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Nov
7, 2020 Week: 45 Day: 312 |
Local:
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68°\ L 46°\Average Sky Cover: 60% |
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Wind: 9mph\Gusts: 5mph |
Nearest
lightning: 1423mi.; active fire: 59mi |
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high Risk of Fire |
Visibility: 10mi |
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Record: 71°[1934] Record: 8°[1947] |
Nov
Averages: 53°\23° (3
days with moisture) |
Today’s Quote
'Thank
you' is the best prayer that anyone could say.
I
say that one a lot.
Thank
you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.
Alice
Walker
Random Tidbits
Coca-Cola was so named back in
1885 for its two 'medicinal' ingredients: extract of coca leaves and kola nuts.
As for how much cocaine was originally in the formulation, it's hard to know.
A little humor
In a London department store:
BARGAIN BASEMENT UPSTAIRS...
True Things
Halloweird
As Halloween was approaching, residents in and around Concord,
Mass., were being treated to a spooky sight: A headless horseman, er, bikeman,
is riding around on a blacked-out bike, strumming his guitar and waving to
motorists and passersby. The Boston Globe reported
on Oct. 20 that the ghoul is really Matthew Dunkle, 38, who has been known as
the "bike-riding guy" in the area since 2015, when he went through a
divorce and lost a grandparent. "I needed something special in my
life," Dunkle said. "I had a few smiles and people waved and people
laughed and stuff. So that was kind of the beginning of it." He actually
donned the headless horseman costume in April, as the pandemic got going.
"It just feels like we are kind of in the dark right now," he said.
"We are all just running around with our heads cut off."
Observations This Week
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World Origami Days: 24-11/11 |
Polar Bear Week:
1-7 |
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Drowsy Driving
Prevention Week: 1-8 Link |
World Communication
Week: 1-7 World Karaoke Championships: 2-7Link |
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Give
Wildlife A Brake! Week: 1-7 Link |
Nat’l Farm Toy Show Days: 6-8 |
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Nat’l Animal Shelter
Appreciation Week: 1-7 Link
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Dear Santa Letter Week: 7-13 |
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Nat’l Fig Week: 1-7 |
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Observations for Today
Bison Day
Digital Scrapbooking Day
Employee Brotherhood Day (SpongeBob Squarepants)
International Merlot Day
National Bittersweet Chocolate with Almonds
Day
National Canine Lymphoma Awareness Day
National Play Outside Day
Notary Public Day
National Bittersweet Chocolate with Almonds Day
Pumpkin Destruction Day
Sadie Hawkins Day
(Always
First Saturday. This is what Chase's
Calendar put and so I stuck with that formula for this observance. But, a Sadie Hawkins Dance can be held
anytime a school or someone wants to have one.
Also, some call Leap Year Day - Feb. 29 as
Sadie Hawkins Day also because tradition states that women can ask the men to
marry them on that day.
To me, Leap Year Day is not Sadie Hawkins Day
and they are two separate observances.
Asking a guy to a dance is different than
asking him to marry you.
Although...in the cartoon strip, once the
single gals caught their guys in the annual footrace, the men were forced to
marry the gal that caught them aka a shotgun wedding per se. ;)
Hope this helps to clarify things a bit.
Sausage and Kraut Day
World Numbat Day
My Rambling Thoughts
I
am still patiently waiting for the results. Welcome to America 2020. I wish the
legislators in several states had the foresight to foresee that Covid would
have a lot of people voting by mail and had allowed their state to start
counting before election day.
Did
my weekly shopping. As I was driving around, I saw that several favorite restaurants
have now permanently closed. Also, BB&B is closing in Flagstaff. They will
be missed. I will not miss the constant barrage of BB&B coupons that fill
my mailbox.
I
learned that last night a friend from Pine Ridge and 4 of her extended family
at Covid Positive. She is at home; the others are in the hospital in Rapid
City. They are all in the vulnerable population and have been taking mask and
sanitizing precautions. Then I heard this morning that the Tuba City Chapter House
has closed because a worker tested positive.
The
Focus Tahiti trip is looking better every day as a go. I just hope my Christmas
trip to Mexico works out. Need to see my brother and sisters-in-law. Her sister
from NY and her husband will be there too.
I’ll
be checking on Andy’s [my friend/boss] house for 3 weeks. Faith, his wife, has
a sick dad back in Indiana. Luckily, they can go back and help out. Thank you
President Clinton for giving Federal employees ‘family leave’.
In
one of Trump’s lawsuits over election issues, the judge asked his attorney if
there were any Republican Watchers at the site in question. His answer: A
number greater than zero.
Today’s Puzzle
Answer at the bottom of the page
A sundial has the fewest moving parts of any timepiece.
Which has the most?
Historical Events
1492 – The Ensisheim Meteorite, the oldest meteorite
with a known date of impact, struck ground one afternoon in a wheat field
outside the village of Ensisheim, Alsace, France.
1665 – The first edition of the London
Gazette was printed. At the time it was called “The Oxford Gazette”.
1786 – The oldest musical organization in the United States was
founded as the Stoughton Musical Society.
1811 – The Battle of Tippecanoe took place, with future US
President, William Henry Harrison.
1874 – The first cartoon depicting the elephant as the Republican
Party symbol, by Thomas Nast. He is also known as being the first to draw our
modern version of Santa Claus.
1876 – The patent (#184,207) for the first US cigarette
manufacturing machine was issued to Albert Hook of New York City.
1885 -The Canadian Pacific Railway, connecting the Atlantic and
Pacific coasts, was completed.
1908 – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid were reportedly
killed in San Vicente, Bolivia.
1914 – The first issue of The New Republic magazine
was published.
1916 – Jeannette Rankin (R) became the first woman elected to
the United States Congress.
1917 – The Great October Socialist Revolution began in Russia
1929 – The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) opened to the
public.
1944 – Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) was elected for a record fourth
term as President of the United States of America.
1954 – Face The
Nation premiered on NBC.
1967 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Public
Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
1967 – Carl B. Stokes (D) was elected as Mayor of Cleveland,
Ohio, becoming the first African American mayor of a major American city.
1991 – Magic Johnson announced that he was infected with HIV and
retired from the NBA.
2006 – At O’Hare International Airport, UFO Sighting Near
Gate C-17 twelve employees reported seeing a metallic saucer-shaped craft
hovering over the airport. The FAA stance concluded that the sighting was
caused by a weather phenomenon and that the agency would not be investigating
the incident, which many think is odd in the post-2001 security-enhanced world
of airport security.
2012 Voters in Maine,
Maryland and Washington approve measures for same-sex marriage
2018 US President
Donald Trump fires Attorney General Jeff Sessions and appoints Matthew Whitaker
in his place as acting Attorney General
2019 Queen Elizabeth II
confirms she is no longer buying clothes made with real fur
Birthdays Today
@66 – Marie Curie, Polish chemist, and
physicist (Nobel Prize laureate, d. 1934)
@46 – Albert Camus, French novelist, philosopher,
and journalist, Nobel Prize laureate( d. 1960; car accident)
@99 – Billy Graham, American minister and author
(died in 2018)
@76 – Al Hirt, American trumpet player, and bandleader (d.
1999; liver failure)
78 – Johnny Rivers, American Singer/Songwriter,
guitarist, and producer
77 – Joni Mitchell, Canadian Singer/Songwriter, and
guitarist
69 – Lawrence O’Donnell, American journalist and
talk show host
24 – Lorde [Ella Marija Lani
Yelich-O'Connor], New Zealand Singer/Songwriter
Puzzle Answer
An hourglass.
