Apr 27

 

 

 

Apr 27 2021   Week: 18    Day: 117                        

Visibility: 10 miles	Ave. Sky Cover: 35%
Local: H 54°\ L 28°	Nearest Lightning: 1053mi.
Wind:  7mph/ Gusts:  25mph	Moderate Risk of Fire:  Active fire:  130mi
Record: 91°[1962]  Record: 26°[1963]	Apr. Averages: 60°/27° (3 days w/moisture)

 

Today’s Quote

 

Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.

~George Halas

 

Random Tidbits

 

According to the Outer Space Treaty, the moon is under the same jurisdiction as international waters. The treaty also says the moon can be used for peaceful purposes by all nations, and it prohibits weapons of mass destruction or military bases of any kind on the moon.

 

Humor

 

I loved the dress that I bought at a flea market. It fit perfectly, and the skirt was a swirl of intricate pleats. I wore it confidently to an evening party and glowed when a woman exclaimed, “Oh, how stunning!” Yes, I was grinning from ear to ear, until she added cheerfully, “Hang on to it, honey. Pleats will come back someday.”

 

Real Cities

 

Hopeulikit, Georgia: Pronounced "Hope you like it", the community’s unusual name stems from a 1920s-era dance hall located at the junction of U.S. Route 80 and U.S. Route 25, where the current-day community is located

True Things

 

All in the Family

At a wedding in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province in China on March 31, the groom's mother noticed a birthmark on the bride's hand that was similar to one belonging to her long-lost daughter. When asked, the bride's parents admitted they had found her as a baby by the side of the road and taken her to live with them as their own -- a secret they had never told. The Daily Star reported that upon hearing of the connection, the bride burst into tears, saying the moment was "happier than the wedding day itself." Bonus: The groom was also adopted, so their marriage could proceed as planned. [Daily Star, 4/5/2021]

 

Weekly Observations

 

Ramadan	Thru 5/11
International Wildlife Film Week Link	17- 5/15
Festival of Ridvan	20-5/1
National Scoop The Poop Week World Immunization Week	24-30
Fibroid Awareness Week Preservation Week  Link (re: Libraries)	25-5/1
National Infant Immunization Week (NIIW) Link Stewardship Week	25-5/2
National Playground Safety Week Link National Work Zone Safety Awareness Week Link	26-30

 

Today’s Observations

 

Babe Ruth Day

Freedom Day [South Africa]

Internal Medicine Research Day  Link
Little Pampered Dog Day

Matanzas Mule Day
Morse Code Day

National Devil Dog Cakes Day  Link
National Little Pampered Dog Day  Link  Link
National Prime Rib Day

National Pro-Life T-Shirt Day:  27 Link
Tell a Story Day

World Tapir Day Link

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

Wind. Big wind. Wind. Weather guy says it is blowing in a rain/snowstorm. Hmmm.

Spring always brings wind. Today the HOA grounds crew decided to clean up the ‘commons area.’ There is a small run-off ditch across part of the area. They came with a truck and a high-walled trailer to pick up the stuff they found. Probably due to the wind, the truck driver decided to drive the truck and trailer onto the commons area. After putting lots of pine needles in the trailer he realized he couldn’t back out the way he came because vehicles had parked where he drove in. He drove the truck across the dry ditch, only to get stuck. It took them a good 20 minutes to put rocks in the ditch so they could get through.  Not sure if it was the wind or the time lost getting the trailer out, but they only did one side of the complex before leaving. I’m sure they will finish tomorrow, if it isn’t as windy.

I didn’t watch the Academy Awards last night. I haven’t seen any movies in a theater in over a year, so I didn’t really know any of the movies up for the awards. I am DVRing the 50^th Anniversary of Sesame Street. It is 2 hours and I’m sure will have lots of commercials.

Tonight is a Pink Super Moon. I’ll be out there checking it out if these clouds let me.

Being in the middle of a National Forest, Flagstaff tries its best to be prepared for wildfires. The drought makes them super vigilant. Yesterday afternoon a fire broke out and the several Fire Departments called out had it contained to less than an acre. No word on how it started yet, but I know the answer will be coming. So good to know we have such dedicated people here in Flagstaff.

 

Daily Puzzle

Answer: bottom of the page

 

76. Which word logically comes next in this sequence? Spots, tops, pots, opts…

 

Historical Events

 

4977 BC – The Universe was created, according to Johannes Kepler.

1667 – Blind writer John Milton sold his copyright to Paradise Lost for 10 pounds. He needed the money because he was penniless at the time.

1865 – SS Sultana explosion, Mississippi River, near Memphis, Tennessee, killing 1800 people.

1871 -The American Museum of Natural History opened in New York City.

1936 – The United Auto Workers (UAW) gained autonomy from the American Federation of Labor.

1956 – Rocky Marciano retired as world heavyweight boxing champion.

1967 – Expo 67 officially opened in Montreal, Canada

1970 – The discovery of Hahnium (Ha), element 105, or Dubnium (Db) was announced at the American Physical Society meeting in Washington, DC. The work was done by Albert Ghiorso at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, California.

1992 – Betty Boothroyd became the first woman to be elected Speaker of the British House of Commons in its 700-year history.

2014 – Popes John XXIII and John Paul II were declared saints by the Catholic Church.

2018 Historic Korean summit, the North's Kim Jong-un and Moon Jae-in of South Korea agree to officially end Korean war and rid peninsula of nuclear weapons

2018 Mass protests across Spain after 5 men convicted of sexual abuse but not rape of teenage girl during Running of the Bulls festival in Pamplona

2019 Pope Francis donates $500,000 for migrants stranded in Mexico trying to reach the US

2020 Global confirmed cases of COVID-19 pass 3 million with the death toll at 205,000. US has 1/3 of all new cases.

 

Birthdays Today

 

@94 – Walter Lantz, American animator and producer (d. 1994)

@90 – Jack Klugman, American actor (d. 2012)

@80 – Samuel Morse, American painter, inventor, co-invented the Morse code (died in 1872)

@78 – Coretta Scott King, African-American activist and author (died in 2006)

70 – Ace Frehley, American guitarist and songwriter. Space/Ace, The Spaceman

@63 – Ulysses S. Grant, American general, 18th President (d, 1885; throat cancer)

62 – Sheena Easton, Scottish-American singer-songwriter

@54 – Sandy Dennis, American actress (d. 1992; uterine cancer)

@41 – Wallace Carothers, American chemist, inventor of nylon (d. 1937; suicide)

@38 – Mary Wollstonecraft, English philosopher, historian, novelist (d. 1797; sepsis)

 

Puzzle Answer

 

Stop. All the words are anagrams of each other.