Now, here’s an inviting one I saw at this site.

Der Bingle told me last week that The Farmer’s Almanac said this was to be a really hot summer. Up until the time he told me, it had been very cool. I said he’d jinxed us. I went to Indianapolis today in a car with a broken air conditioner and it was 90 degrees.

Oh, by the way I think this is Take a Gnome to ? Day; somehow they think they have to use French Silk ones to celebrate.

Well, I don’t feel so old when I think of my great-grandfather having been in the Civil War. This fellow is my mother’s paternal grandfather, George Shimp. I’m thinking her maternal grandfather may have been too young to go. My other two great-grandfathers served and I remember sleeping at my paternal grandma’s under a picture of her father in uniform. Once she asked, “Wasn’t he handsome?” She probably thought I would join the Daughters of the Union, but I think that organization faded away.

Now, in another bedroom was the picture of Roy – you remember Roy? No? Well, here’s HERE.