HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD

Well today is dad's birthday and he is 66 years old today and he is spending his birthday at the beach. I have posted a couple of photos of dad taken in the last few months, again HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD. If there any fellow bloggers who want to be reconized on there birthday on Mickey's Place e-mail the date of your birthday, there are a few members that I don't know when there birthday is. Jeff Burton is on the pole for today's race at the Brickyard and his teammate Clint Boyer is with him on row 1. Last night Kevin Harvick won the Busch Race at ORP, it looks like Harvick will win the Busch Series title this year unless he totally collapses down the stretch. I have replaced dad's birthday counter with a teachers back to work in CH counter for Donna for she will know exactly how much time she has left on summer vacation. For those of you who need to see some football the Raiders and the Eagles will play in the Hall of Fame game tonight on NBC, it's hard to watch these exhibition games. I understand that fellow blogger Gary went to the American Idol concert last week in Richmond and we didn't get a single report on how the concert was from Gary here on Mickey's Place, did he not want us to know that he went? MICKEY

I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.
Jack Welch

1890 Hall-of-fame pitcher Cy Young made his major league debut with the Cleveland Spiders of the National League.
1945 the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, that instantly killed an estimated 66,000 people in the first use of a nuclear weapon in warfare.
1978 Pope Paul VI died at Castel Gandolfo in Italy at age 80.

High School baseball coach and retired educator Robert Goulder 66
Country musician Mark DuFresne (Confederate Railroad) is 53
Country singers Peggy and Patsy Lynn are 42
Actor (''Cold Case'') Jeremy Ratchford is 41
Country singer Lisa Stewart is 38

2004 Rick James, Singer, Super Freak, dies at 54
1991 Harry Reasoner, newscaster (60 Minutes), dies at 68
1987 Sherwood Bailey, actor (Spud-Our Gang), dies at 64