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