Jul 1

 

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Jul 1, 2020 Week: 27 Day: 183

86004:   H 79° \ L 43° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%

Wind:   1mph\Gusts:  3mph  Visibility:  10mi

Nearest lightning:  463mi.; Nearest active fire:  132mi. 

Extreme Risk of Fire          

Record High: 92°[2013]   Record Low: 33°[2004]

Jul Averages: 82°\52° (8 days with rain)

Today’s  Quote

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!

Live the life you've imagined."

-Henry David Thoreau

 

Random Tidbits

 "Nutrition" is derived from "nourish," which is from the Latin nutrire, meaning to feed, nurse, support, and preserve--literally, "she who gives suck." Essentially, nutrition refers to the variety of ways the body makes use of food.

There are approximately 60 nutrients which are placed in six major categories: proteins, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins, minerals, and water.

Vitamin D is unusual because it is the only vitamin that can be synthesized in the body. Sunlight is the main source of Vitamin D, though sunscreen lotions with high SPF can prevent vitamin D formation. Vitamin D is also the only vitamin that is a hormone.

 

Have a smile

Thanks to one of my readers

Question: Where does a dog get a new tail?

At the Retail Store?

 

I wrote a song about tortillas. Actually, it was more of a wrap.

 

Remember these movie quotes?

28  "Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By.'" Ingrid Bergman Casablanca 1942

 

Observations This Month

Air-Conditioning Appreciation Days (7/3 to 8/15)  Link
Alopecia Month for Women
Bereaved Parents Awareness Month
Bioterrorism/Disaster Education & Awareness Month
Cell Phone Courtesy Month  Link
Day of the Knife (July 25 to August 22)  Link
Dog Days (7/3 to 8/11)   Link
Eye Injury Prevention Month Link (Note: There is also one in October.)
Family Golf Month
Fragile X Awareness Month Link
Fuel Safety Month  Link
Get Ready For Kindergarten Month

 

Observations This Week

National Prevention of Eye Injuries Awareness: 27 -7/4
Tour de France: 27-7/19  Link  Moved to August due to COVID-19
Punxsutawney Groundhog Days: 28-7/5  Link
Bean and Bacon Days: 1-5  Link  Cancelled due to COVID-19
Beer Pong Days: 1-4 (Moved from June)  Link 
National Tom Sawyer Days: 1-5 Link  (aka Fence Painting Days)
National Unassisted Homebirth Week: 1-7

 

Observations for Today

Canada Day
Creative Ice Cream Flavors Day

Estee Lauder Day
International Chicken Wing Day

International Joke Day

Medicare's Birthday
National Deep Fried Clams Day Link  
National GSA Employee Day
National Postal Workers Day  Link
Resolution Renewal Day 
Second Half of The Year Day  Link 
U.S. Postage Stamp Day
Zip Code Day

 

My Rambling Thoughts

Ready for change…the good kind. We have been dealing with the news of this virus almost 4 months. I’m hoping that July will bring good news to everyone.

At 9am this morning the wildfire near Ganado, on the Navajo Nation is now almost 6000 acres with 0% containment. Many are preparing for evacuation.

AZ and Navajo Nation are stepping back. AZ governor closed all bars, swimming pools, gyms, theaters, and has banned all gatherings of more than 50 people for the next 30 days. But it is still AZ, so religious services and political campaigns are exempt because of the first amendment. The Covid19 virus was contacted for its plans under these new rules. No comment was received. The Navajo Nation has returned to its weekend lockdowns for 3 weeks, after only one weekend without the lockdown since March.

 

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

What do the following words have in common?

FUSION         VENT              CAVE              CORD

DENSE           FIRM              FRONT          FUSE

 

Historical Events

1770 - Lexell's Comet passed closer to the Earth than any other comet in recorded history.

1819 - Johann Georg Tralles discovered the Great Comet of 1819, (C/1819 N1). It was the first comet analyzed using polarimetry, by François Arago.

1874 - The Sholes and Glidden typewriter, the first commercially successful typewriter, went on sale.

1881 - The world's first international telephone call was made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States.

1898 - The Battle of San Juan Hill was fought in Santiago de Cuba. (Spanish-American War)

1903 - The first Tour de France bicycle race began.

1908 - SOS was adopted as the international distress signal. Three dits, three dahs, and three dits - SOS is the only nine-element signal in Morse code.

July 1, 1941 - The first commercial aired before a MLB game between the Didgers and the Phillies. It was for Buluva Watches.

1943 - Tokyo City merged with Tokyo Prefecture area and was dissolved. Since this date, no city in Japan actually has the name "Tokyo" - that is, present-day Tokyo is not officially a city.

1963 - ZIP codes were introduced for US mail.

1971 - The Post Office Department (1792 - 1971) became the United States Postal Service

1972 - The first Gay Pride march in England took place.

July 1, 1976 - The Apple I was released.

1979 - Sony introduced the Walkman (in Japan).

1980 - O Canada officially became the national anthem of Canada.

2007 - Smoking in England was banned in all public indoor spaces.
2007 - The Concert for Diana was held at the new Wembley Stadium in London and broadcast in 140 countries, on which would have been her 46th birthday.

 

Birthdays Today

104-Actor Olivia de Havilland

75-Musician Debby Harry [Angela Trimble]

68-Canadian actor/director Dan Aykroyd
58-Actor Andre Braugher
53-Actor Pamela Anderson

43-Actor Liv Tyler

@36-Princess Diana [ Diana Frances Spencer](d. 1997; auto crash)

 

Puzzle Answer

Each can have the prefix CON- to form a new word.

