Aug 8

 
Aug , 2021 Week: 33 Day: 220
Ave. Sky Cover:  25%\Visibility: 10 miles
Local Temp:   82°\ 52° Wind: 2mph\ Gusts: 6mph
High risk of fire Active fire: 234mi. \ Lightning: 140mi.
Aug Averages: 79°\50° (9 days w/moisture) 

Today’s Quote

  

Weekly Observations

 

XXXII Olympic Games (postponed from 2020):	7/23-8/8
Gallop International Tribal Indian Powwow	7/31-8/9
National Bargain Hunting Week Single Working Women's Week Link	2-8
National Environmental Services Week: Li`nk	2-20
International Tree Climbing Days Cancelled	6-8
Sturgis Rally: Link	6-15
National Motorcycle Week Link  Feeding Pets of the Homeless Week Link  Link   National Resurrect Romance Week Weird Contest Week	8-14

 

Daily Oberservations

 

CBD Day Dollar Day Frozen Custard Day Happiness Happens Day Wear Your Mothers Jewelry Day

 

Favorite Memes

 

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

Another warm day with no moisture predicted. Flag needs the monsoon to hurry back.

Still enjoying the Olympics. Some good swimming, diving this morning.

Luis Grijalva, the NAU 5K runner broke his home country’s record time and finished 12^th. Glad he could participate. Then there is Felix. She now holds the Olympic record for most medals won by a female. WOW!

Don’t relax just yet…the next variant is Lambda, and it too is spreading.

Interesting…9\11 families have to President Biden not to come to any 20^th anniversary events until he fulfills his campaign promise to release files about Saudi involvement in the attack. Good for them. It has been too long. The lack of release from all previous administrations has many, including me, wondering why we support the Saudi’s but won’t release their involvement. The clock is ticking.

I’ve heard many of the conspiracy theories about a ‘stolen election’. There was the bamboo one, the hacked computers that were never attacked to the internet, the newest one is that the Chinese used special thermometers that changed the heat inside the machines that would then change the vote from one candidate to another. Seriously, this was a story on CNN.

 

Historical Events

 

1508 Spaniard Juan Ponce de León founds Caparra the first European settlement in Puerto Rico

1844 Brigham Young chosen as head of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints following the death of Joseph Smith

1945 President Harry Truman signs the United Nations Charter

1962 – Sabado Gigante premiered on Chilean television. It concluded in 2015.

1963 – England’s Great Train Robbery, near Mentmore in Buckinghamshire, England, £2.6 million was stolen.

1978 – featured the first appearance of “Odie” in the Garfield comic strip.

2007 Carlos Slim overtakes Bill Gates as world's richest person with estimated net worth of US$59 billion, according to "Fortune"

 

Birthdays Today

 

@91 – Esther Williams, American swimmer, and actress (d. 2013)

@91 – Richard Anderson, actor $6 million dollar man (d. 2017)

86 – Donald P. Bellisario, director, producer, screenwriter

@85 – Mel Tillis, American singer-songwriter, guitarist (d. 2017)

84 – Dustin Hoffman, American actor

83 – Connie Stevens, American actress

74 – Larry Wilcox, American actor

72 – Keith Carradine, American actor

@71 – Bob Smith, the American physician, co-founded Alcoholics Anonymous (d. 1950; colon cancer)

69 – Robin Quivers, American radio host/personality

45 – JC Chasez, American singer

40 – Roger Federer, tennis great

23 – Shawn Mendes, singer