Jul 2

 

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Jul 2, 2020 Week: 27 Day: 184

86004:   H 79° \ L 45° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%

Wind:   6mph\Gusts:  16mph  Visibility:  10mi

Nearest lightning:  485mi.; Nearest active fire:  132mi. 

Extreme Risk of Fire          

Record High: 92°[1969]   Record Low: 34°[1996]

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

 

Today’s  Quote

"Life is really simple,

but we insist on making it complicated."

-Confucius

 

Random Tidbits

Insects such as termites and ants provide 10 percent of the protein consumed worldwide. Where insects are an integral part of a diet, they contribute as much as 40 percent of protein.

In the United States, it is estimated that every adult unconsciously consumes one pound of insects each year due to garden produce, poor restaurant and home hygiene, and commercial foods for which the USDA allows a certain amount of insect fragments. Peanut butter, for example, is allowed to have 30 insect fragments per 100 grams.

 

Have a smile

Thanks to one of my readers

Question: What kind of car does a Viking drive?

A fjord

I would tell you the one about the broken pencil.

But there's no point to it.

 

Remember these movie quotes?

42 "Plastics."  Walter Brooke  The Graduate   1967

 

Observations This Month

Hemochromatosis Screening Awareness Month Link
Herbal/Prescription Interaction Awareness Month
Independent Retailer Month Link
International Blondie and Deborah Harry Month
National Deli Sandwich Month
International Group B Strep Awareness Month Link
International Women with Alopecia Month
International Zine 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

I  Forgot Day
Made In The USA Day
National Anisette Day

World UFO Day Link

 

My Rambling Thoughts

Beautiful summer day…windows and doors open to let in the sun and fresh air.

Ellie called and said to watch for another refund check for our Tahiti trip. Some have gotten them already, but my AZ bank might be slow. This is not the big check, but refund for some of the land stuff. The big refund is still ‘in process’. I am sure glad I am not the one tracking and checking on the refunds. Joe, Ellie, and Tumlare have much more patience than I have. They will continue until we are all happy.

Due to our dry conditions, on Apr. 28 our fire restrictions began…no open fires, no burning, no charcoal grills, etc. Oh, and no fireworks. Since that was so long ago, and seems even longer due to the Covid, the county just reissued it to remind us all that we live in extremely dangerous times…especially with fires. Early this morning there was an alert for the ‘twisted fire’ up on San Francisco Peak. It was only 2 acres and seems to be under control. When the alert came in, I could see the smoke. Scary with all the wind.

Every few months I goof up and answer some poll from some politician. By the next day I am getting 10-15 daily emails from the Dem. Party, every AZ Dem candidate. After a couple of days, I unsubscribe from each of them. Then, as time goes by, I forget, and do something that starts them all over again. I need a big neon sign above my computer that says ‘Never respond to any political ad…they don’t care and just want your email address to ask for $$$’

 

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

Rearrange the letters of the phrase below to form a cognate anagram, one which is related or connected in meaning to the original phrase. The answer can be one or more words.

NO NIGHT SKY REMINDER

 

Historical Events

1698 - Thomas Savery patented the first steam engine.

1776 - The Continental Congress adopted a resolution severing ties with the Kingdom of Great Britain, although the final wording of the formal Declaration of Independence was not approved until July 4.

1839 - 53 African slaves took over the slave ship Amistad.

1890 - The US Congress passes the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.

1897 - Guglielmo Marconi obtained his patent for radio in London.

1900 - The first Zeppelin flight took place on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany.

1937 - Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan were last heard from over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first equatorial round-the-world flight.

1937 - The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier has been guarded every minute since midnight July 2, 1937

1962 - The first Wal-Mart store opened in Rogers, Arkansas.

1964 - US President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the (Republican written) Civil Rights Act of 1964 meant to prohibit segregation in public places.

1982 - *Greatest Week in Movie History* - The week of July 2nd, 1982! E.T. - The Extra Terrestrial, Rocky 3, Blade Runner, Poltergeist, John Carpenter's The Thing, Star Trek 2 and Conan The Barbarian were all simultaneously playing at the cinema.

2002 - Steve Fossett became the first person to fly solo around the world (Australia to Australia ) nonstop in a balloon in just under two weeks.

2005 - The Live 8 benefit concerts - more than 1,000 musicians performed and were broadcast on 182 television networks and 2,000 radio networks.

2015 BP agrees to compensate US government & gulf states $18.7 billion for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill

2017 World Health Organization declares Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo over (4 deaths)

2018 British divers discover 12 boys and their coach alive in Tham Luang Nang Non cave, Thailand after being trapped for 9 days by monsoon flooding

 

Birthdays Today

98 - Pierre Cardin, Italian-French fashion designer
91 - Imelda Marcos, [Imelda Trinidad Romualdez]Filipino politician; 10th First Lady of the Philippines, shoe collector

@85 - Hermann Hesse, German-born Swiss poet, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1962)
@84 - Thurgood Marshall, US Supreme Court 1967-1991 (died 1993)
83 - Polly Holliday, American actress

@74 - Ken Curtis, American actor (died 1991; heart attack)
73- Larry David, TV producer
@69 - Dave Thomas, American businessman and philanthropist, founded Wendy's (died 2002; cancer)
35 - Ashley Tisdale, American actress and singer
34 - Lindsay Lohan, American actress

 

Puzzle Answer

Red sky in the morning