It’s Dog Flatulance Appreciation Day! So Ladies… Make sure to slip your Husbands an extra treat today! (wink, wink!)

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More importantly… It’s Eclipse Day!

Later today, a total solar eclipse will temporarily leave parts of North America in complete and utter darkness as the Moon passes between the Earth and the Sun. Being scientific types - but also wanting to help out those less “astro-physics minded”, we did some research and came up with a visual aid we thought might help explain what’s happening for you. (And mostly, us).

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Eclipse Trivia Time…

Bonnie Tyler’s song “Total Eclipse of the Heart” has been all over the Radio waves this weekend… but there’s another song from the 70’s that made reference to the Celestial Event: Carly Simon’s 1972 hit, “You're So Vain”.

In the lyrics… Carly sings:

“Well I hear you went up to Saratoga

And your horse naturally won

Then you flew your lear jet up to __________

To see the total eclipse of the sun.”

WHERE DID HE FLY THE JET? (Answer below my sign off at the bottom!)

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Speaking of that song…

At the end of that verse… Carly sings,

“Well you’re where you should be all the time,

And when you’re not you’re with…

Some underworld spy,

Or the Wife of a Close Friend, Wife of a Close Friend and…

Your So Vain. You Probably think this song is about you…”

Well… back in the day my youngest daughters Jessica and Julie were convinced that “Wife of a close friend” was “Wife of the Postman”.

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That wasn’t as bad as Juice Newton’s 1981 cover of “Angel of the Morning”… Remember that line, “Just touch my cheek before you leave me”?. Yeah, well my daughters thought it was, “Just LICK MY TEETH before you leave me”.

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But I digress… Back to the Eclipse… Doctors warn that watching it with the naked eye could cause permanent damage to your vision.

Which is gonna be a real problem for Brittney Spears. These days, it seems she does pretty much EVERYTHING naked.

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The next Total Solar Eclipse in the United States won’t happen for 22 years… in 2044.

-To put that in perspective… in 2044, Joe Biden will be 103, Donald Trump will be 99 - and they’ll both be running for President.

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Former President Bill Clinton has a memoir coming out this fall about his life after the White House.

- No title yet, but we do know it’ll be a Pop-up book.

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In the last week… we had a 4.8 Earthquake in NY, New Jersey, and along the East Coast, Lightning struck the Statue of Liberty… and today, we’ve got the total Eclipse of the Sun.

- Well you know what they say… If Mother Nature aint happy, Ain’t NOBODY happy!

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Have a great day and I’ll see you back here Tuesday!

-Dick

*ANSWER: Nova Scotia