Jun 1

 

 

 

Jun 1, 2021   Week: 23    Day: 152

Visibility: 10 miles Ave. Sky Cover: 75%

Local: H 65°\ L 40°

Wind:  3mph/ Gusts:  10mph

High Risk of Fire:  Active fire:  223mi Nearest Lightning: 10mi.

Jun Averages: 70°/42° (1 day w/moisture)

 

Today’s Quote

 

As America celebrates Memorial Day, we pay tribute to those who have given their lives in our nation's wars. John M. McHugh

 

Random Tidbits

 

Crazy Horse's nephew, Moses Clown, (right) and Irvin Munyon were from neighboring towns in South Dakota. Moses was killed ten days before armistice. He was the first soldier from South Dakota to die in combat during World War I. His mother, Crazy Horse's sister Iron Cedar became the first Gold Star mother in South Dakota as a result. We remember Moses on this Memorial Day. 

 

Humor

 

I moved to New York City for my health. I’m paranoid, and it was the only place where my fears were justified.—Anita Weiss

 

Real Cities

 

Plenty Bears, South Dakota is an unincorporated community in Bennett County, South Dakota.

 

True Things

 

Home Sweet Home

Vietnam veteran Tom Garvey, 78, of Ambler, Pennsylvania, has released a new memoir, not about his service in Southeast Asia, but about the "secret apartment" he maintained for two years in an empty concession stand in Philadelphia's Veterans Stadium, once home to both the Phillies and the Eagles, reported The Philadelphia Inquirer. From 1979 to 1981, Garvey lived in an "off-the-wall South Philly version of the Phantom of the Opera," he said, furnishing the apartment with a bed, sink, refrigerator, stereo, coffeemaker, hot plate and seating for guests, who included players' wives waiting for their husbands after games. Leftover Astroturf served as the carpeting. Cousin Terry Nilon said being in Garvey's apartment, located literally in leftfield, felt like "Vet stadium was in his living room." [Philadelphia Inquirer, 3/9/2021]

 

Monthly Observations

 

Adopt-A-Cat Month Link  Link Adopt A Shelter Cat Month African-American Music Appreciation Month Link Alzheimer's and Brain Awareness Month Link Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome Awareness Month (APS) Link Audiobook Appreciation Month

 

Weekly Observations

 

Black Single Parents Week	5/28-6/3
INVICTUS GAMES Link Cancelled	5/29-6/5
National African Violet Week	5/30-6/5
National Marina Days Link	5/31-6/9

 

Today’s Observations

 

Baby Boomers Recognition Day CNN Day Dare Day Flip a Coin Day Global Day of Parents Link Heimlich Maneuver Day International IGBO Day International Table Top Day Link National Dare Day  Link   National Go Barefoot Day National Hazelnut Cake Day National Nail Polish Day  Link National Olive Day  Link National Pen Pal Day  Link Oscar The Grouch Day Link Say Something Nice Day Link Stand For Children Day Link Superman's Birthday  (Comic Book)   World Milk Day  Link World Narcissistic Abuse Day  Link World Reef Awareness Day Link

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

Sky is mostly overcast and there has already been a couple of 15-min rain showers with thunder included for free. The forest needs all the moisture it can get. There were 49 illegal campfires between Friday evening and Sunday evening in our forest. This rain should prevent the idiots from starting any more. Every year there are too many people who see the NO FIRES and assume it is meant for everyone else and not for them. Our forest is precious, and these people should be fined and forbidden to be in the forest for a year. It has been a good Memorial Day weekend for me. Some friends stopped by yesterday. It’s nice that people can actually visit my home again and not have to worry about masking up. They were all vaccinated, so it is all good.

Daily Riddle

Answer: bottom of the page

 

What month of the year has 28 days?

 

Historical Events

 

4000 BC Approximate domestication of the horse in the Eurasian steppes near Dereivka, central Ukraine (hypothesis only)

 

1495 – John Cor made a note referring to the first known batch of Scotch whisky.

 

1533 – Anne Boleyn was crowned Queen of England.

 

1813 – James Lawrence, the mortally-wounded commander of the USS Chesapeake, gave the now-famous line: “Don’t give up the ship!”

