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Daily Bread for 9.3.12

Good morning.

Labor Day in Whitewater will be sunny and hot, with a high of ninety.

From LiveScience.com, a tiger mom (the real kind) and her cubs are caught on camera in Thailand:

On this day in 1976, the Viking 2 lander touched down on Mars.

Viking 2 on Mars, NASA via Wikipedia

Viking 2 on Mars, NASA via Wikipedia

On this day in 1970, VInce Lombardi passed away:

On this date famed Green Bay Packer coach, Vince Lombardi, died at the age of 57. Lombardi played college football at Fordham, where he was one of the legendary “Seven Blocks of Granite.” Lombardi served as coach and general manager for the Green Bay Packers from 1959 to 1967. He directed the team to five NFL championships in seven years (1961-62 and 1965-67). His 1966 and 1967 teams also made history by winning the first two Super Bowls. Lombardi’s Green Bay career was celebrated in this 1968 commemorative.

Google’s daily puzzle asks about a telephone code for a faraway place: “What city code do you dial to call the capital of the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea?”

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11 years ago

I can’t believe how quickly the summer went and that today is already Labor Day. Those brief tidbits of history also reminded me of how fast the years have flown by. I have no idea what the answer to Google’s daily puzzle and am wondering what that telephone code is.