Mar 8

 

 

Mar 8, 2021    Week: 19    Day: 67                 Visibility: 10 miles

Local: H 63°\ L 35°\Ave. Sky Cover: 209%     Wind:  9mph/ Gusts:  10mph

Nearest Lightning: 1376mi.                               High Risk of Fire:  Active fire:  428mi

Record: 67°[1989]  Record: -4°[1969]               Mar. Averages: 53°/23° (6 days with moisture)            

Today’s Quote

With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.

~Henri Matisse

Random Tidbits

The two circular drawings on the reverse of the dollar bill are actually parts of the two-sided Great Seal of the United States. Although we don't see the entire seal outside of our wallets too often, the notion of having a great seal is actually as old as the country itself. The Continental Congress passed a resolution on July 4, 1776, to create a committee to design a great seal for the fledgling nation.

A Little Humor

What does a golfer do on his day off?

Putter around!

Weekly Observations

Lent [Christian]

Thru 4/3

Celebrate Your Name Week
Girl Scout Week Link 
National Dental Assistants Recognition Week Link
National Procrastination Week
National Schools Social Work Week 
Link 
National Words Matter Week

No More Week Link

Read an E-Book Week Link

Save Your Vision Week Link

Termite Awareness Week

Women in Construction Week  Link 
Words Matter Wek

 

 

 

 

 

7-13

Women of Aviation Worldwide Week

7-14

 

Today’s Observations

Be Nasty Day

Fun Facts About Names Day  Link  
Day for Women's Rights & International Peace
Girls Write Now Day
International (Working) Women's Day Link
International Working Women's Day

National Proofreading Day
National Peanut Cluster Day Link
National Retro Video Game Day  
Link
Proofreading Day

Volunteers of America Day

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

It looks like it will be cloudy and windy for the next few days. I took a walk around the neighborhood before the wind picked up. After getting home I did two loads of laundry. I’ll put them away when the 2nd drier load finishes.

I watched some of the Sunday morning talk shows. Some guests said the Covid relief bill will save America from ruin, while others say this is the beginning of the end of civilization as we know it. Not real helpful. Guess time will tell.

Looking forward to an uneventful week ahead.

Daily Puzzle

Answer: bottom of the page

A girl meets a lion and unicorn in the forest. The lion lies every Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and the other days he speaks the truth. The unicorn lies on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, and the other days of the week he speaks the truth. “Yesterday I was lying,” the lion told the girl. “So was I,” said the unicorn. What day is it?

Historical Events

1618 – Johannes Kepler formulated his Third Law of Planetary Motion.

1669 – Mount Etna, on the island of Sicily, began erupting and over the next several weeks killed over 20,000 people.

1755 – Thomas Paine, published African Slavery in America – the first article in the American colonies calling for the emancipation of slaves and the abolition of slavery.

1817 – The New York Stock Exchange was founded.

1950 – The ‘Volkswagen Type 2’, known as the VW Bus, was produced for the first time.

1971 – Muhammad Ali lost to Heavyweight Champion Joe Frazier in the “Fight of the Century” at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

1978 – The first radio episode of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, was broadcast.

1983 – President Ronald Reagan labels the Soviet Union an ‘evil empire.’

2020 America registers 521 cases of COVID-19 with 21 deaths across 33 states

Birthdays Today

@93 – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., American lawyer and jurist (d. 1935)

76 – Micky Dolenz, American singer-songwriter and actor

74 – Randy Meisner, singer-songwriter and bass player [Eagles]

@67 – Lynn Redgrave, English-American actress, singer (d. 2010; breast cancer)

61 -- Lester Holt, journalist

45 – Freddie Prinze Jr., American actor

44 – James Van Der Beek, American actor

Puzzle Answer

Thursday. The only day they both tell the truth is Sunday; but today can’t be Sunday because the lion also tells the truth on Saturday (yesterday). Going day by day, the only day one of them is lying and one of them is telling the truth with those two statements is Thursday.

 

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