Bertie Higgins: "Bogie and Bacall"

Pittsburgh Post - Gazette: For Players, Game Seven "The Chance of a :Lifetime"

It may not replace words such as abracadabra, presto or hocus-pocus, but mention Game 7 for the Stanley Cup and something magical happens. Tough, bruising hockey players are transformed into little boys.

The Pens' Max Talbot, who grew up in LeMoyne, Quebec, dreamed about just such a moment when he and his pals got together for pickup games.

Read more:

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09162/976585-61.stm#ixzz0I7lwhxPa&C

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Would Be Nice, But I Still Need a Lot More Convincing...

Still Online, at Least for the Time Being...

We have made it to the morning of Tuesday 9 June and the internet connection is still up and running, but for how much longer is unknown.

Generally this writer is trying to provide a list of critical, interesting, and sometimes light hearted links on a daily basis in a regular column on the http://mountaintimezoneperspective.blogspot.com blog weekdays. In the coming several days to week and beyond, if two to three days go by without any columns with these links information, or another column, one can assume the internet connection is no longer available and maybe for an extended period of time due my personal financial circumstances becoming even more grievous. This particular blog one is reading from now is not usually updated daily, but posts should occur at least two to three times or more at a minimum weekly.

One caveat, however: if this writer does miraculously manage to acquire employment in the coming days to weeks, the workday may be of enough a length and result in fatigue which will prevent postings from occurring regularly. If this does become the case, this writer will place a note on this blog informing its readers of just such that case.

On this blog, I will make another update at the end of the day on TUE 9 June or early in the morning on WED 10 June. If no update appears, one can assume the hangman's noose for my internet connection has brought me down from the gallows.

For those in the know, the job interview on Monday left me with the impression I was not going to be hired for employment at that business. I may be incorrect, but one never knows...

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Nations I Would Like to Live In if The US Was To Go Bad

These are the 25 nations I would like to live in if the US was continue tanking and was to fail in an almost unimaginable way...

-1) Canada

-2) New Zealand

-3) Australia

-4) Dutch Antillies

-5) Bermuda and Bahamas

-6) Costa Rica

-7) Chile

-8) Argentina

-9) Britain

10) Iceland

11) Italy

12) Spain

13) Cayman Islands

14) Belize

15) Hong Kong

16) Norway

17) Switzerland

18) British West Indies

19) Uruguay

20) Ireland

21) Denmark

22) Sweden

23) Morocco

24) France

25) Japan

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Famous Old People Still Alive

Entertainers in RED; Sports in BLUE
Govt, Politics, Business, Religion in GREEN
Journalism in Purple; Writers/Cartoonists in Orange

Name Age Date of Birth Field
Ruby Muhammad 103 03/20/1906 Religion

Oscar Niemeyer 101 12/15/1907 Architecture

Claude Lévi-Strauss 100 11/28/1908 Science
George Beverly Shea 100 02/01/1909 Music
Miep Gies 100 02/15/1909 Other
Dolores Hope 100 05/27/1909 Music

Luise Rainer 99 01/12/1910 Entertainment

Gloria Stuart 98 07/04/1910 Entertainment
Ronald Neame 98 04/23/1911 Entertainment

John Wooden 97 10/14/1910 Sports
Mitch Miller 97 07/04/1911 Music
Karl Malden 97 03/22/1912 Entertainment

Art Linkletter 96 07/17/1912 Entertainment

Risë Stevens 95 06/11/1913 Music
Frances Reid 95 12/09/1913 Entertainment
Tony Martin 95 12/25/1913 Music
Lou Jacobi 95 12/28/1913 Entertainment
Kevin McCarthy 95 02/15/1914 Entertainment
Norman Borlaug 95 03/25/1914 Science
Budd Schulberg 95 03/27/1914 Literature,Entertain...

Irwin Corey 94 07/29/1914 Entertainment
Jack LaLanne 94 09/26/1914 Other
Martin Gardner 94 10/21/1914 Mathematics
Norman Lloyd 94 11/08/1914 Entertainment
Norman Wisdom 94 02/04/1915 Entertainment
Harry Morgan 94 04/10/1915 Entertainment
Paul Samuelson 94 05/15/1915 Economics
Herman Wouk 94 05/27/1915 Literature

Les Paul 93 06/09/1915 Music
David Rockefeller 93 06/12/1915 Business
Meinhardt Raabe 93 09/02/1915 Entertainment
Frank Cady 93 09/08/1915 Entertainment
Sargent Shriver 93 11/09/1915 Politics
Eli Wallach 93 12/07/1915 Entertainment
Barbara Billingsley 93 12/22/1915 Entertainment
Bruce Gordon 93 02/01/1916 Entertainment
Lucille Bliss 93 03/31/1916 Entertainment
Beverly Cleary 93 04/12/1916 Literature

Yitzhak Shamir 92 10/15/1915 Politics
Robert McNamara 92 06/09/1916 Politics
Olivia de Havilland 92 07/01/1916 Entertainment
Malcolm Toon 92 07/04/1916 Politics
Daniel Schorr 92 08/31/1916 Journalism
Mary Stewart 92 09/12/1916 Literature
Walter Cronkite 92 11/04/1916 Journalism
June Havoc 92 11/08/1916 Entertainment
Sherwood Schwartz 92 11/14/1916 Entertainment
Kirk Douglas 92 12/09/1916 Entertainment
Ernest Borgnine 92 01/24/1917 Entertainment
Zsa Zsa Gabor 92 02/06/1917 Entertainment
Vera Lynn 92 03/20/1917 Music
R.G. Armstrong 92 04/07/1917 Entertainment
Marvin Miller 92 04/14/1917 Labor Union
I. M. Pei 92 04/26/1917 Architecture
Celeste Holm 92 04/29/1917 Theater,Entertainment
George Gaynes 92 05/16/1917 Entertainment
Theodore Hesburgh 92 05/25/1917 Religion,Education
Kirk Kerkorian 92 06/06/1917 Business