1831 – James Clark Ross discovered the Magnetic North Pole.

1886 – Thomas Edison received his first patent (#90646). It was for an “electrographic vote recorder.”

1947 – The Doomsday Cock first appeared, on the cover of Bulletin of the Atomic

1961 – Regular FM stereo radio broadcasting with a multiplexed signal began in Schenectady, NY, on WGFM.

1974 – The Heimlich maneuver, named after Dr. Henry Heimlich, was published in the journal Emergency Medicine.

1979 – The Apple II Plus was released.

1980 – The Cable News Network (CNN) began broadcasting

1990 – George H.W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev signed a treaty to end chemical weapon production.

1994 – FX Network made its debut. It was the first cable TV network owned by FOX.

 

2008 – A fire on the backlot of Universal Studios broke out, destroying a large archive of master tapes for music and film, the full extent of which was not revealed until 2019.

2009 – General Motors filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

2017 US President Donald Trump announces the US is withdrawing from the Paris Climate Agreement

2018 US unemployment rate falls to 3.8%, lowest since 2000

 

Birthdays Today

 

87 – Pat Boone, American singer-songwriter

@86 – Andy Griffith, American actor (d. 2012)

84 – Morgan Freeman, American actor, narrator

@64 – Nelson Riddle, American composer, bandleader (d. 1985; cirrhosis)

48 – Heidi Klum, model

40 – Amy Schumer, American comedic actress

40 – Brandi Carlile, American singer-songwriter

@36 – Marilyn Monroe, American actress (d. 1962; OD)

25 – Tom Holland, English actor

 

Puzzle Answer

 

All of them

 

 

Memorial Day 2021

 

 

 

May 31, 2021   Week: 22    Day: 151

Memorial/Decoration Day: Remember the Fallen!

Visibility: 10 miles Ave. Sky Cover: 20%

Local: H 76°\ L 41°

Wind:  9mph/ Gusts:  18mph

EXTREME Risk of Fire:  Active fire:  223mi Nearest Lightning: 153mi.

May Averages: 68°/34° (3 days w/moisture)

 

Today’s Quote

 

“For love of country they accepted death, and thus resolved all doubts, and made immortal their patriotism and their virtue.”- James A. Garfield   “Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we can never fully repay.”- Barack Obama

 

Random Tidbits

 

Whenever a pregnant women suffers from organ damage like heart attack, the fetus sends stem cells to the organ helping it to repair.

 

It is illegal to climb trees in Oshawa, a town in Ontario, Canada.

 

Humor

 

Traveling outside Taos, a man comes upon a Native American lying in the middle of the road with his ear pressed against the blacktop.

“What are you doing?” asks the man.

The tribesman replies, “Woman, late 30s, three kids, one barking dog in late model, four-door station wagon, traveling at 65 mph.”

“Amazing! You can tell all of that just by listening to the ground?”

“No,” says the Native American. “They ran over me five minutes ago.”

 

Real Cities

 

Ninety Six, South Carolina is a town in Greenwood County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 1,998 at the 2010 census.

There is much confusion about the name, "Ninety Six", and the true origin may never be known. Speculation has led to the mistaken belief that traders estimated it was 96 miles (154 km) from here to the nearest Cherokee settlement of Keowee (it was about 78 miles (126 km); to a counting of creeks crossing the main road leading from Lexington, South Carolina, to Ninety-Six (a legend proved false); to an interpretation of a Welsh expression, nant-sych, meaning "dry gulch". No one is able to confirm that European founder Robert Goudey (sic) was Welsh, English, Scottish, or German.

