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Mar. 20, 2020 Week: 12 Day: 80

86004: H 45° \ L °21 \ Average Sky Cover: 60%

Nearest lightning: 535mi.; Nearest active fire: 2708mi.

Wind: 7mph\Gusts: 12mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 72°[2004] Record Low: -1°[1935]

Mar. Averages: 53°\19° (6 days with moisture)

Today’s Quote

Lest you lose yourself and then

Forget the good St. Patrick

And see all those snakes again.

May the enemies of Ireland never meet a friend.

Random Tidbits

Some historians blame President Woodrow Wilson's (1856-1924) lingering case of the Spanish flu as the reason he unexpectedly caved into stringent French demands for the harsh peace terms that decimated Germany which, in turn, led to the rise of Adolf Hitler and WWII.

Observations This Week

Orthodox Lent: 2-4/10American Chocolate Week: 15-21  Link
National Animal Poison Prevention Week: 15-21 Link Link
National Inhalant and Poisons Awareness Week: 15-21 Link Link
World Folktales & Fables Week: 15-21
Act Happy Week: 16-22
National Fix A Leak Week: 16-22 Link
International Brain Awareness Week: 16-22  Link
International Teach Music Week: 16-22
Native American Awareness Week: 16-20  Link
Shakespeare Week: 16-22  (Link)
Wellderly Week: 16-22 International Dark Sky Week: 19-26  Link
American Crossword Puzzle Days: 20-22  Link
National Cherry Blossom Festival: 20-4/12 Link  

Observations for Today

Alien Abduction Day
Bed-in For Peace Day(Beatles - John and Yoko)
Great American Meat Out Day Link
International Day of HappinessLink  Link
Extraterrestrial Abductions Day

Free Cone Day (Dairy Queen) Link
French Language Day Link
International Earth Day

National Day of Action Against Bullying and Violence Link
National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day Link
National Ravioli Day

Proposal Day

Rita's Free Italian Ice Day Link
Snowman Burning Day
Ta'Anit Esther
World Flour Day Link
World Frog Day Link
Won't You Be My Neighbor Day
World Day of Theatre for Children and Young People Link
World Sparrow Day Link

World Storytelling Day

My Rambling Thoughts

The first wave of our storm dropped about 6” of snow. HOA had walks cleared by 7a. It keeps trying to snow some more. It will be heavy, then nothing, sun breaks thru, the it will be heavy again. A very bipolar storm.

No need to leave home today. Actually no need to watch any news either. All I can do is stay away from gatherings, take a daily walk or two, and wait. I am getting a tad of cabin fever, since my walking in the snow are long gone. I'll be outside as soon as the sun comes out again.

I am enjoying the FB memes about parents as teachers, now that schools are closed. One of my favorites: Day 3 of Home Schooling...one girl suspended for talking back, one boy expelled for refusing to do any work, and one teacher fired for drinking on the job. School closed.

Reservations are dry...no alcohol can be legally sold or consumed. A tiny part, less than a full block, of Tuba City is 'state' land, surrounded by the reservation. A few years ago the long time owners sold the land and Family Dollar built and opened a new store on the land. Now they are applying through the state to get a liquor license. This is insanity. Once a person, Native or not, buys alcohol at their store and leaves the store to walk or drive somewhere, they can be arrested for having alcohol in their possession on reservation land.

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

A man is looking at a photograph of someone.

His friend asks who it is.

The man replies, “Brothers and sisters, I have none. But that man’s father is my father’s son.”

Who was in the photograph?

Historical Events

1345 - According to scholars at the University of Paris, the Black Death was created today, from what they called "a triple conjunction of Saturn, Jupiter and Mars in the 40th degree of Aquarius, occurring on the 20th of March 1345." Actually, the bubonic plague came from infected fleas from sickened and dead rats.

1602 - The Dutch East India Company was established.

1852 - Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, was published.

1854 - In Ripon, Wisconsin, former members of the Whig Party formed the Republican Party.

1900 - Nikola Tesla received a US Patent (#645,576) for the wireless transmission of electric power.

1916 - Albert Einstein's Theory of General Relativity was published in Annalen der Physik.

1961 - #1 Hit: Elvis Presley - Surrender

1971 - #1 Hit: Janis Joplin - Me and Bobby McGee

1982 - #1 Hit: Joan Jett and the Blackhearts - I Love Rock 'n' Roll

1985 - Libby Riddles became the first woman to win the 1,135-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.

1987 - The FDA approved the sale of AZT (azidothymidine)

1995 - The Aum Shinrikyo (Supreme Truth) cult released Sarin gas into the Tokyo subway system, killing a dozen people and sickening thousands.

2003 A US-led coalition launches a ground invasion of Iraq after an ultimatum for Saddam Hussein and his sons to leave Iraq expires

2016 Barack Obama becomes the first US President to visit Cuba since 1928, arriving for a 3 day tour

2018 Saudi Arabia’s crown prince Mohammed bin Salman meets with US President Donald Trump at the White House

2019 Finland is the world's happiest country, South Sudan is world's least happy, according to annual World Happiness Report

Birthdays Today

98-Carl Reiner, comedian, director, screenwriter

89-Hal Linden, actor

@74-Mr. Fred Rogers, Minister, tv (d. 2003; stomach cancer)

@72-Jerry Reed, singer, songwriter (d. 2008; emphysema)

72-Bobby Orr, hockey player

63-Spike Lee, director

62-Holly Hunter, actor

14-Baron Trump

Puzzle Answer:

His son.