Good morning! Today is Make Your Dreams Come True Day. It is currently mostly sunny and 22 degrees in Delmar. Today will have a chance of snow showers, mainly before 10am. Partly sunny, with a high near 23. Breezy, with a northwest wind 17 to 23 mph, with gusts as high as 44 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Total daytime snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible. Sunset will be at 4:45 pm with twilight at 5:16 pm which is one minute and 9 seconds later then yesterday.

There are currently 300 days until Election Day when the political silly season comes to an end. I know a lot of people will be looking forward to Election Day coming and going. Partisans had a lot of fun spinning the president’s speech.

This day in 1966, Robert C. Weaver becomes the first African American Cabinet member when he is appointed United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development by Lyndon Johnson. He would be proceeded by Nixon appointee George Romney in 1969. Robert J. Wood was an interim replacement for about a month between the two. Funny to think our first black president is wrapping up his final year in office, while it was only fifty years ago that we had our first black cabinet member.

On this Make Your Dreams Come True Day, what are you doing towards that purpose? I suspect that buying a lottery ticket will not get you closer to your dreams but saving money and developing a plan for a better tomorrow will. I’m a bit short on plans for the short term but I want to eventually get away from the big city.