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Rumblin’, Stumblin’, Bumblin’ Follower of Jesus, Husband, Dad, Son, Brother, Grandson, Friend. Love Our Boys in Blue. ForeverRoyal. OABAAB

[Dobber @DobberHockey]

Any leagues still have outstanding fantasy punishments? 😂

This guy finished 10th and had to go trick-or-treating in June until he got 10 pieces of candy. 🍬

That’s commitment to league rules.

#FantasyHockey #CommissionerLife

[80's & 90's Throwbacks @80s90sJukebox]

Ferris Bueller took his "Day Off" 41 years ago today. June 5th 1985. Happy Ferris Bueller Day #80s

[alex kershaw @kershaw_alex]

D-Day is underway. Some would argue that what's happening right now is the most daring and ultimately successful operation in the history of military Alliances.
Note: the majority of troops are friends of the US from eight countries. Eisenhower has been told that three-quarters of the 23,400 airborne troops will be lost. He's hoping that the prediction will be wrong.

[US Oil & Gas Association @US_OGA]

"Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking."

General Dwight D. Eisenhower, closing his Order of the Day to the troops --

Evening of June 5, 1944.

Share this tonight -- so people can remember that so much of what they enjoy today is in large part because of what happened 82 years ago tomorrow.

[Dudes Posting Their W’s @DudespostingWs]

81-year-old Kenton Brown completing a sub-30 time in the 200m dash is insane....

[The Iceman @the_iceman64]

90% of the soldiers on the first boats to hit the beach didn't live to see the end of the day. Look at those faces. Some of them never made it to 18.

Never forget that they paid the ultimate price for our freedom. We live our lives the way we do because of them.

[Rock History Live! @KTrain939913]

Today in Rock History

June 5, 1986
The iconic “Twist and Shout” parade scene from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off was set on June 5th and filmed during Chicago’s real Von Steuben Day parade. Director John Hughes cleverly integrated the scene into the actual annual German-American parade, using real participants and spectators. Matthew Broderick performed on a float while thousands joined in singing and dancing. The sequence remains one of the most joyful and memorable moments in 1980s cinema.

[alex kershaw @kershaw_alex]

It's 4.15 am in England. Ike says quietly, "Ok. Let's go." D Day is on. Here he is, 20 years later. @WWIIMemorial

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Shout out to everyone who didn't rake their leaves last fall.

The queen bumblebees, firefly larvae, moth pupae, and ground beetles in your yard overwinter in leaf litter. The pollinators you're seeing this summer are the generation that survived because you let the yard be messy.

The unraked yard is the productive one.

[Anne Rogers @anne__rogers]

Josh Rojas went 1-for-3 in Triple-A today, missed his first flight to Minneapolis, caught the second one, arrived at Target Field around the eighth inning and knocked in the winning runs for the #Royals in the ninth.

He called the day “adventurous.” Sums it up!

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

In 2014, while filming a movie, Jackie Chan discovered that a group of Mongolian locals knew every word to 'Rolling in the Deep' by heart... even though they didn’t speak English.
The beautiful moment was never part of the script.

[jeffgates @jeffgates]

Brilliant

[alex kershaw @kershaw_alex]

Goodbye to England. Many of the 73,000 US troops who will see action on D-Day, just 48 hours away, are now being ferried to troopships. Photo by the great Robert Capa. @WWIIMemorial

[jeffgates @jeffgates]

USA

[Rodney Smith Jr @iamrodneysmith]

Dear @WhiteHouse, my name is Rodney Smith Jr., founder of Raising Men & Women Lawn Care Service in Huntsville, Alabama. Through our 50 Yard Challenge, over 6,000 kids across the country have signed up to mow free lawns for the elderly, disabled, veterans, active-duty military, first responders, and single parents. With America celebrating its 250th birthday this year and me also being born on July 4th, I wanted to humbly ask if a few kids from our program and myself could travel to Washington, D.C. to help mow the White House lawn for this historic celebration.

