Aug , 2021 Week: 33 Day: 221
Ave. Sky Cover: 5%\Visibility:
10 miles
Local Temp: 83°\ 51° Wind: 8mph\ Gusts: 14mph
High risk of fire Active
fire: 279mi. \ Lightning: 368mi.
Aug Averages: 79°\50° (9 days w/moisture)
Today’s Quote
Weekly Observations
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Gallop International Tribal Indian
Powwow |
7/31-8/9 |
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National Environmental Services Week: Li`nk |
2-20 |
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Sturgis Rally: Link |
6-15 |
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National
Motorcycle Week Link |
8-14 |
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Safe and
Sound Week Link US
Amateur Golf Week |
9-15 |
Daily Oberservations
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Book
Lovers Day Rice
Pudding Day Veep
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Favorite Memes
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My
Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
A
warm day with a breeze that makes it tolerable.
A
friend called about 9a and needed to be taken to Auto-Zone for a part. I went
outside and my ride wouldn’t start. Lucky for me a repair guy pulled in to work
on my neighbor’s place. He had jumper cables and my car stated. Then I had to
clean off the battery posts and everything worked great. I took my friend to Auto-Zone,
stayed in the car with the engine running, took the friend back home. Then I came
home before turning off the vehicle. It gave plenty of time for the battery to
recharge. I turned off the engine, waited a few minutes, and checked…it
restarted right up. I’ll take the battery in for a check. It may be time to buy
a new one.
The
final games were great yesterday. I decided not to tape the closing, so I will
watch it tonight…unfortunately with commercials. With all the concerns about
Covid, the lack of audiences at all events, the athletes gave us a good
Olympics. I enjoyed everything I watched. I even learned about some sports I
was not familiar with.
While
cruising around this morning, I listened to an NPR show with the travel guy
Rick Steves. He was talking about Covid and travel. He was very upbeat and gave
some great ideas for travelers in the future. The last part of the show was call-in,
and participants told their travel during the pandemic stories. One lady was in
Marrakesh, Morocco with friends when they couldn’t get out of Morocco for a few
days, then had to fly to Europe to get back to the US. A friend in the US was
able to book flights for travelers on the internet, as she couldn’t get anyone
to answer a phone in Morocco, or in Poland. She said the airlines and booking
companies were understaffed and overwhelmed. Another group of 12 was stranded
in a small town in Italy for two weeks when the town locked down. The great
thing…every call-in traveler is traveling again as soon as it is allowed/safe. They
all realized you just deal with it the best you can, enjoy what you can, and be
grateful that it could have been much worse. A very uplifting program for travelers.
Historical
Events
1790
– Robert Gray, sailing The Columbia, became the first person to circumnavigate
the Earth, from and to Boston, MA.
1803 Robert Fulton tests his steam paddleboat
on the River Seine, France, but it sinks
1848 US Barnburners (anti-slavery) party
merges with Free Soil Party nominating Martin Van Buren for president
1854 American transcendentalist Henry David
Thoreau publishes "Walden"
1877 Henry Morton Stanley's party reaches
Boma, Congo, after 999 days, losing half of the 228 members.
1942 Mahatma Gandhi and 50 others arrested in
Bombay after passing of a "quit India" motion and campaign by the
All-India Congress
1945
– The second atomic bomb was dropped on Japan. “Fat Boy” was dropped over
Nagasaki, due to the city of Kokura blocked by clouds.
1974
– US President Nixon resigned from office.
2000
South African President Thabo Mbeki unveils the Women's Monument commemorating
the role of women in the anti-apartheid struggle
2017
Giant inflatable chicken resembling US President Donald Trump placed outside US
White House as a political protest
Birthdays
Today
77
– Sam Elliott, American actor
64
– Melanie Griffith, American actress
62
– Michael Kors, American fashion designer
57
– Hoda Kotb, American journalist, television personality
53
– Gillian Anderson, actor
51
– Chris Cuomo, American lawyer, and journalist
@48 – Whitney Houston, singer-songwriter and actress (d. 2012)
