8/6/26 - Pumpkin....TOO SOON, A Long Organ Concert, and Sardine Manicures.

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Thursday 8/6/26

Celebrate:

Balloons to Heaven Day

Corporate Baby Name Day

Farmworker Appreciation Day

Hiroshima Day (also No Nukes Day)

Mom's Equal Pay Day

National Fresh Breath Day

National Gossip Day

National IPA Day

National Root Beer Float Day

Wiggle Your Toes Day

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Skywatchers are preparing for a rare double celestial event on August 12, when a total solar eclipse coincides with the peak of the Perseid meteor shower. Because the eclipse aligns with a dark New Moon phase, night skies will be unusually dark for meteor viewing.

Don't get to excited; the totality line runs through Greenland, Iceland, and Northern Spain. The UK, Ireland, and France will have a great view as well.

It's only the single digits of August, so why not Pumpkin Spice News?

A seasonal favorite of Ben & Jerry, considered the G.O.A.T of Ice Cream has been spotted in stores!

It's actually Pumpkin Cheesecake, and it did get an upgrade with graham cracker swirl.

A small church organ in Halberstadt, Germany, continues its performance of John Cage's piece "ORGAN2/ASLSP" (As Slow as Possible). The performance started in 2001 and is scheduled to play continuously for 639 years (2640), with its next chord change not planned for several months.

A rare chord change on Wednesday — from seven notes to eight — represented the completion of about 4% of the 639-year endeavor of the John Cage Organ Project Halberstadt.

While the project commenced in 2000, the performance began Sept. 5, 2001 — Cage’s 89th birthday — with a silent pause that lasted until Feb. 5, 2003, when the first chords could actually be heard.

More than 150 people squeezed inside the church Wednesday to witness what was the piece’s 17th chord change, with dozens more watching a livestream outside.

For three minutes, the crowd listened to the “old” chord with its seven pipes. Then, an eighth pipe was slotted into the small organ, bringing with it a new sound that reverberated throughout the church. The spectators listened for another three minutes — some filming with cellphones, others taking it all in with their eyes closed and heads bowed — before breaking out into applause and cries of “bravo!”

The next chord change will take place on Oct. 5, 2027, when the overall sound will be reduced by releasing the E4 pipe.

Inheritable “final tickets” for the Sept. 4, 2640, finale are already being sold for 2,640 euros ($3,045).

Residents in a small Canadian municipality are finally breathing a sigh of relief as local authorities successfully removed an abandoned vat of decaying fish sauce. The pungent container had stunk up the nearby neighborhood for years. About 110 tanks that were left behind — each holding 3,000 gallons of fermented fish sauce — when the Atlantic Seafood Sauce Company was abandoned more than 20 years ago.

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Want to be trendy down to your nails???

It's the sardine manicure.