Sep 10

 

Sep 10, 2021 Week: 37 Day: 253
Ave. Sky Cover:  10%\Visibility: 10 miles
Local Temp:   84°\54 ° Wind: 7mph\ Gusts: 4mph
High risk of fire Active fire: 179mi. \ Lightning: 20mi.
Sep Averages: 74°\32° (5 days w/moisture) 

Today’s Quote

 

Weekly Observations

 

US Open Tennis Championships	30-9/12
International Air Ambulance Week   Link	4-12
Substitute Teacher Appreciation Week Suicide Prevention Week National Waffle Week	5-11
National Payroll Week	6-10
Play Days	7-11
World Orienteering Days Link	8-14
Craft Brewers Week Link	9-12
Direct Support Professional Recognition Week Link	9-15
Popcorn Days Link	9-11
National Days of Prayer & Remembrance	10-12

 

Daily Observations

 

Sewing Machine Day Suicide Prevention Day Swap Ideas Day

 

Favorite Memes

 

 

A quick smile!

 

Why don't crabs give to charity? Because they're shellfish

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

Clouds are rolling in for another monsoon shower. Yeah! Mary and I had lunch. Good conversation, good food. She and her husband Mike are working an aid station at the annual hundred-mile Ultra Marathon. They are expecting 1200 runners after last years was cancelled due to Covid. Many of the runners have run several International Ultras. Very cool! I called to get a sleep study renewal…my last one was in 2016. New company so new patient. Earliest appt. for the pre-study consult is the end of November. A tad crazy, but the new owners claim they are ‘very busy’. The General Robert E. Lee statue in Virginia has been taken down and stored. Not a lot of hoopla, but the right decision. I’m still taking my antibiotic from the tooth extraction, no need for pain pills. Nice.

 

 

Historical Events

 

1846 – Elias Howe was granted a patent for the sewing machine.

1940 Buckingham Palace hit by German bomb2002 – Switzerland, traditionally a neutral country, became a full member of the United Nations.

2008 – The Large Hadron Collider at CERN was powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.

2017 Hurricane Irma makes landfall in the Florida Keys in the US as a category 3 hurricane

2020 Wildfires in Oregon cause 500,000 people to evacuate, 10% of the population with unprecedented 900,000 acres burnt

2020 California's August Complex wildfire becomes largest recorded in state history at 471,000 acres (736 square miles)

 

Birthdays Today

 

@79 – Marie Laveau, American Voodoo practitioner (d. 1881)

76 – José Feliciano, blind Puerto Rican singer-songwriter

72 – Bill O’Reilly, American pundit, author

@72 – Isaac K. Funk, American minister, publisher, co-founded Funk & Wagnalls (d. 1912)

@87 – Arnold Palmer, golfer (d. 2016)

@85 – Karl Lagerfeld, German-French fashion designer, photographer (d. 2019)

@62 – Charles Kuralt, journalist (d.1997; auto-immune disease)

61 – Colin Firth, English actor

@51 – Roger Maris, American baseball player, coach (d. 1985; lymphoma)

57 – Jack Ma, Entrepreneur

47 -- Ryan Phillippe, actor