Apr 30

 

 

 

Apr 30, 2021   Week: 18    Day: 120                       

Visibility: 10 miles	Ave. Sky Cover: 5%
Local: H 65°\ L 30°	Nearest Lightning: 481mi.
Wind:  9mph/ Gusts: 15 mph	EXTREME Risk of Fire:  Active fire: 476 mi
Record: 86°[1903]  Record: 24°[1875]	Apr. Averages: 60°/27° (3 days w/moisture)

 

Today’s Quote

 

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

~Jack London

Random Tidbits

 

The fact that Hyperion is still around today is sheer luck. Only a few hundred feet from its base is a clearcut dating back to the 70s. Clearcutting is a forestry practice in which all trees in an area are logged and the entire area is devastated. Mere weeks before the loggers reached the majestic giant, the valley it calls home was declared a national park during the Carter administration.

However, most redwoods were not so lucky. In the 1970s, 15 percent of America's redwood forest had been logged, and nowadays only 4 percent still exist.

 

Humor

 

When a visitor to a town in Alabama spotted a dog attacking a boy, he grabbed the animal and throttled it with his bare hands. An impressed reporter saw the incident and told him the next day’s headline would scream “Valiant Local Man Saves Child by Killing Vicious Animal.”

“I’m not from this town,” said the hero.

“Then,” the reporter said, “it will say ‘Alabama Man Saves Child by Killing Dog.'”

“Actually,” said the man, “I’m from New Hampshire.”

“In that case,” the reporter grumbled, “the headline will be ‘Yankee Kills Family Pet.'”

Real Cities

 

Chicken Bristle, Illinois is an unincorporated community in Douglas County, Illinois, United States. Chicken Bristle is 5.5 miles (8.9 km) northwest of Tuscola.

 

Weekly Observations

 

Ramadan	Thru 5/11
International Wildlife Film Week Link	17- 5/15
Festival of Ridvan	20-5/1
National Scoop the Poop Week World Immunization Week	24-30
Fibroid Awareness Week Preservation Week  Link (re: Libraries)	25-5/1
National Infant Immunization Week (NIIW) Link Stewardship Week	25-5/2
National Playground Safety Week Link National Work Zone Safety Awareness Week Link	26-30
National Medical Cannabis Week:  Link	29-30

 

Today’s Observations

 

Adopt A Shelter Pet Day Link  Link
Animal Advocacy Day
Arbor Day  

Beltane
Bugs Bunny Day
Dandelion Day  Link
Day of Dialogue  Link  Link  
Díá De Los Niños / Díá De Los Libros Day
Hairstyle Appreciation Day

Honesty Day

National Hairball Awareness Day 
International Jazz Day  Link   
Lag B'Omer
National Animal Advocacy Day
National Bubble Tea Day  Link
National Honesty Day

National Mahjong Day

National Military Brats Day  Link
National Prepareathon Day Link
National Raisin Day
National Teach Children to Save Day 
Mr. Potato Head Day

Oatmeal Cookie Day

Spank Out Day - USA
Undiagnosed Children's Awareness Day  Link  
Walpurgis Night

National Oatmeal Cookie Day

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

A nice day, once the wind died down.

I had a blood draw this morning. Took 1 tech and 2 nurses and 5 pokes to get the blood…only 2 small vials. Probably a phlebotomy tomorrow. If that happens, no post tomorrow.

I am tired of the body cam video not being released. Now a judge says no. I thought the purpose of body cam video was to keep cops from committing acts like this.

Biden is surely an ol’ time politician. His speech was very informative. I hope that much of his vision becomes law. Our country is in hard times right now, but if we don’t progress now, other countries will take our place. That will lead to harder times. I liked is goal of building turbines and computer chips here and pushing Buy America.

My brother and his wife had another ‘event’ at their hacienda. I saw some videos. Music, creative people, nice food. At Christmas, Laura talked about how they have the hacienda for events. So cool.

 

Daily Puzzle

Answer: bottom of the page

 

On which side of a chicken are there more feathers?

Historical Events

 

1803 – The Louisiana Purchase from France, for 15 million dollars, also included much (if not all of) of Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Wyoming.

1812 – The Territory of Orleans became the 18th U.S. state under the name Louisiana.

1894 – Antarctic iceberg fragment was sighted at a latitude 26.50 degrees south, approximately parallel to Rio de Janeiro, the nearest to the equator that an Antarctic iceberg that has been seen.

1900 – Casey Jones died in a train wreck in Vaughan, Mississippi, while trying to make up time on the Cannonball Express.

1900 – Hawaii became a territory of the United States, with Sanford B. Dole as governor.

1904 – The Louisiana Purchase Exposition World’s Fair opened in St. Louis, Missouri.

1927 – Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford were the first celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at Grauman’s Chinese Theater, in Hollywood.

1939 – The New York World’s fair opened at Flushing Meadow Park in Queens.

1947 – Nevada’s Boulder Dam was renamed the Hoover Dam.

1948 – The Land Rover, a British-made all-terrain vehicle, debuted at an auto show in Amsterdam.

1989 – CNBC, the first NBC cable channel and the first financial cable channel, began transmitting.

1992 – The finale for The Cosby Show aired on NBC

1993 – Tennis star Monica Seles was stabbed by Gunter Parchein Hamburg, Germany.

1997 – During the ‘Puppy’ episode of Ellen it was revealed that the main/title character (Ellen DeGeneres) was gay.

1996 US President Clinton approves the sale of $227 million of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve; US gas prices are at their highest levels in 5 years

1999 Cambodia joins the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) bringing the total members to 10

2001 US Vice President Cheney calls for increased domestic production of fossil fuels and increased usage of nuclear power to meet America's energy demand

2009 Failed attack on the Dutch Royal Family results in 7 deaths and 17 injured

2013 Willem-Alexander becomes the first male Monarch of Netherlands in 123 years, following the abdication of his mother, Queen Beatrix

2019 Japanese Emperor Akihito declares his abdication at a ceremony in Tokyo which officially takes effect the following day

2020 Eurozone economy shrinks at -3.8% between Jan and Mar 2020, the fastest rate on record with Euro Bank President Christine Lagarde warning the 2nd quarter will be even worse

2020 US President Donald Trump claims COVID-19 originated in a lab in Wuhan, while the Office of the Director of National Intelligence saying the virus is not manmade

 

Birthdays Today

 

@94 – Cloris Leachman, American actress (d. 2021)

@89 – Alice B. Toklas, American memoirist (d. 1967)

@82 – Eve Arden [Eunice Mary Quedens], American character actress (d. 1990)

@74 – Gary Collins, American actor and talk show host (d. 2012)

@73 – Bobby Vee [Robert Thomas Velline ], singer-songwriter(d. 2016;Alzheimer’s)

@66 – Jill Clayburgh, American actress (d. 2010; cancer)

46 – Johnny Galecki, American actor

39 – Kirsten Dunst, American actress

36 – Gal Gadot, Israeli actress and model

 

Puzzle Answer

 

The outside