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The boys

Had the boys yesterday

Ferdie got totally worn out

 

With all this rain...

You wouldn't think there'd be so much dust in the house, what good is humidity if it doesn't hold down the dust?

Anyway, thankfully this is the last day of June and its rainiest June on record here in St. Louis.

Interesting news bits

Lambert airport officials had a party of sorts yesterday while announcing the launch of 3 new non stop flights. Getting a non stop flight out of St. Louis is a cause for celebration since so many trips require a layover. The three new cities involved are Austin Texas, Portland Oregon and Jackson Tennessee. I understand the first two, but Jackson Tennessee? I had to do a search on this one. Jackson is halfway between Memphis and Nashville. Southwest to Austin, Air Choice One to Jackson and Alaska Air to Portland.

It's Chicago week at Busch Stadium for the Cardinals as they begin play against the White Sox after a weekend sweep of the Cubs. Dale is thrilled, being a lifelong Sox fan and because an actual White Sox game will be on his tv.

The latest acronym for the Washington DC area is DMV which stands for DC/Maryland/Virginia. Local news/weather/sports/blogs/Twitter are suddenly using this in their reporting. "It's looking like a beautiful day in the DMV."  ETC. While most of us think of DMV as the Department of Motor Vehicles, those places use a different title so it doesn't give many the chuckle it does us.

Television political ads may be fewer this coming election season as more and more advertisers are seeing a big benefit in online ads sent to phones on Facebook especially. With fewer people actually watching life TV and practically everyone using Facebook at some point during the day, this makes sense. it used to be political tv ads were the best way to reach senior citizens but now over one third of them are on Facebook and use digital devices regularly. The ads will be individually focused to each user. The cost saving is huge.

The St. Louis IKEA is set to have its GRAND OPENING on September 30. If other popular past local attractions are any indication, the crowds will be huge.

 

Best place to work

In the Post-Dispatch's annual special section, the Top Workplaces in St. Louis, Concordia Seminary made the list for the first time. This is pretty darn cool.

Be this

Understand...Be quick to listen, slow to speak.

Driveway part 3

Pretty much done except for removing the framing.

Hildebrand daily update

Mattresses 71  Ladders 67

A new mattress on the highway this morning.

The news is as gloomy as the weather

Listen to this, listen to that. Everywhere you turn there's another breaking news story with the usual commentary. Politics, crime, weather, sports, it's almost too much to absorb.

Man survives being struck by lightning twice

His name is Rod.

Chutzpah

Someone dumped almost a thousand tires on a family's farm in Minnesota in broad daylight. The family, as you might imagine, is not happy because now the problem belongs to them. They got a quote of 10 dollars a tire to have them removed and who has that kind of money.

But, thankfully "the Metropolitan Mosquito Control District has agreed to pick them up free of charge. They say that's what they do -- they recycle 20,000 to 30,000 tires a year because they're such a nesting breeding ground for mosquitoes."

One of the nerviest things I've read in a while.