C. Everett Koop 91 10/14/1916 Medicine,Politics
Lena Horne 91 06/30/1917 Music
Phyllis Diller 91 07/17/1917 Entertainment
Herbert Lom 91 09/11/1917 Entertainment
June Foray 91 09/18/1917 Entertainment
Joan Fontaine 91 10/22/1917 Entertainment
Lee McPhail 91 10/25/1917 Sports
Robert Byrd 91 11/20/1917 Politics
John Hart 91 12/13/1917 Entertainment
Oral Roberts 91 01/24/1918 Religion
Ernie Harwell 91 01/25/1918 Sports
John Forsythe 91 01/29/1918 Entertainment
Janet Waldo 91 02/04/1918 Entertainment
Allan Arbus 91 02/15/1918 Entertainment
Patty Andrews 91 02/16/1918 Music
Don Pardo 91 02/22/1918 Entertainment
Marian McPartland 91 03/20/1918 Music
Bobby Doerr 91 04/07/1918 Sports
Betty Ford 91 04/08/1918 Politics
Mike Wallace 91 05/09/1918 Journalism
Joseph Wiseman 91 05/15/1918 Entertainment,Theater
Yasuhiro Nakasone 91 05/27/1918 Politics

Abigail Van Buren 90 07/04/1918 Other
Nelson Mandela 90 07/18/1918 Politics
Marjorie Lord 90 07/26/1918 Entertainment
Helen Wagner 90 09/03/1918 Entertainment
Baby Peggy 90 10/26/1918 Entertainment
Bob Feller 90 11/03/1918 Sports
Billy Graham 90 11/07/1918 Religion
Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. 90 11/30/1918 Entertainment
Helmut Schmidt 90 12/23/1918 Politics
Ahmed Ben Bella 90 12/25/1918 Politics
J.D. Salinger 90 01/01/1919 Literature
Giulio Andreotti 90 01/14/1919 Politics
Andy Rooney 90 01/14/1919 Journalism
Edwin Newman 90 01/25/1919 Journalism
Monte Irvin 90 02/25/1919 Sports
Jennifer Jones 90 03/02/1919 Entertainment
Lawrence Ferlinghetti 90 03/24/1919 Literature
Pete Seeger 90 05/03/1919 Music,Social Activism
Betty Garrett 90 05/23/1919 Entertainment

Richard Todd 89 06/11/1919 Entertainment
Gene Barry 89 06/14/1919 Entertainment
Louis Jourdan 89 06/19/1919 Entertainment
Al Molinaro 89 06/24/1919 Entertainment
Dino De Laurentiis 89 08/08/1919 Entertainment
Ralph Houk 89 08/09/1919 Sports
George Shearing 89 08/13/1919 Music
Kitty Wells 89 08/30/1919 Music
Doris Singleton 89 09/28/1919 Entertainment
Doris Lessing 89 10/22/1919 Literature
Mikhail Kalashnikov 89 11/10/1919 Inventing
Joseph Wapner 89 11/15/1919 Entertainment,Law
Anatoly Dobrynin 89 11/16/1919 Politics
Alan Young 89 11/19/1919 Entertainment
Frederik Pohl 89 11/26/1919 Literature
Sun Myung Moon 89 01/06/1920 Religion
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar 89 01/19/1920 Politics
Henry Heimlich 89 02/03/1920 Medicine
James Mitchell 89 02/29/1920 Entertainment
Eric Rohmer 89 04/04/1920 Entertainment
Ravi Shankar 89 04/07/1920 Music
Richard von Weizsäcker 89 04/15/1920 Politics
John Paul Stevens 89 04/20/1920 Law
Richard Adams 89 05/09/1920 Literature
Sid Melton 89 05/23/1920 Entertainment

Ray Harryhausen 88 06/29/1920 Entertainment
Juan Antonio Samaranch 88 07/17/1920 Sports
Sammy Lee 88 08/01/1920 Sports
P.D. James 88 08/03/1920 Literature
Helen Thomas 88 08/04/1920 Journalism
Maureen O'Hara 88 08/17/1920 Entertainment
Ray Bradbury 88 08/22/1920 Literature
Denton Cooley 88 08/22/1920 Medicine
Jim Leavelle 88 08/23/1920 Law Enforcement
G.D. Spradlin 88 08/31/1920 Entertainment
Mickey Rooney 88 09/23/1920 Entertainment
Jayne Meadows 88 09/27/1920 Entertainment
Nanette Fabray 88 10/27/1920 Entertainment
Dick Francis 88 10/31/1920 Literature
James J. Kilpatrick 88 11/01/1920 Journalism
Ann Rutherford 88 11/02/1920 Entertainment
Stan Musial 88 11/21/1920 Sports
Noel Neill 88 11/25/1920 Entertainment
Dave Brubeck 88 12/06/1920 Music
George Shultz 88 12/13/1920 Politics
Little Jimmy Dickens 88 12/19/1920 Music
Lou Harris 88 01/06/1921 Other
Howard Unruh 88 01/21/1921 Crime
Carol Channing 88 01/31/1921 Theater,Entertainment
Hugh Downs 88 02/14/1921 Journalism
Abe Vigoda 88 02/24/1921 Entertainment
Richard Wilbur 88 03/01/1921 Literature
Al Jaffee 88 03/13/1921 Cartooning/Comics
Neville Marriner 88 04/15/1921 Music
Barbara Hale 88 04/18/1921 Entertainment
Harry Carey, Jr. 88 05/16/1921 Entertainment
Hal David 88 05/25/1921 Music

Chris Economaki 87 10/15/1920 Sports
Leroy Neiman 87 06/08/1921 Art
Prince Philip 87 06/10/1921 Politics
Jane Russell 87 06/21/1921 Entertainment
Nancy Reagan 87 07/06/1921 Politics,Entertainment
Jake LaMotta 87 07/10/1921 Sports
Eunice Kennedy Shriver 87 07/10/1921 Other
John Glenn 87 07/18/1921 Exploration,Politics
Esther Williams 87 08/08/1921 Sports,Entertainment
Monty Hall 87 08/25/1921 Entertainment
Ben Bradlee 87 08/26/1921 Journalism
Angelo Dundee 87 08/30/1921 Sports
Art Clokey 87 10/21/1921 Entertainment
King Michael 87 10/25/1921 Politics
Phyllis Thaxter 87 11/20/1921 Entertainment
Deanna Durbin 87 12/04/1921 Entertainment
Ernest Hollings 87 01/01/1922 Politics
Army Archerd 87 01/13/1922 Entertainment
Luis Echeverría Álvarez 87 01/17/1922 Politics
Betty White 87 01/17/1922 Entertainment
Patrick Macnee 87 02/06/1922 Entertainment
Kathryn Grayson 87 02/09/1922 Entertainment
John Anderson 87 02/15/1922 Politics
Helen Gurley Brown 87 02/18/1922 Publishing,Literature
Steven Hill 87 02/24/1922 Entertainment
James Noble 87 03/05/1922 Entertainment
Carl Reiner 87 03/20/1922 Entertainment
Marty Allen 87 03/23/1922 Entertainment
Eileen Ford 87 03/25/1922 Fashion
Turhan Bey 87 03/30/1922 Entertainment
Gale Storm 87 04/05/1922 Entertainment
Michael Ansara 87 04/15/1922 Entertainment
Jack Klugman 87 04/27/1922 Entertainment
Bill Macy 87 05/18/1922 Entertainment
Kitty Kallen 87 05/25/1922 Music
Christopher Lee 87 05/27/1922 Entertainment

