July Heatwave

This sorry excuse of a blog is what I'm going to get posted for July.  The heat has been quite intense for the entire month of July and we've had less than an inch of rain.  Needless to say, the lawn is looking brown and there is a lot of water needed around here.  In fact, I can think of maybe one or two cloudy days for the entire month of July - it simply was hot and clear most days.

Right now the Olympics are in full swing and I have been watching those as much as possible.  I absolutely love watching the competitions, regardless if I know what's going on or not.  I find it sad that people think the Olympics is a waste of time and money - I guess they never have had much desire to work hard and accomplish goals, because it's quite inspiring to see people that have sacrificed and worked hard compete against the best athletes in the world.  Then again, I've always been a proponent of athletics and to me it's never 'just a game.'  Most of the time, those people tend to be the types that have no desire to work hard and push their limits to see what they can really do.  A few quotes from Theodore Roosevelt might be appropriate to further my point:

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.


Until again

-=Nolan=-