Summer arrives at 1:16pm today but the thermometer has announced its been around a lot longer...lots of 100 or upper 90s days over the last two weeks....
This is also the longest day of the year and Druids used to dance around sacred oaks or rocks after painting themselves blue. Now we play baseball...or if you are the Pittsburgh Pirates, you stand around in the open space of PNC Park and watch the other teams score runs. Maybe I am being too hard on them...they are 35-37 and only 2.5 games out of first so they might have a chance at their first winning season since 1992....
Tomorrow is Michelle's birthday and it is also the start date of my "favorite" war: The German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. Apparently Napoleon attacked Russia on the same day in 1812 but I have also seen June 24 cited. But I am an historian of Ancient Greece and Rome and I must tell you that Hannibal massacred a Roman army at Lake Transimene on this day in 217 BC.
If you are a fan of the Romans, don't fret over Transimene. On June 22 in 168 BC, the Romans defeated Macedonia at Pydna
Happy Summer Solsitice
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