Happy Birthday Mick Fleetwod, the  co-founder of Fleetwood Mac is 68.  The name of the band was merged with the name of the other co-founder, John McVie. Mick has been in Fleetwood Mac from its start as a British blues band in the ’60s.  The lanky Englishman has also done solo projects, penned an autobiography, played a record executive in Showtime’s made-for-cable movie Mister Music in ’99 and co-founded FleetwoodOwen, a company which conducts auctions of rock and roll memorabilia.

Imagine this kitty’s reaction when he realizes that he’s several thousand feet in the air. Poor cat. I think he used up 8 of his 9 lives.

This engineer’s son watches Dad drive train. It’s the first time he understands and realizes it’s daddy driving. He’s shaking with delight!

Laverne Cox of “Orange is the new black” has her own ice cream now. The “Three twins” ice cream company has created the flavor, “Chocolate orange is the new black”. It’s described as chocolate-orange confetti.

One of the infamous deflategate footballs used in the AFC championship game between the Patriots and the Colts is up for auction. Want to bid? It starts at $25,000. The auction ends July 17th.

Check Out The Auction Here

Happy birthday to Lindsay Wagner. The actress, known best for her role as the mechanically-reconstructed “Jaime Sommers” on the ’70s television series The Bionic Woman, turns 66 today.

How confident is America? A recent Gallup poll find that Americans have:

72 % confidence in our military, it’s down hill from there

52% in police

42% in organized religion

21% in tv news

28% in banks

and Congress has the distinction of what we have the least amount of confidence at 8%.

Panther is about 3 months old. He’s got a laid back personality, especially for a kitten. Panther just melts when you pick him up. He loves for you to talk sweet to him, play with  and explore the room.  He’s happiest to be next to his favorite person. Adopt him today at the Cookeville/Puntam County Animal Shelter on Gainesboro  Grade in Cookeville, just past the Hyder Burks Ag Pavilion.

Our nation was shocked to hear news of the shooting that killed nine innocent people at a historic black church in South Carolina on Wednesday. The alleged gunman was a 21-year-old white man, Dylann Storm Roof.  Darius Rucker of Hootie & The Blowfish fame and now a solo country artist is from Charleston, South Carolina. You can imagine how heartbroken Darius felt when learning about the recent event in Charleston. He tweeted: “I don’t know what to say. I am in utter shock. Thoughts and prayers to our community & those families affected by this horrible tragedy.” Our thoughts & prayers are also with Charleston and the families affected by this tragedy.

Eye doctors have some advice for everyone this summer. When you buy sunglasses make sure they have 100% U.V. protection. Oversized glasses are even better. Color or how dark they are doesn’t matter. Light color lenses can still have 100% U.V. Protection. You don’t have to spend a lot either. You can find $10 sunglasses that’ll do the trick.