Eleanor Parker 86 06/26/1922 Entertainment
William Schallert 86 07/06/1922 Entertainment
Pierre Cardin 86 07/07/1922 Fashion
Leon Lederman 86 07/15/1922 Science
George McGovern 86 07/19/1922 Politics
Kay Starr 86 07/21/1922 Music
Mollie Sugden 86 07/21/1922 Entertainment
Blake Edwards 86 07/26/1922 Entertainmen
Norman Lear 86 07/27/1922 Entertainment
Henry Bloch 86 07/30/1922 Business
Paul Laxalt 86 08/02/1922 Politics
Melvin Laird 86 09/01/1922 Politics
Sid Caesar 86 09/08/1922 Entertainment
Lyndon LaRouche 86 09/08/1922 Politics
Jackie Cooper 86 09/15/1922 Entertainment
Janis Paige 86 09/16/1922 Entertainment,Theater
Carl Ballantine 86 09/27/1922 Entertainment
Lizabeth Scott 86 09/29/1922 Entertainment
Bil Keane 86 10/05/1922 Cartooning/Comics
Fyvush Finkel 86 10/09/1922 Entertainment
Ralph Kiner 86 10/27/1922 Sports
Norodom Sihanouk 86 10/31/1922 Politics
George Blake 86 11/11/1922 Espionage
Boutros Boutros-Ghali 86 11/14/1922 Politics
Joe Weider 86 11/29/1922 Sports,Publishing
Len Lesser 86 12/03/1922 Entertainment
Don Hewitt 86 12/14/1922 Journalism
Jim Wright 86 12/22/1922 Politics
Stan Lee 86 12/28/1922 Cartooning/Comics
Larry Storch 86 01/08/1923 Entertainment
Carroll Shelby 86 01/11/1923 Inventing
Lee Teng-hui 86 01/15/1923 Politics
Jean Stapleton 86 01/19/1923 Entertainment
Anne Jeffreys 86 01/26/1923 Entertainment
Red Schoendienst 86 02/02/1923 Sports
Liz Smith 86 02/02/1923 Entertainment
Conrad Bain 86 02/04/1923 Entertainment
Franco Zeffirelli 86 02/12/1923 Entertainment
Chuck Yeager 86 02/13/1923 Exploration,Military
Charles Durning 86 02/28/1923 Entertainment
Bob Michel 86 03/02/1923 Politics
Doc Watson 86 03/03/1923 Music
Ed McMahon 86 03/06/1923 Entertainment
Andy Granatelli 86 03/18/1923 Sports,Business
Bob Elliott 86 03/26/1923 Entertainment
Gloria Henry 86 04/02/1923 Entertainment
Jean Harris 86 04/27/1923 Crime
Ara Parseghian 86 05/21/1923 Sports
Roy Dotrice 86 05/26/1923 Entertainment
James Arness 86 05/26/1923 Entertainment
Henry Kissinger 86 05/27/1923 Politics

Jack Carter 85 06/24/1923 Entertainment
Wojciech Jaruzelski 85 07/06/1923 Military,Politics
Earl Hamner, Jr. 85 07/10/1923 Entertainment
Norma Zimmer 85 07/13/1923 Entertainment
Dale Robertson 85 07/14/1923 Entertainment
Bob Dole 85 07/22/1923 Politics
Jan Berenstain 85 07/26/1923 Literature
Stephanie Kwolek 85 07/31/1923 Inventing
Rhonda Fleming 85 08/10/1923 Entertainment
Rose Marie 85 08/15/1923 Entertainment
Shimon Peres 85 08/16/1923 Politics
Richard Attenborough 85 08/29/1923 Entertainment
Mort Walker 85 09/03/1923 Cartooning/Comics
Lee Kuan Yew 85 09/16/1923 Politics
William Windom 85 09/28/1923 Entertainment
Bum Phillips 85 09/29/1923 Sports
Glynis Johns 85 10/05/1923 Entertainment,Theater
Bobby Thomson 85 10/25/1923 Sports
Alice Coachman 85 11/09/1923 Sports
Ted Stevens 85 11/18/1923 Politics
Nadine Gordimer 85 11/20/1923 Literature
Arthur Hiller 85 11/22/1923 Entertainment
Stansfield Turner 85 12/01/1923 Politics
Harold Gould 85 12/10/1923 Entertainment
Bob Barker 85 12/12/1923 Entertainment
Freeman Dyson 85 12/15/1923 Science
Earl Scruggs 85 01/06/1924 Music
Ron Moody 85 01/08/1924 Entertainment
Slim Whitman 85 01/20/1924 Music
Rauf Denktash 85 01/26/1924 Politics
Gloria Vanderbilt 85 02/20/1924 Fashion
Robert Mugabe 85 02/21/1924 Politics
William Webster 85 03/06/1924 Politics,Law Enforce...
Allen Neuharth 85 03/22/1924 Journalism
Doris Day 85 04/03/1924 Entertainment
Stanley Donen 85 04/13/1924 Entertainment
Kenneth Kaunda 85 04/28/1924 Politics
Theodore Bikel 85 05/02/1924 Theater,Entertainment
Jack Whitaker 85 05/18/1924 Sports
Charles Aznavour 85 05/22/1924 Music,Entertainment

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Ever Chasing the Elusive Dream

I Have a Possible Idea What Could Cause My Demise in the Future

I have been doing some reading and I have some indications that I may be headed towards being a diabetic at some point in the future. Obviously a timetable and a decisive conclusion is something I cannot be sure of, but certain symptoms I seem to possess at least raise questions of a possibility of entering into that status at some point; when would seem to be a key question.

