Oct 6

 

Week: 40 Day: 279
Ave. Sky Cover:  90%\Visibility: 10 miles
Local Temp:   60°\ 39° Wind: 6mph\ Gusts: 10mph
Very Low risk of fire Active fire: 361mi. \ Lightning: 51mi.
Oct Averages: 63°\32° (4 days w/moisture)

 

Today’s Quote

 

Monthly Observations

 

Month of Free Thought

National Aesthetician Month 

National AIDS Awareness Month    

National Animal Safety and Protection Month   

National Arts & Humanities Month

National Audiology/Protect Your Hearing Month

National Bake and Decorate Month

National Bullying Prevention Awareness Month

National Caramel Month 

National Chili Month

National Chiropractic Health Month

National Cookbook Month

National Crime Prevention Month

National Critical Illness Awareness Month

National Cyber Security Awareness Month

National Dental Hygiene Month

National Disability Employment Awareness Month

National Depression Education & Awareness Month

National Disability Employment Awareness Month

National Domestic Violence Awareness Month

National Down Syndrome Month

National Dwarfism Awareness Month 

National Ergonomics Month

National Family Sexuality Education Month - Let's Talk!

 

 

Weekly Observations

 

Minimally Invasive Surgery Week Link 

22-10/21  

National Walk Your Dog Week Link   Link

Universal Children's Week

1-7 

National Storytelling Weekend: 1-3 Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta Link

2-10

Fire Prevention Week   Link

International Post Card Week Link  

4-H Week  Link 
Getting The World To Beat A Path To Your Door Week
Great Books Week

Kids' Goal Setting Week
International Post Card Week 
Link   
Mental Illness Awareness Week  
Mystery Series Week 
National Carry A Tune Week 
Link  
National Health Care Food Service Week 
Link 
National Midwifery Week 
Link
National Work From Home Week  
Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Week  

3-9 

No Salt Week

3-10

World Goat Days Link 

3-8  

Customer Service Week:   Link
Drive Safely Work Week  
Link   
Financial Planning Week  
Industrial Water Week 
National Heimlich Heroes Week  

 

 

4-8

Spinning & Weaving Week  Link  
World Space Week
Link

4-11 

Primary Care Physicians Week Link

5-8  

World Dairy Expo

5-10 

National Physicians Assistant Week

6-12

 

Daily Observations

 

  

 

 

Favorite Memes

 

 





 

 



 

 

Trivia

 

 

Aluminum is pretty amazing. Not only is it naturally non-toxic and durable, but of the most commonly recycled materials, aluminum is the only material that is infinitely recyclable. What this means is that once produced, it can be recycled over and over and over without any loss in quality. What are the other qualities and abilities of this miracle metal?

Aluminum is the third most common element in the Earth's crust and the most abundantly available metal on Earth. Two-thirds of the aluminum ever produced is still in use today.

Aluminum is very difficult to refine from its natural form. A method wasn't discovered until 1825, and for decades it was so expensive that aluminum was worth more than gold.

 

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

I was awakened about 2am to lots of lightning and thunder. Soon there was lots of rain. It has been raining on and off all day. This is making the forest very happy.

It has been way too long since my last pedicure. The lady who has been doing my toes for years was upset and in her broken English said things at the salon were not good. When I went in this morning there was a totally new staff. A young lady did a nice job, and my feet are very happy. She said the new staff came in about 3 weeks ago. Hmmm.

Tomorrow I get my booster. Things are going well.

From the posts, the first Focus Travel Club adventure of 2021 was a big success. They went to New England to see the fall colors. Lots of beauty for sure. And a great start to the return of Focus post Covid.

 

 

 

Historical Events

 

 

1927 – Opening of The Jazz Singer with its Vitaphone sound-on-disc system, in New York City.

1948 Paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey finds the first partial fossil skull of Proconsul africanus, an ancestor of apes and humans on Rusinga Island, Kenya

1952 Agatha Christie's play "The Mousetrap" opens in London (still running)

1973 – Yom Kippur War between Egypt/Syria and Isreal (October 6-25)

1979 Pope John Paul II is 1st Pope to visit The White House, meeting with President Jimmy Carter in Washington, D.C.

1981 – Anwar Sadat was assassinated in Cairo, Egypt.

2017 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)

2019 Tens of thousands of Hong Kong protesters march in defiance of a new ban on face masks

 

 

Birthdays Today

 

 

@87 – Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian ethnographer, and explorer (d. 2002)

@67 – Jenny Lind, Swedish opera singer, “The Swedish Nightingale” (d.1887)

 

 

 

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