some time out there reading the Sunday Paper and listening to some good music. The only they that would make it better would be a pool. Watching the variety of birds who feed was also nice. Our neighborhood has been invaded by some squirrels. I saw three today. They try so hard to get to the bird feeders, but luckily, I have placed them in places they can’t reach. It’s not that I don’t like squirrels, but they are very hard on bird feeders. Last year they broke three of them while taking more than their share of food. They are fun to watch as they climb, jump, and scramble throughout the pine trees in our back yards.

A forest fire south of Flagstaff has brought smoke to us. The 400 acre fire has 100 firefighters in a canyon. Not an easy place to fight a fire. The winds out there are stronger than here, so that is making it harder too. I sure hope they get it under control. The area to the east is nothing but a huge brown cloud. I know it will settle in here as soon as it cools off. So sad to see so much of the forest burn.

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Random Facts…

Henry Ford produced the model T only in black because the black paint available at the time was the fastest to dry.

Crazy Stuff In The News…

You can blame it on the economy if you like, but you have to appreciate this man’s sense of entrepreneurialism. Police in California, acting on a tip that a man tried to sell a flat screen TV for $100, said they detained a man and found a TV box containing an oven door!
San Leandro police said the man was pulled over last week and officers noticed a box in his car purporting to contain a brand-new, 37-inch Sony TV — but all they found inside the box was a glass oven door disguised as a television.
Police said they pulled the man over because of an anonymous call from someone who said a man tried to sell him a TV for $100 out of his car in a Wal-Mart parking lot and gave police a description of the 1980 Oldsmobile Cutlass.
The man, Anthony Myles, 52, was arrested on a charge of driving on a suspended license. Police said no other charges were filed because, selling oven doors to idiots at a hundred bucks a pop isn’t illegal.


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 17…

Weird Contest Week

17 Aug…

229 days so far this year…136 days remain in 2009
National Thrift Shop Day
*Gabon: Independence Day—from France—1960
*Indonesia: Independence Day—from Japan & Netherlands—1945
*India : Janmashtami-- the birth of Lord Krishna, an avatar of Hindu deity Vishnu.
**Rastafari Movement—birth of Prophet Marcus Garvey



BIRTHS ON THIS DAY…

1786….. Davy Crockett US, frontiersman/adventurer/politician

1840….. Wilfrid Scawen Blunt England, writer (Irish Land League)
1892….. Mae West Brooklyn, actress

1917….. Isabel Sanford Emmy Award-winning actress: The Jeffersons
1921….. Maureen O'Hara Dublin Ireland, actress
1929….. Francis Gary Powers US spy
1943….. Robert De Niro NYC, actor
1960….. Sean Penn, actor


Events on this day…

1787….. Jews are granted permission in Budapest Hungary to pray in groups
1790….. The federal capital of the United States moves from New York City to Philadelphia

1807….. Robert Fulton's steamboat Clermont begins 1st trip up Hudson River
1815….. Napoleon arrived at Saint Helena for the beginning of his exile.
1870….. 1st ascent of Mt Rainier, Washington

1903….. The first Pulitzer Prize was awarded
1948….. Alger Hiss denies ever being a Communist agent
1961….. Building of the Berlin Wall begins
1962….. The Beatles consisting of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison replace the groups drummer "Pete Best" with Ringo Starr.
1969….. Hurricane Camille batters Louisiana and Mississippi, killing over 250 people.
1987….. In Ireland, Dublin city was celebrating its diamond jubilee.


Movie Trivia from Filmsite.org

Name the movies that had these famous lines…Extra credit for the Actor and the Character’s name and the year of the movie.

1. "I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am, let's face it."
2. "We all go a little mad sometimes."
3. "Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me."
4. "Hey, don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone I love."
5. "She's my daughter! She's my sister! She's my daughter! My sister, my daughter. She's my sister and my daughter."
6. "Open the pod bay doors, HAL."
7. "Take your stinking paws off me, you damn dirty ape."
8. "Because when you're a call girl, you control it, that's why. Because someone wants you...and for an hour...I'm the best actress in the world."
9. "And I say, 'Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know.' And he says, 'Oh, uh, there won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness.' So I got that goin' for me, which is nice."
10. "Hitler was better-looking than Churchill, he was a better dresser than Churchill, he had more hair, he told funnier jokes, and he could dance the pants off of Churchill!"
*Bonus: "No, I'm all man. I even fought in WWII. Of course, I was wearing women's undergarments under my uniform."
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Answers:
1. TERRY MALLOY (Marlon Brando) in On the Waterfront (1954)
2. NORMAN BATES (Anthony Perkins) in Psycho (1960)
3. BEN BRADDOCK (Dustin Hoffman) in The Graduate (1967)
4. ALVY SINGER (Woody Allen) in Annie Hall (1977)
5. EVELYN CROSS MULWRAY (Faye Dunaway) in Chinatown (1974)
6. DAVE BOWMAN (Keir Dullea) in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
7. TAYLOR (Charlton Heston) in Planet of the Apes (1968)
8. BREE DANIEL (Jane Fonda) in Klute (1971)
9. CARL SPACKLER (Bill Murray) in Caddyshack (1980)
10. FRANZ LIEBKIND (Kenneth Mars) in The Producers (1968)
• Bonus: ED WOOD (Johnny Depp) in Ed Wood (1994)

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