Feb
6, 2021 Week: 5
Day: 37 |
Local: H 49°\ L 18°\Ave. Sky Cover: 5% |
Wind: 5mph\Gusts: 8mph |
Low Risk of Fire Active
fire: 308mi |
Nearest
lightning: 954mi. |
Record: 65°[1963]Record: -21°[1899] |
Visibility: 10mi |
Feb. Averages: 47°/19° (5 days with moisture) |
Today’s
Quote
'Tis better to have loved
and lost than never to have loved at all.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Random Tidbits
The word 'canvas' is
related to the word 'cannabis.' Historically, canvases were made of hemp.
Both Thomas Jefferson and
George Washington grew hemp on their plantations. The British crown even
ordered the colonists to grow the plant.
A Little Humor
Q Why couldn’t the pony sing? It was a little hoarse!
.....
I looked outside my window and saw a guy taking my gate. I was going
to tell him something but I thought he might take a fence
Monthly Observations
Pet Dental Health Month |
Weekly Observations
Sundance Film Festival |
28-2/7 |
Catholic Schools Week |
31-2/6 |
Meat Week |
31-2/6 |
Cordova Ice
Worm Days: Link |
1-6 |
African Heritage &
Health Week: |
1-7 |
American
Camp Week
|
2-4 |
Dump
Your Significant Jerk Week National Stationery Week: Cancelled |
2-8 |
Today’s Observations
Barber Day
Bob Marley Day (Jamaica and
Ethiopia)
Canadian Maple Syrup Day Link
Dry Bean Day: 6-8 Link Cancelled
Eat Ice Cream for Breakfast Day
International Day of Zero
Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation Link
International Frozen Yogurt Day Link
Lame Duck Day
National
Ice Cream For Breakfast Day Link
National Play Outside Day Link
Pay a Compliment Day
Play Monopoly Day Link
Take Your Child To The Library Day
World Play Your Ukulele Day
Cancelled
My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
Blue sky, little wind…a great day here at 7000’
All the vehicle windshields were covered with frost this morning. I was
sitting in my office this morning as people headed for work. Five vehicles backed
out of their parking spaces and started driving down the parking lot, then
stopped, in the middle of the road, got out and scraped their windshields. It
was about 25 degrees and it was like these drivers thought that a few seconds
on sunlight would melt the frost. One guy even got out, poured a bottle of
water on his windshield. It froze…duh. Then he turned on his wipers and proceeded
to pour another bottle The water froze. So he got another bottle of water,
turned on his wipers and poured away. After the third bottle of water with the
wipers running, he could see enough to drive off. I was dumbfounded.
I’m not surprised that Rep. Greene is now Representative in name only.
This is going to haunt Congress for quite a time. Her tweet this morning shows she
learned little from this exercise.
I heard on the local NPR radio station that a new vaccine schedule
would be released at 12N to sign up for a vaccine. I’ve been on the site about
45 minutes, refreshing every few minutes, and no new dates have been released. Finally,
one day opened on Feb. 21. I clicked on it and it said no registration is
available at this time, so keep checking back. I’m sure they will explain the
problem within the next few years.
Daily Puzzle
Answer at the bottom of the
page
There is a word in the English language in which the first two letters
signify a male, the first three letters signify a female, the first four
signify a great man, and the whole word, a great woman. What is the word?
Historical Events
60 – The earliest known reference to a single day of the week (Sunday)
in Pompeii.
1788 – Massachusetts became the sixth state to ratify the
Constitution.
1819 – Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founded Singapore.
1820 – The first 86 African American immigrants sponsored by the
American Colonization Society left New York to start a settlement in
present-day Liberia.
1843 – The first minstrel show in the United States, The Virginia
Minstrels, opened at the Bowery Amphitheatre in New York City.
1891 – The Dalton Gang’s first attempt at train robbery failed. Bob,
Grat, and Bill Dalton unsuccessfully tried to rob a Southern Pacific train near
Alila, California.
1919 – The American Legion was founded.
1926 – The National Football League (NFL) adopted a rule that made
players ineligible for competition until their college class graduated.
1933 – The 20th Amendment to the Constitution was declared in effect,
making the start of presidential, vice-presidential and congressional terms
from March to January.
1937 – John Steinbeck’s novella Of Mice and Men was published.
1952 – Queen Elizabeth II succeeded to the British throne.
1959 – The first patent for an integrated circuit (computer chip) was
filed by Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments.
1959 – At Cape Canaveral, the first successful test firing of a Titan
intercontinental ballistic missile.
1971 – Astronaut Alan B. Shepard used a six-iron that he had brought
inside his spacecraft and swung at three golf balls on the surface of the moon.
He said it went for “miles and miles.”
1985 – The French mineral water company, Perrier, debuted its first
new product in 123 years. The new items were water with a twist of lemon, lime,
or orange.
1998 – Washington National Airport was renamed the Ronald Reagan
National Airport.
2000 – First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton formally declared that she
was a candidate for a U.S. Senate seat from the state of New York.
2018 Elon Musk's company SpaceX launches Falcon Heavy, world's most
powerful rocket.
2019 US President Donald Trump makes presidential State of Union
address to Congress a week later than usual due to government shutdown.
2020 US astronaut Christina Koch completes the longest continuous
spaceflight by a female astronaut after 328 days on the International Space
Station, landing in Kazakhstan.
2020 Antarctica records high temperature of 64.9 F / 18.2 C at
Esperanza, Argentina’s research station.
Birthdays Today
@99 – Zsa Zsa Gabor,
Hungarian-American actress and socialite (d. 2016)
@93 – Ronald Reagan, actor,
40th President of the United States (d. 2004)
@83 – Mary Leakey, English
paleoanthropologist (d. 1996)
@80 – Aaron Burr,
American colonel and politician (d. 1836)
82 – Mike Farrell, American actor and activist
81 – Tom Brokaw, American journalist
78 – Fabian Forte, American actor and singer
@65 – Natalie Cole, American
singer-songwriter (d.2015; heart failure)
59 – Axl Rose [William Bruce Rose Jr.; raised William Bruce Bailey], singer-songwriter
@53 – George Herman ‘Babe’ Ruth, Jr., baseball player and coach (d. 1948; cancer)
@36 – Bob Marley, regae
singer (d. 1981; cancer)
@33 – Eva Braun, German
wife of Adolf Hitler (d. 1945; suicide)
Puzzle Answer
Heroine
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