Good morning.
Saturday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of 81. Sunrise is 5:53 and sunset is 8:06 for 14 hours 13 minutes of daylight. The moon is a waning crescent with 23 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1786, Jacques Balmat and Michel-Gabriel Paccard climb Mont Blanc on the French-Italian border for the first time.
It’s not my inclination to celebrate every holiday a private group fashions, seemingly out of the blue (e.g., Tin Can Day, Carrot Cake Day, Ferris Wheel Day, Jelly Bean Day).
And yet, and yet, are there not justifiable exceptions to most practices and habits? (In the same way that one sometimes weighs principles as presumptive and not conclusive.)
Well, yes — it’s International Cat Day:
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Upcoming posts (in no decided order): A New Ethics Ordinance and a Whitewater Comparative Analysis.
Meanwhile, capybaras caught roaming government building in Brazil: