Today, SATURDAY with CM, August 18, 2012

Haiku by Robert Stone for August 18, 2012:

Lack of fear is strength.
Soft flesh can have a firm grasp.
Good use does not tire.

--Robert Stone, Saturday, 18 August 2012.
-1000 haiku countdown to Chambers Stevens' 50th birthday, Day 340, in progress

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Countdowns

• It's TODAY until the big Glens Fork Community Benefit for Pam Grant, at Trinity United Methodist Church's Davenport Fellowship Hall.
• It's 16 Days until Adair County's Premier Sports Event, the 6th Annual Wacky, Quacky Duck Race.
• It's 16 Days until the Hospital Tax Recall Petition Deadline

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Weather Today:

Special Weather Statement Issued at 3:23amCT at National Weather Service in Louisville: "...PATCHY DENSE FOG THIS MORNING... PATCHY FOG...SOME OF IT DENSE...WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY. THE FOG WILL PERSIST THROUGH AROUND SUNRISE. THE LOWEST VISIBILITIES WILL BE IN THE LAKE CUMBERLAND REGION THIS MORNING. WHEN DRIVING THROUGH FOGGY AREAS USE YOUR LOW BEAM HEADLIGHTS AND REDUCE YOUR SPEED.."

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 18, 2012

Today - Mostly sunny, with a high near 81. North wind 3 to 6 mph.

Tonight - Partly cloudy, with a low around 56. North wind around 6 mph becoming calm in the evening.

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 2012-08-18 05:57:42