Feb 26

 

 

Feb 26, 2021     Week: 8    Day: 57                            Visibility: 10 miles

Local: H 36°\ L 17°\Ave. Sky Cover: 5%                   Wind:  6mph/ Gusts:  12mph

Nearest Lightning: 1896mi.                                         Low Risk of Fire:  Active fire:  132mi

Record: 71°[1986]  Record: -7°[1977] 

Feb. Averages: 47°/19° (5 days with moisture)            

Today’s Quote

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel,

for love is not ours to command.

~Alan Watts

Random Tidbits

Sleep experts have found that daytime naps can improve many things: increase alertness, boost creativity, reduce stress, improve perception, stamina, motor skills and accuracy, enhance your sex life, aid in weight loss, reduce the risk of heart attack, brighten your mood and boost memory.

A Little Humor

Knock, knock----

Who's There?----

Figs----

Figs who?

Figs the doorbell, it's broken!

Weekly Observations

Bird Health Awareness Week Link   Build A Better Trade Show Image Week  National Eating Disorders Awareness Week National Engineers Week National Invasive Species Awareness Week Link National Justice for Animals Week  Link  Link	21-27
Lent [Christian]	17-4/3
National FFA Week Link	20-27
International Petroleum Week  Link	23-25
American Birkenbreiner Race	25-27

 

Today’s Observations

Carnival Day

For Pete's Sake Day

Girl Scout Cookie Weekend: 26-28  Link  On-line sales only!!!

Levi Strauss Day

National Customized Wheel and Tire Day

National Personal Chef's Day Link 

National Pistachio Day

Purim - begins at sundown

Skip The Straw Day  Link 

Tell a Fairy Tale Day

Thermos Bottle Day

US Snow-Shoe Days: 26-28 Link Cancelled

World Pistachio Day  Link

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

Not expecting this chilly day. Too cool for a long walk.

Hmmm…it is being reported that on January 6^th, security enforcement did NOT check backpacks, purses, or other items usually checked at a rally that includes the President. I must wonder why.

The Feds have found the parents of 105 of the over 500 kids being held at the border. Unite them and find the other parents…NOW!

Our local Flagstaff schools will reopen for 5-day a week classes on March 22, following spring break. Some grades start that day and others follow over the next week.

I’ve read a lot about masks. First it was one mask, now it is two. A recent pundit suggested that we will be wearing masks until babies evolve to have organic face covering at birth.

Covid has been shown to be a global threat to human life. Every country in this world needs the vaccine. Without that, the virus will continue to mutate and spread. At some point it is likely that one or more of the mutant strains will be resistant to the current vaccines. There is now a global push for developed countries with a vaccine to send a percentage to countries that do not have access to the vaccine. I’m all for it but expect many Americans will say ‘only after all Americans have been vaccinated’. If that happens, it could mean that when that as the mutant spreads, America will have to go back to square one and invent a new vaccine for the whole country…again.

Daily Puzzle

Answer: bottom of the page

What can be driven although it doesn’t have wheels, sliced but stays whole?

Historical Events

1815 – Napoleon Bonaparte escaped from Elba.

1870 – New York City’s first pneumatic-powered subway line, created by Alfred Beach, was opened to the public.

1909 – Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, was first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London with 21 short films.

1919 – 800,000 acres of the Grand Canyon, already a national monument, was designated a national park under President Woodrow Wilson

1929 – President Calvin Coolidge signed into law a bill establishing the Grand Teton National Park, in Wyoming.

1946 – Finnish observers reported the first of thousands of sightings of ghost rockets.

1993 – The first of the World Trade Bombings occurred, the bomb went off in a parked truck under the North Tower. The bombing killed six and injured over a thousand people.

1995 – Selena Quintanilla-Perez performed her last concert in Houston before being shot by her manager.

2005 – Halle Berry accepted her Razzie Award at the 25th annual ceremony at Hollywood’s historic Ivar Theatre.

2012 – Trayvon Martin, an African American teen walking home from a trip to a convenience store, was fatally shot in an altercation with George Zimmerman, a Hispanic neighborhood watch volunteer patrolling the townhouse community of the Retreat at Twin Lakes in Sanford, Florida.

2019 City of Venice in Italy introduces a day visitors tax.

Birthdays Today

@89 – Fats Domino [Antoine Dominique Domino Jr.], American singer-songwriter, pianist (d. 2017)

@84 – Tony Randall, American actor (d. 2004)

@83 – Victor Hugo, French author, poet, and playwright (d. 1885)

@79 – William Frawley, American actor and vaudevillian (d. 1966; heart attack)

@78 – Robert Novak, American journalist, author (d.2009; brain cancer)

@73 – Levi Strauss, German-American fashion designer, founded Levi Strauss & Co. (d. 1902)

@71 – Jackie Gleason, American actor (d. 1987; colon cancer)

@70 – Buffalo Bill [William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody], American soldier, showman, hunter (d. 1917)

@71 – Johnny Cash, singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor (d. 2003; diabetes)

68 – Michael Bolton, American singer-songwriter

@29 – Christopher Marlowe, English playwright (d. 1593; stabbed)

Puzzle Answer

A golf ball