Dec 4

 

‘Tis the Season

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Dec 4, 2020  Week: 49 Day: 339     

Local:  H 37°\ L 17°\Average Sky Cover: 5%

Wind:   11mph\Gusts:  17mph                       

Nearest lightning: 1424mi.; Active fire:  59mi

Moderate Risk of Fire          

Visibility:  10mi

Record: 67°[1965]   Record: -4°[1955]              

Nov Averages: 44°/\17° (5 days with moisture)

 

Today’s  Quote

None so deaf as those that will not hear.

None so blind as those that will not see.

Matthew Henry

 

Random Tidbits

In colonial times and into the early decades of the 19th century, most teachers were men. From the 1820s to 1830s, as more public schools (called Common Schools) were built and more men were siphoned off by more prestigious professions, women began to take over the schoolroom. The feminization of teaching not only change how society perceived women, but how women perceived themselves.  

 

A little humor

Don't bother walking a mile in my shoes. That would be boring. Spend 30 seconds in my head. That'll freak you right out.

 

True Things

Police in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, continue to investigate two explosive incidents in area port-a-potties, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported. No one was injured in either explosion, the first of which occurred Nov. 5 in Lawrenceville and was strong enough to blow apart the toilet and damage a nearby home, police said. The second came on Nov. 10 in East Allegheny. Pittsburgh's Bomb Squad and Crime Unit is working to determine what types of explosives were used and whether the events are related.

 

Observations This Week

Cookie Cutter Week: 1-7 Link

Clerc-Gallaudet Week: 3-10

 

Observations for Today

Bartender Appreciation Day Link  Link 
Bike Shop Day 
Earmuff Day or Chester Greenwood Day Link  
National Cookie Day 
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National Dice Day
National Dystychiphobia Awareness Day 
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National Play Outside Day 
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National Rhubarb Vodka Day 
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National Sock Day  
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Santa's' List Day

Skywarn Recognition Day Link  
Wear Brown Shoes Day

World Pear Day Link 
World Wildlife Conservation Day 
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My Rambling Thoughts

Another cold night and by noon it is a sweltering 37 degrees. Guess I should not have packed away my summer clothes. NOT. Hard to believe that 2020 is the 3rd warmest in history. Climate Change is real and should never be confused with weather change.

I am not a handyman and at my age, probably never will be. Three days ago I moved a plant and in doing so, tipped it over and dumped dirt onto my carpet between the stand and the wall. I pulled out my Shark vacuum, pulled the hose out of the bottom and sucked up the dirt very easily. Then I put the hose down, with the vacuum still running while I moved the plant stand. The super suction of the Shark found a dust rag I was also using. I what seemed like a millisecond, the rag was sucked into the tube and stopped all suction. I needed something long and slim with a clip or hook on the end to get the rag out. I couldn’t find anything that worked. For the next day I would contemplate what to use. An old coat hanger would do great, but I only have the wooden ones for heavy stuff, and those semi-fancy ones covered with fabric. Yesterday, I was getting out a coat so I could empty the trash and saw I had a very heavy winter jacket that was cleaned and still in the covering from the cleaners. The cleaners had used 3 old fashioned wire hangers to hold the jacket. Within 5 minutes my jacket was on 2 hangers, and the rag was removed from the vacuum. Success. I put the unbent hanger wire with my other ‘tools’ for future use.

A few years ago, I bought a pod single cup coffee maker. I am not a coffee drinker, so, I only used it if I had a guest or two who drank coffee. Then I discovered Hot Cocoa pods. I put the water in the maker, add the pod, put some milk in the bottom of the cup, push the buttons and within no time I have nice rich hot cocoa. I’ve been using it for the past few days of cold weather.

One of my comfort foods is creamed chipped beef on buttered toast. At dinner last night I realized I hadn’t taken anything out of the freezer to cook. I had a jar of thinly sliced beef in the panty, but no fresh bread. Then I found a can of biscuits in the fridge. Turned out great and may become a new go-to for comfort food. I also enjoy biscuits and gravy so I should have figures this out decades ago.

I was horrified when I saw General Flynn suggesting that Trump should declare Martial Law and then hold a new election. I guess that is his way of saying thanks for the pardon. Now he has a petition for this action. Even so, it is a very, very bad idea that should not happen.

 

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

How is seven different from the rest of the numbers between one and ten?

 

Historical Events

1154 Adrian IV elected Pope. The only Englishman to become pontiff, Nicholas Breakspear was a member of the family which until recent years brewed beer in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire.

1791 Britain's Observer, oldest Sunday newspaper in the world, first published

1875 William Magear Tweed "Boss Tweed" (Tammany Hall, NYC) escapes from jail

1915 Ku Klux Klan receives charter from Fulton County, Georgia

1933 FDR creates Federal Alcohol Control Administration

1942 FDR orders dismantling of Works Progress Administration

1954 The first Burger King is opened in Miami, Florida, USA

1961 Museum of Modern Art hangs Matisse's Le Bateau upside down for 47 days

1961 The female contraceptive 'pill' becomes available on the National Health Service in Britain

1977 Jean-Bédel Bokassa crowns himself Emperor of the Central African Empire in a lavish ceremony costing US$20 million - one third of the nation's budget

1981 Reagan Executive Order on Intelligence (No 12333) that allows CIA to engage in domestic counter-intelligence

1991 Pan American World Airways ceased operations

1992 Somali Civil War: President George H. W. Bush orders 28,000 US troops to Somalia

2005 Tens of thousands of people in Hong Kong protest for democracy and call on the Government to allow universal and equal suffrage

2014 The United Nations warns that the world is on course for the warmest year since records began

2017 US Supreme Court allows President Trump's travel ban to come into effect for 6 mostly Muslim countries

2018 French couture house Chanel ends its use of fur and exotic skins following bans by other companies

2019 North American migratory birds getting smaller, their wings wider due to climate change according to study by University of Michigan published in journal "Ecology Letters"

 

Birthdays Today

@85 Thomas Carlyle, Scottish essayist and historian (The French Revolution), (d. 1881)

@78 Chester Greenwood, American inventor (invented earmuffs at 15), born in Farmington, Maine (d. 1937)

71 Jeff Bridges, actor

51 Jay-Z [Shawn Corey Carter], rapper

47  Tyra Banks, talk show host

@36ish  Crazy Horse [Tashunka Witko], Oglala Sioux chief (Battle of the Little Bighorn), born in Fort Robinson, Nebraska (d. 1877; killed while captive)

 

Puzzle Answer

Seven has two syllables and the other numbers only have one syllable.

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