Good Morning, Do! Today is Tuesday, August 6 My Saskatoon berries are ripe. Well, the first Million anyway. NO! I will not pick a few Thousand for you and mail them to you, but if you come on over, you are welcome to pick a few pounds. We got clear, but smoky sky, Aurora, 22 degrees and for tonight they promised about 1 mm (1/16 ") of summer rain. That will feel nice! The Perseid Meteor Shower reaches its peak on the night of August 12-13, but the first few are already whizing by. My favorite season! _____________________________________________________ Today, August 6 in  1945 The American B-29 bomber, known as the Enola Gay, dropped the first atomic bomb on an inhabited area. The bomb named "Little Boy" was dropped over the center of Hiroshima, Japan. An estimated 140,000 people were killed. (8:16am Japanese time) More of today in history at History ______________________________________________________ 
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 Today's Bonehead Award: Ohio man slipped bank teller name and address during robbery  _______________________________________________ If you like the Humor Letter, please vote!  _______________________________________________ Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. --- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865) The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. --- Thomas Jefferson _____________________________________________________ My violin teacher was teaching a large group class. She showed them her violin and said, "This violin was made in the early 1800s." Someone in the audience raised their hand and asked, "Did you got it used?" ______________________________________________________`   _____________________________________________________ 
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 ___________________________________________________ Reported by the Bausell Sailor:  An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD has been earned by  Michael Harrell, 54, Clevelaqnd, Ohio  Ohio man slipped bank teller name and address during robbery  Ohio bank robber slipped a teller a hold-up note with his name and address scrawled on it, officials said. Michael Harrell, 54, entered a US Bank branch in Cleveland on Monday and passed the not-so-discreet note, the FBI said. When the teller took the note, and looked at it and looked at the other side, she saw his name, he had used a note that he had used earlier at the [Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles] and it had his name on it, FBI Special Agent Vicki Anderson told news station WIVB. The teller reportedly complied with his demand and handed Harrell $206 before calling the authorities. She actually even referred to him as Michael. Gave him the money and called him Michael and then notified law enforcement, Anderson said. Harrell, who was a frequent customer, has been arrested in the robbery,  
 DearWebby's Tech Support Pits  From: Renate Re: Printng Envelopes  Dear Webby, You sound like you looked up about printing envelopes, but don't really believe in that. Well, I don't either. What's the story? Renate  Dear Renate You are 100% right. My first Laser printer was a Brother. That was in the late 80's. Printing envelopes destroyed it. I have not printed envelopes since then. Avery or Store Brand or No-Name labels are cheap. Their cost is negligible compared to the cost of a decent printer. Even if you have a cheap $30 ink squirter, it probably won't last. Only the ancient dot matric printers handle envelopes OK. That is why you see the envelopes from the electrical company or the phone company printed with the tiny dots, just like your printers did in the old days, before ink squirters and lasers. Dot matrix printers are getting very scarce and expensive. I find getting a few packs of labels is a better solution. Open Office has envelope printing in it, that lets you select the brand and type of label, and then even guides you through importing your database. You can even approach it from the opposite side and let Avery handle the database import and printing. Either way, for me labels are the answer. Have FUN! DearWebby 
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 When Joe, a nice man married for over 50 years died, his wife, Myrtle was devastated. A couple of months later, Myrtle also died. Once in heaven, Myrtle anxiously looked for Joe. Suddenly, behind a cloud, she could clearly see him with another woman. She ran towards him, calling his name: "Joe. Darling ...Joe" Joe said: "Hold your horses woman, and don't 'darling' me. The deal was very clear"..."Until death do us part". 
