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An old man lives alone on a farm in Idaho... He wants to spade his potato garden, but he is getting older, and it has become very difficult for him. His only son, Bubba, who used to help him, was in prison. So, the old man wrote a letter to his son and described his predicament. "Dear Bubba, I am feeling pretty bad because it looks like I won’t be able to plant my potato garden this year. I’m just getting too old to be digging up a garden plot. If you were here, all my troubles would be over. I know you would dig the lot for me."

A few days later he received a letter from his son. "Dear Dad, for heaven’s sake, don’t dig up that garden, that’s where I buried the BODIES!"

At 4 o'clock the next morning, F.B.I. agents and local police showed up at the old man's farm and dug up the entire area without finding any bodies. They apologized to the old man and left. That same day the old man received another letter from his son... "Dear Dad, You can go ahead and plant the potatoes now."

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1633 - Galileo Galilei recants his "heretical" position that the Earth orbiting the Sun is at odds with the Bible and church teaching (Vatican apologizes in 1992 for how it handled the case).

1675 - Royal Greenwich Observatory is established in England by King Charles II.

1772 - Somerset v Stewart court case finds slavery unsupported by English common law, encouraging the abolitionist movement.

1848 - Beginning of the June Days uprising in Paris by French workers.

1865 - The CSS Shenandoah fires the last shot of the American Civil War in the Bering Strait to indicate surrender.

1934 - John Dillinger is informally named America's first Public Enemy Number One.

1941 - Operation Barbarossa: Nazi Germany and its allies invade the Soviet Union during World War II, the largest military operation in history.

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1936: Rock and Country singer Kris Kristofferson was born on this day.

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🌵National Chocolate Eclair Day - Well, looks like I got a trip scheduled for Olsen's!!

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WNTS Digest - 10th Anniversary

I started writing The Digest in the third quarter of 2015. I was filling in as temporary General Manager until we could find a permanent one to take over the leadership of the store. I had some time on my hands and was kicking around how to fill it when I remembered an idea I saw in a hotel in Winslow, Az. called La Posada. In the lobby, they had a chalk board and on it was some simple trivia that happened on that day as well as the weather forecast of sunny, hot, cold rainy or whatever the day was going to bring. I stole some of those ideas and came up with the WNTS Digest. As I was temporarily living at the time in Why, I would spend some time each morning putting together those trivia facts, weather, a cute Pet Picture of the Day from Freekibble.com and an ad hoc picture of something I talked about in the Digest. I would then print the two pages out and tack it to our Bulletin Board in front of the store. The two pictures to the left are from a copy of the Digest that was published in or around February 2016. Eventually we found a permanent GM and I went back to my home in Northern California. A few months later, I was asked to stand up a website for the store and because I didn’t need to be at the site, I was able to do my work in California. When designing the site, I wanted to incorporate the concepts of The Digest. It had paused publication when I moved and here was an opportunity to bring it back in electronic form.

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So, over the years, I made a few changes to the format, but it is still has the basic constructs I started out with. The ‘Weather’ report was discontinued due to not having a viable good option for displaying current conditions and forecast. Perhaps that will change and the weather will be put back in. If it is, it would be better on the home page and not The Digest. But, we kept Today in History, Born on this Day, Today is (national quirky holidays), moved Pet Picture of the Day to its’ own page, which later became a contest for Pet of the Month. The static graphic that referenced something in The Digest became “Why Nutts!!” and transitioned into a YouTube related video to something I referenced in The Digest. We added a ‘Quote of the Day’ but transitioned that into ‘Joke of the Day’.

And that is how we got here and looking for the next ten years!!

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Our Tenth Year of Publishing the WNTS Digest 🕙

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