‘Tis Still the Season
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Dec 30, 2020
Week: 53 Day: 364 |
Local: H 35°\
L 14°\Ave. Sky Cover:75% |
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Wind: 7mph\Gusts: 12mph |
Nearest lightning:1939mi.;Activefire: 59mi |
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Very Low Risk of Fire |
Visibility:
10mi |
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Record: 62°[2016] Record: -16°1911] |
Nov Averages: 44°/\17° (5 days with moisture) |
Today’s Quote
If not me, who? And
if not now, when?
Mikhail Gorbachev
Random Tidbits
Red wines are red because
fermentation extracts color from the grape skins. White wines are not fermented
with the skins present.
It takes about 2.5 pounds of
grapes to make a bottle of wine. About 800 gallons of wine are produced from
one acre in a vineyard.
A little humor
-If you've never tried blindfolded
archery.. you don't know what you're missing!
Q: What should you do before criticizing Pac-Man?
WAKA WAKA WAKA mile in his shoes.
True Things
The two largest planets in our solar system are coming closer
together than they have been since the Middle Ages, and it's happening just in
time for Christmas -- hence the nickname of the "Christmas Star."
While it's not an actual star, the two planets will certainly make a bright
splash in the night sky. Beginning on the night of December 21, the winter
solstice, Jupiter and Saturn will appear so closely aligned in our sky that
they will look like a double planet. "Alignments between these two planets
are rather rare, but this conjunction is exceptionally rare because of how
close the planets will appear to one another," said astronomer Patrick
Hartigan of Rice University in Houston. "You'd have to go all the way back
to 1226 to see a closer alignment between these objects visible in the night
sky. Between December 16 and 25, they will become even cozier. Look for the Jupiter-Saturn
conjunction low in the western sky for about an hour after sunset each evening
during this time.
Observations This Week
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Christmas Bird Count Week Link………………… |
14-1/5 |
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It's About Time Week………………………………. |
25-31 |
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Kwanzaa………………………………………………….. |
26-1/1 |
Observations for Today
Bacon Day Link Link
Bicarbonate of Soda Day
Falling Needles Family
Fest Day
National Bacon Day
National Bicarbonate of Soda Day
My Rambling Thoughts
I woke up to about an 1” of snow and cloudy sky. It ure isn’t warming
up much.
I mentioned the incredible time I had at the hacienda. I neglected to
mention that the greenery means it is a wet area. There were mosquitos. I usually
don’t get bitten much but this visit I did get some itchy bites on my wrists
and ankles. I’ll survive.
This morning I updated the Focus
Website. No major changes, but you are welcome to check it out.
‘The last mile’ refers to getting product to end-users. While Operation
Warp Speed as done a great job with developing and making the vaccine. They
have done less well with ‘the last mile’. Well duh, the vaccine is of little
value if people are not getting injected with it. Not surprised, but I am disappointed.
I expected better. The US is doing one million shots in a week. To stop Covid,
it must be one million A DAY for several months. Remember, each current vaccine
needs two doses.
Sadly, I read today that the Navajo Nation lockdown will continue
until Jan. 11. That means everything closes at 8p and opens at 9a, except on
weekends when nothing is open from Friday at 5p until Monday at 9a. People are
to be in their own homes until 5a on Monday. As the news says ‘the goalpost
just keeps moving.’
Today’s Puzzle
Answer at the bottom of the page
A man left
home running. He ran a distance and then turned left, ran the same distance and
turned left again, ran the same distance and turned left again. When he got
home, there were two masked men. Who were they?
Historical Events
1610 – Countess Elizabeth Bathory, who had tortured and killed
possibly hundreds of young girls for over a dozen years, was captured. She
believed eating flesh and bathing in their blood would keep her youthful.
1816 – The Treaty of St.
Louis between the United States and the united Ottawa, Ojibwa, and Potawatomi
Indian tribes was proclaimed.
1825 – The Treaty of St.
Louis between the United States and the Shawnee Nation was proclaimed.
1916 – Russian Mystic
and political advisor Rasputin was murdered. He was a family friend and
confidant of Russia’s Czar Nicholas II and Czarina Alexandra.
1922- Russia,
Belorussia, Ukraine, and the Transcaucasian Federation formed the USSR (Union
of Soviet Socialist Republics).
1948 – Broadway Show – Kiss Me, Kate (Musical) December 30,
1948. It was based on Shakespeare’s play The
Taming of the Shrew.
1951 – The Roy Rogers TV Show debuted on NBC.
1968 – The Gonzaga ’68
bootleg was recorded at a western Washington State gym. The music was of the
opening act, Vanilla Fudge, and was one of the earliest performances by Led
Zeppelin. They were locally advertised as ‘Len Zefflin.’
1993 – Israel and
Vatican City establish diplomatic relations.
2011 -If you happened to
be in Samoa at the end of 2011, you never experienced December 30, 2011. The
country decided to change time zones, thus switching sides of the international
date line and skipping December 30th altogether.
2016 -Last
day Indians are able to deposit in banks 500 and 1,000 rupee notes which were
scrapped only 50 days earlier in an anti-corruption measure
Birthdays Today
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83 |
Paul Stookey, folk
singer-songwriter |
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@77 |
Bert Parks, actor,
beauty pageant host |
(d. 1992; lung cancer) |
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@79 |
Bo Diddley[Ellas McDaniel (born Ellas Otha Bates], singer-songwriter,
guitarist |
(d. 2008; heart failure) |
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78 |
Michael Nesmith, singer-songwriter,
Monkee |
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@73 |
Simon Guggenheim, businessman |
(d. 1941) |
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@72 |
Skeeter Davis,
American singer-songwriter |
(d. 2004; breast cancer) |
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@70 |
Rudyard Kipling,
Indian-English author |
(d. 1936; hemorrhage) |
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@66 |
Davy Jones,
English singer-songwriter, actor, Monkee |
(d. 2012; heart attack) |
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67 |
Meredith Vieira, journalist |
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61 |
Tracey Ullman,
English-American actress |
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59 |
Sean Hannity, radio
and television host |
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@55 |
Del Shannon,
American singer-songwriter |
(d. 1990; suicide) |
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45 |
Tiger Woods,
golfer |
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35 |
LeBron James,
Basketball superstar |
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Puzzle Answer
The catcher and the umpire.
Continue to Enjoy the Holiday Season
