Jul 15

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Jul 15, 2020 Week: 29 Day: 197

86004:   H 86° \ L 55° \ Average Sky Cover: 15%

Wind:   9mph\Gusts:  15mph  Visibility:  10mi

Nearest lightning:  155mi.; Nearest active fire:  67mi. 

Extreme Risk of Fire          

Record High: 92°[1970]   Record Low: 37°[2011]

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

 

Today’s  Quote

"Many of life's failures are people

who did not realize how close they were

to success when they gave up."

-Thomas A. Edison

 

Random Tidbits

Fajitas

In the 1960s, a Texas butcher shop owner named Sonny Falcon wanted to come up with a way to sell the unwanted skirt steak. He started to cook the undesirable meat and roll it into tortillas to entice shoppers with the smell and to be able to provide samples. He called the invention “fajitas” because he thought the skirt steak looks like a belt; “faja” means “belt” in Spanish. The recipe exploded in popularity. Falcon even traveled around making the famous recipe at rodeos and events all over Texas, and he became known as “The Fajita King.”

 

Remember these movie quotes?

13       "Love means never having to say you're sorry."

Ryan O'Neal                Love Story                     1970

 

Observations This Week

Tour de France: 27-7/19  Link  Moved to August due to COVID-19
National Vodka Week: 12-18  Link
Operation Safe Driver Week: 12-18  Link
Sports Cliché Week: 12-18 Link   Cancelled due to COVID-19 cancelling the MLB Games.
Democratic National Convention: 13-16 Postponed until Aug 17-20
Family Golf Week: 15-18  Link
National Cancer Survivor Sibling Week: 15-18  Link  
National Ventriloquism Week: 15-18  Link Cancelled due to COVID-19
Rabbit Week: 15-21

 

Observations for Today

Be a Dork Day

Cow Appreciation Day- Go out and give a cow a hug

Gummi Worm Day Link
International Sister Cities Day Link  Cancelled due to COVID-19
National Hot Dog Day Link 
National Tapioca Pudding Day

Take Your Poet To Work Day 
National Give Something Away Day
National Pet Fire Safety Day Link  Link
Saint Swithin's Day 
World Youth Skills Day

 

My Rambling Thoughts

Good news: Joe and Tumlare came through. I have now received all the refunds I am due after Tahiti decided they would not let us in due to Covid. I know that Ellie, Joe, and his staff spent many hours to pull this off.  I still feel sorry for all the local vendors we did not get to see…but will see in 2021.

It is another warm day…but fan is working fine. We need moisture…soon.

The Dentist called and my crown gets put on tomorrow. And he will fill two small cavities next to a crown on the other side of my mouth. I thought crowns were a good thing, but I’m beginning to wonder.

Facing backlash and lawsuits from Universities, the Trump administration has dropped their plan that foreign students attending Universities that are only doing digital learning due to Covid had to leave the country.

Of all my adventures, watching elephants in several countries are great memories. I am saddened every time I hear about elephant poaching for their ivory. Today’s news from Botswana is terrifying. Since March there has been 280+ sudden deaths of elephants in their country…and they find more every week. The elephants walk in circles then drop dead. There are many theories but still no answers. I hope they find the reason soon.

 

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

We hurt without moving. We poison without touching. We bear the truth and the lies. We are not to be judged by our size.

What are we?

 

Historical Events

1149 - The reconstructed Church of the Holy Sepulcher was consecrated in Jerusalem.

1799 - The Rosetta Stone was found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign.

1823 - A fire destroyed the ancient Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls in Rome, Italy.

1834 - The Spanish Inquisition was officially disbanded after nearly 356 years. Several thousand people were executed over this time, averaging about a dozen per year.

1838 - Ralph Waldo Emerson delivered the Divinity School Address at Harvard Divinity School, discounting Biblical miracles and declaring Jesus a great man, but not God. The Christian Community was not pleased.

1916 - In Seattle, Washington, William Boeing and George Conrad Westervelt incorporated Pacific Aero Products (later renamed Boeing).

1954 - First flight of the Boeing 367-80, prototype for both the Boeing 707 and C-135 series.

1979 - US President Jimmy Carter gives his Malaise Speech, where he characterizes the greatest threat to the country as "this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation."

2006 - Twitter was launched. 140 characters could say a lot.

2018 - 8-year-old girl finds pre-Viking-era sword in Vidostern Lake, Sweden, internet proclaims her Queen of Sweden

 

Birthdays Today

@77 - Alex Karras, football player, wrestler, actor (d. 2012; dementia)

@74 - Jan-Michael Vincent, American actor (d. 2019; cardiac arrest)

70 - Arianna Huffington, Greek-American journalist and publisher

69 - Jesse Ventura [James George Janos], wrestler, actor, and 38th Governor of Minnesota

59 - Forest Whitaker, American actor

57 - Brigitte Nielsen, Danish-Italian actress

44 - Gabriel Iglesias, Mexican-American comedian

 

Puzzle Answer

Words

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