This is you wave back in case you miss the original.

Some people are just plain nice people. For that, I thank this aviator with a belated thank you in our cover-header image today.

Many things going on around the Metroplex of late. The latest was Stephen Millard, the founder of the Deep Ellum Arts Festival for the past 28 years is calling it quits. 

The  talk has resumed on the planned watershed between the levees from downtown to the Great Trinity Forest. We have been down that road already several years ago but it is beginning to sound like its finally going to get done. A filter wetland will be the first in the nation. It will filter rainwater before it is returned to the Trinity River. 

Fair opens for the annual run the last week of the month on the 30th and run into mid October, ending on October 23rd.  Basically, it's a three week run for fun. 

The weather pattern is finally shifting and it can't shift fast enough after a long and hot summer that came early and has stayed to long. 

I have begun the search for a new domain host for the webpage and the daily blog. The problems with the current one has gotten worse the past three years. It's time to find something better. 

 Went to a doctor's appointment yesterday that had been previously cancelled the day before I was due to go because the doc was in surgery. Yesterday was the make up and lasted longer than I had anticipated. Then when I got on the bus the route had been changed. I got off  at the old Valley View Mall in north Dallas and had to walk nearly two miles to the cross transfer. I finally made it home by past 5.  I was so tired that I went to bed at 8 pm and slept to 9:30 this morning. It felt pretty good to be able to sleep in, too.

Now, the object will be focused  on  watching the  Queen's funeral and the up coming King's Coronation. When Queen Elizabeth was  having her coronation, I was a just a lad and remember sitting on the living room floor in front of a black and white television in awe at the pomp but so interested with England at the time. That was, as we now know 70 years ago. So I almost feel obligated to watch the funeral.  Obligated because I have always respected her from afar. She was a class act in all that she did. There is  a chef here in Dallas that served for 15 years in  Buckingham Palace cooking for Her Majesty the Queen.   He said, today in an interview, "... she was the most gracious ever". 

God save the King.

 

End of the First Half

It does not seem like the first half of 2016 is getting ready to slam the door shut in just under three hours from where I sit. So, as this first half of the year ends, we can say about the same thing Queen Elizabeth II said to the PM of Ireland: "Well, I'm still alive,anyway.Ha", the Queen said.

 In 1952, I remember watching the Queen's coronation on television. It was in black and white and I am trying to recall, but I think it was a delayed broadcast because of the time difference. Technology was not up to our speed then, but of course, then, it was the latest gig. So, The Queen has had two birthdays and I'm only going to have one. "We've been quite busy. There's been quite a lot going on." she continued. Hear, Hear! I'll second that. I broke in thee new doctors and here I though I was only going to have one new doctor!

The past couple of days  have been spent lining up work that I can do while the heat hits Texas right on schedule. One of the weather quiz questions today was: what was the lowest daytime temperature  ever recorded on July 4th in Dallas? Well, as it turned out, it was 63 degrees F in 1924. That was 92 years ago. Mom would have been only a few days old. Then, tonight, I read an article about the sun spots going away and what that means. First it starts with no sun spots for a couple of days, then none for a couple of weeks and then none for several months. According to NASA, its the beginning of, or could be the start of a "mini ice age". It's called a Minimum sun vs. a Maximum sun. It's cyclical. Sun spots run a 11-year cycle more-or-less, give-or- take a year or two or thee, here or there.

It is to be hoped that you had a good first half of 2016 and the second half will be equal or even better than the first half.

This is a little different . Usually the American Flag is displayed. However, there has been so much going on this year that I have really been looking for new material that doesn't repeat a lot of what has been said. My admiration for the Queen has been a long running admiration and passing up the parallel on so many fronts, it had to be included.