I’m glad the rain stopped by the time I walked out to the bus stop as I seem to to have misplaced yet another umbrella. I don’t know how this always happens. Now we are up to 45 degrees on the way up to 54. We certainly are not done for the rain for the day but it looks like the wind will drop down a bit.

Tonight sunset is at 7:33 pm. Waxing Crescent Moon with 1/3 visible until 10:30 pm. More rain tonight, 43 degrees. Kind of a wet start to the week but the week will get progressively nicer.

Today marks 10 weeks until the first official day of summer. It will be here before you know it. It’s also seven weeks until Memorial Day and 12 weeks until Independence Day. But who’s counting? Lots of Monday holidays this year.

Today in 1970, Apollo 13 launches. Things would go disastrously wrong on this space mission but due to some fly by the seat of your pants engineering, everybody would make it home alive.

Today in 1968 the housing discrimination law was passed ensuring equal access to housing to a wide variety of minorities. It was the last major piece of civil rights legislation approved as part of the Great Society package promoted by Lyndon Johnson.