Nov 7

 

 

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Nov 7, 2020  Week: 45 Day: 312    

Local:  H 68°\ L 46°\Average Sky Cover: 60%

Wind:   9mph\Gusts:  5mph                       

Nearest lightning:  1423mi.; active fire:  59mi

high Risk of Fire          

Visibility:  10mi

Record: 71°[1934]   Record:[1947]              

Nov Averages: 53°\23° (3 days with moisture)

 

Today’s  Quote

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say.

I say that one a lot.

Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

Alice Walker

 

Random Tidbits

 Coca-Cola was so named back in 1885 for its two 'medicinal' ingredients: extract of coca leaves and kola nuts. As for how much cocaine was originally in the formulation, it's hard to know.

 

A little humor

In a London department store:

BARGAIN BASEMENT UPSTAIRS...

 

True Things

Halloweird

As Halloween was approaching, residents in and around Concord, Mass., were being treated to a spooky sight: A headless horseman, er, bikeman, is riding around on a blacked-out bike, strumming his guitar and waving to motorists and passersby. The Boston Globe reported on Oct. 20 that the ghoul is really Matthew Dunkle, 38, who has been known as the "bike-riding guy" in the area since 2015, when he went through a divorce and lost a grandparent. "I needed something special in my life," Dunkle said. "I had a few smiles and people waved and people laughed and stuff. So that was kind of the beginning of it." He actually donned the headless horseman costume in April, as the pandemic got going. "It just feels like we are kind of in the dark right now," he said. "We are all just running around with our heads cut off."

 

Observations This Week

World Origami Days: 24-11/11

Polar Bear Week: 1-7 

Drowsy Driving Prevention Week: 1-8  Link   

World Communication Week: 1-7 World Karaoke Championships: 2-7Link

Give Wildlife A Brake! Week: 1-7  Link 

Nat’l Farm Toy Show Days: 6-8 
Sherlock Holmes Weekend: 6-8LINK

Nat’l Animal Shelter Appreciation Week: 1-7  Link   

Dear Santa Letter Week: 7-13

Nat’l Fig Week: 1-7

 

 

Observations for Today

Bison Day

Book Lovers Day

Digital Scrapbooking Day

Employee Brotherhood Day   (SpongeBob Squarepants)

International Merlot Day

National Bittersweet Chocolate with Almonds Day

National Canine Lymphoma Awareness Day

National Play Outside Day

Notary Public Day

National Bittersweet Chocolate with Almonds Day

Pumpkin Destruction Day

Sadie Hawkins Day

(Always First Saturday.  This is what Chase's Calendar put and so I stuck with that formula for this observance.  But, a Sadie Hawkins Dance can be held anytime a school or someone wants to have one.

 Also, some call Leap Year Day - Feb. 29 as Sadie Hawkins Day also because tradition states that women can ask the men to marry them on that  day.

 To me, Leap Year Day is not Sadie Hawkins Day and they are two separate observances.

 Asking a guy to a dance is different than asking him to marry you.

 Although...in the cartoon strip, once the single gals caught their guys in the annual footrace, the men were forced to marry the gal that caught them aka a shotgun wedding per se. ;)

 Hope this helps to clarify things a bit.

Sausage and Kraut Day

World Numbat Day

 

My Rambling Thoughts

I am still patiently waiting for the results. Welcome to America 2020. I wish the legislators in several states had the foresight to foresee that Covid would have a lot of people voting by mail and had allowed their state to start counting before election day.

Did my weekly shopping. As I was driving around, I saw that several favorite restaurants have now permanently closed. Also, BB&B is closing in Flagstaff. They will be missed. I will not miss the constant barrage of BB&B coupons that fill my mailbox.

I learned that last night a friend from Pine Ridge and 4 of her extended family at Covid Positive. She is at home; the others are in the hospital in Rapid City. They are all in the vulnerable population and have been taking mask and sanitizing precautions. Then I heard this morning that the Tuba City Chapter House has closed because a worker tested positive.

The Focus Tahiti trip is looking better every day as a go. I just hope my Christmas trip to Mexico works out. Need to see my brother and sisters-in-law. Her sister from NY and her husband will be there too.

I’ll be checking on Andy’s [my friend/boss] house for 3 weeks. Faith, his wife, has a sick dad back in Indiana. Luckily, they can go back and help out. Thank you President Clinton for giving Federal employees ‘family leave’.

In one of Trump’s lawsuits over election issues, the judge asked his attorney if there were any Republican Watchers at the site in question. His answer: A number greater than zero.

 

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

A sundial has the fewest moving parts of any timepiece. Which has the most?

 

Historical Events

1492 – The Ensisheim Meteorite, the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, struck ground one afternoon in a wheat field outside the village of Ensisheim, Alsace, France.

1665 – The first edition of the London Gazette was printed. At the time it was called “The Oxford Gazette”.

1786 – The oldest musical organization in the United States was founded as the Stoughton Musical Society.

1811 – The Battle of Tippecanoe took place, with future US President, William Henry Harrison.

1874 – The first cartoon depicting the elephant as the Republican Party symbol, by Thomas Nast. He is also known as being the first to draw our modern version of Santa Claus.

1876 – The patent (#184,207) for the first US cigarette manufacturing machine was issued to Albert Hook of New York City.

1885 -The Canadian Pacific Railway, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, was completed.

1908 – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid were reportedly killed in San Vicente, Bolivia.

1914 – The first issue of The New Republic magazine was published.

1916 – Jeannette Rankin (R) became the first woman elected to the United States Congress.

1917 – The Great October Socialist Revolution began in Russia

1929 – The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) opened to the public.

1944 – Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) was elected for a record fourth term as President of the United States of America.

1954 – Face The Nation premiered on NBC.

1967 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

1967 – Carl B. Stokes (D) was elected as Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, becoming the first African American mayor of a major American city.

1991 – Magic Johnson announced that he was infected with HIV and retired from the NBA.

2006 – At O’Hare International Airport, UFO Sighting Near Gate C-17 twelve employees reported seeing a metallic saucer-shaped craft hovering over the airport. The FAA stance concluded that the sighting was caused by a weather phenomenon and that the agency would not be investigating the incident, which many think is odd in the post-2001 security-enhanced world of airport security.

2012 Voters in Maine, Maryland and Washington approve measures for same-sex marriage

2018 US President Donald Trump fires Attorney General Jeff Sessions and appoints Matthew Whitaker in his place as acting Attorney General

2019 Queen Elizabeth II confirms she is no longer buying clothes made with real fur

 

Birthdays Today

@66 – Marie Curie, Polish chemist, and physicist (Nobel Prize laureate, d. 1934)
@46 – Albert Camus, French novelist, philosopher, and journalist, Nobel Prize laureate( d. 1960; car accident)
@99 – Billy Graham, American minister and author (died in 2018)
@76 – Al Hirt, American trumpet player, and bandleader (d. 1999; liver failure)
78 – Johnny Rivers, American Singer/Songwriter, guitarist, and producer
77 – Joni Mitchell, Canadian Singer/Songwriter, and guitarist
69 – Lawrence O’Donnell, American journalist and talk show host
24 – Lorde [Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor], New Zealand Singer/Songwriter

 

Puzzle Answer

An hourglass.

 

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