Jun 23

 

 

 

Jun 23, 2021   Week: 26    Day: 174

Visibility: 10 miles Ave. Sky Cover: 20%

Local: H 88°\ L 55°

Wind:  7mph/ Gusts:  17mph

EXTREME Risk of Fire:  Active fire:  27mi Nearest Lightning: 395mi.

Jun Averages: 70°/42° (1 day w/moisture)

 

Today’s Quote

 

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness. Desmond Tutu

 

Random Tidbits

 

Asia alone both produces and consumes more than 90 percent of the world's rice.

The Chinese word for rice is the same as the word for food; in Thailand when you call your family to a meal you say, "eat rice"; and in China a typical greeting, instead of 'How are you?' is "Have you had your rice today?"

 

True Things

 

Just Desserts

In late February, Thangulla Satish, 45, was killed in Telangana state in southern India when the rooster he was preparing for an illegal cockfight panicked and slashed him with the 3-inch blade strapped to its leg. Police inspector B. Jeevan said Satish was "hit by the rooster's knife in his groin and started bleeding heavily," the Associated Press reported. He died on the way to the hospital. The rooster was removed to a poultry farm nearby. [Associated Press via ABC News, 2/28/2021]

 

Weekly Observations

 

National Week of Making Link National Nursing Assistants Week Link Waste and Recycling Workers Week Link	17-23
Animal Rights Awareness Week Link    Link Greencare For Troops Awareness Week National Play Catch Week  Old Time Fiddlers Week Link Carpenter Ant Awareness Week  Fish Are Friends, Not Food! Week Link   Lightning Safety Awareness Week Link  National Craft Spirits Week Link  National Mosquito Control Awareness Week Link   Universal Father's Week	20-26
Old Time Fiddlers Week	21-26
National Insect Week National Pollinator Week Link	21-27

 

Today’s Observations

 

International Widows Day Link Let it Go Day National Eat At A Food Truck Day Link   National Detroit-style Pizza Day  Link National Hydration Day Link National Pecan Sandy Day National Pink Day Pink Flamingo Day (Lawn Ornaments) Link Public Service Day Runner's Selfie Day SAT Math Day Link Typewriter Day [1873]/ Typing Day

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

A busy morning: two loads of laundry; haircut; blood draw all before 11:30 this morning. It is finally a tad cooler than the last week.

For my summer haircut I got rid of the ‘bulk’ I have on the sides and in the back. Ready for these warm days now. I had a new lady cut my hair and she did a great job.

Arizona has 12 active wildfires…all started by lightning. Thankfully, today’s wind is not blowing in the smoke. After yesterday, I need a break from all that smoke.

I spoke to soon, the afternoon is getting very hazy. Oh well.

Just hoping Congress gets it act together and helps the US move forward.

 

 

2 New Puzzles Everyday

Answer: bottom of the page

 

A W A K E

DUTCH DUTCH

 

 

Historical Events

 

1683 – William Penn signed a friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape Indians in Pennsylvania.

1860 – The United States Congress established the Government Printing Office.

1868 – Christopher Latham Sholes received the patents (#79265 & #79868) for an invention he called the “Type-Writer.” He also invented the ‘QWERTY keyboard’ in 1873.

1894 – The International Olympic Committee was founded at the Sorbonne in Paris.

1938 – The first ‘Oceanarium’ opened at Marineland in St. Augustine, Florida.

1938 – The Civil Aeronautics Act was signed into law, forming the United States Civil Aeronautics Authority.

1953 – Frank J. Zamboni was issued a patent (#2,642,679) for his ice re-surfacer.

1960 – The US Food and Drug Administration declared Enovid to be the first officially approved combined oral contraceptive pill in the world.

1969 – IBM announced that effective January 1970 it will price its software and services separately from hardware, allowing for the creation of the modern software industry.

1969 – Warren E. Burger was sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court by retiring Chief Justice Earl Warren.

1982 – A record low temperature of -117ºF. was recorded at the South Pole.

2013 – Nik Wallenda became the first man to successfully walk across the Grand Canyon on a tight rope.

2012 76 monks are hospitalized in Thailand following an attack by a swarm of bees

2014 Claude Monet's Water Lilies is sold at auction for US$54 million

2018 Laura Ingalls Wilder's name removed from book award by US Association for Library Service to Children, because of author's racist views and language

 

Birthdays Today

 

85 – Richard Bach, American novelist and essayist

73 – Clarence Thomas, American lawyer and judge, United States Supreme Court Justice

@73 – June Carter-Cash, American singer (d. 2003; heart complications)

@60 – Bob Fosse, actor, dancer, choreographer, director (d. 1987; heart attack)

@54 – Wilma Rudolph, runner (d. 1994; brain cancer)

49 – Selma Blair, American actress

@41 – Alan Turing, English mathematician and computer scientist (died in 1954)

 

Puzzles Answer

 

Wide awake                                                            Double Dutch