The symptons which are raising questions are several: Increased and constant thirst, although that does go up and down in frequency and intensity; vision issues which seem to be only worsening; the recent case of the fire ant bites which have been tremendously slow to heal relative to my personal historic norm for other previous injuries; numbness and pain in my fingers and hands, and on rare occasions with some of my toes; dry and itchy skin at times; and a fruity taste which seems somewhat regular in my mouth which is only abated by consumption of strong foods to the contrary such as milk or ice cream; tomato sauce; salads and vegetables; and meats.

I will continue to try to be observant and aware of what is happening to me on a physiological level. My increasing mental health issues which are being strongly exacerabated by my persistent inability to get a sniff of employment and work which is leading to stress and depression can only make matters worse in a number of ways as my diet suffers from lack of money resulting in budget conscious choices which are not always ideal.

While drawing a worst case scenario from observed conditions that very well could be coincidental and not related is not necessarily an edict for making a diagnosis, it does require me to be vigilant and aware of the consequences of aging and not being able to live an ideal and optimum healthy lifestyle. There also seems to be genetic issues in play from what I understand but this not entirely clear.

Of course, I am not going to really know at any point soon as I lack any way to afford to have a professional medical study conducted and make that determination. And that is not to going to change while I continue to live in Cheyenne, and possibly even after I return to Colorado in 2010, 2011, or later, as the hope for relocating has dimmed significantly with worthwhile and non-J O B (Just Over Broke) employment seemingly unlikely at this point and for quite some time to come.

http://www.medem.com/medlib/print/ZZZRBCRYMAC

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diabetes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diabetes_mellitus_type_2

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Personal Downward Collapse Hastens

It is now been about six months since I last had work, and what reserves I had to last out my unemployment have now been exhausted. As each week goes by I get in deeper straits, and the likelihood of becoming homeless again is more than a real possibility. If I don't get work within the next two weeks or so, I will be compelled to give up my home and go back to sleeping in my truck as was the case for nine months in 2004-2005.

Already I am behind on utilities as I lacked funds to pay electricity, internet, cable, and cellular in May, and the new bills are about to arrive. Generally once one gets two months behind these services are terminated. I expect that to start to occur by mid month. And now my rent is past due as I am unable to pay my June rent of $430. At this point I am about $800 in the hole including utilities.

Food is not yet an issue as I have about ten days worth of supplies still on hand and about $35 in cash to do a minimal replenishment. But that will only buy about three weeks worth more of food.

My plan is to continue to seek employment, but results so far have been beyond dismal. Of all the inquiries I have made, only a couple of them have had any feedback, and they were offering only 10 hours per week which would only bring in about $70 per week, a pittance.

If I continue to experience failure or, more accurately, indifference, I will borrow money to rent storage space and a U-haul to empty out my unit before the end of July and return to life on the streets.

And if life continues on the streets for more than a few months, then I will be checking out rather than endure a Wyoming winter outdoors. Better to choose to end things on one's own terms than slowly but surely freeze and starve to death. The grim truth is the inevitable reality if things don't turn in time.

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Rockies, Diamondbacks headed to Scottsdale Area ?

The two clubs are looking at a proposal to relocate their spring training facilities from Tucson to an area just east of Scottsdale near Pima Road on land owned by the Salt River Pima Maricopa Indian Tribe. Indications are the move could be done in time for the 2011 Spring Training Cactus League Season.

http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/springtraining/295688

http://www.azcentral.com/sports/diamondbacks/articles/2009/06/03/20090603dbacks0603.html

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35 Years Ago Tonight in Cleveland: The Ten Cents Beer Night Riot

Jon Stewart on the General Motors Debacle

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart	M - Th 11p / 10c
BiG Mess
thedailyshow.com
Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Economic Crisis

UPDATED 6/4: Baltimore Orioles Spring Training to Tucson ?

I hope to see it happen. Bringing the Orioles to Tucson for Spring Training, along with perhaps the Milwaukee Brewers, would ensure baseball would be played in The Old Pueblo for many years to come. Tucson is clearly a better city and metro area than Phoenix as it is easier to get around in, more scenic, less congested, and more fitting.

All this being said, it still looks to be a longshot for the Orioles to leave Florida, and for the other two Cactus League clubs to still be playing games in Pima County by 2011 or 2012.

http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/springtraining/295292

http://www.news-press.com/article/20090603/NEWS01/90602071/1010/SPORTS

http://www.azstarnet.com/sports/295798

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June and its Calendar of Special Days to Celebrate and Commemorate

June, 2009 Bizarre and Unique Holidays

Month:

• Aquarium Month
• Candy Month
• Dairy Month
• Fight the Filthy Fly Month
• National Accordion Awareness Month
• National Adopt a Cat Month
• National Fresh Fruit and Vegetables Month
• Rose Month
• Turkey Lovers Month

Weekly Events:

• Week 1 Fishing Week
• Week 2 Email Week

Daily:

1 Dare Day

1 Flip a Coin Day

2 National Bubba Day

2 National Rocky Road Day

3 Repeat Day (I said "Repeat Day")

4 Applesauce Cake Day

4 Hug Your Cat Day

4 Old Maid's Day

5 National Doughnut Day always the first Friday in June

5 World Environment Day

6 National Gardening Exercise Day- Get out and exercise with your plants.

6 National Yo-Yo Day

7 National Chocolate Ice Cream Day

8 Best Friends Day

8 Name Your Poison Day

9 Donald Duck Day

10 Iced Tea Day

11 Hug Holiday

12 Red Rose Day

13 Sewing Machine Day

14 Flag Day

Nursing Assistants Day - First day of National Nursing Assistants Week

15 Smile Power Day

16 Fresh Veggies Day

17 Eat Your Vegetables Day

17 World Juggler's Day

18 Go Fishing Day

18 International Panic Day

18 National Splurge Day - Oh yeah!!

19 World Sauntering Day

20 Ice Cream Soda Day

20 National Hollerin' Contest Day - third Saturday in June

21 Finally Summer Day- Summer Solstice

21 Go Skate Day

22 National Chocolate Eclair Day

23 National Columnists Day

23 National Pink Day

23 Take Your Dog to Work Day (Why!?) .....date varies

24 Swim a Lap Day

25 Log Cabin Day

25 National Catfish Day

26 Beautician's Day

26 Forgiveness Day

27 Paul Bunyan Day

27 Sun Glasses Day

28 Insurance Awareness Day - Now who do you think invented that!?!

29 Camera Day

29 Waffle Iron Day

30 Meteor Day

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Looking Back at the May '09 Climate Report

