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Jun 24, 2020
Week: 26 Day: 176
86004: H 89° \ L 51° \ Average Sky Cover: 40%
Wind: 4mph\Gusts:
8mph Visibility: 10mi
Nearest
lightning: 200mi.; Nearest active
fire: 91mi.
Extreme Risk of Fire
Record High: 92°[1936]
Record Low: 25°[1972]
Jun Averages: 80°\43° (3 days with
rain)
Today’s Quote
"Life
is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood." -Ralph Waldo
Emerson
Random
Tidbits
Summer
is avocado season. Avocados are incredibly popular around the world as a food
all by itself, but also as an ingredient. In fact, Brazilians like to add
avocados to not only sandwiches and salads, but also to ice cream, while
Indonesians love to eat avocados with chocolate syrup.
In
1989, U.S. avocado consumption was around 1.1 pounds per person each year. Now
Americans devour over seven pounds per person each year.
Contrary
to common belief, avocados are berries, not vegetables.
Have
a smile
Thanks to one
of my readers
A dung
beetle walks into a bar and asks- -is this stool taken?-
Observations
This Week
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
National Insect Week: 22-28
National Pollinator Week: 22-28 Link
Old Time
Fiddlers Week: 22-27 (3rd Week) Link Cancelled due to COVID-19
Observations
for Today
Celebration
of the Senses
Chinese Dragon Boat Festival
International
Fairy Day or Faerie Day Link
National Energy Shopping Day
National Parchment Cooking Day Link
National Pralines Day
Stonewall
National Monument Day Link
Swim a Lap Day
World
UFO Day Link
My
Rambling Thoughts
Another
very warm day, but clouds are a light gray…maybe, just maybe some moisture.
Made a quick run to Walgreen’s to pick up my cream. The computer said $5, but
the label said $479 so I had to wait for them to fix their mistake. Just meant
a few more minutes in my vehicle at the drive up.
Protesters
tried to tear down an Andrew Jackson statue near the White House. Trump wants
them jailed and the key thrown away. I’m not a fan of tearing down statues. In
this case, check out the future President’s treatment of Indigenous People and
then his treatment during his Presidency. A horrifying read.
The
official name of Rhode Island is “State of Rhode Island and Providence
Plantations”. A ballot measure to drop the plantation reference failed in 2010
by a large margin. Now they are trying again to drop it.
In
1975 Horseman’s Lodge opened. Since then it has been a great steak house and had
hayrides and horseback riding before or after eating. In 2019 it was bought by
the Navajo Gaming Commission, which agreed to allow the restaurant to keep its
staff and remain open. Yesterday it was announced that they were closing for
good, since the Covid19 pandemic has made reopening basically impossible. Sad.
I had many a great dinner there over the decades.
Today
was my phlebotomy day. I have crappy veins. I drank 2 quarts of water between
8a and 2p in addition to my regular liquid intake. The Navajo lady always finds
the vein on the first poke. Today it took longer to drive to the office than to
do the draw. She hit the vein, and 8 minutes later I was done. Awesome!
Today’s
Puzzle
Answer
at the bottom of the page
There is valuable
diamond inside of an empty wine bottle. The wine bottle is made of glass and
has a cork sealing the top. You cannot break or damage the glass in any way.
You are not allowed to take the cork out of the bottle.
If you can get the
diamond out of the bottle, it is yours.
How do you get the
diamond out without damaging the glass or removing the cork?
Historical
Events
1374 - An
early morning, sudden outbreak of 'St. John's Dance' caused people in the
streets of Aachen, Germany, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and
twitch uncontrollably until they collapsed from exhaustion.
1873 -
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) received a patent (#140,245) for a self-pasting
Scrapbook.
1916 -
Mary Pickford became the first female film star to sign a million dollar
contract (with Adolph Zukor/Paramount).
1938 -
Pieces of a meteor, estimated to have weighed 450 metric tons when it hit the
Earth's atmosphere and exploded, landed near Chicora, in western Pennsylvania.
A cow was reportedly injured.
1949 -
The first television western, Hopalong Cassidy, aired on NBC, starring
William Boyd.
1997 -
US Air Force officials released a 231-page report dismissing all of the claims
of an alien spacecraft crash in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947.
2004 -
In New York, capital punishment was declared unconstitutional.
2010 - The Apple iPhone 3GS & iPhone 4
were released.
2017 UN states Yemen cholera epidemic
reached 200,000 cases, with 1,300 deaths. Worst cholera outbreak anywhere in
the world.
2018 Women drive for the first time in
Saudi Arabia after ban is lifted
2019 US President Donald Trump imposes
sanctions on Iran, targeted at Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in response
to the shooting down of a US drone
Birthdays
Today
76-Rock Musician Jeff Beck
75-Former NY Governor
George Pataki
73-Drummer Mick
Fleetwood
34-Musician Solange
Knowles
29- TV Actor Max Ehrich
Puzzle
Answer
You push the cork
into the bottle and dump the diamond out.
