July 5 is the birth anniversary of Cl...

Yesterday was the 233rd  anniversary of the independence of our country. Happy Birthday! Since hitting the Restore button isn't going to work, let's be grateful for what we have and that what we have, even with all the mistakes and bad stuff, is not Iran. Or England. Or the bottom of Brule Lake in the Boundary Waters of Minnesota.

July 5 is the birth anniversary of Clara Zetkin (1857), women's rights advocate who is credited with being the initiator of International Women's Day.

It's also the annual cherry pit spitting contest in our backyard. It would be watermelon spitting but that summer tradition is extinct since seedless watermelons become the dominant life form in the grocery store. Apparently nothing is sacred not even my writing which apparently some people are reading in the bathroom on their IPhone. So if the IPhone drops into the bowl and no one can read the words, is it still a metaphor?

We are also concerned that some people feel that my whining about the rain and wind in the Boundary Waters was a little too much. Let me remind you that this is Minnesota in June which means it was also cold. Ha! How's that for misery?

Seven Pounds (2008)

Will Smith's latest. It's a tearjerker. Woody Harrelson is great. The factual errors are obvious but really doesn't seem to matter that much which is an incredible thing for me to say since I get upset if the wrong camel gets used in a movie.

Whoops! It's late. Time for bed.