May 13

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May 13, 2020 Week: 20 Day: 134

86004: H 72° \ L 39° \ Average Sky Cover: 10%

Wind: 9mph\Gusts: 15mph Visibility: 10 mi

Nearest lightning: 541mi.; Nearest active fire: 482mi.

Extreme Risk of Fire

Record High: 82°[1984] Record Low: 18°[1953]

May Averages: 68°\34° (3 days with moisture)

Today’s Quote

"I am not the same,

having seen the moon shine

on the other side of the world."

— Mary Anne Radmacher

Random Tidbits

Before they were famous

Andy Griffith

Before he was a successful sitcom star, Andy Griffith was a mediocre music teacher. “The first day, I’d tell the class all I knew, and there was nothing left to say for the rest of the semester,” he once told an interviewer.

Gene Simmons

Kiss lead singer Gene Simmons once worked as a teacher. "I used to be a sixth-grade teacher in Spanish Harlem," he said. "I did it for six months, and I wanted to kill every single kid." But in a separate interview, he said: "Children need to learn to be selfish, to put themselves first and not care what other people think."

Have a smile

A friend sent these to me

Question: What do you call a blind dinosaur?

 A do-think-he-saurus

Observations This Week

Ramadan: 23-5/23

National Public Gardens Week: 8-17  Link
INVICTUS GAMES: 9-16  Link 
Universal Family Week: 10-16
Food Allergy Awareness Week: 10-16 Link
National Hospital Week: 10-16 Link
National Nursing Home Week: 10-17
National Police Week:  10-16
National Return To Work Week:  10-17
National Transportation Week: 10-16 
National Women's Health Week: 10-16 Link  Link
Reading is Fun Week:  10-17 Link 
Salute to Moms 35+ Week: 10-16 
Salvation Army Week: 10-17 
Brain Injury Awareness Week: 11-17 Link
National Etiquette Week: 11-15  
National Stuttering Awareness Week: 11-17
Work At Home Moms Week: 11-17 
American Craft Beer Week: 11-17 Link
Cannes Film Festival: 12-23 Cancelled due to COVID-19
World Schizophrenia Awareness Week: 13-19  Link

Observations for Today

Bike To School Day Link Cancelled due to COVID-19
Children of Fallen Patriots Day
Crouton Day
Donate A Day's Wages To CharityFrog Jumping Day

Hummus Day Link
National Apple Pie Day

National Fruit Cocktail Day

National Hummus Day

National Night Shift Workers Day

National Receptionist Day

National Third Shift Workers Day
Receptionists Day

School Nurses Day

My Rambling Thoughts

Tuesday is becoming a windy day. Expecting 40+mph this afternoon. I'm skipping my forest walk.

Talked to a few friends yesterday and this morning on the phone. Everyone is doing well. Everyone is tired of the stay-at-home thing. Mary had a good Mother's Day. Both her son and daughter sent her free meals that can be delivered. Her daughter sent her 2 meals from her favorite local restaurant, and her son got her 4 meals to cook from Blue Apron. Nice. Salsa Brava, the local restaurant gave her enough of their in-house made chips and salsa for an army along with the meals.

Yesterday afternoon Pine Ridge Reservation had 2 COVID-19 cases in the Wounded Knee District. The council met and shut down the reservation for 72 hours beginning at 7pm yesterday. No one is to leave their home. They don't mess around up there.

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

How can you take 2 from 5 and leave 4?

Historical Events

1607 - English in Virginia founded Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North America.

1637 - The rounded table knife was created by Cardinal Richelieu in France.

1890 - Nikola Tesla was issued a patent (#428,057) for an electric generator.

1917 - Three children, Lúcia Santos and her cousins Jacinta and Francisco Marto report the first apparition of Our Lady of Fátima in Fátima, Portugal.

1939 - The first commercial FM radio station in the United States is launched in Bloomfield, Connecticut. The station later became WDRC-FM.
1973 - Bobby Riggs beat Margaret Court in a $10,000 winner-take-all challenge tennis match. Billie Jean King played him on September 20, 1973 and won the second Battle of the Sexes.

1981 - Pope John Paul II was shot by Mehmet Ali Agca.

1985 - Philadelphia Mayor W. Wilson Goode ordered police to raid the MOVE headquarters, and a small bomb was detonated on top of 6221 Osage Avenue. Six adults and five children were killed in the fire that destroyed the entire block, along with 250 nearby homes.

1994 - Johnny Carson made his last television appearance on Late Show with David Letterman.

2013 Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield departs the International Space Station to return to Earth

2019 Sri Lanka imposes a nationwide curfew from 9pm to 4am to curb violence against Muslims after the Easter Sunday terrorist attacks

2019 Former President of Sudan Omar al-Bashir is charged in connection with the deaths of protesters the previous month

2019 Diary of Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt's last days rediscovered and displayed for the 400th anniversary of his execution

Birthdays Today

@86-Actor Bea Arthur [Bernice Frankel] (d. 2010)

70-Musician Stevie Wonder [Stevland Hardaway Morris]

59-Athlete Dennis Rodman

56-TV Host Steven Colbert

34-Actor Robert Pattinson

Puzzle Answer:

F  I V   E Remove the letters F and E from five and you have IV.