61\u00a0 bar steady 30.14\u00a0 0mph N dew-point 57\u00a0 sunrise 6:16\u00a0 sunset 8:19<\/p>\n
Full Corn Moon\u00a0 moonrise 2014 \u00a0\u00a0 moonset\u00a0 0554<\/p>\n
Whoa.\u00a0 Did you see the 7th gold medal race for Phelps?\u00a0 His long, long arms came out of an arcing stroke, reached for the touch pad and, by .01 of a second, arrived ahead of the silver medalist.\u00a0 To the naked eye it looked like Phelps did not make it.\u00a0 A later interview with Mark Spitz, also winner of 7 gold medals, showed Phelps a humble and more realistic viewer of his own accomplishments than others.\u00a0 Others wanted to make him the greatest Olympian; he said he was happy to be among the ones considered great, like Jesse Owens.\u00a0 All this and modesty, too?\u00a0 A great American to represent us in a country which understands the value of modesty.<\/p>\n
With the Woollies here on Monday Kate and I have begun to get into preparation mode.\u00a0 We don’t entertain often, hardly at all, but fortunately she’s an experienced suburbanite.\u00a0 She can throw a party.\u00a0 Best of all, she’s doing it on her birthday.\u00a0 I’m lucky and the Woolly palate will be lucky.<\/p>\n
The garden will get a spruce up.\u00a0 I’ll dead-head all the day lilies and pull the obvious weeds if there are any.\u00a0 The weeds growing up between the patio bricks will come out, too.\u00a0 They could have come out a while ago, but we’ve had other matters.\u00a0 The fire-pit can hold a fire, though its not pretty, nor finished, but the pit itself exists.\u00a0 A bit of shuffling papers upstairs,\u00a0 some art to the living room, turning furniture in a group friendly circle and we’ll be ready.\u00a0 I’m looking forward to having the guys over and discussing what it means to be an America.<\/p>\n
Kobe Bryant tonight on TV said he was proud to have USA on his team jersey. We’re the best, he said.\u00a0 Not sure what that means, but that’s the question for Monday.<\/p>\n
Apropos of none of the above is a story from the last Sierra Club political committee meeting.\u00a0 We decided the three Minnesota house races we would target and a male committee member looked at the list after we’d congratulated ourselves on sorting out a complicated task, “Yeah, except we picked all the guys.”\u00a0 There had been six races, three with men and three with women.<\/p>\n
As his comment settled on the group, Katarina, the Sierra Club intern from Lentz, Germany looked up, smiled, and said, “That’s all right.\u00a0 Men always need help anyway.”\u00a0 Ooofff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
61\u00a0 bar steady 30.14\u00a0 0mph N dew-point 57\u00a0 sunrise 6:16\u00a0 sunset 8:19 Full Corn Moon\u00a0 moonrise 2014 \u00a0\u00a0 moonset\u00a0 0554 Whoa.\u00a0 Did you see the 7th gold medal race for Phelps?\u00a0 His long, long arms came out of an arcing stroke, reached for the touch pad and, by .01 of a second, arrived ahead of … Continue reading Men Always Need Help<\/span>