Good morning.
It’s a cloudy day with a high of thirty-two ahead for Whitewater. In St. Louis, today will be a day of decreasing clouds and a high of forty.
On this day in 1986, a triumph of aviation:
the experimental airplane Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, completed the first non-stop, around-the-world flight without refueling as it landed safely at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
Google’s daily puzzle is a straight-forward one, and one that also points out how many and diverse are the uses of plants: “Strong, durable, and deciduous, with samara fruits that spin as they fall. What is the name of this tree that has many uses — it can be made into bats, violins and beautiful veneers?”