PRELIMINARY LOCAL CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA (WS FORM: F-6)

                                        STATION:   CHEYENNE WY
                                        MONTH:     MAY
                                        YEAR:      2009
                                        LATITUDE:   41  9 N
                                        LONGITUDE: 104 49 W

TEMPERATURE IN F:       :PCPN:    SNOW:  WIND      :SUNSHINE: SKY     :PK WND
================================================================================
1   2   3   4   5  6A  6B    7    8   9   10  11  12  13   14  15   16   17  18
                                   12Z  AVG MX 2MIN
DY MAX MIN AVG DEP HDD CDD  WTR  SNW DPTH SPD SPD DIR MIN PSBL S-S WX    SPD DR
================================================================================

1  38  33  36 -10  29   0 0.03    T    0  8.2 15 190   0    0   9 1      18 180
2  42  36  39  -8  26   0 0.32  0.0    0  6.8 17 160 163   19  10 1      20 160
3  58  38  48   1  17   0 0.12  0.0    0  6.9 20 170 379   45   8 1      23 170
4  60  38  49   2  16   0 0.00  0.0    0 13.2 30 270 657   78   3 1      36 260
5  64  44  54   7  11   0 0.00  0.0    0 14.1 39 270 751   88   3        46 270
6  72  42  57   9   8   0 0.00  0.0    0 16.2 32 280 787   92   2        39 260
7  71  46  59  11   6   0 0.00  0.0    0 18.6 33 280 853   95   1        41 270
8  54  38  46  -2  19   0 0.00  0.0    0 18.5 37 320 856  100   2        51 320
9  55  36  46  -3  19   0 0.18  0.0    0  9.1 23  50 638   74   7 1      31  50
10  44  32  38 -11  27   0 0.28  0.1    0  7.8 14 180 123   14  10 1      17 180
11  65  40  53   3  12   0 0.00  0.0    0 10.2 18 210 787   91   4 12     22 170
12  77  49  63  13   2   0    T  0.0    0 16.0 39 260 773   89   2        45 270
13  54  39  47  -3  18   0 0.00  0.0    0 21.9 44 290 840   97   0        56 280
14  71  35  53   2  12   0 0.00  0.0    0 11.7 30 280 626   72   2        37 280
15  56  41  49  -2  16   0 0.00  0.0    0 12.8 30  10 800   92   2        39  20
16  61  38  50  -1  15   0 0.00  0.0    0 10.5 20 180 695   80   5 1      25 170
17  76  41  59   7   6   0 0.00  0.0    0  8.4 17 320 829   95   0        23 320
18  83  47  65  13   0   0 0.00  0.0    0  8.2 18 200 775   88   0        48 200
19  83  52  68  16   0   3    T  0.0    0  9.8 28 280 800   91   2 8      35 290
20  78  53  66  13   0   1 0.04  0.0    0 11.5 36 210 799   91   2 8      47 210
21  58  42  50  -3  15   0 0.00  0.0    0 11.6 25 350 639   73   9 12     32 340
22  68  47  58   5   7   0 0.85  0.0    0  9.9 25 320 688   78   6 128    32 340
23  55  48  52  -2  13   0 0.15  0.0    0  9.2 15 170 514   58   9 1      18 160
24  68  49  59   5   6   0 0.07  0.0    0 12.6 21 180 624   70   8 12     25 180
25  58  47  53  -1  12   0 0.02  0.0    0 12.0 22 360 215   24   8 1      26 360
26  58  41  50  -5  15   0 0.00  0.0    0 13.0 25 360 729   82   5        32 350
27  68  36  52  -3  13   0    T  0.0    0  8.7 24 340 840   94   1        32 330
28  72  42  57   2   8   0    T  0.0    0 10.9 26 330 866   97   2 8      35 330
29  78  42  60   4   5   0 0.02  0.0    0  7.4 20 280 805   90   2        24 280
30  74  50  62   6   3   0 0.00  0.0    0  8.9 25 270 758   85   2        32 270
31  75  46  61   4   4   0    T  0.0    0 11.5 32 280 707   79   3        43 280
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SM 1994 1308       360   4  2.08     0.1 356.1        20316    129
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AV 64.3 42.2                              11.5 FASTST  655  75   4    MAX(MPH)
                               MISC ---->    44 290 26982           56  280
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NOTES:
# LAST OF SEVERAL OCCURRENCES

COLUMN 17 PEAK WIND IN M.P.H.

PRELIMINARY LOCAL CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA (WS FORM: F-6) , PAGE 2

                                        STATION:  CHEYENNE WY
                                        MONTH:    MAY
                                        YEAR:     2009
                                        LATITUDE:   41  9 N
                                        LONGITUDE: 104 49 W

[TEMPERATURE DATA]      [PRECIPITATION DATA]       SYMBOLS USED IN COLUMN 16

AVERAGE MONTHLY: 53.3   TOTAL FOR MONTH:   2.08    1 = FOG OR MIST
DPTR FM NORMAL:   2.0   DPTR FM NORMAL:   -0.40    2 = FOG REDUCING VISIBILITY
HIGHEST:    83 ON 19,18 GRTST 24HR  0.98 ON 22-23      TO 1/4 MILE OR LESS
LOWEST:     32 ON 10                               3 = THUNDER
                      SNOW, ICE PELLETS, HAIL    4 = ICE PELLETS
                      TOTAL MONTH:   0.1 INCH    5 = HAIL
                      GRTST 24HR   0.1 ON   M    6 = FREEZING RAIN OR DRIZZLE
                      GRTST DEPTH:   0           7 = DUSTSTORM OR SANDSTORM:
                                                     VSBY 1/2 MILE OR LESS
                                                 8 = SMOKE OR HAZE
[NO. OF DAYS WITH]      [WEATHER - DAYS WITH]      9 = BLOWING SNOW
                                                 X = TORNADO
MAX 32 OR BELOW:   0    0.01 INCH OR MORE:  11
MAX 90 OR ABOVE:   0    0.10 INCH OR MORE:   6
MIN 32 OR BELOW:   1    0.50 INCH OR MORE:   1
MIN  0 OR BELOW:   0    1.00 INCH OR MORE:   0

