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Jun 26, 2020
Week: 26 Day: 178
86004: H 86° \ L 50° \ Average Sky Cover: 40%
Wind: 6mph\Gusts:
14mph Visibility: 10mi
Nearest
lightning: 264mi.; Nearest active
fire: 101mi.
Extreme Risk of Fire
Record High: 92°[1936]
Record Low: 25°[1972]
Jun Averages: 80°\43° (3 days with
rain)
Today’s Quote
"In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love."
-Mother Teresa
Random
Tidbits
The Hass avocado is the most commonly known
and popular type of avocado worldwide. The green fruit is named after Rudolph
Hass, who discovered the variety in his backyard in California and patented it
in 1935.
The
word "avocado" is from the Aztec word for "testicle."
Have
a smile
Thanks to one
of my readers
I met a
taxidermist at a party and asked what he does for a living. He said- -Oh you
know....stuff.
Remember these movie quotes?
95. "Carpe diem.
Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary."
By Robin Williams in Dead Poets Society 1989
Observations
This Week
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
American
Library Week: 25-30
Watermelon
Thump Seed Spitting Week: 25-28 Link Cancelled COVID-19
North American
Organic Brewers Days: 26-28 Link August 4.
Water Ski Days: 26-28
Observations
for Today
626 Day (Lilo
& Stitch) Link
Bar Code Day
Beautician's Day
Harry
Potter Day
International Rose' Day Link
Drive Your Corvette to Work Day Link
National Food Truck Day Link .
Internat’l Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking
International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
National Canoe Day
National Chocolate
Pudding Day
National
Coconut Day Link
Same Sex Marriage Day
Take Your Dog to
Work Day
My
Rambling Thoughts
Another
warm day. Got my temporary crown put on. About 3 weeks for the permanent one. My
CPAP provider blew it again. I was due for new supplies on Tuesday. They didn’t
call, so on Monday I called. Nothing from them by Wednesday afternoon so I
called again. Blaming Covid, of course, they said their orders are slow and
they will call me next week when they get to Flagstaff.
After
hearing about the surge of virus I used FB and messenger to check on Carolyn, a
Focus traveler from Texas. She said she and her family are doing well, as they
live in the boonies and wear masks when going to town. She, too, is missing travel.
Good to hear they are doing well.
Tomorrow
is shopping day. I don’t need a lot, so it will be a quick trip.
It
is OK to legally keep fer’ners out our country because they might have the
virus, but it is not OK to tell people living here that they must wear a mask
to prevent the spread. And the numbers keep going up. It just makes no sense to
me.
Today’s
Puzzle
Answer
at the bottom of the page
Placed above, I make
greater things small. Placed beside I make small things great. In matters that
count, I always come first. Where others increase, I keep them the same.
What am I?
Historical
Events
1498 - The bristle toothbrush was invented in China.
1797 - Charles Newbold was issued a patent (#X000177) for an
improvement for the cast-iron plow
1870 - Christmas was declared a federal holiday in the United
States.
1906 - 1906 French Grand Prix, the first Grand Prix motor racing event was
held. Ferenc Szisz, driving for the Renault team, won the two day event.
1926 - Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises novel was released.
1934 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Federal Credit
Union Act, which established credit unions in the US.
1936 - The first flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first working
helicopter, in Berlin, Germany.
1945 - The United Nations Charter was signed, in San Francisco.
1963 - US President John F. Kennedy gave his "Ich bin ein Berliner"
speech.
1974 - The Universal Product Code was scanned for the first time
to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy,
Ohio.
1997 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Communications
Decency Act violated the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
2000 - The completion of a working draft reference DNA sequence of
the human genome was announced at the White House by President Bill Clinton,
and representatives from the Human Genome Project (HGP).
2015 US Supreme Court rules 5-4 same-sex marriage is a legal right
across all US states
2016 Panama Canal's third set of locks opens for commercial traffic,
doubling the Canal’s capacity at an estimated cost of $5.25 billion
2018 US Supreme Court upholds President Trump's travel ban against
mostly Muslim countries
2018 Polio outbreak confirmed in New Guinea by WHO, 18 years after
it was declared free of the disease
2019 Highest ever June temperatures recorded in Germany (38.6C),
Poland (38.2C) and the Czech Republic (38.9C) during week-long heatwave in
Europe
Birthdays
Today
@87-Colonel Tom Parker [Andreas Cornelis van Kuijk]Elvis’ manager (d. 1997)
69-Actor Robert Davi
@59-Actor Peter Lorre [László Löwenstein] (d. 1964; stroke)
50-Actor Chris O’Donnell
50-Actor Sean Hayes
46-Baseball Derek
Jeter
Puzzle
Answer
The number 1. If you
put the number one above another number, it turns it into a fraction. If you put it next to another number, it
makes the number larger. If you put
things in order the number one comes first.
If you multiply by one the number stays the same.
