May 7

 

 

 

May 7, 2021   Week: 18    Day:  127       

Visibility: 10 miles

Ave. Sky Cover:  10%

Local: H 77°\ L 42°

Wind:  5mph/ Gusts:  8mph

EXTREME Risk of Fire:  Active fire:  171mi

Nearest Lightning: 485mi.

May Averages: 68°/34° (3 days w/moisture)

 

Today’s Quote

 

Problems are not the problem; coping is the problem.

Virginia Satir

Random Tidbits

 

Some snakes have hipbones, which shows they once had four legs like lizards, their close cousins.

 

Humor

 

My parents didn’t want to move to Florida, but they turned 60 and that’s the law.—Jerry Seinfeld

 

Real Cities

 

Bald Head, Maine is a village in the town of York in York County, Maine, United States,[1] on the Atlantic coast. The community takes its name from a nearby rock formation of the same name.

 

True Things

 

Awesome!

On April 5, Don Muchow, 59, of Plano, Texas, completed the 2,761-mile journey he began on Feb. 1, 2020, running from Disneyland in California to Walt Disney World in Florida, to raise awareness of Type 1 diabetes, which he has. He originally planned to complete his Mouse-to-Mouse run in a little over three months, The Orange County Register reported, but COVID-19 changed that, and while Muchow still completed the run in about 90 days, those days were spread out over 14 months as he adjusted for the pandemic. "I never considered quitting even once," Muchow said. "I want every single person with Type 1 diabetes to see that we can still dream big." [Orange County Register, 4/3/2021]

 

Monthly Observations

 

National Tuberous Sclerosis Month Link
National Water Safety Month Link
National Vinegar Month
National Youth Traffic Safety Month 
Link
Necrotizing Fasciitis Awareness Month

Neurofibromatosis Awareness Month Link
Older Americans Month
Personal History Month 
Link
Pet Cancer Awareness Month Link
Prader-Willi Syndrome Awareness Month
Preeclampsia Awareness Month Link
Prepare Tomorrow's Parents Month (5/11-6/15)
React Month
Revise Your Work Schedule Month
Save Your Tooth Month
Social Security Education Awareness Month
Skin Cancer Awareness Month  
Link
Spiritual Literacy Month
Strike Out Strokes Month
Sturge-Weber Awareness Month 
Link

 

Weekly Observations

 

Ramadan

Thru 5/11

International Wildlife Film Week Link

Thru 5/15  

National Playground Safety Week Link
National Work Zone Safety Awareness Week 
Link

Thru 30  

Choose Privacy Week: Link

1-7  

Be Kind To Animals Week  
Dating and Life Coach Recognition Week   
Link 
Drinking Water Week   
Link 
Flexible Work Arrangement Week   
Goodwill Industries Week   
International Clitoris Awareness Week    

Nat’l Alcohol & Drug Related Birth Defects Awareness Week  
National Anxiety & Depression Awareness Week   
National Correctional Officer's Week    
National Family Week  
  
National Hug Holiday Week
National Root Canal Appreciation Week   
 Link  
National Small Business Week
National Tourism Week   
Link  
North American Occupational Safety & Health Week    Link
Public Service Recognition Week    
Link
National Pet Week   
Link  
Update Your References Week  
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2-8

Air Quality Awareness Week Link 
International Coaching Week  
Link
National Safety Stand Down Week (Construction Falls 
Link

PTA Teacher Appreciation Week

Teacher Appreciation Week Link 

 

 

 

3-7

Children's Book Week 

National Sun Safety Week Link
National Wildflower Week 

Screen-Free Week (Digital Detox Week Link

 

3-9

(World) Dystonia Awareness Week Link

3-11

National Nurses Day and Week Link  Link

6-12 

National Public Gardens Week Link

7-16

 

Today’s Observations

 

Beaufort Scale (Wind) Day
Child Care Provider Day 
Link 
Cosmopolitan Day (Drink)
Cystinosis Awareness Day
International Space Day 
 Link
International Sauvignon Blanc Day  
Link  
International Tuba Day 

Military Spouse Appreciation Day Link 
National Barrier Awareness Day
National Day of Prayer

National Public Gardens Day Link  
National Provider Appreciation Day
 Link 
National Roast Leg of Lamb Day

National Tourism Day

No Pants Day
Public Gardens Day

School Lunch Hero Day Link
Space Day
Spouse Appreciation Day

Worldwide Day of Genital Autonomy  Link

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

Doors and windows wide open. Such a nice day. These are the days that remind me how much I enjoy this town.

