Today FRIDAY with CM, August 17, 2012

Haiku by Robert Stone for August 17, 2012:

Well constructed lasts,
skill can never be taken
by opposing force.

--Robert Stone, Friday, 17 August 2012.
-1000 haiku countdown to Chambers Stevens' 50th birthday, Day 339, in progress

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Countdowns

• It's 1 days until the big Glens Fork Community Benefit for Pam Grant, at Trinity United Methodist Church's Davenport Fellowship Hall.
• It's 17 Days until Adair County's Premier Sports Event, the 6th Annual Wacky, Quacky Duck Race.
• It's 17 Days until the Hospital Tax Recall Petition Deadline

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Weather Today: Hazardous weather outlook Issued at 2:47amCT at National Weather Service in Louisville: "AS A FRONTAL BOUNDARY CROSSES THROUGH THE REGION TODAY...SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE MAINLY SOUTH OF THE BLUEGRASS AND WESTERN KENTUCKY PARKWAYS. ANY STORM WILL BE CAPABLE OF BRIEF HEAVY RAINS...GUSTY WINDS AND CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING."

Hazardous Weather, if any

The National Weather Service in Louisville, KY, has issued the following forecast for Columbia, KY. this forecast from update at 6:15amCT August 17, 2012

Today - A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 3pm. Cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny, with a high near 79. Light and variable wind becoming northwest 5 to 7 mph in the morning. Tonight

Tonight - Partly cloudy, with a low around 58. Light north wind.

Click to National Weather Service for Columbia, KY

The Kentucky Mesonet is The Commonwealth's Official Source for Weather and Climate Data.
Mesonet stations are live in: Adair - Casey - Cumberland - Metcalfe - Taylor

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Quick links to Sunday with CM Columns - plus some - your comments welcome on editorial choices - added since Sunday, but appropriate to Sunday with CM, items:
direct links to articles, columns, poems and/or photos possibly with other important links, are posted next:

• Tom Chaney. Books - Of Writers and Their Books No. R775 - a novelist and an historian look at Lincoln
• Chuck Hinman. Reminiscences -Chuck Hinman: IJMA No. 153 - Leaving the Nest and Early Days of Flying: Bird #2
• Carol Perkins. Humor - Carol Perkins: Chicken supper, literally
• Robert Stone. Poetry - Poetry by Robert Stone: The weaving of a song

This story was posted on 2012-08-17 06:34:04