Good Morning!
On this day in 1608 the city of Quebec was founded by Samuel de Champlain.
In 1775 U.S. Gen. George Washington took command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, MA.
In 1890 Idaho became the 43rd state to join the United States of America.
In 1930 the U.S. Congress created the U.S. Veterans Administration.
And in 1954 food rationing ended in Great Britain almost nine years after the end of World War II.
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Quote of the Day
“If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, it’s full potential, that word would be “meetings.”
Dave Barry
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Today is George M. Cohan’s birthday. So here’s a medley. You’ll recognize his work, and it seems fitting.
And it’s also Philippe Gaubert’s. From El Jardín de Belagua
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Wandering Views 
Good morning, sleepy heads.
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Morning Linda. you are right, I am sleepy, time for some sleep
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Morning ladies. 🙂
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looks like a nice spot to fish there
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And a good morning to you too!
I have a pretty busy day.
We never did hear back from Kim.
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Good morning! Evidently, I slept walked last night (which is not unusual for me; I’ve done it since I was a child). I locked the dog out and Becca heard him barking at 3:00. She let him in, with help from Daddy.
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Good morning. I slept very well last night. No surprise there. Grandpa and I are on babysitting duty today. Cheerios are eaten and soon we will walk down to the bay. The goal is to wear him out for the one o’clock nap. Yesterday the cutest baby boy and I rocked He was irritable and I was tired. Rocking made us both feel better. The parents complained that it would take a month to get him unspoiled. Why is it that parents can’t understand that rocking babies is special because babies don’t last?
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I’m in a discussion on the Atlantic on the Supreme Court decision in favor of Hobby Lobby (which was decided by a ridiculously small margin, as it really is a no-brainer case), and people really are showing a scary lack of ability to do any sort of moral reasoning: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/07/the-case-against-hobby-lobby-by-the-man-who-argued-citizens-united/373883/#comment-1466215189 (This link will take you to the bottom of a thread of comments–I have several comments above this one–and not to the top of the article. Sorry.)
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I like the quote. Can you imagine if Thomas Edison or Alexander Graham Bell had to have a committee meet for every one of their inventions?
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I like the quote, too, but found the timing funny since I think it is this weekend that there will be a “meeting” of some of the Wandering Views friends. 🙂
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Amen, Kim. Our youngest grandchild will be three fairly soon. I miss having a baby to just sit and rock. Of course, I don’t miss many other things about that stage. Babies and children have no problem distinguishing among grandparents, parents etc. and what each will do for them or allow them to do.
What I find is that many parents today want to take the role of grandparent and have the grandparent act like the parent.
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That’s not a meeting. Those are useless.
This is more of a family cookout/gathering, since we’re all brothers and sisters. 🙂
The food sounds better too. 🙂
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Warm day here in Atlanta, but soon a cool front is suppose to make its way here. That will be nice.
I am thoroughly enjoying taking care of my friend’s two cats. They are sweet and don’t seem to have any wildness in them. One does like to roll around on the floor, and they have some tissue gift wrap paper they like to play in sometimes.Bosley is a skinny slinky cat. These other two are overweight roly-poly types.
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The turkey drumsticks in the crock pot turned out delicious. I looked at this link, recipe and reviews, and revised the recipe to what I had available. I cooked three legs in about 4 hours (on HIGH). I used extra light (for baking) olive oil, Vidalia onions and Nature’s Seasons. Super easy. Six legs probably need longer cooking time.
http://www.food.com/recipe/easy-crock-pot-turkey-legs-270285
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Busy day around here. Tomorrow is our annual Fourth of July picnic. We invite anybody and everybody and have no idea how many to expect. We have lots of hamburgers and hotdogs and beans, anything else is what the folk bring. And water. We have lots of water.
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We have been to the bay, played in the backyard, had lunch and now he is down for a nap. Of corse he was rocked to sleep. Grandpa is taking a nap too.
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Anyone have any quick insider tips on accommodations anywhere around Oshkosh, WI, July 31 – August 3? My son & I plan to go to the big Airventure air show there, but didn’t find out about it until a few days ago. Available rooms are going fast, and what remains is already either distant from the show AND expensive, or close to the show and VERY expensive!
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I worked at the Defense Mapping Agency. Some called it the Defense Meeting Agency. There were meetings for everything. And, “He’s in a meeting” was a good excuse when you didn’t want to talk to someone at the moment.
The reason for the meetings was to avoid the dreaded “Why wasn’t I informed?” question. The purpose of some people is to be “gone through”. e.g. “Be sure to go through Dick D. on that.” Our agency wasn’t unusual in that respect. You know it goes on everywhere.
