WoodWonderWall: June 2011

On June 28, 1953, workers at a Chevrolet plant in Flint, Michigan, assembled the first Corvette. The first completed production car rolled off the assembly line two days later, The cars were hand-built and techniques evolved during the production cycle, so that each 1953 Corvette is slightly different. All 1953 models had Polo White exteriors, red interiors, and black canvas soft tops. Over two-hundred 1953 Corvettes are known to exist today.

WOW! I COULD LIVE HERE.

IS IT WORTH IT?

DON'T EVEN ASK

Command Sargent Major of the Marine Corps Michael Barrett

"Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution is
pretty simple. It says, 'Raise an army.
' It says absolutely nothing about race,
color, creed, sexual orientation. You all
joined for a reason: to serve. To protect
our nation, right? How dare we, then,
exclude a group of people who want to
do the same thing you do right now,
something that is honorable and noble?
Right? Get over it. We’re magnificent,
we’re going to continue to be. Let’s just
move on, treat everybody with firmness,
fairness, dignity, compassion and respect.
Let’s be Marines." - Command Sergeant
Major of the Marine Corps, Michael Barrett,
speaking to troops in South Korea.

SUMMER BEGINS TOMORROW

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The summer solstice occurs at the moment the earth's tilt toward from the sun is at a maximum. Therefore, on the day of the summer solstice, the sun appears at its highest elevation with a noontime position that changes very little for several days before and after the summer solstice. In fact, the word solstice comes from Latin solstitium or sol (the sun) + -stit-, -stes (standing). The summer solstice occurs when the sun is directly over the Tropic of Cancer, which is located at 23.5° latitude North, and runs through Mexico, the Bahamas, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, India, and southern China. The sun will be directly over the Tropic of Cancer at 1116 am MDT on June 21, 2011. For every place north of the Tropic of Cancer, the sun is at its highest point in the sky and this is the longest day of the year.

There are two times of the year when the Earth's axis is tilted neither toward nor away from the sun, resulting in an equal amount of daylight and darkness at all latitudes. These events are referred to as equinoxes and occur near March 21 (Vernal Equinox) and near September 21 (Autumnal Equinox). At the equator, the sun is directly overhead at noon on the two equinoxes. The Vernal Equinox occurred at 521 pm MDT on March 21, 2011. The Autumnal Equinox will occur at 304 am MDT on September 2, 2011.