Thursday, 7:30 am: Here it is, almost the end of June and a few days into summer; I can’t keep up with it all. Supposedly I try and stay on top of things, but lately I have let it slide: It didn’t make any difference. Not to be misunderstood; I still work, just at a slower pace. The four day turnaround for mowing our lawn is due tomorrow, so there is actually something on my schedule for tomorrow. Bahh – schedules!

Ruth and I in Berlin in the mid-1980s

It’s the 60th anniversary of the Berlin Airlift. Ruth and I were at Tempelhof and Gatow airports when we lived in Bavaria. These were the two airports which American and British aircraft flew into during the Airlift. Tegel Airport was later constructed by the French. Flying into Berlin in the 1980s, on Pan Am Airlines, we enjoyed air-conditioned comfort and dry roasted peanuts. It certainly was much, much different in 1948. It’s difficult to imagine it back then. I have to ask my extended family in Berlin about it to fill in the blanks and add their human touch to history; actually their history.

Ultimately we are here in northern Maine and there are no candy bombers here, only Border Patrol helicopters to keep us safe from something. I think I saw a local airplane fly over last week, or was it the week before? He could have been lost.

Current values from our wireless Davis Vantage-Pro weather station:

Temperature: 63.6° [F.]

Barometer: 29.776 & steady

Humidity: 85%

Wind: Calm

Visibility: > 3 miles

Skies: Generally light overcast

Precipitation: None

Since midnight:

Low temperature: 58.5° [F.] at 2:15 am

High wind: 6 mph at 12:21 am