Halloween

 

🎃🎃🎃👻👻👻 

FYI: Any Green text is a link. Click to check it out!

Oct 31, 2020  Week: 44 Day: 305    

Local:  H 62°\ L 29°\Average Sky Cover: 5%

Wind:   2mph\Gusts:  4mph                       

Nearest lightning:  1585mi.; active fire:  59mi

high Risk of Fire          

Visibility:  10mi

Record: 70°[1999]   Record:[1935]              

Oct Averages: 63°\32° (4 days with moisture)

👻👻👻  

Today’s  Quote

The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.

Arthur Ashe

🎃🎃🎃 

Random Tidbits

 Uncle Sam was a real person. Popular legend goes that Michigan meatpacker Samuel Wilson's friendliness earned him the nickname "Uncle Sam." He went on to provide meat for the troops in the War of 1812, and local Michigan troops joked that the "U.S." stamp on their supplies stood for "Uncle Sam" instead of "United States." This joke spread to all military items marked with "U.S.," and a government figurehead was born.

👻👻👻  

A little humor

The doctor said “Don’t eat anything fatty.”

I replied, “You mean like bacon and burgers?”

“No fatty, don’t eat anything.”

 🎃🎃🎃

True Things

Tynette Housley, 73, of Black Forest, Colo., was cited by Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials after her "pet" deer attacked and gored a neighbor who was out walking her dog on Oct. 16. The buck, now sporting two-pronged antlers, was taken in by Housley when it was just a few days old and raised as a pet. The victim tried to run first to another neighbor's home, then to her own, but the buck repeatedly knocked her down and gored her. A CPW officer euthanized the deer and took it for testing for rabies and other diseases. "We can't say it enough: Wild animals are not pets," said Frank McGee, CPW's area wildlife manager. Housley was charged with illegal possession and illegal feeding of wildlife.

 👻👻👻 

Observations This Week

Red Ribbon Week: 23-31  Link  

 

Prescription Errors Education & Awareness Week: 24-31

National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week: 25-31 Link  

World Origami Days: 24-11/11

National Massage Therapy Week: 25-31 Link  

Asexuality Week: 25-31 Link

National Respiratory Care Week: 25-31 Link 

International Magic Week: 25-31

Pastoral Care Week: 25-31 Link  

Give Wildlife a Brake! Week: 25-31  Link

Pro Bono Week: 25-31  Link

Kids Care Week: 25-31 

Sherlock Holmes Weekend: 30-11/1  LINK October event is cancelled.

 🎃🎃🎃

Observations for Today

Allantide Link
Beggars' Night
Books For Treats Day
Day of the Seven Billion 
Link
Girl Scout Founder's Day 
Link
Halloween/ All Hallows Eve
Magic Day
National Caramel Apple Day  
Link
National Doorbell Day 
Link
National Knock-Knock Jokes Day
National Magic Day
National UNICEF Day
Samhain 
Link
World Cities Day
World Savings Day  
Link

 👻👻👻 

My Rambling Thoughts

As the month ends, it sure feels weird not to be preparing for trick or treaters. The past 2 years I haven’t handed out candy because only a few kids showed up. Still, Halloween on a Saturday night with a full Blue Moon, it feels weird.

Politically, it is a pain to live in a swing state. Every TV channel and radio station except NPR is raking in the $$$ with several ads back to back at every break. Thankfully I have a DVR, so I don’t have to deal with all of them. Then there’s the phone calls. A few days ago I started telling them I already voted, and to remove me. Last night I got a call from the McSally camp. The phone ID said Paul Groman, but the lady said she was Prissy. I told her I had already voted. She had the nerve to ask me for whom I voted. I reminded her that this is still America and we have secret ballots. She said she was sorry if I was offended but she was just curious. I told her ‘curiosity killed the cat’ and hung up.

I saw an announcement or commercial on Facebook. It was the several from Idaho, including the Lt. Gov., sitting is a pick-up truck holding a bible and a hand gun stating that they were not sure if there really was a pandemic. It concluded that pandemic or not, no one was going to take away their individual rights. I am dumbfounded by these people’s ignorance and lack of empathy.

Clemson University is on the site of several Civil War era plantations. Using special tools they have located 604 unmarked graves on several hills on campus. They are believed to be those of slaves. The head of the research said: "Clemson is uniquely positioned to tell a story that embraces multiple perspectives, over multiple eras, in ways that we're just now really exploring and discovering ... it's not going to be the old way of talking about history ...  it's far richer than that."

 🎃🎃🎃

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

A woman shoots her husband. Then she holds him underwater for over 5 minutes. Finally, she hangs him. But 5 minutes later they both go out together and enjoy a wonderful dinner together. How can this be?

 👻👻👻 

Historical Events

83 – During the second Second Islamic Civil War and the Siege of Mecca, the Kaaba caught fire and burned down.

1517 – Martin Luther posted his 95 Theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany.

1913 – Dedication of the Lincoln Highway, from Times Square in New York City to Lincoln Park in San Francisco. It was the first automobile highway going across the United States.

1926 – Magician Harry Houdini died of gangrene and peritonitis that developed after his appendix ruptured (after an unexpected punch to the stomach a few days earlier).

1941 – Mount Rushmore was completed, featuring the sculpted head of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln.

1968 – “October Surprise” – Just before the US elections, US President Lyndon B. Johnson announced that he had ordered a complete cessation of “all air, naval, and artillery bombardment of North Vietnam” effective November 1.

1969 – Wal-mart incorporated in Arkansas.

1987 – Based on Boston, Popular radio program Car Talk premiered on National Public Radio

1992 Roman Catholic church reinstates Galileo Galilei after 359 years

1984 Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated by her bodyguards, Satwant Singh and Beant Singh at her home in New Delhi

2011 –The date that there were 7 billion people living on Earth.

2012 The New York stock exchange opens after being closed for two days after Hurricane Sandy

2017 John Kelly, White House Chief of Staff comments in TV interview that “the lack of an ability to compromise led to the Civil War", draws criticism

2018 In landmark verdict, Pakistani Supreme Court acquits Christian woman of blasphemy against the prophet Mohammed after eight years on death row

2018 Worlds biggest statue, the Statue of Unity is unveiled of Indian independence leader Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel at 182 meters in Gujarat state

 👻👻👻 

Birthdays Today

90 – Michael Collins, American general, pilot, and astronaut
89 – Dan Rather, American journalist
@88 – Dale Evans, American singer-songwriter and actress (d. 
2001)
83 – Tom Paxton, American folk music singer-songwriter

@87 – Chiang Kai-shek, Chinese politician, 1st President of the Republic of China (Taiwan) (d. 1975)
59 – Peter Jackson, New Zealand director, producer and screenwriter
@54 – Michael Landon, actor, director, and producer (d. 1991; cancer)
53 – Vanilla Ice [Rob Van Winkle], American rapper, television personality, and real estate investor
@43 – John Candy, Canadian comedic actor (d. 1994; OD)

@26 – Brian Piccolo, American football player (d.1970; cancer)
@25 – John Keats, English poet (did.1821; TB)

20 – Willow Smith, American singer, and actress

 🎃🎃🎃

Puzzle Answer

The woman was a photographer. She shot a picture of her husband, developed it, and hung it up to dry.

🎃🎃🎃 👻👻👻 

No comments:

Post a Comment

Followers

Total Pageviews

Blog Archive

About Me

My photo
Flagstaff, Arizona, United States
I retired in '06--at the ripe old age of 57. I enjoy blogging, photography, traveling, and living life to it's fullest.