2021…at last
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Jan
18, 2021 Week: 3
Day: 18 |
Local: H 55°\ L 23°\Ave. Sky Cover: 5% |
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Wind: 3mph\Gusts: 5mph |
Today’s Ave.
Temp.: H 43°\ L 17° |
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Nearest
lightning: 365mi.; Active fire:59mi |
High Risk of Fire Visibility: 10mi |
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Record: 64°[1971] Record: -8°[1995] |
Jan
Averages: 44°/16° (4 days
with moisture) |
Today’s Quote
The sun, the moon and
the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the
reach of predatory human hands.
~Havelock Ellis
Random Tidbits
Historically, tea has
been viewed as a health drink. Recent studies suggest that tea, especially
green tea, helps reduce some forms of cancer, helps bad breath, reduces the
risk of cardiovascular disease, reduces blood pressure, helps with weight
control, kills bacteria and virus, acts as an anti-inflammatory, and has
neuroprotective power.
A Little Humor
Today’s tip: Don’t use the bathroom in a dream…it is a setup.
True Things
RCMP
were called to a section of Highway in Nova Scotia for a motor vehicle
complaint. Responding officers found a parked car straddling the white line.
The car was missing its front windshield. There was a hole in the back window,
glass on the highway and an axe on the backseat.
At
first, police said it appeared the car was empty, but then a man leaned forward
in the driver's seat. He was later identified as Trent William Lewis.
According
to a court decision issued earlier this week, Lewis asked police why he had
been pulled over. It was then, Judge Paul Scovil writes, that the officer
noticed Lewis had his pants pulled down to his knees.
The
officer ordered Lewis out of the car and told him to pull up his pants. It was
then Lewis took off running.
"He
did not get far before being tackled by the police officer," Scovil wrote.
At
Lewis's trial, a woman testified that she drove Lewis and another man from
Liverpool toward Bridgewater when, she told the court, Lewis started
"freaking out." She said Lewis kicked out the windshield, at which
point she and the other man fled.
Lewis
himself remembers little of the events leading up to his arrest, other than
that they involved a quart of rum, cocaine and a four-day house party.
More on this tomorrow
Interestng facts about AZ
Ø Rising to a height of
12,643 feet, Mount Humphreys north of Flagstaff is the state's highest
mountain.
Ø Roadrunners are not just
in cartoons! In Arizona, you'll see them running up to 17-mph away from their
enemies.
Ø The Saguaro cactus is the
largest cactus found in the U.S. It can grow as high as a five-story building
and is native to the Sonoran Desert, which stretches across southern Arizona.
Weekly Observations
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No Tillage Week |
15-21 |
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International
Snowmobile Safety and Awareness Week Link |
16-24 |
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National Fresh Squeezed
Juice Week |
17-23 |
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Sugar Awareness Week |
18-23 |
Today’s Observations
Hot Heads Chili Days
Martin
Luther King Jr. Birthday
National Crowd Feed Day
National Disc Jockey Day
Link or Link
National Gourmet Coffee Day
Peking Duck Day
Pooh (Winnie The) Day
Rid The World of Fad Diets and Gimmicks Day
Robert E. Lee Day Link
Soup Swap Day
Thesaurus Day
Winnie the Pooh Day
My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
Happy MLK Day. Remember his positive message.
I am very confused…about the Proud Boys. I’ve read that they are a
far-right neo-fascist, male only national organization. Their leader is Henry “Enrique”
Torrio. He identifies himself as Afro-Cuban and grew up in Little Havana, FL.
In 2013 he was sentenced to 30 months in Federal prison for rebranding and then
reselling stolen medical devices. Previously I had thought they were a white
supremist group. They are scary and their agenda needs to be known.
Laundry day…not my favorite, but necessary. So hard to go to the
grocery store without some clean clothes. Haha.
Just realized that the invaders at the capitol will be charged with
felonies. If convicted that means they took their own guns away.
Daily Puzzle
Answer at the bottom of the
page
Paul’s height is six feet, he’s an assistant at a butcher’s shop, and
wears size 9 shoes. What does he weigh?
Historical Events
1778 – James Cook ‘discovered’ Hawaii, naming it ‘The Sandwich
Islands’
1896 – The X-Ray Machine was shown to the public. Not really. The
Cabaret du Neant charged people to see an ‘illusion’ of the effect.
1911 – The first landing of an aircraft on a ship took place as pilot
Lt. Eugene B. Ely landed on the USS Pennsylvania.
1944 – Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Artie Shaw, Roy
Eldridge, and Jack Teagarden performed at the Metropolitan Opera House, in NYC.
1975 – The Jeffersons premiered on CBS.
1993 – Martin Luther King Day became official in all 50 United States.
2013 Former New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin is indicted on corruption
charges stemming from post-Hurricane Katrina business contracts and bribes
2018 First drone rescue of swimmers by lifeguards in New South Wales,
Australia
Birthdays Today
@82 – Cary Grant [Archibald Alec Leach],
English-American actor (d. 1986)
@80 – Thomas A. Watson, American
assistant to Alexander Graham Bell (d. 1934)
@80 – Ray Dolby, engineer, businessman,
founded Dolby Laboratories (d. 2013)
80 – Bobby
Goldsboro, American singer-songwriter
@76 – Danny Kaye [David Daniel Kaminsky], actor,
singer, dancer (d. 1987; heart failure)
@74 – A.A. Milne, English author,
poet, and playwright (d. 1956)
@70 – Daniel Webster, American
lawyer, and politician (d. 1852; cirrosis)
66 – Kevin Costner,
American actor, director, and producer
@65– Oliver Hardy, actor, comedian, partner
of Stan Laurel (d. 1957; strokes)
Puzzle Answer
He weighs meat.
