Jul 9

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Jul 9, 2020 Week: 28 Day: 191

86004:   H 86° \ L 52° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%

Wind:   12mph\Gusts:  23mph  Visibility:  10mi

Nearest lightning:  528mi.; Nearest active fire:  68mi. 

Extreme Risk of Fire          

Record High: 94°[2003]   Record Low: 34°[1926]

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

 

Today’s  Quote

"In three words I can sum up

everything I've learned about life:

it goes on."

-Robert Frost

 

Random Tidbits

4. Brain Strain Pepper. The name of number four on our list says it all. Yet another variant of the 7-pot pepper, the "Brain Strain" approaches the 2 million Scoville mark, making it one of the headiest capsaicin bombs known to humankind.

5. Pot Primo Pepper. Weighing in at number five is the Pot Primo, a hybrid between the original 7-pot pepper and the Naga Morich. It can reach heat levels of 1.9 million Scoville heat units.

6. 7-Pot Douglah Pepper. The 7-pot Douglah, also called the "Chocolate 7-pot," is a dark purplish brown. That's where the resemblance to chocolate ends, however, as this little pepper boasts a whopping 1.8 million heat units.

 

Have a smile

Thanks to one of my readers

Question: What did one hat say to another hat?

“You stay here I’ll go on ahead”

 

My daughter came up to me the other day and started coloring the top of my arm. She was just looking for a shoulder to crayon.

 

Remember these movie quotes?

# 66                "Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape."

Charlton Heston      Planet of the Apes                 1968

 

Observations This Week

Tour de France: 27-7/19  Link  Moved to August due to COVID-19
Freedom Week: 4-10
Be Nice To New Jersey Week: 5-11 
National Farriers Week: 5-11 
National Theraputic Recreation Week: 5-11  Link  
Nude Recreation Weekend: 5-12 
Creative Maladjustment Week: 7-14 Link 

 

Observations for Today

International Town Crier’s Day

Martyrdom of The Bab
National ‘Don’t put all your eggs in one omelet’ Day

National No Bra Day Link  
National Sugar Cookie Day

World Body Painting Day: 9 Link  Cancelled due to COVID-19

 

My Rambling Thoughts

A windy day. A hot day. With little to do, I cleaned my oven and toaster.

I talked to my travel partner Ed last night. We are going to do Tahiti in March of 2021. Bought the insurance; just in case this virus is still going.

Headlines here and social media are blowing up with the new information that AZ is the #1 global hotspot. Thankfully, Flagstaff is a couple of shades lighter red than the Phoenix and Tucson areas. Still, not the #1 I hoped for.

The opening of schools this fall are Trump’s latest tirade…even the threat to stop Federal $$ to those districts that do not open in August. For months he has left everything to the Governors, now he steps in. If cases spike in the schools, he will blame it on________. Fill in the blank.

Trump announces end date for ties to WHO. 7/6/2021. Plenty of time to change after the November elections.

 

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

Delete one letter from INCARNATE LOVE AD

and rearrange letters to find something nice in the mail.

 

Historical Events

1540 - King Henry VIII of England annulled the marriage to his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves.

1776 - George Washington ordered the Declaration of Independence to be read out loud to members of the Continental Army in New York, New York, for the first time.

1815 - The first developed natural gas well in the U.S. was discovered, at Burning Springs well near Charleston, West Virginia.

1868 - The 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, insuring African Americans (ex-slaves born in the United States) full citizenship and all persons in the United States due process of law.

1877 - The inaugural Wimbledon Tennis Championships began at the All England Club.

1922 - Future film 'Tarzan' star Johnny Weissmuller swam the 100 meters freestyle in 58.6 seconds, breaking the world swimming record and the 'minute barrier'.

1933 - Construction began on the Oakland Bay Bridge, California. It was opened on May 29, 1937.

1937 - The silent film archives of Fox Film Corporation were destroyed by the 1937 Fox vault fire.

1962 - Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans exhibition opened at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles.

1979 - Launched in 1977, Voyager 2, passed by Jupiter.

1982 Michael Fagan breaks into Buckingham Palace and enters the Queen's bedroom in Buckingham Palace, London

1986 Attorney General's Commission on pornography links hard-core porn to sex crimes

1995 Former South African President F. W. de Klerk is implicated of knowing and condoning a 'dirty tricks' campaign that was waged against the ANC between 1990 and the 1994 election in a bid to destabilize the organization

2017 CEO Elon Musk is the first owner of Tesla's first mass market electric car - the Model 3

2018 US President Donald Trump names Brett Kavanaugh as his Supreme Court nominee

2018 Bright pink is the world's oldest biological colour according to scientists, produced by tiny cyanobacteria in 1.1bn-year-old marine shale rock from Taoudeni basin, Mauritania

2018 US coffee company Starbucks announces it will stop using plastic straws by 2020, reducing use of more than 1 billion straws a year

2019 Northern Ireland MPs vote to extend same-sex marriage and make abortion legal to bring it in line with rest of UK

 

Birthdays Today

92 - Ed Ames, American singer, actor

88 - Donald Rumsfeld, American politician

@81 - Brian Dennehy, American actor (d. 2020)

@78 - Lee Hazlewood, American singer-songwriter, producer (d. 2007; cancer)

78 - Richard Roundtree, American actor

75 - Dean Koontz, American author and screenwriter

73 - O.J. Simpson, American football player, felon, actor

68 - John Tesh, American pianist, composer and television host

@67 - Vince Edwards [Vincent Edward Zoine], American actor, singer, and director (d. 1996; cancer)

65 - Lindsey Graham, American politician

65 - Jimmy Smits, American actor

64 - Tom Hanks, American actor

56 - Courtney Love, American singer-songwriter and actress

@48 - Elias Howe, American inventor, the sewing machine (d. 1867; gout)

44 - Fred Savage, American actor, director, and producer

29 - Mitchel Musso, American actor and singer

 

Puzzle Answer

Delete O and find Valentine Card

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