That's what Beulah, the cook in our college dorm used to sing to us on Fridays during lunch!

TGIF...hope everyone has a good day!

Hope you have an extra special day today, buddy!

This one is funny. The diver must be Finnish!



Some nice fish pix from the reef cam earlier. Picasso, a coney, a couple parrots, a tang and Satchmo is happy to see us. LOL

It's Bikini Day

In 1946, Paris designer Louis Reard was ready to introduce a skimpy, two-piece swimsuit that didn't have a name. At the same time, the US began peacetime nuclear bomb testing on a chain of islands in the Pacific Ocean known as the Bikini Atoll. Wanting media attention for his new design, Reard decided to use the same name. Four days after the first bomb was dropped, the first model walked down the runway wearing a bikini.

TODAY'S TRIVIA:

1536 - English king Henry VIII marries Jane Seymour

1821 - James Boyd patents Rubber Fire Hose

1889 - Brassier invented

1901 - Memorial Day 1st observed in US

1922 - Lincoln Memorial dedicated

TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS:

1846 - Peter Carl Faberge, goldsmith/jeweler/egg maker

1909 - Benny Goodman, clarinetist/bandleader (King of Swing)

1945 - Meredith MacRae, actress (Petticoat Junction)

morning rusty! nice picasso shot!

happy birthday sally!

Thank you, thank you! Golly, I'm speechless!

Hope you all are having a nice day!

Whew - you head out back for a few minutes and HOURS later you realize that you're tired from raking, pulling weeds and moving plants around. The old "bloom where you're planted" doesn't work for some perennials. I moved some bugle and a couple rosebushes that just didn't thrive where they were. The roses are into their third or fourth spot. Every Spring I move them again. When I find the right spot for them they'll be too old to bloom! LOL

Or I'll be too old to care.

The weather is funny - rain every day and some sun between. Good time to plant out veggies and move plants - they shouldn't get much shock with the moist soil and mild heat. Potted a dozen cherry toms on the patio and four bell peppers and six leaf lettuce. The rest of the veggies go out to Farmer Bob's garden next to the house. Petunias looked nice this year so I potted up some burgundy and pink and hung them under the grape arbor.

We have a dozen baby starlings here - stumbling around the yard and bathing in the little stream and trying to hang onto the suet. Fledgling day. I think the goldfinches, cardinals and downy woodpeckers are bringing their young, too. The yard is alive with the sound of babies screeching, "Feed ME!!" The parent birds look like they need a vacation!

the eagle is getting big! i caught a glimpse of him earlier and his head is all black...

Hello, everyone! Here I am in jolly Anchorage, about a 90 minute flight north of Juneau. Just up here for the day to send one of our own into retirement. He's headed for Florida.

4th Avenue, Anchorage:

hey dan, glad to see the cabby is gone! looks like a nice day in alaska

Oh, Cynde, that waw a picture of Anchorage, not Juneau. The cabby in Juneau is still there, but I've got the scoop on the camera. Seems its been the same picture for about 5 months because the server kept breaking down. She is in the process of installing a new one she says should be up and running next week. She says its a live feed.