Week: 2 Day: 3
Ave. Sky Cover: 5% Visibility: 10 miles Local Temp: 28°\ -2°
Wind: 6mph\
Gusts: 10mph
Today’s Quote
Monthly Observations
National Be On-Purpose
Month
National Braille Literacy Month Link
National Cheesy Sock Month
National Clean Up Your Computer Month
National Codependency Awareness Month Link
National Conscience Month
National Glaucoma Awareness Month
National Hot Tea Month
National Mail Order Gardening Month
National Mentoring Month Link
National Personal Self-Defense Awareness Month
National Personal Trainer Awareness Month Link
National Polka Music Month Link Link
National Poverty in America Awareness Month
National Radon Action Month
National Skating Month
National Soup Month Link
National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month Link
National Stalking Awareness Month Link
National Sunday Supper Month Link
National Volunteer Blood Donor Month Link
Weekly Observations
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1-7 |
Diet Resolution Week Silent Record Week |
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1-8 |
National Personal
Trainer Awareness Week |
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2-8 |
Someday
We'll Laugh About This Week |
Daily Observations
My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
Cold has
settled in our mountain town. I’ll be happy when I get up and there is no
negative sign on my digital thermometer. It is strange to say it has ‘warmed up’
to the low 30’s.
CNN had a
great special on the Iron Fist rule of Xi Jinping in China. I was in China in
the summer of 2019. Even then the people we met didn’t understand what he was
doing. The Special gave us all a lot to think about.
Colorado is
now saying there are 3 missing from that horrific fire. So sad.
Long-time
Bronco fans are mourning the loss of Dan Reeves. He was a great coach during my
high school and college years in Colorado and beyond.
The Cards
play the Cowboys later this afternoon. At the same time Broncos play Chargers.
I’ll watch the Cards on TV and the Broncos on the internet machine.
Favorite Memes
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A bit of Humor
What do you
call a pile of hay inside a church?
Christian Bale.
Arizona Trivia
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On June 6,
1936, the first barrel of tequila produced in the United States rolled off the
production line in Nogales, Arizona.
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The Sonoran
Desert is the most biologically diverse desert in North America.
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Bisbee is
the Nation's Southernmost mile-high city.
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The two
largest man-made lakes in the U.S. are Lake Mead and Lake Powell, both located
in Arizona.
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The longest
remaining intact section of Route 66 can be found in Arizona and runs from
Seligman to Topock, a total of 157 unbroken miles.
Historical Events
Ø 1521 – Pope Leo X excommunicated Martin
Luther in the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem.
Ø
1957 – The
Hamilton Watch Company introduced the first electric watch.
Ø
1938 – The
March of Dimes is established as a foundation to combat infant polio by
President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Ø
1993 –
George H. W. Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction
Treaty (START)
Ø 2009 – The first block of the blockchain
of the decentralized payment system Bitcoin, called the Genesis block, was
established by the creator of the system, Satoshi Nakamoto.
Birthdays Today
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@91 – Victor Borge, Danish-American pianist, and
conductor (d. 2000)
90 – Dabney
Coleman, American actor
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@81 – J.R.R. Tolkien, English writer, poet, and
philologist (d. 1973)
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@79 – Ray Milland, Welsh-American actor, and
director (d. 1986; lung cancer)
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@77 – Glen A. Larson, American director,
producer, screenwriter, created Battlestar Galactica (d. 2014; esophageal
cancer)
77 – Stephen
Stills, American singer-songwriter
76 – John Paul
Jones, English bass player Led Zepplin
72 – Victoria
Principal, American actress
66 – Mel Gibson,
American-Australian actor, director, producer, screenwriter
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@60 – Sergio Leone, Italian director, producer, screenwriter
(d. 1989; heart attack)
41 – Eli Manning,
American football player
19 – Greta
Thunberg, Swedish environmental activist