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 One morning as Professor Jones was leaving for the university his wife told her absent-minded husband, "Don't forget we are moving today. If you come to this house this afternoon it will be empty." Predictably he didn't remember until he found the house vacated that afternoon. He mumbled to himself, "And where was it we were moving to?" He went out in front of the house and asked a little girl, "Did you see a moving van here today, little girl?" "Yes," she replied. "Would you know which way it went?" She looked up at him and said, "Yes, Daddy, I'll show you." ___________________________________________________  Daily tip from Thriftyfun.com Thriftyfun.com Cleaning Sap Off Your Hands When handling evergreens or pine cones, you can remove the sticky sap from your hands by scrubbing it with a paste made of baking soda and water. thriftyfun.Com If you are outside, you can do the same as the loggers do: Spray the hands lightly with OFF mosquito dope, and wipe them on your jeans. I have used that trick thousands of times. It always worked. If you don't like OFF, a quick spray of WD40 and wipe your hands on your jeans or a rag also works. Especially when limbing and tossing branches all day, it is important to keep sap off your hands to avoid blisters due to the sticky spot traction caused by sap spots. Have FUN! DearWebby  ____________________________________________________   
  
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 ___________________________________________________ Thanks to Annie for this story: The week I started a new job, my husband was out of town. On the day he was to return, I thought it would be fun if he picked me up at work and we could go out to dinner. I left a note on our dining-room table with my new number and this message: "For a good time, call 555-1234." When my husband failed to show up, I took the bus home. "Where were you?" I asked. "Didn't you get my note?" "Oh," he replied with a sheepish grin, "I wasn't sure who wrote it." ___________________________________________________ One night a teenage girl brought her new boyfriend home to meet her parents, and they were appalled by his appearance: leather jacket, motorcycle boots, tattoos and pierced nose. Later, the parents pulled their daughter aside and confessed their concern. "Dear," said the mother diplomatically, "he doesn't seem very nice." "Oh please, Mom," replied the daughter, "if he wasn't nice, why would he be doing 500 hours of community service?" ___________________________________________________ "My doll! Johnny broke it!" she sobbed. "How did he break it, Suzie?" "I hit him over the head with it." __________________________________________________ 
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 Today, August 6 in 1787 At the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia debate began on the first draft of the U.S. Constitution. 1806 The Holy Roman Empire went out of existence as Emperor Francis II abdicated. 1825 Bolivia declared independence from Peru. 1879 The first Australian rules football game to be played at night took place at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. The game was to promote the introduction of electricity to the city of Melbourne. 1914 Austria-Hungary declared war against Russia. Serbia declared war against Germany. 1926 Gertrude Ederle became the first American woman to swim the English Channel. She was 19 years old at the time. The swim took her 14 1/2 hours. 1926 Warner Brothers premiered its Vitaphone system in New York. The movie was "Don Juan," starring John Barrymore. 1945 The American B-29 bomber, known as the Enola Gay, dropped the first atomic bomb on an inhabited area. The bomb named "Little Boy" was dropped over the center of Hiroshima, Japan. An estimated 140,000 people were killed. (8:16am Japanese time) 1960 Nationalization of U.S. and foreign-owned property in Cuba began. 1962 Jamaica became an independent dominion within the British Commonwealth. 1965 The Voting Rights Act was signed by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson. 1969 The first fair ball to be hit completely out of Dodger Stadium occurred. Willie "Pops" Stargell, of the Pittsburgh Pirates, hit the ball 506 feet from home plate. 1981 Fire fighters in Indianapolis, IN, answered a false alarm. When they returned to their station it was ablaze due to a grease fire. 1986 William J. Schroeder died. He lived 620 days with the Jarvik- 7 manmade heart. He was the world's longest surviving recipient of a permanent artificial heart. 1989 Jaime Paz Zamora was inaugurated as the president of Bolivia. 1990 The U.N. Security Council ordered a worldwide trade embargo with Iraq. The embargo was to punish Iraq for invading Kuwait. 1995 Thousands of glowing lanterns were set afloat in rivers in Hiroshima, Japan, on the 50th anniversary of the first atomic bombing. 1996 NASA announced the discovery of evidence of primitive life on Mars. The evidence came in the form of a meteorite that was found in Antarctica. The meteorite was believed to have come from Mars and contained a fossil. 1997 Apple Computer and Microsoft agreed to share technology in a deal giving Microsoft a stake in Apple's survival. 1998 Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky spent 8 1/2 hours testifying before a grand jury about her relationship with U.S. President Clinton. 2012 The Mars rover Curiosity landed on the floor of Gale Crater. The Mars Science Laboratory/Curiosity spacecraft launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL, on November 26, 2011. 2019 Do smiled.