Canada Day! 🇨🇦
🇨🇦 Tempting. 🇨🇦 Very tempting. 🇨🇦
Canada Day, observed on July 1st, is a national holiday marking the anniversary of Confederation in 1867, when the British North America Act came into effect. It was originally known as Dominion Day until it was renamed in 1982.
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/canada-day/
We left for Maine at 1:00pm to drive the grands home, and got back to our house in Vermont at 12:30am.
ReplyDeleteYet the more amazing thing about the day is that we bought our first ever air conditioner...! 💨😎👍
It got to 91.7F here today. At 3:00am it's still 80F outside with 69% humidity.
DeleteI know that I would not be able to sleep tonight without an air conditioner.
Presently, it remains to be seen if I can sleep with one running.
I think you well be able to manage it, listener. Even with air conditioning, an electric fan can be a nice addition.
DeleteA swamp cooler would be worthless under such conditions. They work OK around here because of the low humidity. I remember a story of a couple from here who moved to Florida, bought a house without air conditioning, and installed a swamp cooler. When they turned it on, rain came out of the vent!
--Alan
P.S.: I think tomato flowers won't set if the nighttime temperature doesn't fall below 80 deg. F.
I was behind the times on posting last night that Tuesday was forecast to be 100 degs. Today's forecast high is 100. At quarter till nine this morning, it was already 79. Currently, according to my computer's weather ap, it's 92 but feels like 103. I'm comfortable in my air conditioned attic, and the first floor is also air conditioned. The second floor, though, where Mom is (still bedridden), has no AC. Worried about her today and for the coming several days.
ReplyDeleteChecking the forecast: They're now projecting today's high to be 98. Monday through Thursday in the 90s, with Friday 89. Starting July with a bang. *sigh*
Does your mom have an electric fan and cross-ventilation, at least?
DeleteAlan
Predicted for today: 94F.
DeleteActual high for the day: 98.9F!
Cat, I'm concerned for your Mom, too.
Can she be moved at all? If not, can one of the A/C units be moved?
This is very dangerous weather.
If Mom could be moved in theory, but none of you at the house can physically move her, consider calling and talking with your fire department. My dad used to fall out of bed and call the fire department guys nearby (also Massachusetts), and they'd come over and tuck him back in!!
DeleteShould have added that our humidity is down to 49% at this hour.
DeleteMissed it yesterday, but apparently Congress has approved Trump's military parade. Now the SOB thinks he's Joseph Stalin, or something.
ReplyDeleteSounds like a very good opportunity for spontaneous peaceful protest of both Trump and militarism. Large-scale organizing would surely be detected by government spies, however. The police will presumably have extensive crowd-control barriers in place.
DeleteAlan
In local news possibly of national import:
ReplyDeleteThere has been some national notice of a poll showing Janz 8 points behind Nunes; but the details[Click] make it sound like a piece of propaganda disguised as a poll—which IMO makes the results suspicious.
Perhaps more relevant is the fundraising news.[Click] Interesting that the average donation is about what it was for Bernie.
The big question in my mind is whether CA-22 (where I live and vote) is one of the seventy GOP-incumbent races Nancy Pelosi said the national party will contest. In this part of California (which the Dems gerrymandered to favor GOP candidates), national party support for a local Democratic primary winner would be not just a novelty, but frankly unheard of in recent times. I have lived and voted here for forty years and have yet to see it.
—Alan
GOP’s long slide into irrelevance in California[Click] They say the future happens first in California; we can hope.
ReplyDelete—Alan
The Inconvenient Legal Troubles That Lie Ahead for the Trump Foundation [Click] DON'T SETTLE, TRUMPY!!! SETTLING IS FOR LOSERS!!!
ReplyDelete--Alan
LOL
DeleteWonder if he'll still feel that way when he loses every civil law suit and criminal case brought against him and is enjoying an all-expenses-paid extended vacation in Leavenworth.
Oh my goodness but sometimes simple things become complicated and frustrating! All I did was ask Google what year the song "The Things I Tell My Pillow" was written. I know who wrote it, Sonny James and Jim Jones. I know one artist who recorded it and the title and year of the recording, Marie Osmond on her 1975 album "Who's Sorry Now." All I wanted to know was when the wretched song was written and/or published! I must have spent an hour chasing down links and racking my brain for ways of rephrasing the question. Nothing!
ReplyDeleteAnd, the thing is, such a question is perfectly normal. I frequently ask Google what year a song was published or an album released...and it's usually no sweat. Not this time though. I'm beginning to wonder if Sonny and his collaborator wrote it for Marie, specifically for this album. Needless to say, hers is the only recording I've ever heard of it, so I don't know. What militates against this view is that as best I can tell, all the other songs on the album are Pop or Country standards. There are even a couple others by Sonny James. So, it seems unlikely that there would be just one that had been specially written for her. I'm *very* frustrated!
Going to throw in the towel, go get some ice cream, and settle down with my book. Currently making my way through Asimov's Guide to Science. Published in 1972, it's a trifle dated, but still wonderful as only a nonfiction book by Asimov can be. He had a remarkable gift for explaining complicated things, and turning that explanation into a marvelous adventure story.
I tried DuckDuckGo instead of Google, same result--no dice.
DeleteAlan
Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series
ReplyDeletehttps://books.google.com/books?id=AD0hAQAAIAAJ
1960 - Copyright
THE THINGS I TELL MY PILLOW; w Fred Tobias, ra Leon Carr. O Arch Musis Co., Inc.; 7Aug59;