Tuesday

Week 3 of 2010: 18 days so far this year…346 days remain

►Provocative Quote                         .

"There is as much greatness in acknowledging a good turn, as there is in doing it."

~unknown

►Free Ramblings                             .

I woke up about 3am this morning, to find that my temporary dental cap had come off. A very strange feeling. I guess I will know what my mouth was doing, so early in the morning, while I was sleeping. A quick trip to the dentist, and two tries to get it reattached and I was back to waiting for the new cap. I so hate temporary caps…I have had three and two have come off during the wait for the real cap. I must be jinxed.

After the dentist, I did make a stop and get gas, just in case it gets really bad here.

The wind blew hard all night, and woke me up, sort of, several times. The wind died down at sunrise. It has been snowing all day. Not too much is sticking…yet. The sun has gone down, the temp has dropped, and I’m sure I’ll wake up in the morning to a blanket of snow. This is the first of three storms coming through and is expected to drop about 10”. I keep up my mantra: The forest needs the snow. We only went down to 26° last night, and got up to 33° today. One good thing about this first storm, it is not a winter blast of Arctic air…it’s coming to us from California—another state that needs the moisture.

►Quotes from Values.com—TEACHING BY EXAMPLE .

“We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.”

~Malcolm Gladwell - Author

►Side Show Stories                                             .

COPENHAGEN, Denmark - Officials at a Denmark airport said a 3-year-old boy rode the entirety of the baggage belt system, including an X-ray machine. Copenhagen Airport workers said the young boy hoisted himself onto an unattended baggage belt while he and his mother were checking in for an early Thursday flight, The Copenhagen Post reported Monday. The X-ray directed the boy to an area for bags that needed to be handled manually because an identification tag was not detected. An airport worker heard the boy calling out from the area and he was rescued and reunited with his mother. Officials said the boy seemed shaken but nharmed. He was believed to have boarded the plane with his mother as planned.

►Random Fact                               .

Things I hope don’t return in the new decade: Janet Jackson’s Breast on TV, Carrot Top (The comedian), Tainted Chinese Products, Paris Hilton, Glenn Beck, Excessive Facial Piercings, Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears, Car Ribbon Magnets, High Fructose Corn Syrup.

§ Interesting Statistics

*Note: I realize that statistics can be made to say just about anything.

~ An estimated 130 million bicycles were produced worldwide in 2007 (more than twice the 52 million cars produced).

~ A bicycle speed record was attained by American Olympic Cyclist and Ironman triathlon competitor John Howard, when he reached 152.2 mph in 1985.

§ January Month Long Observances

Birthstone: Garnet …Flower: Carnation

Book Blitz Month * Bath Safety Month * Birth Defects Month * California Dried Plum Digestive Month * Celebration of Life Month * Cervical Cancer Screening Month * Financial Wellness Month * High Tech Month * International Creativity Month * International Quality of Life Month * International Wayfinding Month * International Wealth Mentality Month * National Be On-Purpose Month * National Bird Feeding Month * National Clean Up Your Computer Month * National Get Organized Month * National Glaucoma Awareness Month * National Hot Tea Month * National Mail Order Gardening Month * National Mentoring Month * National Personal Self-Defense Awareness Month * National Poverty in America Awareness Month * National Radon Action Month * National Skating Month * National Soup Month * National Volunteer Blood Donor Month * Oatmeal Month * Rising Star Month * Self-help Group Awareness Month * Senior Women’s Travel Month * Shape Up US Month * Thyroid Awareness Month

§ Observance Weeks in January

National Fresh Squeezed Juice Week: 18-23

International Printing Week: 17-23

National Handwriting Analysis Week: 17-23

Healthy Weight Week: 17-23

Hunt For Happiness Week: 17-23

National Activity Professional Week: 17-23 to recognize all those gym people.

§ 19 January Observances—US/UN/World

Baltimore: The Poe Toaster commemorates the birthday of Edgar Allan Poe at his grave.

Rid The World of Fad Diets and Gimmicks Day

National Popcorn Day

Southern US : Robert E Lee Day

Texas : Confederate Heroes' Day

§19 January Observances—by country

Bahá'í Faith:Feast of Sultán (Sovereignty) — First day of the 17th month of the Bahá'í calendar.

§ Holy Mackerel: On this day in 1903 New bicycle race "Tour de France" announce.d

§Who was born on this day?

~ The Arts

Ursula Andress in 1936 - actress

Paul Cézanne in 1839 - painter

Phil Everly (71) singer (Everly Brothers)

Paula Deen (63)- TV chef

Shelley Fabares (66) actor

Tippi Hedren (80), actor

Patricia Highsmith in 1921 author(Strangers on a Train)

Janis Joplin in 1943 - singer

Guy Madison [Robert Moseley] in 1922 - actor (Wild Bill Hickok)

Robert Palmer in 1949 rocker (Addicted to Love)

Dolly Rebecca Parton (64): country music writer/ singer

Edgar Allan Poe in 1809 - writer of macabre short stories

Katey Sagal (56), actor

Jean Stapleton (87): Edith Bunker on All in the Family

Alexander Woollcott in 1887- author

Shawn Wayans (40), actor, commedian

~Athletics

Sky Christopherson in 1976 (Tucson AZ) - cyclist (Olympics-96)

Dan Reeves in 1944 -NFL Coach

~Business, Education, Politics

Robert E. Lee in 1807 - Confederate commander in the Civil War

~Science/Religion

Mohammed in 570 - Islamic prophet (Koran)

Henry Bessemer in 1813 - inventor

Alice Eastwood in 1859 - botanist (Handbook of Trees of California)

James Watt in 1736 (Scotland)- scientist and inventor of an improved steam engine;

James Winston Watts in 1904 developer (Frontal Lobotomy)

§Who Died on this day?

Adriana Caseloti in 1997 - voice (Snow White), @ 70

James Dickey in 1997 poet/novelist, @ 84

Carl Perkins in 1998 singer/songwriter, @ 65

§What happened on this day?

1746...Bonnie Prince Charlie's troops occupy Stirling

1806...Britain occupies the Cape of Good Hope

1825...Ezra Daggett and Thomas Kensett of New York City patented a canning process to preserve salmon, oysters and lobsters.

1840...Antarctica discovered, Charles Wilkes expedition (US claim)

1871...1st Negro lodge of US Masons approved, New Jersey

1915...Neon Tube sign patented by George Claude

1920...US Senate votes against membership in League of Nations

1929...Acadia National Park, Maine established

1937...Millionaire Howard Hughes breaks the existing transcontinental air record by flying his monoplane from Los Angeles to Newark, N.J., in seven hours, 28 minutes and 25 seconds.

1955..."The Millionaire" TV program premieres on CBS--Michael Anthony gave away a million dollars, from John Beresford Tipton, to total strangers.

1955..."Scrabble" debuts on board game market

1966...Indira Gandhi elected India's 3rd prime minister

1983...Klaus Barbie ( the Butcher of Lyon ) is arrested in Bolivia

►New Puzzle                                .

What do these words have in common?

example: apple, banana, orange, kiwi

answer: all are fruits

1. acceded,baggage, bedface, cabbage, defaced, and effaced.

2. billowy, abhors, accent, almost, biopsy, bijoux, chintz, and ghosty.

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ANSWERS

1. Seven letter words that can be played on a musical instrument

2. Words that have the letters in their spelling in alphabetical order.