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Jul 2, 2020 Week: 27 Day: 184
86004:
H 79° \ L 45° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind:
6mph\Gusts: 16mph Visibility:
10mi
Nearest lightning: 485mi.; Nearest active fire: 132mi.
Extreme Risk of Fire
Record High: 92°[1969]
Record Low: 34°[1996]
Jul Averages: 82°\52° (8 days with rain)
Today’s Quote
"Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated."
-Confucius
Random Tidbits
Insects such as termites and ants provide 10 percent of the
protein consumed worldwide. Where insects are an integral part of a diet, they
contribute as much as 40 percent of protein.
In the United States, it is estimated that every adult
unconsciously consumes one pound of insects each year due to garden produce,
poor restaurant and home hygiene, and commercial foods for which the USDA
allows a certain amount of insect fragments. Peanut butter, for example, is
allowed to have 30 insect fragments per 100 grams.
Have a smile
Thanks to one of my readers
Question:
What kind of car does a Viking drive?
A fjord
I would tell you the one about the broken pencil.
But
there's no point to it.
Remember these movie quotes?
42 "Plastics." Walter Brooke The Graduate 1967
Observations This Month
Hemochromatosis Screening Awareness Month Link
Herbal/Prescription Interaction Awareness Month
Independent Retailer Month Link
International Blondie and Deborah Harry Month
National Deli Sandwich Month
International Group B Strep Awareness Month Link
International Women with Alopecia Month
International Zine Month
Observations This Week
National
Prevention of Eye Injuries Awareness: 27 -7/4
Tour de France: 27-7/19 Link
Moved to August due to COVID-19
Punxsutawney Groundhog Days: 28-7/5 Link
Bean and Bacon Days: 1-5 Link Cancelled due to
COVID-19
Beer Pong Days:
1-4 (Moved from
June) Link
National Tom Sawyer Days: 1-5 Link (aka
Fence Painting Days)
National Unassisted Homebirth Week: 1-7
Observations
for Today
I Forgot Day
Made In The USA Day
National Anisette Day
My Rambling Thoughts
Beautiful
summer day…windows and doors open to let in the sun and fresh air.
Ellie
called and said to watch for another refund check for our Tahiti trip. Some
have gotten them already, but my AZ bank might be slow. This is not the big
check, but refund for some of the land stuff. The big refund is still ‘in
process’. I am sure glad I am not the one tracking and checking on the refunds.
Joe, Ellie, and Tumlare have much more patience than I have. They will continue
until we are all happy.
Due
to our dry conditions, on Apr. 28 our fire restrictions began…no open fires, no
burning, no charcoal grills, etc. Oh, and no fireworks. Since that was so long
ago, and seems even longer due to the Covid, the county just reissued it to
remind us all that we live in extremely dangerous times…especially with fires.
Early this morning there was an alert for the ‘twisted fire’ up on San
Francisco Peak. It was only 2 acres and seems to be under control. When the alert
came in, I could see the smoke. Scary with all the wind.
Every
few months I goof up and answer some poll from some politician. By the next day
I am getting 10-15 daily emails from the Dem. Party, every AZ Dem candidate. After
a couple of days, I unsubscribe from each of them. Then, as time goes by, I forget,
and do something that starts them all over again. I need a big neon sign above my
computer that says ‘Never respond to any political ad…they don’t care and just
want your email address to ask for $$$’
Today’s Puzzle
Answer at the bottom of the page
Rearrange the letters of the phrase below to form a cognate anagram, one
which is related or connected in meaning to the original phrase. The answer can
be one or more words.
NO NIGHT SKY REMINDER
Historical Events
1698 - Thomas Savery patented the first steam engine.
1776 - The Continental Congress adopted a resolution severing ties with
the Kingdom of Great Britain, although the final wording of the formal
Declaration of Independence was not approved until July 4.
1839 - 53 African slaves took over the slave ship Amistad.
1890 - The US Congress passes the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.
1897 - Guglielmo Marconi obtained his patent for radio in London.
1900 - The first Zeppelin flight took place on Lake Constance near
Friedrichshafen, Germany.
1937 - Amelia
Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan were last heard from over the Pacific Ocean
while attempting to make the first equatorial round-the-world flight.
1937 - The Tomb
of the Unknown Soldier has been guarded every minute since midnight July 2,
1937
1962 - The first Wal-Mart store opened in Rogers, Arkansas.
1964 - US President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the (Republican written)
Civil Rights Act of 1964 meant to prohibit segregation in public places.
1982 - *Greatest Week in Movie History* - The week of July 2nd, 1982!
E.T. - The Extra Terrestrial, Rocky 3, Blade Runner, Poltergeist, John
Carpenter's The Thing, Star Trek 2 and Conan The Barbarian were all simultaneously
playing at the cinema.
2002 - Steve
Fossett became the first person to fly solo around the world (Australia to
Australia ) nonstop in a balloon in just under two weeks.
2005 - The Live 8 benefit concerts - more than 1,000 musicians performed
and were broadcast on 182 television networks and 2,000 radio networks.
2015
BP agrees to compensate US government & gulf states $18.7 billion for the
2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill
2017
World Health Organization declares Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of
Congo over (4 deaths)
2018
British divers discover 12 boys and their coach alive in Tham Luang Nang Non
cave, Thailand after being trapped for 9 days by monsoon flooding
Birthdays Today
98 - Pierre Cardin, Italian-French fashion designer
91 - Imelda Marcos, [Imelda Trinidad
Romualdez]Filipino politician; 10th
First Lady of the Philippines, shoe collector
@85 - Hermann Hesse, German-born Swiss poet, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1962)
@84 - Thurgood Marshall, US Supreme Court 1967-1991 (died 1993)
83 - Polly Holliday, American actress
@74 - Ken Curtis, American actor (died 1991; heart attack)
73- Larry David, TV producer
@69 - Dave Thomas, American businessman and philanthropist, founded
Wendy's (died 2002; cancer)
35 - Ashley Tisdale, American actress and singer
34 - Lindsay Lohan, American actress
Puzzle Answer
Red sky in the morning