Except for Obama. Nobody tells him anything. And they get away with it. “I didn’t kow about that until I saw it on the news. Just like you.”
The only thing worse than not informing someone is to have a meeting and forget to invite him/her.
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Kevin, I went to the Air Show in Oshkosh, but it was over 40 years ago. It is an awesome experience for anyone who enjoys airplanes and/or flying.
My dad bought a small airplane with most of the parts in bushel baskets. He put it all back together. I remember he had to iron the material that comprised the outside of the plane. He ended up with a couple of other planes (not at the same time) before he had to give up flying entirely. He had friends who also built their own planes. One crashed his on the maiden flight, but ended up being ok. Lots of good memories brought back by your question.
Having said all that, I have no good answer for you about where to stay. We stayed in a tent. Of course, I am sure many things have changed since then.
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Phos: I went to the doctor about the leg like you told me.
He examined me and said it wasn’t a circulation problem. But he doesn’t know what. I’m not surprised about that. But he sent me over to have some x-rays.
He told me to take Advil. I bought some. I hope it helps.
But I don’t want to take Advil forever.
But I also hope I sleep better tonight than the previous two.
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From World Website. Via e-mail. I can’t link to it because it takes us to my inbox.
Louis Zamperini gains his final freedom:
Azmperini has died.
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Chas, my husband has just been having something like you described and he had a bit of a headache with it. It seems to begoing away now. And my brother had lots of joint pains with his cold. So it might be some weird virus. Have you heard about the new misquito borne viirus in the Caribbean that causes joint pains? Maybe it is already in the SE. I hope the Advil helps. Don’t stress yourself by trying to do too much until you see if it goes away.
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The link from Chas:
http://www.worldmag.com/2014/07/louis_zamperini_gains_his_final_freedom
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Some years ago I had a really bad pain in my shoulder that would not go away. It turned out it was a virus that had settled there. 😦 Weird.
Fight the good fight Cheryl. I agree, very little logic — and a lot of frightening hostility — is being shown on this issues. 😦
For those who hadn’t heard, Louis Zamperini has died, I’ve been working all day on that. He made it to 97 but not long enough to see “his” movie (coming out on Christmas Day) or to serve as Grand Marshal in the Pasadena Rose Parade a week later. 😦
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Oh, I guess you have heard, just saw the earlier posts.
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Our version: http://www.dailybreeze.com/general-news/20140703/louis-zamperini-war-hero-olympic-distance-runner-2015-rose-parade-grand-marshal-has-died
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A nice tribute to Zamperini on FoxNews this evening. The had a clip of Billy Graham preaching the gospel and Zamperini tells about his conversion.
I’m taking Advil for the leg. And waiting for the results of the x-ray.
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http://www.cdc.gov/chikungunya/
The virus link.
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We live not too far from CDC and work not too far from the Atlanta airport. If people bring disease into our country then it could surface in this area first.
Speaking of illness, Bosley threw up a little while ago. 😦
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Ewww.
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cheryl, good job on the Atlantic thread.
Just talked to Louie’s son who said the family’s devastated. 😦
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I just looked up that disease this week as someone suggested that I might have it. Don’t think so.
Made it back to the market finally. Nice to have fresh vegetables in the house again.
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Great obit, Donna. An amazing man! I bought the book some time ago after reading recommendations on here, but haven’t read it yet. It may be up next, now.
Donna, are you the one who gave me votes on the first several of my comments? (I have one vote, no more, on the first several comments I made.) If so, thank you. 🙂
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I like the idea of listening to the audiobook on a road trip. Husband and I have decided that’s what we will do.
Our cat has not been around since Tuesday 😦 we hope he’s just out having an adventure, but with all the wildlife around we suspect otherwise. He was/is such a great cat.
I also dropped off my resume at the camp this morning…
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Um (embarrassed), no it wasn’t me Cheryl — but now I’ll go back and add my vote! 🙂
Kare, so sorry about your kitty. … We used to have a Tom cat who would vanish for days on end, but that was in suburbia and he’d eventually come home (battered but alive).
This is for you American car fans, in honor of the 4th:
http://money.cnn.com/video/pf/2014/07/03/cars-that-scream-america.cnnmoney/index.html?hpt=hp_t4
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Unbroken is hard to put down. Amazing story and so well told by Hillenbrand. I still need to get back to read her “Seabiscuit.”
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Oh, I’ve read Seabiscuit. It was several years ago, but I really liked it.
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I just finished Unbroken two nights ago. What an amazing life! Donna, you did a nice job on your article.
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Cheryl, I just read your debate on the Atlantic article. It was frustrating to see your clear argument met with such convoluted reasoning(?).
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