[HDD (BASE 65) ]
TOTAL THIS MO.   360    CLEAR  (SCALE 0-3)  17
DPTR FM NORMAL   -54    PTCLDY (SCALE 4-7)   9
TOTAL FM JUL 1  6803    CLOUDY (SCALE 8-10)  5
DPTR FM NORMAL  -449

[CDD (BASE 65) ]
TOTAL THIS MO.     4
DPTR FM NORMAL     3    [PRESSURE DATA]
TOTAL FM JAN 1     4    HIGHEST SLP 30.31 ON 16
DPTR FM NORMAL     3    LOWEST  SLP 29.35 ON 12

[REMARKS]
TIED RECORD WARMEST LOW TEMPERATURE OF
49 DEGREES ON THE 12TH, PREVIOUSLY SET IN
1994 AND PRIOR YEARS.

TIED RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 83
DEGREES ON THE 19TH, PREVIOUSLY SET IN 1992
AND PRIOR YEARS.

NEW RECORD WARMEST LOW TEMPERATURE OF
53 DEGREES SET ON THE 20TH. THE OLD RECORD
WAS 52 DEGREES SET IN 1934.
#FINAL-05-09#

*****

Seven Squared Plus Two Equals an Awful Lot of Time

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball. ~Doug Larson


Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. ~Mark Twain


Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. ~Samuel Ullman


You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair. ~Douglas MacArthur


Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis


In youth the days are short and the years are long; in old age the years are short and the days long. ~Nikita Ivanovich Panin


Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone. ~Jim Fiebig


In a man's middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities. ~E.B. White


The years teach much which the days never knew. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair. ~Sam Ewing


Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. ~Mark Twain, Following the Equator


Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw


There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward. ~John Mortimer


Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative. ~Maurice Chevalier, New York Times, 9 October 1960


Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!.... his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his hands are mutes. ~Charles Dickens


Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many. ~Author Unknown


A man's age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and despairs overcome, and unconscious risks taken; maturity formed through so many desires, hopes, regrets, forgotten things, loves. A man's age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wartime Writings 1939-1944, translated from French by Norah Purcell


Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. ~Robert Southey, The Doctor


A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. ~John Barrymore


How old would you be if you didn't know how old you were? ~Satchel Paige


Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigour. With such people the grey head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life. ~Charles Dickens


The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. ~Jerry M. Wright


When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it. ~Mark Twain


Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope


Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart. ~Caryn Leschen


Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age. ~Victor Hugo


Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush to the net. ~Franklin Adams


Everyone is the age of their heart. ~Guatemalan Proverb


There is always a lot to be thankful for, if you take the time to look. For example, I'm sitting here thinking how nice it is that wrinkles don't hurt. ~Author Unknown


Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim


There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age - I missed it coming and going. ~J.B. Priestly


I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown


Age is a high price to pay for maturity. ~Tom Stoppard


By the time I have money to burn, my fire will have burnt out. ~Author Unknown


There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine. ~Logan Pearsall Smith


We are young only once, after that we need some other excuse. ~Author Unknown


The key to successful aging is to pay as little attention to it as possible. ~Judith Regan


The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity. ~Mark Twain


It's sad to grow old, but nice to ripen. ~Brigitte Bardot


Grow old with me! The best is yet to be. ~Robert Browning


Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith


Old age is fifteen years older than I am. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes


Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes


I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left. ~Voltaire


There's no such thing as too late. That's why they invented death. ~From the movie Out to Sea


I was wrong to grow older. Pity. I was so happy as a child. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight to Arras, 1942, translated from French by Lewis Galantière


Age is opportunity no less,
Than youth itself, though in another dress,
And as the evening twilight fades away,
The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Morituri Salutamus


To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes (Thanks Janice!)


The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed,
Lets in new light through chinks that time hath made.
~Edmund Waller


The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion. ~Doris Lessing


There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn


Does age poison us, or do we poison age? ~Astrid Alauda


Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts. ~Martin Buxbaum

An archeologist is the best husband any woman can have: the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. ~Agatha Christie, news summaries, 9 March 1954


Grandchildren don't make a man feel old; it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother. ~G. Norman Collie


You can't hide your true colours as you approach the autumn of your life. ~Author Unknown


I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates. ~T.S. Eliot


Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


It's important to have a twinkle in your wrinkle. ~Author Unknown


When I can look Life in the eyes,
Grown calm and very coldly wise,
Life will have given me the Truth,
And taken in exchange - my youth.
~Sara Teasdale


None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm. ~Henry David Thoreau


I recently had my annual physical examination, which I get once every seven years, and when the nurse weighed me, I was shocked to discover how much stronger the Earth's gravitational pull has become since 1990. ~Dave Barry


Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. ~Quoted by Francis Bacon, Apothegm


To know how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. ~Henri Amiel


We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it. ~Frank A. Clark


Age swallows our childhood. ~Jareb Teague


First you forget names, then you forget faces, then you forget to pull your zipper up, then you forget to pull your zipper down. ~Leo Rosenberg


The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young. ~Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891


It is possible at any age to discover a lifelong desire you never knew you had. ~Robert Brault, robertbrault.com


When it comes to staying young, a mind-lift beats a face-lift any day. ~Marty Bucella


Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. ~Saint Aurelius Augustine


The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do more, and you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down. ~T.S. Eliot, quoted in Time, 23 October 1950


Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs. ~Charles Dickens


From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.


You know you've reached middle age when a doctor, not a policeman, tells you to slow down, all you exercise are your prerogatives and it takes you longer to rest than to get tired. ~Author Unknown


We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair. ~Charles Lamb


It is autumn; not without
But within me is the cold.
Youth and spring are all about;
It is I that have grown old.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "Autumn Within"


Life is one long process of getting tired. ~Samuel Butler, Notebooks


Don't worry about avoiding temptation - as you grow older, it starts avoiding you. ~Author Unknown


Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man. ~Leon Trotsky (Lev Davidovich Bronstein), Diary in Exile, 1935


At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgment. ~Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac


The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth. ~Marya Mannes, More in Anger, 1958


What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years. ~John Fischer


Everything slows down with age, except the time it takes cake and ice cream to reach your hips. ~Attributed to John Wagner


A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time. ~Oliver W. Holmes, Sr.


