With the summer in full swing, an old backyard nemesis has reared its head... thankfully it's not the skunks, who have been leaving the yard relatively hole free (I think the dog has established a firm dominance over the backyard), but the dreaded mimosa tree. Somewhere in the past couple of weeks it started blooming, and now we are already getting huge clumps of hairy pinkish purple mimosa flowers on the deck and lawn. This begins a six month shedding cycle for this tree that will next involve pea-pod-style seed droppings, and of course the inevitable leaves in the fall. Of course all the cleaning up under the tree will pay off once we work out how we get it to start dispensing those orange champagne cocktails, but we haven't quite figured out how to get that going yet.

R.I.P.: Baseball Legend Ted Williams Dies.

Story of the Day:	The £1m 'doner kebab'. Thanks Tony T. Town Fights to Save James Dean's High School. Thanks theAntiELVIS. The return of the seagulls. Thanks again theAntiELVIS.
Wild Science:	New Metal Alloy Is Super Strong. Thanks [MP] Wolverine [MP].
Image of the Day:	The Caffeine Machine on PimpRig.com. Thanks Adam.