Dec 3



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Dec. 3, 2019 Week: 49  Day: 337
86004:   H 48° \ L 27° \ Average Sky Cover: 80%

Nearest active fire:  297mi.  Nearest lightning:  1279mi
Wind:   0mph\Gusts:  0mph  Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 67°[1977]   Record Low: -2°[1968]
Dec. Averages: 44°\17° (5 days with moisture)

Today’s Quote

“Confidence isn’t thinking
you are better than everyone else,
it’s realizing that you have no reason
to compare yourself to anyone else.”
~ Maryam Hasnaa

Observances This Week

Thru 12/4
American Sand Sculpting Competition Link

1-7
Cookie Cutter Week Link
National Hand Washing Awareness WeeLink  
Recipe Greetings For The Holidays Week
Older Driver Safety Awareness
Week  Link  

3-10
Clerc-Gallaudet Week Link

3-24
Andisop (Meterological Fiddling  Link

Observances for Today

Giving Tuesday Link 
International Day of Persons With Disabilities
Let’s Hug Day
National Peppermint Latte Day

My Rambling Thoughts

CyberMonday. Staying home. It is slowly warming up and some of the snow is melting. The 5-foot icicles from my upper roof are hanging in there. Very nice to watch them as the water works its way down the icicle and then watching the huge drops fall to the ground. Now the weatherman is saying another storm on Wednesday.

I got tired of the dripping faucet in my bathroom and kitchen. Just a drop every few minutes. Called the landlord at 9a. Got a call from the plumber at 9:30. He checked and is replacing all the faucets in the three bathrooms and the one in the kitchen with Delta single-handle faucets. Good landlord for sure.

60 Minutes did a two-hour special show last night. First was a trip 2 miles down into the earth to see a South African Gold Mine and how things have changed since the end of apartheid. We saw the great gold on the Focus trip to South Africa long ago. A great segment on the Ethiopian Christian Church; having stood there a few years ago with Focus Travelers made it even more amazing. Then a segment of the Mongolian Eagle Hunters. We didn’t see the hunters on our recent Focus trip to Mongolia, but an awesome story. The final segment was on Easter Island. I haven’t been there…yet.

Our little mountain town got 5.66” of precipitation during November. That is the 5th wettest November since records were kept (1898). We seldom complain of any moisture as this is called ‘high desert’. 

Our HOA is really on the ball this winter. They brought in a small ‘CAT’ frontend loader to clear the parking lot and the empty parking spaces. After they did a few spaces I moved my vehicle to a clean spot so they could do my parking space too. Last year a neighbor was nice enough to clear the lot. I figure the HOA was concerned about lawsuits…from injured people, or from damage done by a resident they didn’t hire.  Whatever the reason, I’m a happy camper.

Today’s Puzzle
Answer at the bottom of this page

If 3 boys can eat 3 pizzas in 3 days,
how many pizzas can 6 boys eat in 6 days?

Historical Events

856 (Earthquake) Tunisia

1736 Astronomer Anders Celsius takes measurements that confirm Newton's theory that the earth was an ellipsoid rather than the previously accepted sphere

1818 – Illinois became the 21st US state.

1847 Frederick Douglass publishes first issue of his newspaper "North Star"

1854 Eureka Stockade: In what is claimed by many to be the birth of Australian democracy, more than 20 goldminers at Ballarat, Victoria, are killed by state troopers in an uprising over mining licences

1868 1st blacks on US trial jury appointed for Jefferson Davis trial
 1910 - The neon light was displayed for the first time at the Paris Motor Show at the Grand Palace. The lamp was developed by French inventor Georges Claude. Advertising neon signs started showing up in 1913, notably at the Paris Opera House. The most famous neon sign is probably the Las Vegas sign.

1919 - The Quebec Bridge over the St. Lawrence River between Sainte-Foy (near Quebec City) and Lévis, Quebec opened.

1922 - The first public Technicolor motion picture film, The Toll of the Sea, was released at the Rialto Theatre, in New York City.

1927 - Putting Pants on Philip, the first Laurel and Hardy film, was released.

1947 - A Streetcar Named Desire opened on Broadway.

1950 Paul Harvey begins his national radio broadcast

1960 - The musical Camelot debuted at the Majestic Theatre on Broadway.


1976 - An assassination attempt was made on Bob Marley. Shot twice, he quickly recovered.

1979 - Eleven people were killed in a stampede at Cincinnati's Riverfront Coliseum prior to an appearance by The Who. "Festival Seating' was pretty much to blame - thousands of people had 'first come, first seated' tickets, and a sound check made many think the concert had already begun.

1984 - The Bhopal-Union Carbide disaster in India killed over 4,000 people, and injured hundreds of thousands.


1989 Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and US President George H. W. Bush, declare the Cold War over

1992 - The Greek oil tanker Aegean Sea, carrying 80,000 tons of crude oil, ran aground in a storm while approaching A Coruna, Spain, spilling most of the oil.


1997 - 121 countries signed the treaty prohibiting manufacture and deployment of anti-personnel land mines in Ottawa, Canada. Notable exceptions were: The United States, People's Republic of China, and Russia.

1999 - The Mars Polar Lander crashed into the Martian surface.

2012 (Typhoon) At least 475 people were killed after Typhoon Bopha made landfall in the Philippines.

2017 First pizza party in space held by astronauts of the International Space Station

Birthdays Today

@84 - Andy Williams, American singer (died in 2012)

@66 - Joseph Conrad, Polish writer (died in 1924; heart attack)

82 - Bobby Allison, American race car driver

71 - Ozzy Osbourne, English singer-songwriter

67 - Benny Hinn, Israeli-American evangelist

59 - Daryl Hannah, American actor

54 - Katarina Witt, German figure skater

51 - Brendan Fraser, American actor

46 - Holly Marie Combs, American actress

Puzzle answer:

In 6 days, the 6 boys will be able to eat twice as many pizzas as 6,
which is 12.



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