A GOOD NIGHTS SLEEP

Well after having a bad nights sleep on Sunday night I slept like a rock last night. I went to bed at about 10:30pm and didn't wake up at all until about 5:15am and I fell well rested this morning. Mom & dad kept Andrew yesterday and will keep him today as well, it seems they have a full day of eating planned starting with breakfast this morning. Last night we went to Cracker Barrel and then by Donna & Al's house for the birthday celebration for cake and ice cream, I had to pass on all the sweets. We missed another good chance to pick up some more rain yesterday in CH, some areas such as Dinwiddie picked up more than 2 inches while we barely got a drop here in CH. Can you believe that today is the last day of July, talk about a month going by fast, before you know it the school bells will be ringing again. There wasn't much done here at the house yesterday in construction process, the next big thing they are suppose to do is put the kitchen floor in. MICKEY

Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.
Colin Powell

1792 - Construction started with the laying of the cornerstone in the first building to be used solely as a U.S. Government building. It was the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia.
1948 - New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport wasn’t always named that. In fact, on this day, U.S. President Harry S Truman dedicated the airport as International Airport at Idlewild Field.
1964 - Country Music Hall of Famer Jim Reeves died when his single-engine Beechcraft crashed near Nashville, TN. Gentleman Jim started as a DJ, first at KGRI in Henderson, Texas; then at KWKH in Shreveport, LA (the home of the Louisiana Hayride in the early 1950s).
1971 - The first men to ride in a vehicle on the moon did so on this day in the LRV (lunar rover vehicle). This example of a lunar dune buggy carried Apollo 15 astronauts David R. Scott and James B. Irwin for five miles on the lunar surface. Their first stop at the rim of Elbow Crater was televised back to Earth to millions of viewers. The moon ride lasted two hours and the astronauts were heard to exclaim, “There’s some beautiful geology out there!”
1999 - The U.S. heat wave -- linked to at least 94 deaths -- continued. As Chicago baked in 100-degree weather, thousands of hot and sweaty residents were forced to endure the heat without air conditioning or fans, due to sporadic power outages and brownouts.

Actor Don Murray is 78
Actor Geoffrey Lewis is 72
Actress Susan Flannery is 64
Singer Lobo is 64
Singer Gary Lewis is 62
Tennis player Evonne Goolagong Cawley is 56
Actor James Read is 54
Actor Michael Biehn is 51
University of Nebraska football coach Bill Callahan is 51
Actor Wesley Snipes is 45
Country singer Chad Brock is 44
Author J.K. Rowling is 42
Actor Dean Cain is 41
Actor Loren Dean is 38
Actress Annie Parisse is 32
Actor Robert Telfer is 30
Singer Shannon Curfman is 22