Old Time, who changes all below,
To wean men gently for the grave.
~Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton


Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered. ~Graham Greene


When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part. ~Laurence Olivier


As a graduate of the Zsa Zsa Gabor School of Creative mathematics, I honestly do not know how old I am. ~Erma Bombeck


You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Author Unknown


They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body. ~Author Unknown


The other day a man asked me what I thought was the best time of life. "Why," I answered without a thought, "now." ~David Grayson


Like a lot of fellows around here, I have a furniture problem. My chest has fallen into my drawers. ~Billy Casper, about golf's Senior Tour


Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote


Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~Author Unknown


A man is not old as long as he is seeking something. ~Jean Rostand


The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been. ~Madeleine L'Engle


Youth disserves; middle age conserves; old age preserves. ~Martin H. Fischer


One of the best parts of growing older? You can flirt all you like since you've become harmless. ~Liz Smith


Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


We turn not older with years, but newer every day. ~Emily Dickinson


In a dream you are never eighty. ~Anne Sexton


Old men are fond of giving good advice, to console themselves for being no longer in a position to give bad examples. ~François La Rochefoucauld


Middle age is when a narrow waist and a broad mind begin to change places. ~Author Unknown


Middle age is youth without its levity, and age without decay. ~Daniel Defoe


There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important. ~Franklin P. Adams


You can live to be a hundred if you give up all things that make you want to live to be a hundred. ~Allen


I don't do alcohol anymore - I get the same effect just standing up fast. ~Author Unknown


Men at forty
Learn to close softly
The doors to rooms they will not be
Coming back to.
~Donald Justice, "Men at Forty"


Age is a prison from which we cannot escape. ~Morrow Bourne


Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever. ~Don Marquis


An aged man is but a paltry thing,
A tattered coat upon a stick, unless
Soul clasp its hands and sing, and louder sing
For every tatter in its mortal dress.
~William Butler Yeats, Sailing to Byzantium


I'm not 40, I'm eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown


Age is a slowing down of everything except fear. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. ~H.L. Mencken


Middle age is when you choose your cereal for the fiber, not the toy. ~Author Unknown


Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty, diseases seek men. ~Chinese Proverb


Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks. ~Jean Rhys


Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. ~Tom Wilson


Age attacks when we least expect it. ~Carrie Latet


We are always the same age inside. ~Gertrude Stein


Old age ain't no place for sissies. ~Bette Davis


The last birthday that's any good is 23. ~Andy Rooney


Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier. ~Dan Bennett


I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death. ~William Allen White


Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines. ~Edward Young, Night Thoughts


Don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up. ~Attributed to John Wagner


As we grow older, our capacity for enjoyment shrinks, but not our appetite for it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it. ~Arthur Schopenhauer


You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M.D. after them. ~Arnold Palmer


It's hard to feel middle-aged, because how can you tell how long you are going to live? ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane


Middle age is when we can do just as much as ever - but would rather not. ~Author Unknown

In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber. So long as it receives a message of beauty, hope, cheer, and courage - so long are you young. When the wires are all down and our heart is covered with the snow of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and only then, are you grown old. ~Douglas MacArthur


Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear;
'Tis but the funeral of the former year.
~Alexander Pope


To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable. ~Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891


Zeal, n. A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced. ~Ambrose Bierce


The elderly don't drive that badly; they're just the only ones with time to do the speed limit. ~Jason Love


It's a mere moment in a man's life between an All-Star Game and an Old-timers' Game. ~Vin Scully


It seems no more than right that men should seize time by the forelock, for the rude old fellow, sooner or later, pulls all their hair out. ~George Dennison Prentice, Prenticeana, 1860


All diseases run into one, old age. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart. ~Edward Bulwer-Lytton


The number one factor in aging is burdens. Your burdens, or how you carry them, make you old. ~Scarlett Bene


The paired butterflies are already yellow with August
Over the grass in the West garden;
They hurt me. I grow older.
~Li Po


In dog years, I'm dead. ~Author Unknown


Middle age: The time when you'll do anything to feel better, except give up what is hurting you. ~Robert Quillen


If youth but know,
And old age only could.
~Henri Estienne


Old age puts more wrinkles in our minds than on our faces. ~Michel de Montaigne


Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen. ~Mark Twain


Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once. ~Dave Barry, "Your Disintegrating Body," Dave Barry Turns 40, 1990


The true way to render age vigorous is to prolong the youth of the mind. ~Mortimer Collins


A man is as old as he's feeling,
A woman as old as she looks.
~Mortimer Collins


When the problem is not so much resisting temptation as finding it, you may just be getting older. ~Author Unknown


Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. ~Henry Ford


I am getting old and the sign of old age is that I begin to philosophize and ponder over problems which should not be my concern at all. ~Jawaharlal Nehru


Sometimes age succeeds, sometimes it fails. It depends on you. ~Ravensara Noite


The best thing about getting old is that all those things you couldn't have when you were young you no longer want. ~L.S. McCandless


I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or had a desire to prolong it. ~Bernard Berenson


Middle age is when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work. ~Author Unknown


When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices. ~Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld


We thought we were running away from the grown-ups, and now we're the grown-ups. ~Margaret Atwood


There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine. ~P.G. Wodehouse


Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature. ~Harold Coffin


You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father and finally he played my husband. If he had lived I'm sure I would have played his mother. That's the way it is in Hollywood. The men get younger and the women get older. ~Lillian Gish


Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old. ~Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects, 1711


It well becomes a man who is no longer young to forget that he ever was. ~Seigneur de Saint-Evremond, 1696


Age is like the newest version of a software - it has a bunch of great new features but you lost all the cool features the original version had. ~Carrie Latet


When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again. ~Hugo L. Black


In youth we are plagued by desire; in later years, by the desire to feel desire. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


Adulthood is when the ghosts of childhood appear. ~Holden Rinehart


When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings. ~Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects, 1711


They talk about the economy this year. Hey, my hairline is in recession, my waistline is in inflation. Altogether, I'm in a depression. ~Rick Majerus