Last night there were some strange lights in our night sky here at 7000’. While many of us figured this was an invasion from outer space, it wasn’t. Soon after the lights were spotted, our local astronomers were announcing that it was Starlink from the SpaceX launch in FL. I am not a conspiracy guy but will keep my eye out for little green men for a few days.

At the beginning of the Pandemic, there was lots of internet talk about an upcoming baby boom with so many couples staying home 24-7.  Some numbers are coming in and the internet was wrong. In fact, for the first time in very long time the US births is lower than the deaths. That is a scary stat that could change America forever.

There is a problem at the Grand Canyon…too many buffalo. The pandemic kept visitors away and the buffalo raised their birth rate. The National Park Service needs to shrink the herd by about a dozen females. They decided to do a lottery for buffalo hunters to shoot the buffalo. Each applicant must show they are good shots and have hunting experience. In the first few hours to sign up for the lottery there were 45,000 applicants. There are only 12 tags.

Daily Puzzle

Answer: bottom of the page

 

86. A man dies of old age on his 25th birthday. How is this possible?

Historical Events

 

1718 – La Nouvelle-Orleans (now New Orleans) was founded by the French Mississippi Company, under the direction of Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, on land inhabited by the Chitimacha. It was named for Philippe II, Duke of Orleans, the Regent of France.

1789 – George Washington was inaugurated as the first US President.

1824 – Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony premiered in Vienna, Austria.

1846 – The Cambridge Chronicle, America’s oldest surviving weekly newspaper, was published for the first time in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

1915 – A German U-boat sank The Lusitania.

1947 – Kraft Television Theatre premiered on NBC and ABC.

1952 – The concept of the integrated circuit chip was first presented, at a Symposium on Progress in Quality Electronic Components in Washington DC, by Geoffrey W.A. Dummer.

1963 – NASA launched the Telstar 2 communications satellite on behalf of AT&T.

1976 – The Honda Accord was launched.

1994 – Norway’s most famous painting The Scream by Edvard Munch (1893), was recovered almost three months after it was stolen from a museum in Oslo.

1998 – Germany’s Daimler-Benz announced the purchase of the Chrysler Corporation, forming DaimlerChrysler AG. It was sold again in 2006, forming Chrysler LLC.

1999 Pope John Paul II travels to Romania becoming the first pope to visit a predominantly Eastern Orthodox country since the Great Schism in 1054.

2015 Underwater explorers discover a silver ingot of Captain William Kidd's treasure near Madagascar

2018 Vladimir Putin is sworn in as Russian President for another 6 years

2018 Iran-Contra figure Oliver North announced as the new President of the US National Rifle Association

2019 Denver is the first US city to decriminalize psilocybin "magic mushrooms"

2020 US unemployment claims hit 33.3 million or 20% of the workforce, vs two months ago unemployment 3.5%, a 50-year low

 

Birthdays Today

 

@83 – George “Gabby” Hayes, American character actor (d. 1969)

@77 – Robert Browning, English poet (d. 1889)

@69 – Johnny Unitas, NFL star player, sportscaster (d. 2002; heart attack)

67 – Amy Heckerling, American director, producer, and screenwriter

@65 – David Hume, Scottish philosopher (d. 1776, cancer)

@63 – Johannes Brahms, German pianist and composer (d. 1897; liver cancer)

@62 – Anne Baxter, American actress (d. 1985; stroke)

@60 – Gary Cooper, American actor (d. 1961; multiple cancers)

@53 – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (d. 1893; cholera, suicide?)

53 – Traci Lords, American actress

 

Puzzle Answer

 

He was born on February 29th

 

 

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