STORM KNOCKS OUT POWER

Even though last nights storm was now where near as last weeks lightning show we lost power here in Colonial Heights for about 45 minutes. Apparently some trees fell on a line somewhere which caused the outage according to Virginia Power. The outage wasn't that widespread here in CH because AL & DONNA never lost power. Kurt Busch won yesterdays Nextel Cup race at Michigan which had been rain delayed since Sunday holding off Martin Truex for the victory. This weekend they will visit the always exciting Bristol Motor Speedway where I am sure some tempers will flair. The new kitchen is really starting to look like a kitchen again, there is stuff actually in the cabinets now, the only problem I am having so far is finding out where everything is in the cabinets. The have really made good progress on the new room the last two days, hopefully that progress will continue. MICKEY

Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.
Mitch Albom

1865 - William Sheppard of New York City patented liquid soap. Take a rubber ducky to lunch today.
1906 - The Victor Talking Machine Company of Camden, New Jersey began to manufacture the Victrola (record player). The hand-cranked unit, with horn cabinet, sold for $200. Records sold separately.
1947 - The college all-stars won for the first time in the annual charity football game between the Chicago Bears and a select team of college football standouts. The 14th annual game was played at Soldier Field in Chicago, IL.
1951 - The largest crowd to see a basketball game to that time -- 75,052 -- looked on as the Harlem Globetrotters performed before a non-paying crowd in Berlin’s Olympic Stadium.
1984 - The last Volkswagen Rabbit rolled off the assembly line in Westmoreland, PA. Over 11 million of the economical cars had been produced.
1989 - Nolan Ryan of the Texas Rangers fanned Rickey Henderson of the Oakland Athletics to become the first pitcher to strike out 5,000 batters. It happened in the fifth inning at 8:51 p.m. on a 3-2, 96-mph fastball. Ryan’s accomplishment prompted a one-minute, 25-second standing ovation from the sellout crowd of 42,869 at Arlington Stadium in Arlington, Texas.

Heart surgeon Dr. Denton Cooley is 87
Retired Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf is 73
Broadcast journalist Morton Dean is 72
Rockabilly singer Dale Hawkins is 71
Baseball Hall-of-Famer Carl Yastrzemski is 68
Actress Valerie Harper is 67
Football coach Bill Parcells is 66
Actress Cindy Williams is 60
Baseball Hall of Famer Paul Molitor is 51
Country singer Holly Dunn is 50
Country singer Collin Raye is 47
Actress Regina Taylor is 47
Singer Tori Amos is 44
Country singer Mila Mason is 44
Tennis player Mats Wilander is 43
Actress Jenna Leigh Green is 33