May 15

 

 

 

May 15, 2021   Week: 19    Day: 135                     

Visibility: 10 miles Ave. Sky Cover: 5%

Local: H 73°\ L 40°

Wind:  9mph/ Gusts:  11mph EXTREME Risk of Fire:  Active fire:  213mi Nearest Lightning: 244mi.

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

 

Today’s Quote

 

If you do not think about your future, you cannot have one.

~John Galsworthy

 

Random Tidbits

 

Plant life began on the Earth's landforms about 430 million years ago. The first plants were likely single-celled organisms distantly related to algae.

 

Humor

 

What do a jackknifed semi in Ohio, a guy getting a divorce in Alabama, and a tornado in Kansas have in common? They’re all fixin’ to lose a trailer.

 

Real Cities

 

Big Sag, Montana Big Sag is an unincorporated community in Chouteau County, in Montana. It is located off Montana Secondary Highway 228. It is near the Big Sag Waterfowl Production Area.

The community took its name from the nearby Big Sag valley.

 

True Things

 

Neighbors in Northampton, England, have been annoyed by a swan that has been knocking on their doors, sometimes for hours at a time, for five years, Fox News reported on March 24. "He starts by rattling the letterbox then bashes the metal with its beak quite loudly," said resident Stephen Legg. "The racket reverberates through the whole house." The bird targets houses only on one particular block, according to local media, but no one seems to know why. [Fox News, 3/24/2021]

 

Weekly Observations

 

International Wildlife Film Week Link	Thru 5/15
National Playground Safety Week Link National Work Zone Safety Awareness Week Link	Thru 30
National Public Gardens Week  Link	7-16
Economic Development Week Link Food Allergy Awareness Week Link Hurricane Preparedness Week Link National Hospital Week: 9-15 Link National Nursing Home Week National Return To Work Week National Women's Health Week Link  Link	9-15
Reading is Fun Week  Link   Salute to Moms 35+ Week Salvation Army Week Work At Home Moms Week	9-16
American Craft Beer Week Link National Stuttering Awareness Week  Tick Awareness Week  Universal Family Week	10-16
Cannes Film Festival	11-22
Peripheral Neuropathy Awareness Week Link	12-16

 

Today’s Observations

 

Armed Forces Day 

Day of Family

Do Dah Day Link 
Hyperemisis Gravidarum Awareness Day
International Day of Families
International Learn To Swim Day 
International MPS Awareness Day  Link
Morel Mushroom Day 
Nakba Day
National Chocolate Chip Day Link
National Slider Day  (Food)
Nylon Stockings Day
National Tuberous Sclerosis Day  Link
Over the Rainbow Day

Pizza Party Day

Police Officer's Memorial Day

Preakness  
Spring Astronomy Day
Straw Hat Day  Link
World Fiddle Day Link 

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

Yesterday became a busy day. Shopping and lunch took longer than expected. I had a good lunch and discussion with Mary from our retirement group. We went to a favorite local and a great lunch on the patio. Weather was amazing. But alas, no time for this blog.

Fire season is here and yesterday there were 2 small wildfires very close to Flagstaff. One was on US89…the main road to the Rez and Page, AZ. Any alternate route adds about 2 hours. The 2-acre fire closed 89 for more than 4 hours. The other was a 1-acre fire started by transients.

I tried to understand the new CDC guidelines on masks. The headline of course was vaccinated means no masks…except…on public transportation, medical facilities, nursing homes, or if a store says wear a mask. To be honest, I don’t enjoy masking up when I am shopping or seeing a doctor. My only problem with the new guidelines, is that I will now probably leave my mask in my vehicle, get to the store, and find out they are still requiring masks. A small issue I know, but I prefer consistency in my life.

That gas line is running again after they probably paid $5million in ransom. No matter what happens, gas prices will continue to rise…blaming the rise on necessary technology security or something.

  

Daily Puzzle

Answer: bottom of the page

 

What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?

 

Historical Events

 

1501 – Ottaviano Petrucci opened the first modern-style music publishing house, by producing the first book of music made from movable type, in Venice.

1536 – Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, stood trial in London on charges of treason, adultery and incest. Found guilty, she was executed a few days later, May 19.

1793 – Diego Marín Aguilera flew a glider for approximately 1,000 feet during one of the first attempted manned flights, in Spain.

1800 – President John Adams ordered the new US federal government to leave Philadelphia and move to the nation’s new capital in Washington DC.

1858 – Royal Opera House opened in Covent Garden, London with a performance of Meyerbeer’s Les Huguenots.

1862 – President Abraham Lincoln signed a bill into law creating the United States Bureau of Agriculture, later renamed the United States Department of Agriculture.

1869 – Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman Suffrage Association, in New York.

1928 – Walt Disney character Mickey Mouse premiered in his first (silent) cartoon, Plane Crazy. 1929’s Steamboat Willie had sound. Plane Crazy was re-released with sound later in 1929.

1932 – Japanese insurgents plotted to kill Charlie Chaplin in addition to their own Prime Minister to provoke war with the US and incite “restoration” in the name of the Emperor.

1935 – Albert Einstein was awarded the Benjamin Franklin Medal for his outstanding fundamental contributions to theoretical physics, especially his relativity theory, at the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, PA.

1940 – Nylon stockings went on sale for the first time in the United States.

1940 – Richard and Maurice McDonald opened their hamburger restaurant in San Bernardino, California.

1942 – Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps (WAACs) was formed, granting women official US military status.

2010 – Jessica Watson became, at age 16, the youngest person to sail, non-stop and unassisted around the world solo.

2017 1st US prosecution under federal Hate Crimes Act of violence against transgender person, murder of Mercedes Williamson

2018 Controversial Kerch bridge linking Russia and annexed Crimea opened by Russian President Vladimir Putin. At 19km the longest bridge in Europe.

2019 Five of world's biggest tech companies pledge to tackle extremist material at "The Christchurch Call" initiative in Paris hosted by Jacinda Ardern and Emmanuel Macron

2019 Mexico City declares an environmental emergency after air pollution reaches dangerous levels

2019 US birthrate in 2018 the lowest for 32 years (total fertility rate 1,728 births per 1,000 women), with record lows for teen births

 

Birthdays Today

 

81 – Lainie Kazan, American actress

@77 – Roger Ailes, American broadcaster (d. 2017; fall at home; blood clot)

@74 – Richard J. Daley, American lawyer and politician, 48th Mayor of Chicago (d. 1976; heart attack)

@62 – L. Frank Baum, American novelist (D.1919; stroke)

 

Puzzle Answer

 

A piano