Jan 20

 

2021…at last

Jan 20, 2021  Week: 3  Day:	Local:  H 38°\ L 22°\Ave. Sky Cover: 100%
Wind:   4mph\Gusts:  6mph	Today’s Ave. Temp.: H 43°\ L 18°
Nearest lightning: 1452mi.; Active fire: 59mi	Very Low Risk of Fire           Visibility:  10mi
Record: 61°[1950]   Record: -14°[1922]	Jan Averages: 44°/16° (4 days with moisture)

Today’s Quote

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

~Carl Reiner

Random Tidbits

Nearly 2,000 years before Homer, during the time of the Proto-Indo-Europeans, blonde hair was connected to the worship of the sun and fire and to the adoration of a yellow dawn goddess.

During the Roman era German blondes were taken captive and had their hair cut off to be made into wigs for fashionable ladies.

A Little Humor

Q: Where do snowmen dance? At the snowball!

Does anyone ever spiral into control?

True Things

Grease theft is up

Police arrested two New York men early Thursday morning, accusing them of stealing grease from a local restaurant. Police said that officers observed 34-year-old William Urbina of New York City and 23-year-old Kevin Romero-Castro of Yonkers conducting suspicious activity at a restaurant on 295 Flanders Road. Officers stopped their vehicle and noticed an oily substance leaking from it. Police arrested Romero-Castro and Urbina and charged them with conspiracy, larceny, and criminal trespass. Police said that stealing grease and oil from restaurants has been an ongoing crime in the area, and it often ends up damaging the equipment in the affected restaurant.

Interestng facts about AZ

Ø The Navajo Nation spans 27,000 square miles across the states of Utah, Arizona and New Mexico, but its capital is seated in Window Rock, Arizona.

Ø The amount of copper utilized to make the copper dome atop Arizona's Capitol building is equivalent to the amount used in 4.8 million pennies.

Ø Near Yuma, the Colorado River's elevation dips to 70 feet above sea level, making it the lowest point in the state.

Weekly Observations

No Tillage Week	15-21
International Snowmobile Safety and Awareness Week Link	16-24
National Fresh Squeezed Juice Week Healthy Weight Week Hunt For Happiness Week National Activity Professionals Week National Handwriting Analysis Week	17-23
Sugar Awareness Week No Name Calling Week Link Week of Christian Unity	18-23

 

Today’s Observations

Bodhi Day (Rohatsu) [Observed] 
Camcorder Day
DJ Day

Inauguration Day
National Buttercrunch Day
National Cheese Lover’s Day Link  Link
National Day of Service Link
Penguin Awareness Day Link

Take A Walk Oustside Day

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

It’s snowing…real snow…and it’s sticking to everything. My place has about 2” and it is still coming down. So excited for a real snowstorm. The forest needs it so badly. Glad the weather guy was right this time.

Inauguration day is here. Hoping for the peaceful transfer of power. I sure hope this means that ALL the 24/7 news networks return to reporting news from around the world and stop commenting on every possible scenario of what might happen at the White House. They have all veered from the mission statement of reporting the NEWS! I didn’t agree with most of Trumps policies, I was concerned as to how the Nation was changing. He is out of office, so I’m looking for policies that make the US and all its citizens better without hurting others.

My true hope is that politicians, on all sides, can find mutual agreement on policy that will show the world that this country is still a great democracy.

 

Daily Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

I am a box that holds keys without locks, yet they can unlock your soul. What am I?

Historical Events

1265 – 1st English Parliament was called into session by Earl of Leicester.

1920 – American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) was founded.

1929 – In Old Arizona, the first full-length talking motion picture filmed outdoors, was released.

1930 – The first radio broadcast of The Lone Ranger took place in Detroit (WXYZ)

1965 – The Beatles appeared on ABC’s Shindig.

1981 – Twenty minutes after Ronald Reagan was inaugurated, Iran released 52 American hostages.

1981 – President Regan’s first inauguration (Jan 20, 1981) was the warmest on record at 55°F, while his second inauguration (Jan 21, 1985) was the coldest on record at 7°F

1989 – Ronald Reagan became the 1st President elected in a ‘0’ year (1980) since 1840, to leave office as President while still alive.

1993 Bill Clinton (D) inaugurated as 42nd US President

1993 Maya Angelou is 1st African American and woman to recite a poem at inauguration of a US President - "On the Pulse of Morning" for Bill Clinton

2009 Barack Obama, inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States of America, becomes the United States' first African-American president

2017 Donald Trump is inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States of America and Mike Pence as the 48th Vice President 

Birthdays Today

@100 – George Burns, American actor, comedian (d. 1996)

91 – Buzz Aldrin [Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr], American astronaut

@90 – Arte Johnson, American actor, comedian (d. 2019)

@79 – DeForest Kelley, American actor (d. 1999; stomach cancer)

75 – David Lynch, American director, producer, screenwriter

@74 – Harold Gray, creator of Little Orphan Annie (d. 1968)

@69 – Aristotle Onassis, Greek shipping magnate (d. 1975; myasthenia gravis)

69 – Paul Stanley, American singer-songwriter, guitarist [Kiss]

@66 – Jeffrey Epstein, financier and convicted sex offender (d. 2019; ? in jail)

65 – Bill Maher, comedian, political commentator, media critic, TV host

63 – Lorenzo Lamas, American actor

57 – Fareed Zakaria, Indian-American journalist, author

54 – Kellyanne Conway, American political strategist, pundit

49 – Nikki Haley, American politician

Puzzle Answer

A piano.