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Working on finishing Front Runner: The Life Of Steve Prefontaine, about the famous 70s track runner. It's been pretty good, although it has that choppy feel that sometimes happens when people that write newspaper columns switch to writing a whole book . I was around at the time but young, so I didnt know his full story and how the strictness of the AAU restricted running careers at the time. It's an interesting book.

They are lucky to have you in the library! I worked at the checkout desk in our public library for quite a few years before I left due to health reasons; i still miss it.

Ooh, thanks for the YouTube tip!

I was going to stream it today because i thought it was $19.99 but it was $29.99 and a girl has her limits, lol! So glad it went off well, though. Ozzy was sitting in a black throne but did well and Sabbath finished up with playing "War Pigs", "N.I.B.", "Ironman" and "Paranoid." This article from the Guardian really seems to catch the whole spirit of it. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jul/06/black-sabbath-and-ozzy-osbourne-back-to-the-beginning-review-all-star-farewell-to-the-gods-of-metal-is-epic-and-emotional

Thanks, I like music podcasts!

Hendrix vote here!

RIP, Cobra! He played eleven years for Pittsburgh and was so much fun to watch in games! Great hitter and had a terrific arm on him as well when fielding. It was just awesome to see him unleash a good hit. I have his autograph around somewhere. I remember getting it because he was physically huge- he was about 6'5" and had to lean wayyy over to sign my program. (Nice guy that day to stop and sign also since it wasn't autograph day and we were just rotten kids hanging around the players' parking lot after a game. It was a simpler time. ) It's pretty sad that he didnt live a little longer to enjoy his induction ceremony at Cooperstown. RIP, Mr. Parker.

Noooooo . We had so much before this heat! I have a lot of cone flowers, normally they are knee high, from all the rain they are waist high! Expecting dinosaurs next!

Happy Birthday custom55! Have a great one- I hope you have some excellent concerts lined up for this summer!

I was so sad to see this today! RIP, Mick ! You will be missed!

I had to look it up! Looks like an evergreen? I usually dig stuff out with a trowel or hori hori knife. Not against poison once in a long while though! Brush B Gone!

Oh, wow! That's high! My plan for weeding tomorrow is getting up early. All the rain and then heat have made them crazy!

Last Sunday and most of last week it was cold and rainy in Pennsylvania. We had to wear sweatshirts at our Father's Day cookout. Suddenly it's 99 degrees (37.2 C) and HOT! What's it like in your neck of the woods? Stay cool everyone!

His blogs and website were great; they were sure interesting to read. I miss him, too, I never thought he would be gone so quickly.

I've seen these videos on his social media- they're very powerful!

Thanks, RFF! I will try to watch these!

This is the toughest one so far, I think! I'm still trying to decide!

Oooh, yeah, I forgot that I like Tygers of Pan Tang! No, just tigers! We have seen them at the National Zoo and they're so beautiful. Sharks are pretty cool but I don't know if I like them that much? Shark week once a year is probably enough. Apes are interesting too, just not one that comes to the top of my list for some reason?

Lol I thought narwhals were fake like unicorns until I was 35! So I'm a little slow to catch on to some things! 1. Cats 2. Dogs 3. Wild birds/songbirds/waterbirds, especially owls 4. Hamsters 5. Dolphins and narwhals 6. Zebras 7. Giraffes 8. Polar bears 9. Tropical fish 10. Weird woodland stuff like porcupines, opossums, badgers

I was hoping to see narwhals in there and then I read Antartica . . . . . . .

Saw this today and figured you would appreciate it! https://youtube.com/watch?v=Hlieo6mM7rk&pp=ygUZUGVlIHdlZSBzYWx1dGVzIHNseSBzdG8gZQ%3D%3D

Stand is a great song!

Congratulations to the happy couple and family!

No; I like the Rocky movies but he doesn't land with me like Sly

Sad news. Sly Stone, the funk/rock/psychedelia pioneer, has passed away from COPD. If you have ever heard Everyday People, Dance To The Music, or I Wanna Take You Higher, you've heard his genius! He and his band are one of those ones I could listen to all day. There was a great documentary on Hulu this winter that's still available, called Sly Lives- The Burden Of Black Genius. It's worth a watch to see him and his band in action! They are also the standout performance in Summer of Soul, the Questlove documentary about the Harlem Arts Festival of 1969. It's really good as well. He also dealt with being celebrated as a music genius from the time he was a child in gospel groups, and it was tough for him in some ways. He had a very long period of trouble with guns and drugs. (For awhile, before Guns n Roses hit, Duff McKagan lived in a sleazy apartment down the hall from Sly. A memorable line from Duff's autobiography is his girlfriend yelling frequently' "Duff! Get that crack smoking dude out of our bathroom!" Sly's own girlfriend wouldnt let him smoke in their place and Duff didnt have the heart to turn him away.) https://variety.com/2025/music/news/sly-stone-dead-funk-rock-pioneer-family-stone-1236423831/