Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for July 04, 2016

“You get a real good view of the body.”. Happy Independence Day to my fellow American readers. For the rest of you, it’s just another Monday.

And she’ll never be able to be rid of him until she dies, either.

We each get to strut and fret our hour upon the stage, as Shakespeare put it. So, the curtain falls on good old Dick. Or, as Arthur Miller put it, we get “the use of the house” (life) for our personal drama, but we get to play only a limited number of roles.

And here I sit in my rural Texas home with the windows open,nice breeze. got the sprinkler going in the garden. Got the coffee on. Cats came in for a rub and a belly tickle . Suns coming up and alls right right in my world.

So birders are an odd lot I take it?

A todos mis amigos en los Estados Unidos:FELIZ el 4 de JULIO !!

weakstream said, “For those of you living on the equator,what does your sun dial look like?”.It would make an angle 23.5 degrees to the south of the vertical at noon on the northern hemisphere’s summer solstice, with the sun directly over the Tropic of Cancer..It would make an angle 23.5 degrees to the north of the vertical at noon on the southern hemisphere’s summer solstice, with the sun directly over the Tropic of Capricorn..It would be straight down at noon on each equinox, with the sun directly over the equator..Smooth variations between those points..The dial itself could be anything raised above the surface and casting a shadow..Having gotten this far, I notice there is a picture of an equatorial sundial athttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundial.whodathunk?

Meet Jeremy Cavendish!And so, her punishment begins…

To continue; Its 8:50 in the evening and Im setting with a bitof madeira awaiting our trip to Jupiter. I would like to thank

you gentlemen, Linguist, Jack and Lefty for an altogetherinsightful day Thank you

And David (sorry)