Jul 3

 

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Jul 3, 2020 Week: 27 Day: 185

86004:   H 81° \ L 53° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%

Wind:   10mph\Gusts:  18mph  Visibility:  10mi

Nearest lightning:  242mi.; Nearest active fire:  79mi. 

Extreme Risk of Fire          

Record High: 93°[2007]   Record Low: 34°[1997]

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

 

Today’s Quote

"Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale."

-Hans Christian Andersen

 

Random Tidbits

Eggs contain the highest quality food protein known. All parts of an egg are edible, including the shell which has a high calcium content.

 

A story came out recently which claims that the right amount of stress can actually increase our productivity.

 

Have a smile

Thanks to one of my readers

Question: Why are horses no fun?

Because they are neigh-sayers

 

You're never going to believe this- but my doctor just told me I've got a protein deficiency. No whey!

 

Remember these movie quotes?

76       "Hasta la vista, baby."      Arnold Schwarzenegger   

  Terminator 2: Judgment Day    1991

 

Observations This Month

National Anti-Boredom Month
Juvenille Arthritis Awareness Month Link
National Baked Beans Month Link
National Black Family Month
National Blueberries Month
National Child-Centered Divorce Month Link
National Cleft & Craniofacial Awareness and Prevention Month Link
National Contract Sewing Month Link
National Cord Blood Awareness Month Link
National Culinary Arts Month
National "Doghouse Repairs" Month
National Grilling Month
National HIV Awareness Month  Link  

National Ice Cream Month
National Horseradish Month
National Hot Dog Month
National Make A Difference to Children Month
National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month
National Parks & Recreation Month
National Picnic Month
National Roadside Traffic Safety Awareness Month
National Vacation Rental Month
National Watermelon Month
National Wheelchair Beautification 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
Roswell UFO Days: 3-6 Link  Cancelled due to COVID-19

 

Observations for Today

Compliment Your Mirror Day

Disobedience Day

Drop A Rock Day Link  (aka Rock Painting)
Eat Beans Day

International Plastic Bag Free Day  Link
National Chocolate Wafer Day

Stay out of the Sun Day
Superman Day Link

 

My Rambling Thoughts

Nice summer day. Awaiting the first monsoon. Should arrive soon.

Talked to Mary this morning. She lives in a residential area that is near the forest, just like me. She belongs to a Neighborhood watch group that posts local goings on her phone. She walks her two small dogs daily on her street and one other short street. Yesterday, after returning from her walk she got a notice. It said that earlier in the morning, forest service employees had tranquilized a juvenile bear on the street she walks on. She had stopped going into the forest because of bear reports in the area. Now she isn’t sure where she will walk the dogs.

Andy and Faith are down in Phoenix for the holiday. I am watering their trees and flowers for them.

My CPAP supplies finally came in and I was told they were only doing curbside pickup. Fine. I drove over there; their front door was open. I just walked in, with my mask, and picked them up.  It took over a week to get the supplies, and the main shop in Cottonwood has no idea what is going on in Flagstaff. Crazy.

I listened to an interesting podcast last night. Part of it was a 30 something lady talking to her father. She used the word ‘slave’. Her dad corrected her and said ‘Please use enslaved people when talking about your ancestors’. If that term were used, instead of slaves, in literature, in conversation, in education, and everywhere else it would recognize their humanity and make it more difficult to dismiss.

 

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

Homophones are words that share the same pronunciation, no matter how they are spelled. If they are spelled differently then, they are called heterographs.

 

What heterographs mean: FIBBER and ANCIENT GREEK INSTRUMENT

 

Historical Events

1035 - William the Conqueror became the Duke of Normandy.

1819 - The Bank of Savings in New York City, an early savings bank in the United States, opened. Many think it was the oldest, but the Philadelphia Saving Fund Society (PSFS), was founded on December 4, 1816 and headquartered in Philadelphia, PA.

1852 - Congress established the United States' 2nd mint in San Francisco.

1884 - Dow Jones and Company published its first stock average. The company was founded by three reporters: Charles Dow, Edward Jones, and Charles Bergstresser.

1886 - The New-York Tribune becomes the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, eliminating typesetting by hand.

1890 - Idaho was admitted as the 43rd U.S. state.

1952 - The Constitution of Puerto Rico was approved by the Congress of the United States.

1952 – Mr. Peepers, starring Wally Cox, debuted on NBC

1969 - Rolling Stone member Brian Jones dies in an accidental drowning (aged 27)

1969 - Lulu the elephant went off script on live BBC television's 'Blue Peter,' making the first on-air animal "blooper" we could find.

1971 - Doors front man Jim Morrison died of an accidental drug overdose (aged 27)

1979 - President Jimmy Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul, Afghanistan.

1985 - Back to the Future was released, featuring the now famous 1981 DeLorean DMC-12- time machine/automobile.

1988 - The USS Vincennes shot down Iran Air Flight 655 over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people aboard.

2013 - President of Egypt Mohamed Morsi was overthrown by the Egyptian military.

2019 - More than a million people ordered to evacuate Japanese island of Kyushu amid warnings of mudslides after 1,000mm (39in) of rainfall

 

Birthdays Today

@84 - George M. Cohan, American songwriter, actor, singer, dancer (d. 1942)
79 - Gloria Allred, American lawyer and activist
72 - Dave Barry, American comedic journalist and author
@69 - William Henry Davies, Welsh poet and writer (d.1940)

@65 - George Sanders, Russian-born British actor (d. 1972; OD)
62 - Aaron Tippin, American singer-songwriter
58 - Tom Cruise, American actor
58 - Thomas Gibson, Actor

@52 - Laura Branigan, American singer-songwriter (d. 2004; aneurysm)

49 - Julian Assange, Australian journalist, publisher, activist, founded WikiLeaks

@40 - Franz Kafka, Czech-Austrian author (d. 1924; TB)

 

Puzzle Answer

Liar/lyre.