Jun 24

 

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Jun 24, 2020 Week: 26 Day: 176

86004:   H 89° \ L 51° \ Average Sky Cover: 40%

Wind:   4mph\Gusts:  8mph  Visibility:  10mi

Nearest lightning:  200mi.; Nearest active fire:  91mi. 

Extreme Risk of Fire          

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

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

Today’s  Quote

"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Random Tidbits

Summer is avocado season. Avocados are incredibly popular around the world as a food all by itself, but also as an ingredient. In fact, Brazilians like to add avocados to not only sandwiches and salads, but also to ice cream, while Indonesians love to eat avocados with chocolate syrup.

In 1989, U.S. avocado consumption was around 1.1 pounds per person each year. Now Americans devour over seven pounds per person each year.

Contrary to common belief, avocados are berries, not vegetables.

Have a smile

Thanks to one of my readers

A dung beetle walks into a bar and asks- -is this stool taken?-

Observations This Week

National Nursing Assistants Week: 18-25  Link

Carpenter Ant Awareness Week: 21-27 
Fish Are Friends, Not Food! Week: 21-27 Link  
Lightning Safety Awareness Week: 21-27 Link   
Nat'l Craft Spirits Week: 21-27 Link Canceled due to COVID-19
National Mosquito Control Awareness Week: 21-27 Link
Universal Father's Week: 21-27  
Windjammer Days: 21-27 Link Cancelled due to COVID-19
National Insect Week: 22-28
National Pollinator Week: 22-28  Link 
Old Time Fiddlers Week: 22-27 (3rd Week)  Link Cancelled due to COVID-19

Observations for Today

Celebration of the Senses
Chinese Dragon Boat Festival 

International Fairy Day or Faerie Day  Link
National Energy Shopping Day
National Parchment Cooking Day Link 
National Pralines Day

Stonewall National Monument Day Link
Swim a Lap Day

World UFO Day Link

My Rambling Thoughts

Another very warm day, but clouds are a light gray…maybe, just maybe some moisture. Made a quick run to Walgreen’s to pick up my cream. The computer said $5, but the label said $479 so I had to wait for them to fix their mistake. Just meant a few more minutes in my vehicle at the drive up.

Protesters tried to tear down an Andrew Jackson statue near the White House. Trump wants them jailed and the key thrown away. I’m not a fan of tearing down statues. In this case, check out the future President’s treatment of Indigenous People and then his treatment during his Presidency. A horrifying read.

The official name of Rhode Island is “State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations”. A ballot measure to drop the plantation reference failed in 2010 by a large margin. Now they are trying again to drop it.

In 1975 Horseman’s Lodge opened. Since then it has been a great steak house and had hayrides and horseback riding before or after eating. In 2019 it was bought by the Navajo Gaming Commission, which agreed to allow the restaurant to keep its staff and remain open. Yesterday it was announced that they were closing for good, since the Covid19 pandemic has made reopening basically impossible. Sad. I had many a great dinner there over the decades.

Today was my phlebotomy day. I have crappy veins. I drank 2 quarts of water between 8a and 2p in addition to my regular liquid intake. The Navajo lady always finds the vein on the first poke. Today it took longer to drive to the office than to do the draw. She hit the vein, and 8 minutes later I was done. Awesome!

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

There is valuable diamond inside of an empty wine bottle. The wine bottle is made of glass and has a cork sealing the top. You cannot break or damage the glass in any way. You are not allowed to take the cork out of the bottle.

If you can get the diamond out of the bottle, it is yours.

How do you get the diamond out without damaging the glass or removing the cork?

Historical Events

1374 - An early morning, sudden outbreak of 'St. John's Dance' caused people in the streets of Aachen, Germany, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapsed from exhaustion.

1873 - Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) received a patent (#140,245) for a self-pasting Scrapbook.

1916 - Mary Pickford became the first female film star to sign a million dollar contract (with Adolph Zukor/Paramount).

1938 - Pieces of a meteor, estimated to have weighed 450 metric tons when it hit the Earth's atmosphere and exploded, landed near Chicora, in western Pennsylvania. A cow was reportedly injured.

1949 - The first television western, Hopalong Cassidy, aired on NBC, starring William Boyd.

1997 - US Air Force officials released a 231-page report dismissing all of the claims of an alien spacecraft crash in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947.

2004 - In New York, capital punishment was declared unconstitutional.
2010 - The Apple iPhone 3GS & iPhone 4 were released.

2017 UN states Yemen cholera epidemic reached 200,000 cases, with 1,300 deaths. Worst cholera outbreak anywhere in the world.

2018 Women drive for the first time in Saudi Arabia after ban is lifted

2019 US President Donald Trump imposes sanctions on Iran, targeted at Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in response to the shooting down of a US drone

Birthdays Today

76-Rock Musician Jeff Beck
75-Former NY Governor George Pataki
73-Drummer Mick Fleetwood 

34-Musician Solange Knowles

29- TV Actor Max Ehrich

Puzzle Answer

You push the cork into the bottle and dump the diamond out.