Nov 27

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Nov. 27, 2019 Week: 48  Day: 331

86004:   H 30° \ L 14° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%

Nearest active fire:  297mi.  Nearest lightning:  1205mi

Wind:   4mph\Gusts:  10mph  Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 68°[1949]   Record Low: -5°[1984]

Nov. Averages: 53°\23° (3 days with moisture)

Today’s Quote

“He who fears he will suffer,

already suffers because he fears.”

~ Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Random Tidbits

When President Franklin D. Roosevelt moved Thanksgiving to the next-to-last Thursday in November to prolong the holiday shopping season, many Republicans rebelled. The holiday was temporarily celebrated on different dates: November 30 became the "Republican Thanksgiving" and November 23 was "Franksgiving" or "Democrat Thanksgiving."

Sarah Josepha Hale (1788-1879), who tirelessly worked to establish Thanksgiving as a national holiday, also was the first person to advocate women as teachers in public schools, the first to advocate day nurseries to assist working mothers, and the first to propose public playgrounds. She was also the author of two dozen books and hundreds of poems, including "Mary Had a Little Lamb."

Observances This Week

21-28

International Games Week
Church/State Separation Week
GERD Awareness Week Link
National Bible Week
National Family Week
National Game & Puzzle Week
World Karaoke Championships Link

23-28

Better Conversation Week

25-12/1

National Deal Week   

Observances for Today

Flossing Day Link

National Bavarian Cream Pie Day

National Tie One On Day

Pins and Needles Day

My Rambling Thoughts

I headed out this morning to get a much needed pedi. It’s chilly outside as I await the incoming storm. As I get older, I seem to want to be absolutely sure I’m prepared. The predicted storm with 1-2 feet of snow isn’t due until Thanksgiving. It probably won’t be as bad as predicted and I know that, but I don’t want to deal with Wednesday before Thanksgiving traffic and shoppers.  All morning I was thinking about March, Tahiti, Bora Bora, and Focus while getting prepared for the storm.

Thanksgiving should be great…if I can get to their house. Should have the first foot of snow by feeding time. The only Black Friday shopping I do is to pick up a couple of poinsettias at Home Depot. If the storm actually hits, I won’t be getting them on Black Friday.

When I was at Red Lake Day School, now Tonalea School, we were a K-8 school with about 250 students. Red Lake was the school, a trading post, and the Chapter House with some housing (about 20 houses) ½ mile from the school. Tuba City was 25 miles south on pavement. Kaibeto was 25 miles west of dirt roads. Even though we were only ¼ mile from the highway, we were very isolated. Today I saw a post of Facebook:

‘Due to the fatal incident in Kaibeto; Tonalea is allowing no visitors into the school building, checkouts will be only done by intercom, all sports practices are cancelled, the Thanksgiving program and meal are cancelled for tomorrow. Today is a regular school day.’  

Times sure have changed.

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of this page

What years from the 1900s and 1800s are the same year when read upside down?

Historical Events

1703 - The first Eddystone Lighthouse was destroyed in the Great Storm of 1703.

1826 - Chemist John Walker invented the friction match in England.

1834 - The direct current (DC) electric motor was invented by Thomas Davenport.

1896 - Also Sprach Zarathoustra by Richard Strauss was first performed.

1924 - Macy's department store held its first Thanksgiving Day parade down a two-mile stretch of Broadway in New York City.

1952 - CBS began broadcasting the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

1965 - Author Ken Kesey's first 'Acid Test' (parties he had where people experimented with LSD) was on November 27th, 1965 in Santa Cruz, California and featured a live performance by a band called The Warlocks. They later changed their name to the Grateful Dead.

1970 Pope Paul VI wounded in chest during a visit to Philippines by a dagger-wielding Bolivian painter disguised as a priest

1973 - The US Senate approved Gerald R. Ford as the US' 40th vice president, after the resignation of Spiro T. Agnew, who plead guilty to income tax evasion.

1975 - Guinness Book of Records co-founder and editor Ross McWhirter was shot dead outside his North London home. Police believe it was an IRA hit.

1978 San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk assassinated by former Supervisor Dan White at City Hall

1980 - Bosom Buddies premiered on ABC.

1982 - #1 Hit: Lionel Richie - Truly

2004 - Pope John Paul II returned the relics of Saint John Chrysostom to the Eastern Orthodox Church.

2005 - 13-year-old bat mitzvah Elizabeth Brooks had 50 Cent & Aerosmith perform at her celebration at New York's Rainbow Room.

2011 - Mexico City briefly held the world record of having the largest "zombie walk" in the world after almost 10,000 people dressed as zombies paraded through the city. Several walks have beaten that record.

2013 - Frozen, starring Idina Menzel and Kristen Bell, was released.

2018 Convicted US murderer Samuel Little confirmed connected to 90 more murders of women after confessing details

Birthdays Today

@80 – Buffalo Bob Smith, American actor and TV host

(died in 1998)

@68 - James Avery, actor

(died in 2013; surgery complications)

64 – Bill Nye, American engineer, educator, and

TV host (the science guy)

62 – Caroline Kennedy, American lawyer and diplomat

(daughter of President John F. Kennedy)

@56 – Eddie Rabbitt, American Singer/Songwriter; guitarist

(died in 1998; lung cancer)

55 – Robin Givens, American actress

43 - Jaleel White, American actor

@42 – Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer, physicist

and mathematician

(died in 1744)

@32 – Bruce Lee, American-Chinese actor, martial artist

screenwriter

(died in 1973; ‘death by misadventrue’)

@27 – James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix

(born Johnny Allen Hendrix),

American Singer/Songwriter, guitarist and producer

(died in 1970; asphyxiation/barbiturates)

Puzzle answer:

1961 and 1881