sep 13

 

Sep 13, 2021 Week: 38 Day: 256
Ave. Sky Cover: 5 %\Visibility: 10 miles
Local Temp:   80°\ 50° Wind: 4mph\ Gusts: 8mph
High risk of fire Active fire: 143mi. \ Lightning: 299mi.
Sep Averages: 74°\32° (5 days w/moisture) 

Today’s Quote

 

Weekly Observations

 

International Air Ambulance Week   Link

4-12

World Orienteering Days Link  

8-14  

Direct Support Professional Recognition Week Link

9-15  

International Housekeepers Week: Link
National Assisted Living Week

National Security Officer Appreciation Week
National Truck Driver Appreciation Week
Link

 

12-18 

Be A Mench Week
Line Dance Week  

National NeoNatal Nurses Week  
Link

 

13-19 

 

Daily Observations

 

 

Bald Is Beautiful Day

Defy Superstition Day

Fortune Cookie Day

Kids Take Over the Kitchen Day

National Celiac Awareness Day

Peanut Day

Positive Thinking Day

Roald Dahl Day

Uncle Sam Day

 

 

Favorite Memes

 

 



 

 


 

 

A quick smile!

 

 

What kind of shoes do Ninjas wear?

Sneakers

 

Do you remember the joke about the Chiropractor?

It was about a weak back.

 

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

 

Great weather day Sunday. Doors and windows open. All good.

I have a Navajo friend who is raising her 2 grandkids. She has had them since they started school and the oldest graduates from High School this year. She has found friends to help her with music camp, swimming camp, band, and the list goes on. She is a retired dorm aide, so her income is very limited. The other day she called to say the grandkids were doing a laps contest to raise money for swim team transportation to meets. One could pledge 50 cents or $1 per lap. I picked the lower. She called yesterday. It turns out the laps was the cumulative laps of the entire team; I had pledged $176. I was shocked but haven’t help her for months, so when she said she would stop by Sunday, I said fine. She picked up the check that was made out to the swim team, so I know where the money is going. I’ll remember to ask more questions next time.

Football news: CU Buffs lost to Texas A&M; Cardinals are surprising the betting community as they are beating the Titans with only one quarter to go. Broncos play the Giants later, but of course, it won’t be on my TV, but I can follow it on the internet machine.

Congratulations to Niagara Rockbridge on being crowned the new Miss Navajo Nation. Her predecessor served 2019-2021 as the pageant was cancelled last year. The crowning and many of the events were only open virtually. This is a big deal on the Rez, and she will be busy attending community and school events around the Rez this upcoming year.

 

 

Historical Events

 122 Building begins on Hadrian's Wall, Northern England

1501 Michelangelo begins work on his statue of David, a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture

1790 – The US Capitol was moved to New York City from Philadelphia.

1899 – Henry Bliss was the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident. Arthur Smith, the driver of the taxicab who struck Bliss, was charged but acquitted.

1814 – Francis Scott Key composed his poem “Defence of Fort McHenry”- which later became The Star-Spangled Banner.

1956 – The IBM 305 RAMAC, the first commercial computer to use disk storage, was introduced.

1971 Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet premier, buried in Moscow

1985 – Super Mario Bros. was released in Japan for the NES.

2017 UN Secretary-General António Guterres says Rohingya refugee crisis now "catastrophic" as 370,000 confirmed to have fled Myanmar

2018 Spanish parliament votes to exhume former dictator Francisco Franco from the Valley of the Fallen

 

Birthdays Today

 

@88 – Milton S. Hershey, founded The Hershey Company (d. 1945)

@74 – Roald Dahl, British novelist, poet, screenwriter (d. 1990; blood cancer)

@74 – Richard Kiel, American actor and voice artist (d.2014; heart attack)

@73 – Ray Charles, American singer-songwriter, conductor (d. 2015; liver failure)

70 – Jean Smart, American actress

@54 – Nell Carter, American actress, and singer (d. 2003; heart disease)

52—Tyler Perry, actor, producer

@51 – Walter Reed, American physician, and biologist (d. 1902; peritonitis)

 

 

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