 

 

 

Jun 30

 

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Jun 30, 2020 Week: 27 Day: 182

86004:   H 74° \ L 40° \ Average Sky Cover: 10%

Wind:   9mph\Gusts:  18mph  Visibility:  10mi

Nearest lightning:  439mi.; Nearest active fire:  131mi. 

Extreme Risk of Fire          

Record High: 92°[1936]   Record Low: 25°[1972]

Jun Averages: 80°\43° (3 days with rain)

Today’s  Quote

"Live in the sunshine,

swim the sea,

drink the wild air."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Random Tidbits

 On May 30, 1943, a verbal confrontation between a group of U.S. sailors and a group of zoot-suiters ended in the beating of one of the sailors. In retaliation, about 50 sailors left the local U.S. Navy Reserve Armory on the evening of June 3, armed with makeshift weapons and targeting zoot-suiters.

The Zoot Suit Riots finally died down after June 8, when military officials banned all military personnel from Los Angeles and called on military police to patrol the city.

In 1997 the American swing band the Cherry Poppin' Daddies released the song "Zoot Suit Riot" on an album of the same name. The song references the Los Angeles Zoot Suit riots in the first verse:

Who's that whisperin' in the trees?

It's two sailors and they're on leave

Pipes and chains and swingin' hands

Who's your daddy? Yes I am!

Have a smile

Thanks to one of my readers

I saw Arnold Schwarzenegger at the grocery store, and it was hard to resist asking him to say one of his famous movie lines... but... I played it cool and casually asked him if he knew where they stock the eggs. He said, "Aisle B, back."

Remember these movie quotes?

77 "Soylent Green is people!" Charlton Heston Soylent Green 1973

Observations This Week

American Library Week: 25-30
National Prevention of Eye Injuries Awareness: 27 -7/4
Tour de France: 27-7/19  Link  Moved to August due to COVID-19
Punxsutawney Groundhog Days: 28-7/5  Link

Observations for Today

Asteroid Day
California Avocado Day  Link
Disabled Veterans Day  Link
Leap Second Time Adjustment Day
Meteor Day

National Mai Tai Day

National Meteor Watch Day  Link
National Outfit Of The Day Day Link 
NOW (National Organization For Women) Day
Social Media Day Link

My Rambling Thoughts

Another nice day…not too hot, and not too much wind. Have to keep windows closed to keep out the wind.

Changed my front door decoration for Independence Day. It looks very patriotic. It will be strange with no gatherings, no parades. Our town seldom has fireworks due to the dryness, and I’m sure they would have been cancelled this year without the virus. Over the past few days there have been small fires in town in brush or treed areas. Thankfully, the local Fire Dept. has had them out very quickly. This weekend will be the real challenge. A 3-acre fire just broke out on Snowbowl road. It has been contained. I can see the smoke from my office window.

Navajo Nation has a fire near Ganado that has led to evacuations. So scary. To add to the reservation problems, the coal mine at Kayenta, now closed, drained a major aquifer making it even more difficult for residents to get fresh water.

When I was growing up in Wheat Ridge, everyone had huge green yards front and back. All the neighbors used well water to save money. Over the years we had to dig three wells…mostly by hand. Just before my parents downsized, all the neighborhood wells went dry. Construction, about a mile away, had drained all the water from the underground water. Sad, because everyone had to cut way back on their beautiful lawns.

Mississippi is changing their state flag, the last remaining state flag with the bars and stars. History takes time.   

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

In a lake, there is a patch of lily pads. Every day, the patch of lily pads doubles in size.

If it takes 48 days for the patch to cover the entire lake, how long would it take for the patch to cover half the lake?

Historical Events

1520 Spanish conquistadors are expelled from Tenochtitlan following an Aztec revolt against their rule under Hernán Cortés during "La Noche Triste" (the Night of Sadness). Many soldiers drown in the escape, and Aztec emperor Montezuma II dies in the struggle

1831 - A patent for a platform scale was issued to brothers Erastus and Thaddeus S. Fairbanks of St. Johnsbury, Vermont.

1859 - Jean-Francois Gravelet, known as Emile Blondin, became the first daredevil to walk across Niagara Falls on a tightrope.

1860 - The 1860 Oxford evolution debate (Huxley-Wilberforce debate or the Wilberforce-Huxley debate) at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History took place.

1886 - The United States Division of Forestry was recognized and established by an Act of Congress

1894 - The Tower Bridge across the River Thames in London was officially opened
1906 - The United States Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act.

1908 - The Tunguska Event happened near Lake Baikal, Russia. Destroying 770 square miles in Eastern Siberian Taiga. It was probably a big meteor. Or was it?

1914-Mahatma Gandhi's 1st arrest after campaigning for Indian rights in South Africa

1936 - Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind was published.

1952 - The Guiding Light premiered on CBS.

1953 - The first Chevrolet Corvette rolled off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan.
1966 - The National Organization for Women (NOW) was founded.
1971 - Ohio ratifies the 26th Amendment to the US Constitution, reducing the voting age to 18, putting the amendment into effect.

1972 - The first leap second was added to the UTC time system.

1987 - Iran-Contra hearings aired during daytime television, pre-empting most programming.

1967-Robert Henry Lawrence, Jr. named 1st black astronaut

2014-US Supreme Court rules that family-owned corporations can reject provision of 'Obamacare' on religious grounds

2019-President Donald Trump becomes first sitting US president to set foot in North Korea in the Korean Demilitarized Zone meeting Kim Jong Un

Birthdays Today

@92-Singer Lena Horne (d. 2010)

@62-Magician Harry Blackstone Jr. (d. 1997; cancer)

60-Actor Vincent D' Onofrio

54-Boxer Mike Tyson

35-Swimmer Michael Phelps

Puzzle Answer

47 Days.  The next day it doubled and covered the entire lake.