Jun 4

 

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Jun  4, 2020 Week: 23  Day: 156

86004:   H 85° \ L 46° \ Average Sky Cover: 45%

Wind:   3mph\Gusts:  7mph  Visibility: 10 mi

Nearest lightning:  225mi.; Nearest active fire:  517mi. 

High Risk of Fire          

 

Record High: 89°[1990]   Record Low: 23°[1908]

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

 

Today’s  Quote

 

"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count.

It's the life in your years."

-Abraham Lincoln

 

Random Tidbits

 

The most popular holidays for barbecuing are, in order, July 4th (71 percent), Memorial Day (57 percent), and Labor Day (55 percent).

 

Technically, to barbecue means to slow-cook meat at a low temperature for a long time over wood or charcoal. What most people do in their back yards is more commonly referred to as grilling.

 

Charcoal briquettes aren't actual charcoal, but a combination of charcoal and other ingredients molded into easy-to-light lumps. Kingsford Charcoal, for example, by far the most popular brand in the US, is made up of bits of charcoal, coal, starch (as a binder), sawdust, and sodium nitrate (to make it burn better).

 

Have a smile

True conversations while flying

 

A student became lost during a solo cross-country flight. While attempting to locate the aircraft on radar, ATC asked, 

"What was your last known position?"

Student: 

"When I was number one for takeoff."

 

Observations This Month

 

National Accordion Awareness Month
National Aphasia Awareness Month
National Bathroom Reading Month Link
National Camping Month Link
National Candy Month Link
Nat’l Caribbean-American Heritage Month
National Congenital Cytomegalovirus Awareness Month Link
National DJ Month Link
National Foster A Pet Month
National Fruit and Veggies Month
Nat’l GLBT (Gay,Lesbian,Bisexual & Transgender) Pride Month
Nat’l GLBT (Gay,Lesbian,Bisexual & Transgender) Book Month
National Home Ownership Month Link
National Ice Tea Month
Na’l Migraine & Headache Awareness Month
National Oceans Month
National Papaya Month Link
National Pet Preparedness Month Link  Link
National Pollinator Month
National Rivers Month
National Rose Month Link
National Safety Month
National Scoliosis Awareness  Month Link
National Smile Month Link  (May 13-June 13)
National Soul Food Month
National Steakhouse Month
National Zoo and Aquarium Month Link

 

Observations This Week

 

Black Single Parents Week: 28-6/3
Hemp History Week: 1-7 Link
Great American Brass Band Week: 4-7  Link  September 12 due to COVID-19

Observations for Today

 

Applesauce Cake Day

Audacity To Hope Day
Hug Your Cat Day  Link
International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression
International (World) Hug Your Cat Day  Link
National Cheese Day

National Punk Day Link
National SAFE Day  Link
 Old Maid's Day Link

 

 

My Rambling Thoughts

 

Another warm day. Not complaining…just hoping for some moisture.

 

When I started driving gas was $0.35/gal…in today’s money that’s $2.71/gal. Hmmm

 

There were at least 4 demonstrations around Flagstaff last night. All peaceful. All went a short time past curfew. The largest was on the East side of town with about 300 people. Officers at that one joined in on the chant ‘Black Lives Matter’. Sure glad it was peaceful.

 

On the other side, there was a random shooter on US89 just of the Rez toward Flagstaff. A Navajo Elderly female had her windshield shot. Thankfully no one was injured. Cops from the Rez and from State Patrol and County Sheriff responded but found no suspects. There were two other cars damaged.

 

’Duty to Act’ laws are now the big topic. Laws that require law enforcement to step in when an officer is breaking the law or face jail and fines. That is a good first step.

 

Some probationary cop in Denver was fired for posting on Instagram with a pic of officers in riot gear and the caption: Let’s start a riot. Good job Denver!

 

 

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

 

Submitted by a friend:

Rearrange these letters— A E G I L N R T—to spell five other words. Use all the letters just one time each to create the five words.

  

Historical Events

 

1784 - Elisabeth Thible was the first woman to fly in an untethered hot air balloon, flying for about 45 minutes.

1812 - Following Louisiana's admittance as a US state, the Louisiana Territory was renamed the Missouri Territory.

1876 - The Transcontinental Express arrived in San Francisco, California, in only 83 hours and 39 minutes after leaving New York City.

1895 - Joseph Lee was issued a patent (#540,553) for a "bread crumbing machine"

1896 Henry Ford takes his 1st Ford through streets of Detroit

1912 - Massachusetts became the first state of the United States to call for a minimum wage, although it was non-specific, and for children under 18 and women.

1919 - The US Congress approved the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guaranteed voting for women, and sent it to the individual states for ratification.

1934 Dr Frederick Banting, co-discoverer of insulin, is knighted

 

1937 - The first shopping carts were introduced at the Humpty Dumpty Supermarket in Oklahoma City, created by the store's owner, Sylvan Goldman.

 

1940 Winston Churchill's speech "We shall fight on the seas and oceans"

 

1944 General Eisenhower cancels planned D-Day invasion on June 5th after receiving unfavorable weather reports

 

1956 'Secret speech' by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev criticizing Joseph Stalin is made public

 

1957 - The first U.S. commercial long-distance coal slurry pipeline, 108 miles long, began delivery from a coal mine, from the Georgetown Preparation Plant of the Hanna Coal Company in Cadiz, Ohio, to the Cleveland Illuminating Company power station, in Eastlake, Ohio.

1974 - During a 'Ten Cent Beer Night' inebriated Cleveland Indians fans started misbehaving, causing the game to be forfeited to the Texas Rangers.

1976 - 'The gig that changed the world.' A few dozen people saw the debut of the Sex Pistols at the Lesser Free Trade Hall in Manchester, England

1986 - Jonathan Pollard pled guilty to espionage for selling top secret United States military intelligence to Israel.

1989 - The 'Tank Man' halted the progress of a column of advancing tanks for over half an hour after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.

 

1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre: Chinese troops clear the square of student protesters, unofficial figures place death toll near 1,000

 

1991 Pope John Paul II compares abortion with Nazi murders

 

2018 Former US President Bill Clinton and James Patterson publish a thriller novel "The President is Missing" together

 

2018 US President Donald Trump tweets "I have the absolute right to PARDON myself"

 

2019 Professional gambler James Holzhauer's 32-game winning streak ends on "Jeopardy" just short of Ken Jenning's record $2.52m earnings

 

 

Birthdays Today

 

84-Actor Bruce Dern (1936)

77-Evangelist Joyce Meyer

@69-Actor Rosalind Russel (d. 1976; breast cancer)

 

49-Actor Noah Wyle

 45-Actor Angelina Jolie 

45-Actor Russell Brand

Puzzle Answer

 

Answer: alerting, altering, integral, relating, triangle.