Feb 12

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Feb 12, 2019 Week: 07 \ Day: 43

86004 Today: H 39° \ L 10° \ Average Sky Cover: 5% 

Wind:   8mph\Gusts:  13mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 62°[2014]   Record Low: -16°[1965]

FebAverages: 45°\19°

Today’s Quote

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul,

impossibilities vanish.

Jean de La Fontaine

Random Tidbits

Falling is a common dream symbol that relates to our anxieties about letting go, losing control, or somehow failing after a success.

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Houses can host many common dream symbols, but the building as a whole represents your inner psyche. Each room or floor can symbolize different emotions, memories and interpretations of meaningful events.

Observances This Week

Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week: 7-14 Link
Have A Heart for A Chained Dog Week: 7-14  Link
Risk Awareness Week: 7-14
National Marriage Week: 7-14  Link  Link
Love Makes the World Go Round; But, Laughter Keeps Us From Getting Dizzy Week: 8-14
Children of Alcoholics Week: 10-16 Link 
International Friendship Week: 10-16 Link
Jell-O Week: 10-16 
National Secondhand Wardrobe Week: 10-16
International Flirting Week: 10-16
Freelance Writer Appreciation Week: 11-15
Love a Mensch Week: 11-17
National Green Week: 11-15 Link
Westminster Dog Show: 11-12
World AG Expo: 12-14

Observances for Today

Darwin Day
Extraterrestrial Culture Day
Extraterrestrial Visitor Day
Lincoln's Birthday
NAACP Day
National Biscotti Day

National Lost Penny Day

National PB&J Day

National Plum Pudding Day

Oglethorpe Day
Paul Bunyan Day  Link   Link  or Link or Link 
Plum Pudding Day

Safety Pup Day

My Rambling Thoughts

Back in my teaching days, the Feb. bulletin board was all about silhouettes of Lincoln, Washington, and of course lots of red hearts. Miss those silhouettes. Happy birthday Abe.

The snow angels came during the night and dumped about 3” here. The snow shovel guys were here about 7a to clear the walks before there was a lot of foot traffic. I didn’t go out until about 8, but both neighbors were out long before the shovel guys.  

I have an idea…while the never-ending political soap opera continues, each set needs a theme song. One for the border situation, one for the politicians running for President, one for Congress, one for the Mueller investigation, and so on. That way they could tease us with a theme song and quietly play the theme song behind the reading of the news. Without a theme song, this is getting very boring.

Today’s Significant Historical Events

1500’s

1541 Santiago, Chile founded

1554 Queen of England for nine days, Lady Jane Grey is

            executed for treason

1800’s

1818 Chile gains independence from Spain

1825 Creek Indian treaty signed. Tribal chiefs agree to turn

            over all their land in Georgia to the government &

            migrate west by Sept 1, 1826

1855 Michigan State University established

1879 1st artificial ice rink in North America (Madison Square

            Garden, NYC)

1900’s

1909 National Association for the Advancement of Colored

            People (NAACP) forms

1947 French fashion designer Christian Dior presents his first

            influential collection, named the "New Look"

1959 The Lincoln Memorial design on the U.S. penny goes

            into circulation. It replaces the "sheaves of wheat"

            design

1994 "The Scream" by Norwegian painter Edvard Munch

            (1893 pastel version) is stolen in Oslo

1995 Bonnie Blair skates female world record 500m

            (38.69 sec)

1999 US President Bill Clinton acquitted by the Senate in

            his impeachment trial

2000’s

2004 The city of San Francisco, California begins issuing

            marriage licenses to same-sex couples in response

            to a directive from Mayor Gavin Newsom.

2016 Pope Francis meets Patriarch Kirill in Havana - first

            meeting between Catholic and Russian Orthodox

            church heads for nearly 1,000 years

2017 Emergency spillway at Oroville Dam, California

            threatens to collapse, 180,00 residents ordered to

            evacuate

2018 Oxfam deputy director resigns over charity's failure to

            deal with sexual misconduct allegations in Haiti and

            Chad

Birthdays Today

1663 Cotton Mather,

American Puritan minister (Salem witchcraft trials),

born in Boston, Massachusetts

(d. 1728-@65)

1809 Abraham Lincoln,

American politician (R) 16th President (1861-65),

born in Hardin County, Kentucky

(d. 1865-@56-assasinated)

1809 Charles Darwin,

English naturalist (Origin of the Species) conceived the theory of

evolution by natural selection, born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire

(d. 1882-@73)

1881 Anna Pavlova,

Russian prima ballerina and choreographer (Diaghilew, Dying

Swan), born in St Petersburg, Russia

(d. 1931-@49-pleurisy)

1904 Ted Mack,

TV host (Original Amateur Hour), born in Denver,

(d. 1976-@72-heart failure)

1915 Lorne Greene

[Lyon Chaim Green],

Canadian actor (Bonanza, Battlestar Galactica),

born in Ottawa, Canada

(d. 1987-@72-pneunomia)

1919 Forrest Tucker,

American actor (F Troop, Dusty Trail, The Crawling Eye),

born in Plainfield, Indiana

(d. 1986-@67-lung cancer)

1926 Joe Garagiola,

MLB catcher and sportscaster/host (Today Show),

born in St Louis, Missouri

(d. 2016-@90)

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85- Bill Russell,

American basketball star (Boston Celtics, Olympic-gold 1956),

born in West Monroe, Louisiana

85- Joe Don Baker,

American actor (Eischied, Walking Tall, Fletch),

born in Groesback, Texas

81- Judy Blume,

author (Wifey)

71- Raymond Kurzweil,

American inventor and author (Kurzweil reading machine,

text-to-speech synthesis), born in NYC

62- Arsenio Hall,

US comedian (Alan Thicke, Arsenio, Coming to America),

born in Cleveland, Ohio

54- Brett Kavanaugh,

Supreme Court judge, born in Washington, D.C.

51- Josh Brolin,

US actor (Johnny-Private Eye, Jimmy Hickok-Young Riders),

born in Santa Monica, Canada

Historical Obits Today

@96-1983 Eubie Blake,

US ragtime-composer/pianist (Memories of You)

@95-1971 James Cash Penney,

US founder (J C Penney)

@93-1981 Jean Dixon,

actress (Joy of Livng, You Only Live Once)

@91-2014 Isaac Sidney "Sid" Caesar,

American comic actor and writer ("Your Show of Shows")

@80-2015 Gary Owens,

American disc jockey/TV host (Laugh In, Gong Show)

@79-1804 Immanuel Kant,

German philosopher (Zum ewigen Frieden)

@77-2000 Charles M. Schulz,

American cartoonist (Peanuts),

dies of colon cancer

@76-2017 Al Jarreau,

American jazz singer (Moonlighting),

dies of respiratory failure

@75-2000 Tom Landry,

American football coach (Dallas Cowboys),

dies of leukemia

@72-1947 Sidney Toler,

American actor, director and playwright (Madame X, Meeting at

Midnight),

dies of intestinal cancer

@51-1789 Ethan Allen,

American Revolutionary War patriot (lead the Green Mountain

Boys),

dies of an apoplectic fit

@50-1942 Grant Wood,

US painter (American Gothic),

dies of pancreatic cancer

@37-1976 Sal Mineo,

actor (Exodus, Rebel Without a Cause),

stabbed  in alley

@16-1554 Jane Grey,

Queen of England for 9 days,

beheaded for treason