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| Finn in his Football Jersey Ready for the Season |
2. Why is going to the ice cream store for a hot fudge sundae after dinner such a treat? It almost seems sinful.
3. Chris and I were sitting around last evening and the subject of our old animal friends came up. I teared up thinking about our old companions: Hans, Meghan, and Zach.
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| Crepe Myrtle on a Summer Day August 19, 2018 |
5. Finn tried on his football jersey the other day, just to be ready for the NFL season kickoff.
6. House project abound. Yesterday's project: stain the ceiling of the porch!
7. I finally and successfully acquired the correct blade for my chainsaw. That was a lot harder than it had to be.
8. The crepe myrtles are in bloom. Radio Flyer was up yesterday getting a different view of the magnificent crepe myrtle next to my pool.
9. Radio Flyer was busy during its flights yesterday finding things around the neighborhood.
10. The Orioles had a particularly bad week. They are 2-8 for their last 10 game posting a 37-87, .298 record 50.5 games out of first place and looking at losing 114 games this season. The highlight was a complete game, 100 pitch win by Alex Cobb on Saturday.
11. Today in History. On this day in 1911, a dispatcher in the New York Times office sends the first telegram around the world via commercial service. Exactly 66 years later, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) sends a different kind of message–a phonograph record containing information about Earth for extraterrestrial beings–shooting into space aboard the unmanned spacecraft Voyager II.
Headlines
Greece’s Bailout Is Ending. The Pain Is Far From Over. - The New York Times
‘Please come help’Eastern Shore crab houses are suffering this summer because they didn’t get the visas needed to hire enough pickers from Mexico. - The Washington Post
‘‘Wasted our lives’: Catholic sex abuse scandals again prompt a crisis of faith - The Washington Post
Trump rewrites history as Russia probe pressure mounts - CNN
Ronald Reagan Quote for the Week
To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will.
-- Bob Doan, Elkridge, MD
Ronald Reagan Quote for the Week
To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will.
-- Bob Doan, Elkridge, MD
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