Feb 26

 

Week: 9 Day: 57	Ave. Sky Cover:  5% Visibility: 10 miles
Local Temp:   36°\ 1° Wind: 6mph\ Gusts: 9mph	Low risk of fire Active fire: 346mi. \ Lightning: 2213mi.
Feb Averages: 46°\19° (5 days w/moisture)

 

Today’s Quote

Weekly Observations

 

19-26	National FFA Week Link
20-26	National Sauna Week Link    Bird Health Awareness Week  Link   Build A Better Trade Show Image Week National Eating Disorders Awareness Week  National Engineers Week National Justice for Animals Week Link  Link Through With The Chew Link
23-26	American Birkenbreiner Race (ski race))

 

Daily Observations

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

It warmed up enough to start melting the snow and icicles.

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson has been nominated to the Supreme Court. She has a wide variety of experience. Hope the conformation goes smoothly.  The first Black woman to be nominated. History!

Ukraine is certainly taking over the news…until Judge Jackson was nominated. Poland has been dealing with thousands of refugees from Ukraine. Now they are setting up refugee centers as the mass of humanity crosses the border. And now it looks like Russian ships are going to land at Mariupol…just outside Crimea. What a mess. This is looking more and more like the beginnings of a big war.

My brother took his passport and residence card (for Mexico) to the studio for some information for the accountant. Then he promptly misplaced both. Now he must fly to nearest American consulate to get a new passport and then take that to the Mexican officials to get a new residency card. His plan to fly to Guatemala with Laura on business in now not happening because they were to fly out on Monday. How frustrating.

Interesting: highest temp in Colorado is 115° was near Lamar in 2019. Highest temp in AZ is 128° in Lake Havasue City in 1994.

Favorite Memes

 

A bit of Humor

Why do archaeologists get all the girls?

Because they have the best dating techniques.

Trivia

Question: What two cities represent letters in the phonetic alphabet?

 

Question: What were clocks missing before 1577?

 

Question: What is the number one seller at Walmart?

 

Q: What was the third country to get the atomic bomb?

 

ANSWERS:

Answer 1: Lima and Quebec

Answer 2: Minute hands

Answer 3: Bananas

Answer 4: Britain

 

Historical Events

W                 1616 – Galileo Galilei was formally banned by the Roman Catholic Church from teaching or defending the view that the earth orbits the sun.

W                 1829 – Levi Strauss was born. He never married, so, ironically, he didn’t get to pass his genes on to the next generation.

W                 1848 – The Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, was published.

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

W                 1993 – The World Trade Center was the target of a bombing, injuring over 1,000 people and killing six more.

W                 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.

Birthdays Today

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

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

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

@73 – Levi Strauss, founded Levi Strauss & Co. (d. 1902)

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

@71 – Johnny Cash, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (died in 2003)

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

69 – Michael Bolton, American singer-songwriter

@29 – Christopher Marlowe, English playwright (d. 1593; murder<?>)