Jun 26

 

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Jun 26, 2020 Week: 26 Day: 178

86004:   H 86° \ L 50° \ Average Sky Cover: 40%

Wind:   6mph\Gusts:  14mph  Visibility:  10mi

Nearest lightning:  264mi.; Nearest active fire:  101mi. 

Extreme Risk of Fire          

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

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

Today’s  Quote

"In this life we cannot do great things.

We can only do small things with great love."

-Mother Teresa

Random Tidbits

 The Hass avocado is the most commonly known and popular type of avocado worldwide. The green fruit is named after Rudolph Hass, who discovered the variety in his backyard in California and patented it in 1935.

The word "avocado" is from the Aztec word for "testicle."

Have a smile

Thanks to one of my readers

I met a taxidermist at a party and asked what he does for a living. He said- -Oh you know....stuff.

Remember these movie quotes?

95. "Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary."

By Robin Williams in Dead Poets Society 1989

Observations This Week

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
American Library Week: 25-30
Watermelon Thump Seed Spitting Week: 25-28 Link  Cancelled COVID-19
North American Organic Brewers Days: 26-28 Link   August 4.
Water Ski Days: 26-28 

Observations for Today

626 Day (Lilo & Stitch)  Link
Bar Code Day
Beautician's Day

Forgiveness Day

Harry Potter Day
International Rose' Day Link 
Drive Your Corvette to Work Day Link 
National Food Truck Day Link .
Internat’l Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking

International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
 National Canoe Day

National Chocolate Pudding Day

National Coconut Day Link
Same Sex Marriage Day
Take Your Dog to Work Day

My Rambling Thoughts

Another warm day. Got my temporary crown put on. About 3 weeks for the permanent one. My CPAP provider blew it again. I was due for new supplies on Tuesday. They didn’t call, so on Monday I called. Nothing from them by Wednesday afternoon so I called again. Blaming Covid, of course, they said their orders are slow and they will call me next week when they get to Flagstaff.

After hearing about the surge of virus I used FB and messenger to check on Carolyn, a Focus traveler from Texas. She said she and her family are doing well, as they live in the boonies and wear masks when going to town. She, too, is missing travel. Good to hear they are doing well.

Tomorrow is shopping day. I don’t need a lot, so it will be a quick trip.

It is OK to legally keep fer’ners out our country because they might have the virus, but it is not OK to tell people living here that they must wear a mask to prevent the spread. And the numbers keep going up. It just makes no sense to me.

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

Placed above, I make greater things small. Placed beside I make small things great. In matters that count, I always come first. Where others increase, I keep them the same.

What am I?

Historical Events

1498 - The bristle toothbrush was invented in China.

1797 - Charles Newbold was issued a patent (#X000177) for an improvement for the cast-iron plow

1870 - Christmas was declared a federal holiday in the United States.
1906 - 1906 French Grand Prix, the first Grand Prix motor racing event was held. Ferenc Szisz, driving for the Renault team, won the two day event.
1926 - Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises novel was released.

1934 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Federal Credit Union Act, which established credit unions in the US.

1936 - The first flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first working helicopter, in Berlin, Germany.

1945 - The United Nations Charter was signed, in San Francisco.
1963 - US President John F. Kennedy gave his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech.

1974 - The Universal Product Code was scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio.

1997 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Communications Decency Act violated the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.

2000 - The completion of a working draft reference DNA sequence of the human genome was announced at the White House by President Bill Clinton, and representatives from the Human Genome Project (HGP).

2015 US Supreme Court rules 5-4 same-sex marriage is a legal right across all US states

2016 Panama Canal's third set of locks opens for commercial traffic, doubling the Canal’s capacity at an estimated cost of $5.25 billion

2018 US Supreme Court upholds President Trump's travel ban against mostly Muslim countries

2018 Polio outbreak confirmed in New Guinea by WHO, 18 years after it was declared free of the disease

2019 Highest ever June temperatures recorded in Germany (38.6C), Poland (38.2C) and the Czech Republic (38.9C) during week-long heatwave in Europe

Birthdays Today

@87-Colonel Tom Parker [Andreas Cornelis van Kuijk]Elvis’ manager (d. 1997)

69-Actor Robert Davi

@59-Actor Peter Lorre [László Löwenstein] (d. 1964; stroke)

50-Actor Chris O’Donnell

50-Actor Sean Hayes
46-Baseball Derek Jeter

Puzzle Answer

The number 1. If you put the number one above another number, it turns it into a fraction.  If you put it next to another number, it makes the number larger.  If you put things in order the number one comes first.  If you multiply by one the number stays the same.