Feb 21

 

Week: 9 Day: 52

Ave. Sky Cover:  % Visibility: 10 miles

Local Temp:   50°\ 22°

Wind: 8mph\ Gusts: 12mph

Extreme risk of fire

Active fire: 464mi. \ Lightning: 2484mi.

Feb Averages: 46°\19° (5 days w/moisture)

Happy President’s Day

Today’s Quote


Weekly Observations

 

14-21

National Condom Week
National Nestbox Week
NCCDP Alzheimer's & Dementia Staff Education Week

18-21 

Great Backyard Bird Count Link

18-19

Texas Cowboy Poetry Gathering

19-26  

National FFA Week Link 

 

 

20-26  

National Sauna Week Link   
Bird Health Awareness Week  
Link
  
Build A Better Trade Show Image Week
National Eating Disorders Awareness Week 
National Engineers Week
National Justice for Animals Week 
Link
  Link
Through With The Chew
Link

22-24 

International Petroleum Week Link

 

Daily Observations

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

A nice Sunday. Time to take a walk. The only snow is in the shady areas.

It was kitchen cleaning this morning. The counters had gotten very messy.

It’s Presidents Day. This is a federal holiday and a state holiday in 35 states. Previously it was Washington’s birthday holiday but in 1971 it became Presidents’ Day to honor all US Presidents.

It is strange, after watching the Olympics every day to only be watching a re-run of downhill. I forgot to record the closing ceremony, so will do that tonight. I don’t watch to see it with all those darn commercials. Here is the Top 10 final medal count [1 skating event TBA]:

1. Norway: 37 (16 golds, 8 silvers, 13 bronzes)

2. Russian Olympic Committee: 32 (6 golds, 12 silvers, 14 bronzes)

3. Germany: 27 (12 golds, 10 silvers, 5 bronzes)

4. Canada: 26 (4 golds, 8 silvers, 14 bronzes)

5. United States: 25 (8 golds, 10 silvers, 7 bronzes)

6. Sweden: 18 (8 golds, 5 silvers, 5 bronzes)

7. Austria: 18 (7 golds, 7 silvers, 4 bronzes)

8. Japan: 18 (3 golds, 6 silvers, 9 bronzes)

9. Netherlands: 17 (8 golds, 5 silvers, 4 bronzes)

10. Italy: 17 (two golds, seven silvers, eight bronzes)

Favorite Memes



 

 

 

 

A bit of Humor

Why do male deer have an overbite?

They have buck teeth

Trivia

Q: U.S. President, Herbert C. _________.

 

Q: How many balls are on a pool table at the start of a game?

 

Q: Who invented peanut butter?

 

Q: The films The King's Speech and The English Patient feature which English actor?

 

 

 

 

ANSWERS:

Answer 1: Hoover

Answer 2:  16

Answer 3: Marcellus Gilmore Edson

Answer 4: Colin Firth

 

Historical Events

W                 1848 – The Communist Manifesto, written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, was published in London by a group of German-born revolutionary known as the Communist League.

W                 1885 – The Washington Monument was dedicated in Washington, DC.

W                 1925 – The New Yorker magazine began publication.

W                 1948 – The National Association for Stock Car Racing – NASCAR – was founded.

W                 1965 – Malcolm X, founder of the Organization of Afro-American Unity was assassinated.

W                 1972 – American President Richard Nixon made a historic trip to China, opening diplomatic relations between the two countries.

W                 1994 – Aldrich and Maria del Rosario Ames were arrested (and later convicted) of spying for the Soviet Union.

Birthdays Today

@95 – Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwean politician, 2nd President of Zimbabwe (d. 2019)

@80 – John Lewis, American activist, politician

@76 – Rue McClanahan, American actress (d. 2010; brain hemorage)

@70 – Nina Simone, American singer-songwriter (d. 2003; in her sleep)

@69 – Erma Bombeck, American journalist and author (d. 1996; kidney disease)

@69 – Alan Rickman, English actor (died in 2016)

67 – Kelsey Grammer, American actor

64 – Mary Chapin Carpenter, American singer-songwriter

59 – William Baldwin, American actor, Brother

@52 – Christian Dior, French Fashion designer (d.1957; heart attack)

@50 – Charles Scribner I, publisher, founded Charles Scribner’s Sons (d. 1871; typhoid)

44 – Kumail Nanjiani, comedian

43 – Jennifer Love Hewitt, American actress

43 – Jordan Peele, American actor, producer, and screenwriter

36 – Charlotte Church, Welsh singer-songwriter

35 – Eliott Page, Canadian actor

33 – Corbin Bleu, American actor, model, dancer

26 – Sophie Turner, English actress

 

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