Aug 2

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Aug 2, 2020 Week: 32 Day: 215

86004:   H 89° \ L 59° \ Average Sky Cover: 40%

Wind:   12mph\Gusts:  20mph  Visibility:  10mi

Nearest lightning:  1mi.; Nearest active fire:  67mi. 

High Risk of Fire          

Record High: 93°[1902]   Record Low: 43°[1976]

Jul Averages: 79°\50° (9 days with rain)

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Today’s  Quote

"The real test is not whether you avoid this failure,

because you won't.

It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction,

or whether you learn from it;

whether you choose to persevere."

-Barack Obama

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Random Tidbits

The Milky Way galaxy is 100,000 light-years from edge to edge. If a rocket could travel at the speed of light, it would take 100,000 years to cross the galaxy. By comparison, light can go from Earth to the moon in just one second.

If our solar system were the size of a U.S. quarter, the sun would be a microscopic piece of dust and the Milky Way would be about the size of the United States.  

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A little humor

What was the most groundbreaking invention ever?

 

I think it was the shovel.

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Observations This Month

Children's Eye Health & Safety Month
Child Support Awareness Month Link
Children's Vision & Learning Month
Get Ready for Kindergarten Month
Golf Month
Happiness Happens Month Link
Motor Sports Awareness Month

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Observations This Week

World Rope Skipping Week thru 8/3  Link
National Little League Baseball Week: Thru 23  Link   Cancelled due to COVID-19
Lollapalooza: Thru 8/2 (Virtual)
Gallup International Tribal Indian Powwow: thru 8/11 Link Canceled: Covid
Satchmo Week: 31-8/2 Cancelled due to COVID-19

International Clown Week: 1-7 Link
National Cleanse Your Skin Week: 1-7  Link
National Lemonade Days: 1-9 Link Moved from June due to COVID-19
National Minority Donor Awareness Week: 1-7
Simplify Your Life Week: 1-7
World Breastfeeding Week: 1-7 Link
National Exercise With Your Child Week: 2-8
Knights of Columbus Family Week: 2-8  
National Button Week: 2-8 Link
National Farmers' Market Week: 2-8  Link 
National Health Center Week: 2-8 Link  
Single Working Women's Week: 2-8  Link
Stop on Red Week: 2-8 Link

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Observations for Today

American Family Day  Link  
Friendship Day  Link

Ice Cream Sandwich Day

International Forgiveness Day

National Coloring Book Day Link
National Doll Day  Link  
National Kids' Day Link
National Psychic Day  Link  Link  
Sisters' Day
Take A Penny/Leave A Penny Day  Link

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My Rambling Thoughts

Another warm one here at 7000’. Weather guy says it will cool off starting tomorrow. I sure hope so. Ninety degrees is my breaking point for the cooler. There are clouds, dark ones, but weather guy says probably no moisture. I hope he is wrong. Good news, while writing this, there is a nice very wet thunderstorm happening.

The Navajo Reservation is on yet another 57-hour lock down…meaning no business are open. You can not leave your home property. The only exception is to care for your livestock. This weekend lock own started in late May. It continues through August. It seems to be helping. For those complaining about the virus…you might think about living on the Navajo Reservation.

Most of the sports world just can’t get it right. MLB may have to cancel their shortened season as more and more players test positive. The NBA and NHL are doing better by having players live in a bubble. The NFL says it’s going to allow players to travel to games and to return to their homes daily. Sadly it looks more like money than care for their players.   

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Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

What would be the next letter in this series?

O T T F F S S

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Historical Events

1610 – Henry Hudson sailed into what is now known as Hudson Bay (he thought he had made it through the Northwest Passage and reached the Pacific Ocean).

1776 – The signing of the Declaration of Independence didn’t occur on July 4. After the Continental Congress voted to declare independence on July 2, the final language of the document was approved on July 4, and it was printed and distributed on July 4 – 5. The actual signing was on August 2, 1776, Matthew Thornton from New Hampshire signed it on November 4, 1776.

1790 – The first United States Census was conducted. There were 3,929,214 people counted that year.

1865 Lewis Carroll publishes "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"

1869 – Japan’s samurai, farmer, artisan, merchant class system (Shinokosho) was abolished as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms.

1870 – Tower Subway, the first underground tube railway, opened in London, England.

1873 – The Clay Street Hill Railroad began operating the first cable car in San Francisco’s famous cable car system.

1876 – Jack McCall shot Wild Bill Hickok in the back as he played poker at a saloon in Deadwood, in the Dakota Territory. Wild Bill held black aces and eights, which became known as the “dead man’s hand.”

1937 – The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 was passed in America, making marijuana and all its by-products illegal.

1943 Lt John F. Kennedy's PT-boat 109 sinks at Solomon islands

1945 Potsdam Conference between Joseph Stalin, Harry Truman and Winston Churchill (replaced by Clement Attlee after losing the 1945 general election) ends1989 NASA confirmed Voyager 2's discovery of 3 more moons of Neptune designated temporarily 1989 N2, 1989 N3 & 1989 N24

1973 – The Summerland Disaster occurred when a fire spread through the Summerland leisure center in Douglas on the Isle of Man. Fifty people were killed and eighty seriously injured in the fire, started by some boys smoking in a closet.

2017 First successful gene editing in human embryos to repair disease-causing mutation reported by scientists in "Nature"

2017 US President Donald Trump signs legislation imposing sanctions on Russia, limiting his ability to ever lift them

2017 Great Britain's Prince Philip aged 96 makes his final solo public appearance before retiring from public engagements

2018 Apple becomes the first American public listed company to reach $1 trillion in value

2018 Oldest library in Germany confirmed unearthed in Cologne dating to 2AD, possibly held 20,000 scolls1990 – Iraq invaded Kuwait, leading to the Gulf War.

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Birthdays Today

@81 – Peter O’Toole, British-Irish actor (d. 2013)

@76 – Carroll O’Connor, American actor (d. 2001; heart attack)

76 – Wes Craven, Director

@65 – Elisha Gray, co-founded Western Electric (d. 1901)

61 – Victoria Jackson, American comedic actress

@60 – Jim Capaldi, English drummer and singer-songwriter (d. 2005; cancer)

@59 – Andrew Gold, American singer-songwriter(d.  2011; cancer)

44 – Michael Weiss, American figure skater

44 – Sam Worthington, English-Australian actor

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Puzzle Answer

E (One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight)

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