August Persona

Dog Days

AUGUST IS WEEKS OF REMAINING SUMMER
(and possibly tornadoes, where I live),
YET TOWARD THE END HINTS AT THE WINTER APPROACHING
(unless you're one of those south-of-the-equator people)

National Water Quality Month
National Sandwich Month
National What Will Be Your Legacy Month

What Will Your Legacy Be Month is a month for people to reflect on their past and present actions and vow to make positive changes that will affect generations. We have to remember the seeds, whether positive or negative, that we plant in our children's lives. This observance is about making the right choices so our children and their children will make the right choices. Everything we do will grow and reflect our teachings. So teach your children well.

Happy kids eating sandwiches

If last month was National Hot Dog Month, and this month is National Sandwich Month, does this prove the old argument that a hot dog is not a sandwich?

For National Water Quality Month, I was going to put up a picture of a polluted stream or brown water coming out of a tap, but all the pictures were all so ugly and horrible I just didn't want to sully this post with them. So here's this:

Honeyeater Bird drinking from tap
Amazing high speed photographs of honeyeater birds catching water droplets in midair as they fall out of a tap — Daily Mail

This month "was originally named Sextilis in Latin because it was the sixth month in the original ten-month Roman calendar…. About 700 BC, it became the eighth month when January and February were added to the year before March by King Numa Pompilius, who also gave it 29 days. Julius Caesar added two days when he created the Julian calendar in 46 BC (708 AUC), giving it its modern length of 31 days. In 8 BC, it was renamed in honor of Augustus. According to a Senatus consultum quoted by Macrobius, he chose this month because it was the time of several of his great triumphs, including the conquest of Egypt.^[2]—Wikipedia