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May 29, 2020 Week: 22 Day: 150
86004: H 88° \ L 47° \ Average Sky Cover: 50%
Wind: 2mph\Gusts: 5mph Visibility: 10 mi
Nearest lightning: 155mi.; Nearest active fire: 189mi.
Extreme Risk of Fire
Record High: 86°[2000] Record Low: 22°[1918]
May Averages: 68°\34° (3 days with moisture)
Today’s Quote
"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall."
-Nelson Mandela
Random Tidbits
Mary Shelley kept the heart of her dead husband in her desk
Maybe the author intended for this to be some sort of metaphor, but a truly smelly metaphor if that. Everyone grieves differently. When Mary Shelley’s husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley, was 29 years old he drowned while out on his boat during a storm. While his remains were buried in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome, Mary kept her husband’s heart wrapped up and carried it with her almost everywhere. When she passed away, the heart was found in her desk wrapped in one of his final poems, Adonais.
Have a smile
A friend sent these to me
You know what, we need a huge spoon to take care of this
-Guy who invented shovels
Observations This Week
National
African Violet Week: 24-30
Healthy and Safe Swimming Week:
25-30 Link
National
Backyard Games Week: 25-6/1
sWeek
of Solidarity With The People of Non-Self-Governing Territories:
25-31
Black
Single Parents Week: 28-6/3
Observations
for Today
Heat
Awareness Day Link
International
Day of United Nations Peacekeepers
Learn
About Composting Day
Mike,
The Headless Chicken Day: Thru 30 Link
National
Biscuit Day
Put A Pillow On Your Fridge Day: Link
My Rambling Thoughts
Another warm day. In the past two days two friends have dropped of homemade masks for me. Very nice. I headed out this morning for a blood draw, then stopped at tax man's place to pick up my returns. I had done them on line and got my checks weeks ago, but his office just reopened. Then I stopped at the mall for a pedicure. The Vietnamese lady who does my toes spent her lockdown time in LA while everything was closed, but she is back and I feel like a new man. 2+ months is way to long to get this done. I left her a double tip since I couldn't do it last month. She was happy.
As out nation passed the 100,000 deaths from Covid19, Trump was silent. Today, a day late, he tweeted his sadness over the deaths. As my mom always said 'better late than never, but better never late.'
During the long weekend, our forests were full of people. Even though there is a total ban on fires, the park officials responded to 58 campfires. They said many more reported but they didn't have the manpower to respond. The fire had to be about 10' outside the fire pit before they would respond. Our forest have been in Extreme Fire Danger for the past few weeks. Like with masks, so many know what to do but decide 'it just is not for me'. SAD.
The rioting in Minneapolis over the death of a man in police custody is frightening. I get that they are frustrated over this continuing trend in the US. It is way past the time for reform in police departments. All the facts aren't out, but even the mayor is angry that the cop is not in jail. I was raised to believe no person is above the law...I don't understand when this changed and am more confused as to why it changed.
Today’s Puzzle
Answer at the bottom of the page
If in a car race, the man who came two places in front of the last man finished one ahead of the man who came fifth. How many contestants were there?
Historical Events
1453 - Ottoman armies under Sultan Mehmed II Fatih captured Constantinople after a 53-day siege, commonly referred to as The Fall of Constantinople.
1765 Patrick Henry's historic speech against the Stamp Act, answering a cry of "Treason!" with, "If this be treason, make the most of it!"
1790
- Rhode Island was the last of the original United States' colonies
to ratify the Constitution and was admitted as the 13th US state.
1851
Sojourner Truth addresses 1st Black Women's Rights Convention in
Akron, Ohio
1861 Dorothea Dix offers help in setting up hospitals for the Union Army
1913 - Igor Stravinsky's ballet score The Rite of Spring premiered in Paris, France
1914
- Heavy fog caused a collision between cruise ship Empress of Ireland
and coal freighter, the Storstad on the St. Lawrence River in Canada
that killed 1,073 people, mostly tourist passengers on the Empress.
1919 Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity, that when light passes a large body, gravity will bend the rays confirmed by Arthur Eddington's expedition to photograph a solar eclipse on the island of Principe, West Africa
1953
- Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay, a Sherpa of
Nepal, became the first explorers to reach the summit of Mount
Everest, which is at 29,035 feet above sea level.
1979
- Actor Woody Harrelson's father, Charles Harrelson, was charged with
the murder of Judge John Wood.
1982 - Pope John Paul II became
the first pontiff to visit Canterbury Cathedral.
1989
Student pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square, China construct
a replica of the Statue of Liberty, naming it the Goddess of
Democracy
2004 - The National World War II Memorial was dedicated in Washington, D.C.
2014 President Obama approves US military training of 'moderate' Syrian rebels to fight the regime of Bashar al-Assad and al Qaeda-linked groups
2019 US Special Counsel Robert Mueller says charging President Donald Trump with a crime never an option as no legal means to charge a sitting president; and that his report does not exonerate the president
2019 Transgender no longer classified as a mental health illness by the World Health Organization
Birthdays Today
@100-Actor Bob Hope [Leslie Townes Hope ] (d. 2003)
76- Soap Actor Anthony Geary
@71-Sherpa Tenzing Norgay (d. 1986; stroke)
63-Singer La Toya Jackson
59-Singer Melissa Etheridge
62-Actor
Annette
Bening
@46-35th
US President John
Fitzgerald Kennedy
(d. 1963; assassinated)
45-Singer, Songwriter Mel B; Melanie 'Scary Spice' Brown [Melanie Janine Brown ]
Puzzle Answer:
Six
