Good morning, Whitewater.
Saturday in town will be cloudy with a one-in-five chance of scattered showers throughout the day, and a high of sixty-six. Sunrise is 7:19 and sunset 5:58, for 10h 38m 18s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 87.3% of its visible disk illuminated.
What happens when a Great Dane jumps on a pool cover. Something like this happens, if the Great Dane is Nessie, a one-hundred forty pound canine —
This is a safety cover! Nessie aka the Loch Ness Monster, a Blue Great Dane, is 140 pounds. Since she was a few months old, she has loved leaping around and resting her bones on this cover. Sometimes we all get on it and play tag with her. : To use this video in a commercial player or in broadcasts, please email licensing@storyful.com So a note about the safety: about twenty years ago when I first got a cover like this, they advertised them with two football teams playing against each other on it. We’ve had ten to fifteen people on it a few times. Nessie has played on it since she was about three months old. A tornado once smashed my fence and a three storey pine tree into it; never has a hole, a tear, or anything dangerous occurred. I installed this new one and designed this set up specifically to keep animals (and people) safe. I never encourage her or anyone to play on it and prefer it if they don’t, however I do trust it when it happens and am always there with Nessie. My only worry is her playing too hard, since Great Danes are more fragile in some ways than people think. They have statistically short lives, which is tragic. Nessie’s health, wellness, and safety has and always will be a top priority, because I love her and want to give her the longest, fullest life possible. Hence, I’m going to ignore the negativity by responding to specifics. She’s safe! Please enjoy her, she’s beautiful inside and out- I think her sheer joy and exuberance says it all.
Via Marci M @ YouTube.
On this day in 1901, Annie Taylor takes a plunge:
…a 63-year-old schoolteacher named Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to take the plunge over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
After her husband died in the Civil War, the New York-born Taylor moved all over the U. S. before settling in Bay City, Michigan, around 1898. In July 1901, while reading an article about the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, she learned of the growing popularity of two enormous waterfalls located on the border of upstate New York and Canada. Strapped for cash and seeking fame, Taylor came up with the perfect attention-getting stunt: She would go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
Taylor was not the first person to attempt the plunge over the famous falls. In October 1829, Sam Patch, known as the Yankee Leaper, survived jumping down the 175-foot Horseshoe Falls of the Niagara River, on the Canadian side of the border. More than 70 years later, Taylor chose to take the ride on her birthday, October 24. (She claimed she was in her 40s, but genealogical records later showed she was 63.) With the help of two assistants, Taylor strapped herself into a leather harness inside an old wooden pickle barrel five feet high and three feet in diameter. With cushions lining the barrel to break her fall, Taylor was towed by a small boat into the middle of the fast-flowing Niagara River and cut loose.
Knocked violently from side to side by the rapids and then propelled over the edge of Horseshoe Falls, Taylor reached the shore alive, if a bit battered, around 20 minutes after her journey began. After a brief flurry of photo-ops and speaking engagements, Taylor’s fame cooled, and she was unable to make the fortune for which she had hoped. She did, however, inspire a number of copy-cat daredevils. Between 1901 and 1995, 15 people went over the falls; 10 of them survived. Among those who died were Jesse Sharp, who took the plunge in a kayak in 1990, and Robert Overcracker, who used a jet ski in 1995. No matter the method, going over Niagara Falls is illegal, and survivors face charges and stiff fines on either side of the border….