Jul 5

 

 

 

Jul  5, 2021 Week: 28 Day: 186

Ave. Sky Cover: 40%\Visibility: 10 miles

Local Temp:  82°\ 58°

Wind: 6mph\ Gusts: 10mph

High risk of fire

Active fire: 23mi. \ Lightning: 113mi.

Jul Averages: 82°\51° (9 days w/moisture)

 

Today’s Quote

 

 


 

Random Tidbits

 

The most popular holidays for barbecuing are, in order, July 4th (71 percent), Memorial Day (57 percent), and Labor Day (55 percent).

Technically, to barbecue means to slow-cook meat at a low temperature for a long time over wood or charcoal. What most people do in their back yards is more commonly referred to as grilling.

There is no definitive history about how the word "barbecue" originated - or why it's sometimes used as a noun, verb, or adjective. Some say the Spaniards get the credit for the word, derived from their "barbacoa" which is an American-Indian word for the framework of green wood on which foods were placed for cooking over hot coals. Others think the French were responsible, offering the explanation that when the Caribbean pirates arrived on our Southern shores, they cooked animals on a spit-like devise that ran from "whiskers to tail" or "de barbe a' queue."

 

True Things

 

Compelling Explanation

A man caught for two days in a sticky situation had a clever, if false, explanation. In Santa Rosa, California, on June 8, a man was discovered trapped in the shaft of a vineyard fan. He told police that he likes to take pictures of engines used in old farm equipment, but there was more to his story, NBC Bay Area reported. The Sonoma County Sheriff's Office commented, "After a thorough investigation, which revealed the farm equipment wasn't antique and the man had far more methamphetamine than camera equipment, the motivation to climb into the fan shaft remains a total mystery." The "photographer" did require medical attention but wasn't seriously injured. Sheriff's officers will recommend several charges. [NBC Bay Area, 6/9/2021]

 

Idioms Origins

 

Cromulent

Cromulent is perfectly acceptable to use as a descriptor.

See ‘Embiggens’ below

Embiggens

The Simpsons; Jebediah Springfield said that “A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man”.

The word embiggens is self-descriptive – we know what it means, even though we never heard it before.

As the second grade teacher, Ms. Hoover says, it’s a perfectly cromulent word.

 

Monthly Observations

 

 

Sandwich Generation Month
Sarcoma Awareness Month
Self Care Month
  Link  (Note: It's also Sept. Different Sponsor)
Smart Irrigation Month
Social Wellness Month
Tour de France Month (1-23)

Wheat Month Link
Women's Motorcycle Month
World Watercolor Month
 Link
Worldwide Bereaved Parents Month

 

 

Weekly Observations

 

Tour de France Link

Thru 7/18

Bean and Bacon Days: Link 

National Tom Sawyer Days Link  (aka Fence Painting Days)

1-5  

National Unassisted Homebirth Week

1-7

Freedom Week

Be Nice To New Jersey Week

Nude Recreation Weekend

Punxsutawney Groundhog Days

 

4-10

 

Today’s Observations

 

 
Earth at Aphelion

Mechanical Pencil Day
National Apple Turnover Day

National Bikini Day…1946

Spam (food) Day…since intro in 1937

Work Without Your Hands Day   Li`nk  (SpongeBob Squarepants)

Workaholics Day
National Apple Turnover Day

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

Just after putting up the American Flag, I got a video-call from my brother in Mexico. We had a nice conversation. They have some African Bees on their outer property, so they have a guy to make them go away. Then Laura is off to Dallas to meet with a client, and my brother is off to San Miguel to work on their stuff their. They are always busy.

It looks like a rain shower is moving in. Hope is dumps a lot.

I-70 in Glenwood Canyon has closed due to mudslides. That is/was a beautiful area I drove many times when  coming or going from Denver to the Rez. I assume it is from a previous fire and lots of rain. Sad.

I was busy cleaning both bathrooms this morning. A job I hate, but someone has to do it.

Some friends from the Rez are stopping by this afternoon, so I have some chili prepared. Hopefully I can get some authentic Navajo Fry Bread while they are here.                                                           

 

New Puzzles Everyday

Answer: bottom of the page

 

Rephrase each as a pair of rhyming words.

 

A CHILD DETECTIVE

A HYPOTHESIS THAT GIVES YOU THE CREEPS

 

 

Historical Events

 

1687 – Isaac Newton published Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. (Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica)

1841 – Thomas Cook organized the first package excursion (planned vacation tour), from Leicester to Loughborough.

1865 – William Booth and his wife Catherine establish the Christian Mission, later known as the Salvation Army (1878).

1921 – Chicago White Sox players were accused of “throwing” (lose intentionally) the World Series.

1935 – The National Labor Relations Act was signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

1937 – Spam (the luncheon meat, not the internet junk) was introduced into the market by the Hormel Foods Corporation.

1946 – French designer Louis Reard introduced the Bikini in Paris. He could not find a “respectable” Model to wear his creation so he had to hire a local Nude Dancer.

1950 – The Knesset passed the Law of Return which grants all Jews the right to immigrate to Israel.

1954 – The BBC broadcasted its first television news bulletin.

1971 – The Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution, lowering the American voting age from 21 to 18 years, was formally certified by President Richard Nixon.

1996 – Dolly the sheep was born – the first mammal cloned from an adult cell (she actually had three monthers)

2012 – The Shard in London was inaugurated as the tallest building in Europe, with a height of 1,020 ft.

2017 Volvo Cars announces all new models by 2019 will be either hybrids or battery powered, 1st automaker to do so

 

Birthdays Today

 

@80 – P.T. ‘Phineas Taylor’ Barnum, co-founded Ringling Bros., Barnum & Bailey Circus (d. 1891)

@74 – Jean Cocteau, French novelist, poet, and playwright (d. 1963)

71 – Huey Lewis, musician

@61 – Thomas Hooker, English-born founder of the Colony of Connecticut (d. 1647; "epidemical sickness")

58 – Edie Falco, American actress

56 – Kathryn Erbe, American actress

53 – Nardwuar the Human Serviette [John Ruskin], Canadian singer-songwriter

52 – RZA [Robert Fitzgerald Diggs], American rapper

 

Puzzles Answer

 

Youth sleuth

Eerie theory

 

 

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