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That album is 50 years old this week.

The patch my daddy planted out from his house in the edge of my cousin's pines got hurricaned, then flattened by skidders when the pines got harvested. Now there are thousands of new waist high plants, all full of berries. So if you can spin up a hurricane or rent a skidder . . . . . . . . . ...

Even with all the rain we had a couple weeks ago, my corn is twisting from lack of water. I'm spending most of my time at the river house, so the garden is suffering the consequences. I do have some raised beds built down there now, and will be planting more corn as soon as the moon is waxing.

Dame Vera Lynn, whose song We’ll Meet Again became an anthem of hope and resilience during the second world war, has died aged 103. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jun/18/dame-vera-lynn-dies-aged-103

I've got another round of tomato plants about 6" tall that needs transplanting. We had about a week and a half of rain, and it did a number on the tomatoes and most of the viney stuff.

My Length of Day is 14 hours 7 minutes, with tomorrow being 4 seconds longer. Day after tomorrow is the summer solstice, and the next night the new moon. It makes me wonder do I wait till the tiny sliver of crescent moon rises before I dance naked and burn money. Or is OK to do it earlier in...

Another warm one. At 1710 it's fair, 90F with 42% humidity. Forecast low of 66F with 20% chance of rain tonight, 10% tomorrow and tomorrow night. 10 day high low of 95/66F with 3 days of possible rain. Last couple of nights have been real nice, with lows in the 60's. Back into the 70's after...

From 30 years ago last night, Grateful Dead 06/17/90 Shoreline Amphitheatre - Mountain View, CA Set 1: Shakedown Street Little Red Rooster Jack-A-Roe Easy To Love You Queen Jane Approximately Bird Song Promised Land Set 2: Iko Iko Picasso Moon Ship Of Fools Playin' In The Band Eyes Of The...

2008 - Phil Spector A Lost Angeles hotel filed a lawsuit against Phil Spector for failing to pay more than $100,000 (£61,000), in outstanding bills for lawyers and expert witnesses in his murder trial. The Westin Bonaventure Hotel claimed that by the time Spector's trial ended with a hung jury...

1977 - Johnny Rotten Johnny Rotten and Paul Cook of the Sex Pistols were stabbed and beaten when they were attacked in a car park outside a London pub. They objected to the Pistols' anti-monarchist song 'God Save the Queen'. The next day, another member of the Pistols, Paul Cook, was beaten by a...

June 18th 1948 - Columbia Records Columbia Records started the first mass production of the 33-RPM long player. The new format could contain a maximum of 23 minutes of music per side versus the three minutes that could be squeezed on to a 78 RPM disc.

1976 Blake Shelton, American Country Singer (Doin' What She Likes), born in Ada, Oklahoma

1960 West Arkeen, American musician, best known for co-writing several Guns N' Roses songs (It's So Easy, The Garden), born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France (d. 1997) 1963 Darren "Dizzy" Reed, American musician (Guns n' Roses-Sweet Girl of Mine)

1942 Carl Radle, American bass guitarist (Derek and the Dominoes), born in Tulsa, Oklahoma (d. 1980)

1942 Paul McCartney, English musician and member of The Beatles and Wings, born in Liverpool, England

Greens look good. We ate our first really good looking purple tomato at lunch today. (the first few split) On chicken sandwiches. Not sure what strain it is. Cousin sent the plant to me. Purple Heirloom was all the info that came with it. This was a couple three weeks ago.

I used to baby cuke, pumpkin and squash sprouts. I would put newspaper in the cup before I put in the dirt, so that when it was time to transplant, none of the roots would be entwined with roots from other plants. These days I plant the seeds in an open tray and dig the plants out with a...