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Summer time, and the living is easy....

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 Today is the 5th day of the 24th week, the 13th day of the 6th month, the 165th day of 2024 [ with only 194 shopping days until Christmas ], and: Golf Cart Day - created last year to celebrate E-Z-Go 's 70th Anniversary  International Albinism Awareness Day International Axe Throwing Day LBGQIA+ Equal Pay Awareness Day National Career Nursing Assistants' Day National Cupcake Lover's Day National Doe B Day National Kitchen Klutzes of American Day Outdoor Marketing Day Random Acts of Light Day Roller Coaster Day Sewing Machine Day -  the day that Thomas Saint of England took out the first patent back in 1790 for the first complete sewing machine  Weed Your Garden Day Quote of the day: No more pencils No more books No more teacher's dirty looks! ~ a childhood ditty we used to sing.  According to Wikipedia, this particular " traditional rhyme " can be found back as early as 1932, in the Michigan Education Journal which called it " the old glad song that we h...

this and that, TGIF version

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 Today is the 6th day of the 23rd week, the 7th day of the 6th month, the 159th day of 2024 [with only 200 shopping days until Christmas], and: Anniversary of the Memorandum of the Slovak Nation  Daniel Boone Day Horseradish Day Hug an Atheist Day June Bug Day National CAPHPACH Day National Chocolate Ice Cream Day National Donut Day National Fish & Chip Day National Gun Violence Awareness Day National Oklahoma Day Tourette Syndrome Awareness Day Trial Technology Day Union Dissolution Day - independence day for Norway VCR Day World Caring Day World Food Safety Day Voyager I is 46 Yrs 09 Mos 02 Days and 15,143,576,890 mi/24,371,232,155 km/162.91162462 AU from the Earth Quote of the day : " Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling? " ~  MC Escher It was a very restless night, not because of the storms, but because of my troubled dreams.  They weren't nightmares, not really, just the kind of dream that wakes you up and makes you glad to get up and mak...

80 years ago....

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