 

True Things

 

Compelling Explanation

Andrew Almer of Fargo, North Dakota, has flown an American flag from the balcony of his condominium for two years, but the condo association is now demanding the flag be taken down because it creates too much noise flapping in the wind. "You've got to be kidding me," Almer told reported KVLY-TV. "It's not rude, it's not nasty, it's the American flag. ... It's not coming down anytime soon." [KVLY-TV, 3/10/2021]

 

Weekly Observations

 

Mule Days  Link (Moved from April) Week of Solidarity With The People of Non-Self-Governing Territories:	25-31
Fleet Week (NY)	26-31
Black Single Parents Week	28-6/3
National Polka Weekend Link Old-Time Player Piano Weekend Cancelled until 2022	29-31
INVICTUS GAMES Link Cancelled	29-6/5
National African Violet Week	30-6/5
National Marina Days Link	31-9/6

 

Today’s Observations

 

Hamburger Day Link 
Memorial Day (Observed)
National Macaroon Day

National Smile Day Link
Necrotizing Fasciitis Awareness Day   Link   Link
Prayer for Peace Memorial Day
Save Your Hearing Day Link
What You Think Upon Grows Day
World No Tobacco Day

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

Another great weather day…no complaints. I mentioned the horrific bicyclist crash here in Flag. As of this morning, 6 local restaurants have donated all sales and tips for Sat. and Sun. to the families of the man killed and the families of those injured. In addition, a GoFundMe account was set up yesterday and as of this morning, they had raised $45,000 and counting. The bike rally has changed to a ‘walk your bike’ event. Flag is a great little town. Canada has just announced that they found 235 buried children and a Catholic School for Indigenous children. The school had been taken over by the government in the 1960’s and closed in the 1970’s. Shameful! I’m sad that as the country recognizes the soldiers who died in war, we are suffering from the 235th mass shooting since Jan. 1. This time 2 died and 25 were injured outside a club in Florida. Still looking for the shooter[s]. It is time for a memorial in DC to honor those killed on our soil, by our own citizens. It would have to be designed to grow with each passing day. Maybe plant a tree for every American killed by another American is a mass shooting with a plaque naming the victim at each tree.

Daily Riddle

Answer: bottom of the page

 

Riddle: I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?

 

Historical Events

 

1279 BC – Ramesses II became pharaoh of Ancient Egypt. He may have been the pharaoh involved with Moses. He was the subject of Percy Bysshe Shelly’s Ozymandias. “King of Kings am I, Ozymandias. If anyone would know how great I am and where I lie, let him surpass one of my works.”

 

1578 – The Catacombs of Rome were discovered.

 

1790 – The United States enacted the Copyright Act of 1790.

 

1859 – Big Ben, located at the top of London’s 320-foot-high St. Stephen’s Tower, began operating.

1889 – Johnston, Pennsylvania Flood killed over 2,200 people.

 

1977 – Broadway Show – Beatlemania (Musical) May 31, 1977

1977 – The Sex Pistol’s God Save The Queen was banned from performing on the BBC.

1977 – The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System was completed.

2005 – W. Mark Felt’s family announced that assistant FBI director Felt, was in fact, ‘Deep Throat’ – the insider who told reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein the details about President Nixon’s Watergate scandal.

2013 – A record-breaking 2.6-mile wide tornado struck El Reno, Oklahoma, United States, injuring 150 and killing 8 people.

2017 – President Donald Trump tweeted the word “covfefe”.

2017 Kenya's Madaraka Express, a Chinese-built high-speed railway from Mombasa to Nairobi is opened by Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta

2019 Disgruntled employee shoots and kills 12 people at a US municipal building in Virginia Beach, Virginia

2019 US President Donald Trump threatens to impose extra 5% tax on Mexican goods if country does not increase its efforts to curb immigration

 

Birthdays Today

 

@95 – Norman Vincent Peale, American minister, author (d. 1993)

91 – Clint Eastwood, American actor and director

@85 – Don Ameche, American actor (d. 1993)

78 – Joe Namath, American football player

@72 – Walt Whitman, American poet, essayist, journalist (d. 1892; pneumonia)

@70 – John Ringling, American entrepreneur, co-founder of Ringling Brothers Circus (d, 1936)

60 – Lea Thompson, American actress

56 – Brooke Shields, American model and actress

@45 -- Jim Hutton, actor (d. 1979; liver cancer)

45 – Colin Farrell, Irish actor

@32 – John Bonham, drummer [Led Zepplin] (d. 1980; choked/alcohol)

 

Puzzle Answer

 

Answer: A candle