More than anything, I want these kids to see how a simple act of service something as ordinary as mowing a lawn for someone in need can lead to extraordinary places. What better lesson in community service than showing them that helping others can take them all the way to our nation’s capital? I’d also love to bring my American flag-themed mower in hopes that the President might sign it, so I can later auction it off and donate 100% of the proceeds to a nonprofit supporting veterans. It would be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to highlight the importance of service, patriotism, and the impact young people can have when they choose to make a difference. 🇺🇸

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A backyard. One man guarding a grill for four hours.

He never left it once.

Everyone else drifted and drank and laughed. But one man stood alone before the flames, turning meat with a long fork, immovable. I knew him at once. The keeper of the sacred fire.

I took my place beside him and said nothing. After a while, he spoke.

"Low and slow," he said, eyes on the coals. "You can't rush it. Rush it, you ruin it."

I bowed my head. A blade, a tea, a life. None can be rushed. I had crossed four thousand miles to hear my grandfather's words from a man in a "KISS THE COOK" apron.

"Everything worth doing is slow," I agreed.

He glanced at me. Something passed between us.

"My wife says just use the oven." He shook his head at the fire. "She doesn't get it."

"They never do," I said.

And this is where it turned.

For the first time in years, this man had been understood. And he rose to meet it. His back straightened. His voice dropped low. A teenager reached for the grill and the man lifted one hand without even looking. "Not yet." The boy retreated. He was becoming what I already believed him to be.

A woman asked when the food would be done. "It's ready when it's ready," he told the flames.

Three people approached. Three were turned away with a single word. By the fourth hour, no one questioned him. The whole party had arranged itself around the man and his fire, the way a village arranges itself around a shrine.

Then he handed me the fork.

"Watch it a sec. I gotta pee."

I have been trusted with castles.

I have never been more honored.

He served everyone before himself, and ate last, standing, still watching the coals. We never traded names. We did not need to.

He believed he had finally met a man who took his cooking seriously.

I believed I had finally met America's last samurai.

Neither of us will ever correct the other.

So tell me, America.

Who is the man at your gathering who will not leave the grill?

Have you ever once asked him why?

I think he is still standing there.

Guarding the fire.

Waiting for one person to understand.

[Raising Healthy Families @thriving__kids]

😂😂

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

C.S. Lewis was spot on:

"Where the tide flows towards increasing State control, Christianity, with its claims in one way personal and in the other way ecumenical and both ways antithetical to omnicompetent government, must always in fact (though not for a long time yet in words) be treated as an enemy. Like learning, like the family, like any ancient and liberal profession, like the common law, it gives the individual a standing ground against the State."

[Boston Radio Watch®️ @bostonradio]

44 years ago today, June 3, 1982, students at Ridgemont High were taking/cheating on their final exams.

“Fast Times at Ridgemont High”(1982).

[Growing Up Retro @GrowingUpRetro]

The A-Team saves the day.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Most people start composting because they want better soil. There's a wildlife bonus most people never hear about.

An active compost heap is one of the best small habitats you can put in a backyard. The decomposing material attracts decomposer insects (beetles, millipedes, springtails, worms, woodlice) in numbers that nothing else in the yard can match. The insects attract predators: garter snakes, toads, salamanders, ground beetles, and the songbirds that eat them.

The warmth generated by decomposition (the center of an active heap can hit 140°F) creates a winter refuge that small mammals, snakes, and amphibians use to overwinter. Bumblebees sometimes nest in the loose material to start their spring colonies.

You don't need a sealed plastic bin, an open pile in a back corner, ideally partial shade, in direct contact with the soil, will do just fine. A wooden slatted bin works too. Sealed plastic tumblers and "compost machines" are effective at making soil, but they shut out the wildlife and trap the heat instead of letting larger animals access the warm edges.

What goes in: kitchen scraps (no meat or dairy), yard clippings, dead leaves, shredded paper, coffee grounds, eggshells.

What doesn't: anything sprayed with herbicide, dog or cat waste, anything you want to keep away from wildlife.

The compost heap is the rare yard project where doing it imperfectly actually works better than doing it "right."