We are only young once. That is all society can stand. ~Bob Bowen


There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age. ~Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve


I am getting to an age when I can only enjoy the last sport left. It is called hunting for your spectacles. ~Edward Grey


The lost leaves measure our years; they are gone as the days are gone. ~Richard Jefferies, The Life of the Fields, 1908


Regular naps prevent old age, especially if you take them while driving. ~Author Unknown


I don't know how you feel about old age... but in my case I didn't even see it coming. It hit me from the rear. ~Phyllis Diller


Growing old is a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form. ~Andre Maurois


Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret. ~Benjamin Disraeli, Coningsby


You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old. ~George Burns


What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy. ~Voltaire


You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again. ~Bonnie Prudden


The trick is growing up without growing old. ~Casey Stengel


It takes about ten years to get used to how old you are. ~Quoted by Raymond A. Michel in The Leaf


The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis. ~Leon Edel


The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face. ~Jack Nicklaus


You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind. ~Timothy Leary


It takes a long time to become young. ~Pablo Picasso


The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer. ~Joan Collins


I never dared be radical when young
For fear it would make me conservative when old.
~Robert Frost


The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood. ~Logan Pearsall Smith


Our bodies are the burial grounds of dead time. ~T.A. Sachs, to "Time! where didst thou those years inter, Which I have seene decease?" by William Habington


Middle age is when your classmates are so gray and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you ~Bennett Cerf


I am old enough to see how little I have done in so much time, and how much I have to do in so little. ~Sheila Kaye-Smith


There is always some specific moment when we realize our youth is gone; but years after, we know it was much later. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age. ~Victor Hugo


Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to. ~Bill Vaughn


True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. ~Kurt Vonnegut


At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence? ~Jules Feiffer


Never lose sight of the fact that old age needs so little but needs that little so much. ~Margaret Willour


The idea is to die young as late as possible. ~Ashley Montagu

*****

Reality or Fantasy ???

Top Ten Beaches in America

I have only been to Cape Hatteras among the beaches listed here, but I believe many of my siblings have been to an additional number of these coastal treasures over the years.

1. Hanalei Bay Beach, Kauai, Hawaii: This spectacular white crescent-shaped sand beach is considered by many to be the most beautiful beach setting in Hawaii. The two-mile-long strand is lined by palm trees, with a backdrop of waterfalls and mountain peaks that range up to 4,000 feet high. One of the best views of the beach is from the Princeville Hotel, located on the high bluff to the east. The other end of this wide coral sand beach is anchored by a high lava point that extends into the ocean, a panorama that has been the inspiration for many paintings and photo shoots.

2. Siesta Beach, Sarasota, Fla.: With some of the finest, whitest sand in the world, this beach attracts sand collectors from all over. Siesta Beach has clear, warm waters that provide ideal swimming. The beach is hundreds of yards wide in the shape of a crescent, due to anchoring of onshore rocks to the north and a unique underwater formation of coral rock and caves.

3. Coopers Beach, Southampton, N.Y: Coopers Beach is located on the south shore of Long Island, shielded from the cold Labrador currents. As the first "Gold Coast" in the country, Coopers Beach is hundreds of yards wide, made of grainy white quartz sand. The beach is backed by large sand dunes covered by American beach grass, interspersed with large and extravagant mansions.

4. Coronado Beach, San Diego, Calif.: Coronado Beach measures hundreds of yards wide and features lush subtropical vegetation, a Mediterranean climate, fine sparkling sand and mild surf. The local landmark, Hotel del Coronado, was built more than 100 years ago, offering spectacular architecture and Old World elegance. Kings, sheiks, actors, and actresses have stayed there, and the hotel is now a great location for celebrity-spotting.

5. Hamoa Beach, Maui, Hawaii: Rimmed by cliffs and covered by coconut palm trees and flowering vegetation, this crescent beach, a mixture of coral and lava sand, is the most famous of Maui’s Hana beaches. To get to Hamoa Beach, drive the "Road to Hana," the treacherous highway with drop-offs of more than 1,000 feet, sporadic guardrails and more than 50 one-way bridges. Ernest Hemingway once said that Hamoa Beach was the world’s best beach, but it’s only no. 5 on this year's list.

6. Main Beach, East Hampton, N.Y.: Providing a blend of nature and a built environment, the beaches here are protected by a conservation easement that dates back more than 300 years. Main Beach is a great place for star-spotting, since many actors and actresses frequently visit this beach for its idyllic setting in a small village. The wide sandy beach made of quartz has towering sand dunes and clean, clear blue water.

7. Cape Hatteras, Outer Banks, N.C.: Bulging far offshore of the mainland coast as a barrier island, Cape Hatteras was the first National Seashore. Cape Hatteras provides some of the best board surfing along the East Coast, as well as the most famous lighthouse in the U.S. It attracts beachgoers and nature lovers alike for its historic fishing villages, superb fishing and excellent beachcombing.

8. Cape Florida State Park, Key Biscayne, Fla.: Cape Florida State Park, located at the southern tip of Key Biscayne, provides clear, emerald-colored waters and gentle surf. This fine, white-coral sand beach is great for swimming, as any waves are knocked down by a large sand shoal offshore. In addition, the Cape Florida Lighthouse gives access to a breathtaking view of the beach.

9. Coast Guard Beach, Cape Cod, Mass.: Coast Guard Beach, accessible by bicycle or via shuttle bus from the Salt Pond Visitor’s Center, was formed where a sand spit attached to the eroding glacial cliffs. The sand is fairly coarse, so the beach slopes steeply into the water. The picturesque old Coast Guard station still sits atop the glacial bluffs, allowing for a spectacular view down upon the Nauset Spit barrier system and bay. During the summer, beachgoers tend to take quick dips in the ocean, as water temperatures only reach 60 to 70 degrees.

10. Beachwalker Park, Kiawah Island, S.C.: South of Charleston, Beachwalker Park is the public beach located on the southern end of Kiawah Island. Tennis and golf are featured here, as well as interpretative tours of the island’s fauna and flora. Visitors can pack their canoes and kayaks to paddle through the tidal inlets, or walk down to St. Sam’s Inlet to see thousands of birds. The water is not clear here, but it is clean and provides for fantastic seafood for low-country cooking. Visitors can also pack their bicycles, since the sand is compact enough to ride along the 10-mile-long barrier island.

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