May 13

 

 

 

May 13, 2021   Week: 19    Day: 133      

Visibility: 10 miles

Ave. Sky Cover: 5%

Local: H 72°\ L 36°

Wind:  4mph/ Gusts:  13mph

EXTREME Risk of Fire:  Active fire:  10mi

Nearest Lightning:585 mi.

May Averages: 68°/34° (3 days w/moisture)

 

Today’s Quote

 

He who angers you conquers you.

Elizabeth Kenny

Random Tidbits

 

The cells of every living organism contain deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), a nucleic acid that holds the genetic instructions for the development and functioning of a life form. It is this substance that allows a living thing to grow and reproduce.

 

Humor

 

What do they call 100 John Deeres circling a McDonald’s in Iowa?

Prom night.

 

Real Cities

 

Number Eight, Missouri is a populated place located within the Township of Bevier, a minor civil division (MCD) of Macon County

 

True Things

 

Animal Antics

-- The Anchorage, Alaska, Daily News reported on March 26 that customers at a local Costco store are routinely robbed of large cuts of meat as they transfer their groceries to their cars ... by ravens. More than a year ago, Olani Saunoa was buckling her toddler into a car seat when a raven swooped in and grabbed a package of short ribs from her car. "He had picked up the entire package," she said. And this year it happened to her again -- a bird snatched a pack of pork ribs. Other customers are reporting similar incidents on social media. Rick Sinnott, a former wildlife biologist, isn't surprised: Ravens "much prefer ... a package of short ribs from Costco to half of a hamburger bun from McDonald's." [Anchorage Daily News, 3/26/2021]

 

Weekly Observations

 

International Wildlife Film Week Link

Thru 5/15  

National Playground Safety Week Link
National Work Zone Safety Awareness Week 
Link

Thru 30  

National Public Gardens Week  Link

7-16

Economic Development Week Link
Food Allergy Awareness Week
Link
Hurricane Preparedness Week
Link
National Hospital Week: 9-15 
Link
National Nursing Home Week
National Return To Work Week

National Women's Health Week
Link  Link

 

 

 

9-15

Reading is Fun Week  Link  
Salute to Moms 35+ Week

Salvation Army Week
Work At Home Moms Week

 

 

9-16

National Etiquette Week

10-14

American Craft Beer Week Link
National Stuttering Awareness Week 
Tick Awareness Week 
Universal Family Week

 

 

10-16

Cannes Film Festival

11-22

Peripheral Neuropathy Awareness Week Link

12-16 

 

Today’s Observations

 

Apple Pie Day

Children of Fallen Patriots Day
Crouton Day
Eid-Al-Fitr
Frog Jumping Day
Fruit Cocktail Day

Hummus Day Link

Leprechaun Day

National Apple Pie Day

National Fruit Cocktail Day

National Hummus Day

Tulip Day

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

Great spring day. Headed out early to get some essentials.

The Torch Relay for the upcoming Olympics will not be going through Hiroshima, Japan due to an increase in Covid. More event changes or cancellations are expected. A very tough call for IOC and Japan.

Liz Cheney gave an on-point speech to the House floor last night, as the Republican Caucus walked out on her speech. She says she will be active in Conservative views in her Congressional speech. In the current climate in the Republican Caucus, truth about the election doesn’t seem to have a place, but support of the Former President is all it takes to gain power. Sure glad this isn’t my circus.

Our forest has moved to Stage 1 Fire Restrictions...no open fires, no grills. We are getting ready for fire season.

My neighbor needs a ride to the heart of the Rez sometime this week to pick up his vehicle from his brother. I agreed to take him. While it is a lot of driving, that part of the Rez is very picturesque so I’ll enjoy the drive. I’ll get a nice meal out of it too.

  

Daily Puzzle

Answer: bottom of the page

 

What can you hold in your left hand but not in your right?

 

Historical Events

 

1607 – English in Virginia founded Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North America.

1637 – The rounded table knife was created by Cardinal Richelieu in France.

1890 – Nikola Tesla was issued a patent (#428,057) for an electric generator.

1917 – Three children, Lúcia Santos and her cousins Jacinta and Francisco Marto report the first apparition of Our Lady of Fátima in Fátima, Portugal.

1939 – The first commercial FM radio station in the United States is launched in Bloomfield, Connecticut. The station later became WDRC-FM.

1950 – The first round of the Formula One World Championship was held at Silverstone.

1958 – Ben Carlin became the first person to circumnavigate the world by amphibious vehicle

1973 – Bobby Riggs beat Margaret Court in a $10,000 winner-take-all challenge tennis match. Billie Jean King played him on September 20, 1973, and won the second Battle of the Sexes.

1981 – Pope John Paul II was shot by Mehmet Ali Agca.

1985 – Philadelphia Mayor W. Wilson Goode ordered police to raid the MOVE headquarters, and a small bomb was detonated on top of 6221 Osage Avenue. Six adults and five children were killed in the fire that destroyed the entire block, along with 250 nearby homes.

1994 – Johnny Carson made his last television appearance on Late Show with David Letterman.

1998 India carries out two nuclear tests at Pokhran, in addition to the three conducted on May 11. The United States and Japan impose economic sanctions on India.

2005 The Andijan Massacre occurs in Uzbekistan.

2013 Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield departs the International Space Station to return to Earth

2019 New study on the moon shows it is still shrinking with recent moonquakes as it cools, published in journal "Nature Geoscience"

2019 Former President of Sudan Omar al-Bashir is charged in connection with the deaths of protesters the previous month

2020 Every African country now has cases of COVID-19 as Lesotho becomes the last county on the continent to record a case

 

Birthdays Today

 

@86 – Bea Arthur, American actress, singer (d. 2009)

71 – Stevie Wonder, musican

@66 – Joe Louis, American boxer (d. 1981; cardiac arrest)

60 – Dennis Rodman, American basketball player

57 – Stephen Colbert, American comedian, talk show host

@49 – Mary Wells, American singer-songwriter (d. 1992; pneumonia)

35 – Lena Dunham, American actress

35 – Robert Pattinson, actor

@17 – Ritchie Valens, singer-songwriter, guitarist (d. 1959; plane crash)

 

Puzzle Answer

 

Your right elbow

 

 

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