Jan 26

 

2021…at last

Jan  26, 2021  Week: 4  Day: 26	Local:  H 28°\ L 16°\Ave. Sky Cover: 99%
Wind:   5mph\Gusts:  9mph	Today’s Historic Ave. Temp.: H 43°\ L 18°
Nearest lightning:  101mi.; Active fire:  59mi	Very Low Risk of Fire           Visibility:  10mi
Record: 60°[1987]   Record: -15°[1937]	Jan Averages: 44°/16° (4 days with moisture)

Today’s Quote

I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station,

through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.

~George Washington Carver

Random Tidbits

John Adams was the first president to skip his successor's inauguration. For many years, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson had been close friends, but as their political careers diverged, the two became rivals. When Jefferson was inaugurated on March 4, 1801, Adams was nowhere to be found. Eight hours before the big event, he'd left Washington and started making his way back to his family farm in Braintree, Massachusetts. This made Adams the first president who chose to skip his successor's swearing-in ceremony.

A Little Humor

Q Where do you learn about a spider? On his website

My doctor told me I'm suffering from a Superman complex. But I couldn't stay for long- so I had to fly.

Interesting facts about AZ

Ø The negotiations for Geronimo's final surrender took place in Skeleton Canyon, near present day Douglas, Arizona, in 1886.

Ø Prescott, Arizona is home to the world's oldest rodeo, and Payson, Arizona is home to the world's oldest continuous rodeo, both of which date back to the 1880's.

Ø Kartchner Caverns, near Benson, Arizona, is a massive limestone cave with 13,000 feet of passages, two rooms as long as football fields, and one of the world's longest soda straw stalactites: measuring 21 feet 3 inches.

Weekly Observations

Clean Out Your Inbox Week Idiom Week  National School Choice Week  Link  Snowcare for Troops Week Ally Week Link National CRNA (Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists) Week	24-30
National Medical Group Practice Week: Texas Cowboy Poetry Gathering Cancelled	25-30
International Hoof-Care Week  Link	26-29

 

Today’s Observations

Australia Day

Dental Drill Appreciation Day
International Customs Day

Lotus 1-2-3 Day
National Green Juice Day Link
National Peanut Brittle Day  Link
National Plan For A Vacation Day  Link  
Peanut Brittle Day

Spouse's Day

Toad Hollow Day of Encouragement

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

Snow, then more snow, and later even more. My place has a little over a foot, and more is coming.

I had to dig out and get a blood draw. I like my kidney doc, but her office staff is less than competent. The staff said I need a draw today, after an unexpected high potassium count last week. I dig out my vehicle, drive to the hospital, to find that the staff never sent the request. Then they forgot to request the ultra-sound draw.  I sat at the hospital for almost 2 hours….waiting. The draw was extremely easy. I have a call in to my doctor. Probably good if she calls tomorrow after I’ve calmed down.

Happy to read that Biden reinstated the Tubman $20 bill back. So sad it has taken this long.

The HOA was here about 7:30 to do our sidewalks, which was great. When I got back from the blood draw, there was 2 more inches of snow on the sidewalk. The main roads were wet and snowplows were busy. Side streets and parking lots, not so much. I had to use 4-wheel low it get in and out of my parking space, which is much simpler than shoveling a path for my vehicle.

I’m not complaining about the snow. This drought is so severe I gladly accept all that falls from the sky. While it makes leaving the house more difficult, it is helping the trees and forest animals that live very nearby.

Daily Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

I have keys, but no locks.

I have space, but no room.

You can enter, but you can’t go outside.

What am I?

Historical Events

1564 – The Council of Trent issued its conclusions in the Tridentinum, establishing a distinction between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism.

1837 – Michigan was admitted as the 26th U.S. state.

1838 – Tennessee became the 1st state to prohibit alcohol.

1858 – The Wedding March by Felix Mendelssohn was played at the marriage of Queen Victoria’s daughter, Victoria, and Friedrich of Prussia.

1906 – The world’s steam car land speed record was set at 127.7 mph (205.5 km/h) by Fred Marriot, racing at Daytona Beach, Florida, U.S.A. in his canoe-shaped Stanley Steamer Rocket. The record stood until 2009.

1912 – Jim Thorpe relinquished his 1912 Olympic medals for being a professional athlete. He was paid for playing two seasons of semi-professional baseball before competing in the Olympics, thus violating the amateur rules at that time. His Olympic medals were reinstated posthumously by an act of Congress in 1983.

1915 – The Rocky Mountain National Park was established.

1918 Herbert Hoover, US Food Administrator, calls for "wheatless" & "meatless" days for war effort.

1961 1st woman personal physician to a US President - Janet G. Travell (to John F. Kennedy)

1998 President Bill Clinton says "I want to say one thing to the American people; I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky".

2005 Condoleezza Rice is sworn in as U.S. Secretary of State, the first African American woman to hold the post.

 

Birthdays Today

@84 – Douglas MacArthur, American general (died in 1964)

@83 – Paul Newman, American actor, race car driver and businessman, co-founded Newman’s Own (d. 2008)

@82 – Maria von Trapp, Austrian-American singer (d. 1987)

@65 – Eddie Van Halen, guitarist (d. 2020; stroke)

63 – Ellen DeGeneres, American comedian and talk show host

60 – Wayne Gretzky, hockey super star

Puzzle Answer

A computer keyboard.