Daily Quote: August 1, 2021

Question everything.

~Maria Mitchell (American – Scientist August 1, 1818 – June 28, 1889)

Holidays and Celebrations:

  • Emancipation Day
  • National Girlfriends Day

Porte Musings:

Like a light at the end of a tunnel, we have come through Harold’s Cancer Surgery and things are starting to get back to normal. He’s home and able to go upstairs to bed. The follow-up appointments will let us know if chemo is needed, but the prognosis is good as the surgeon didn’t see any spread to the lymph nodes.

We met his “new” biological Sister and Brother last week for lunch. Just a warning to anyone thinking about getting a DNA test from Ancestry.ca, you may not find as good of a family connection as Harold did, and the results can be upsetting. His one sister still doesn’t believe the DNA is right and refuses to acknowledge that Harold has the same mother, but a different father.

Harold and his newly discovered Biological Sister and Brother.

Daily Quote: August 1, 2020

Study as if you were going to live forever;
live as if you were going to die tomorrow.
~ Maria Mitchell (American – Scientist August 1, 1818 – June 28, 1889)


Emancipation Day

(Canada)

World Scout Scarf Day


Many flowers put all their energy into a 1 day bloom.  Okra is one of these.  It has beautiful yellow flowers for just 1 day.  Then 5 days later the fruit is ready to pick and eat.