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Jun 21, 2020
Week: 26 Day: 173
86004: H 85° \ L 47° \ Average Sky Cover: 25% Smoky
Wind: 5mph\Gusts:
7mph Visibility: 10mi
Nearest
lightning: 506mi.; Nearest active
fire: 83mi.
Extreme Risk of Fire
Record High: 92°[1936]
Record Low: 25°[1972]
Jun Averages: 80°\43° (3 days with
rain)
Today’s Quote
I love being wrong because
that means in an
instant,
I learned something
new that day
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Random
Tidbits
The summer solstice isn't exclusive to Earth
All the planets in our
solar system have summer solstices. Mars's solstice occurs a few days after
Earth's in June. On Uranus, the summer solstice happens once every 84 years.
The next one will occur on October 9, 2069. Each season lasts for 21 years.
Talk about a never-ending winter!
"Solstice"
comes from the Latin word for "sun stand still" because the sun will
reach its highest point at noon on that day and briefly appear not to move.
In northern Europe, the
summer solstice is often referred to as Midsummer, while Wiccans and other
Neopagan groups call it Litha. Some Christian churches recognize the summer
solstice as St. John's Day to commemorate the birth of John the Baptist.
According to pagan
folklore, evil spirits would appear on the summer solstice. To ward them off,
people would wear protective garlands of herbs and flowers. One of the most
powerful of these plants was known as "chase devil," today referred
to as St. John's Wort.
If you are somewhere in
the Tropic of Cancer during the solstice, you'll note that at the stroke of
noon, you won't see any shadows. That's because that is the precise time when
the sun is directly overhead at a 90-degree angle to the earth.
While the Northern
Hemisphere receives more sunlight on the summer solstice than on any other day
of the year, that doesn't mean the first day of summer is also the hottest.
Even though the planet absorbs a lot of sunlight on the summer solstice, it
takes several weeks to release it. As a result, the hottest days usually occur
in July or August.
Another popular
misconception is that during the summer solstice, Earth is the closest it can
get to the sun. In reality, the planet reaches this point, also called the
perihelion, about two weeks after the winter solstice. On the summer solstice,
the Northern Hemisphere is actually near the furthest point from the sun or the
aphelion.
Plains Indians in Wyoming
tracked astronomical events
Have
a smile
Thanks to one
of my readers
"I live by my own rules
(reviewed, revised, and approved by my wife)…
but still my own.”
– Si Robertson
Observations
This Week
Meet A Mate Week: 15-21
Men's Health
Week: 15-21 Link Link
US Open Golf
Championship: 15-21 Note: Canceled due to the COVID19
National Week of
Making: 17-23 Link
National Nursing Assistants Week: 18-25 Link
Carpenter Ant Awareness Week: 21-27
Fish Are Friends, Not Food! Week: 21-27 Link
Lightning Safety Awareness Week: 21-27 Link
Nat'l Craft Spirits
Week: 21-27 Link Canceled due to COVID-19
National
Mosquito Control Awareness Week: 21-27 Link
Universal
Father's Week: 21-27
Windjammer
Days: 21-27 Link Cancelled due to COVID-19
Observations
for Today
Atheists Solidarity Day Link
Cuckoo
Warning Day
Daylight Appreciation
Day
Dollars Against Diabetes
Day(s) Link
Father's Day Link Link
Family Awareness
Day
Global Orgasm Day Link
Go Skateboarding Day Link
Husband Caregiver Day
International Day of Yoga Link
Make Music Day Link
National Daylight Appreciation Day
National Day of The Gong
National Peaches & Cream Day
National Sea
Shell Day Link
National Selfie Day Link
National Turkey Lovers Day
Tall Girl
Appreciation Day
Turkey
Lovers Day Link
World Giraffe Day Link
World Handshake Day Link
World Humanist Day
World Hydrography Day Link
World Music Day
My
Rambling Thoughts
Happy
Father’s Day. My dad has been gone for since 1994. He lived 80 years, was a
Navy and Army vet, married his HS sweetheart, adopted my brother and I, kept
working until he was in his late 70’s, and watched over the family. My brother and
I will always remember the great times.
Our
sun is being partially blocked by smoke
from the fires so far away. It looks like we are having an eclipse today. AZ
currently has 11wildfires covering over 448 square miles. Thousands have been
evacuated. Every year there are more fires to deal with here in AZ.
While
we are dealing with the smoke, the gulf states will soon be dealing with a huge
dust storm from the Sahara Desert that will deteriorate air quality. This is
one of the largest in years. Every year some smaller storms work their way to
the US.
During
the Covid thing and the protests, Flag now has a busy tagger. He hit the
Catholic Church, a code talker statue on campus, and several businesses. Our
police were able to identify him and arrest him a day after the last tagging. Good
for them.
To
be honest, I never learned about Juneteenth in school. When I started this
blog, I learned a little, but I still didn’t understand its significance. Now,
thanks to Trump, I understand the reason for celebration. Never too old to
learn.
Colorado
is talking about renaming Columbus Day. They want it to be Mother Cabrini Day…after
the Catholic Saint/Nun who cared for orphans in Colorado. When my grandfather
was the groundskeeper at Marycrest Convent, he also drove them to the Shrine
when out of town visitors came to Marycrest. I took several trips with them during
school vacations. The nuns loved to pray and loved children. Seems to me an odd choice…especially with the
harm the Catholic Church did to Indigenous people in many countries.
Today’s
Puzzle
Answer
at the bottom of the page
There is a room full
of 100 politicians. Each one is either honest or a liar. You know to facts
about these politicians:
1. At least one of
them is honest.
2. If you pick any
two politicians, at least one of them is a liar.
From this
information, can you determine how many politicians are honest and how many are
liars?
Historical
Events
1834 - Cyrus Hall McCormick received a
patent (#X008277) for his grain reaping machine,
1877 - The Molly Maguires, ten Irish
immigrants convicted of murder, were hanged in Pennsylvania prisons, in
Schuylkill County and Carbon County.
1893 - The first Ferris wheel premiered at
Chicago’s Columbian Exposition, and could hold up to 2000 people on 36 cars, and
was 264 feet tall.
1913 - The first successful parachute jump
from an airplane by a woman was made by Georgia Broadwick, age 18, over
Griffith Field, Los Angeles, California.
1940 - The first successful west-to-east
navigation of Northwest Passage begins at Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
1948 - Columbia Records introduced the
long-playing record album (33 1/3 revolutions per minute) in a public
demonstration at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York, New York. The first was
released in 1949 - ML 4001, Nathan Milstein performing the Mendelssohn violin
concerto.
2006 - Pluto's recently discovered moons
were officially named Nix and Hydra.
2012 Moody's downgrades 15 major banks in
the UK, US, Canada and Europe
2012 A boat of 200 asylum seekers headed to
Australia capsizes and 110 survivors are rescued
2015 Hackers ground 1400 passengers by
attacking IT system at Warsaw Chopin airport in Poland
2018 Sara Netanyahu, wife of Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is charged with fraud
2019 UK police called to house of leader
contender Boris Johnson over alleged altercation with his girlfriend
Birthdays
Today
87-Actor Bernie Kopell
69-Musician Nils Lofgren (E-Street Band, Crazy Horse)
63-Cartoonist Berkley
Breathed
56-TV Actor Doug Savant
47-Actor Juliette
Lewis
44-Musician/Producer Mike Einziger
38-Prince William
Puzzle
Answer
One politician is
honest and 99 are liars. We know from
the facts at least one politician is honest.
If more than one was honest you could potentially pick two politicians
that would both be honest. However, fact
number two tells us that at least one of the politicians would have to be a
liar.
