May 29

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May 29, 2020 Week: 22 Day: 150

86004: H 88° \ L 47° \ Average Sky Cover: 50%

Wind: 2mph\Gusts: 5mph Visibility: 10 mi

Nearest lightning: 155mi.; Nearest active fire: 189mi.

Extreme Risk of Fire

Record High: 86°[2000] Record Low: 22°[1918]

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

Today’s Quote

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling,

but in rising every time we fall."

-Nelson Mandela

Random Tidbits

Mary Shelley kept the heart of her dead husband in her desk

Maybe the author intended for this to be some sort of metaphor, but a truly smelly metaphor if that. Everyone grieves differently. When Mary Shelley’s husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley, was 29 years old he drowned while out on his boat during a storm. While his remains were buried in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome, Mary kept her husband’s heart wrapped up and carried it with her almost everywhere. When she passed away, the heart was found in her desk wrapped in one of his final poems, Adonais.

Have a smile

A friend sent these to me

You know what, we need a huge spoon to take care of this

-Guy who invented shovels

Observations This Week

National African Violet Week: 24-30
Healthy and Safe Swimming Week: 25-30 Link
National Backyard Games Week: 25-6/1
sWeek of Solidarity With The People of Non-Self-Governing Territories: 25-31
Black Single Parents Week: 28-6/3

Observations for Today

Heat Awareness Day Link
International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers
Learn About Composting Day

Mike, The Headless Chicken Day: Thru 30 Link
National Biscuit Day

Put A Pillow On Your Fridge Day: Link

My Rambling Thoughts

Another warm day. In the past two days two friends have dropped of homemade masks for me. Very nice. I headed out this morning for a blood draw, then stopped at tax man's place to pick up my returns. I had done them on line and got my checks weeks ago, but his office just reopened. Then I stopped at the mall for a pedicure. The Vietnamese lady who does my toes spent her lockdown time in LA while everything was closed, but she is back and I feel like a new man. 2+ months is way to long to get this done. I left her a double tip since I couldn't do it last month. She was happy.

As out nation passed the 100,000 deaths from Covid19, Trump was silent. Today, a day late, he tweeted his sadness over the deaths. As my mom always said 'better late than never, but better never late.'

During the long weekend, our forests were full of people. Even though there is a total ban on fires, the park officials responded to 58 campfires. They said many more reported but they didn't have the manpower to respond. The fire had to be about 10' outside the fire pit before they would respond. Our forest have been in Extreme Fire Danger for the past few weeks. Like with masks, so many know what to do but decide 'it just is not for me'. SAD.

The rioting in Minneapolis over the death of a man in police custody is frightening. I get that they are frustrated over this continuing trend in the US. It is way past the time for reform in police departments. All the facts aren't out, but even the mayor is angry that the cop is not in jail. I was raised to believe no person is above the law...I don't understand when this changed and am more confused as to why it changed.

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

If in a car race, the man who came two places in front of the last man finished one ahead of the man who came fifth. How many contestants were there?

Historical Events

1453 - Ottoman armies under Sultan Mehmed II Fatih captured Constantinople after a 53-day siege, commonly referred to as The Fall of Constantinople.

1765 Patrick Henry's historic speech against the Stamp Act, answering a cry of "Treason!" with, "If this be treason, make the most of it!"

1790 - Rhode Island was the last of the original United States' colonies to ratify the Constitution and was admitted as the 13th US state.

1851 Sojourner Truth addresses 1st Black Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio

1861 Dorothea Dix offers help in setting up hospitals for the Union Army

1913 - Igor Stravinsky's ballet score The Rite of Spring premiered in Paris, France

1914 - Heavy fog caused a collision between cruise ship Empress of Ireland and coal freighter, the Storstad on the St. Lawrence River in Canada that killed 1,073 people, mostly tourist passengers on the Empress.

1919 Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity, that when light passes a large body, gravity will bend the rays confirmed by Arthur Eddington's expedition to photograph a solar eclipse on the island of Principe, West Africa

1953 - Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay, a Sherpa of Nepal, became the first explorers to reach the summit of Mount Everest, which is at 29,035 feet above sea level.

1979 - Actor Woody Harrelson's father, Charles Harrelson, was charged with the murder of Judge John Wood.

1982 - Pope John Paul II became the first pontiff to visit Canterbury Cathedral.

1989 Student pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square, China construct a replica of the Statue of Liberty, naming it the Goddess of Democracy

2004 - The National World War II Memorial was dedicated in Washington, D.C.

2014 President Obama approves US military training of 'moderate' Syrian rebels to fight the regime of Bashar al-Assad and al Qaeda-linked groups

2019 US Special Counsel Robert Mueller says charging President Donald Trump with a crime never an option as no legal means to charge a sitting president; and that his report does not exonerate the president

2019 Transgender no longer classified as a mental health illness by the World Health Organization

Birthdays Today

@100-Actor Bob Hope [Leslie Townes Hope ] (d. 2003)

76- Soap Actor Anthony Geary

@71-Sherpa Tenzing Norgay (d. 1986; stroke)

63-Singer La Toya Jackson

59-Singer Melissa Etheridge

62-Actor Annette Bening

@46-35^th US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy (d. 1963; assassinated)

45-Singer, Songwriter Mel B; Melanie 'Scary Spice' Brown [Melanie Janine Brown ]

Puzzle Answer:

Six