Jun 25

 

 

 

Jun 25, 2021   Week: 26    Day: 176

Visibility: 10 miles Ave. Sky Cover: 35%

Local: H 80°\ L 46°

Wind:  7mph/ Gusts:  11mph

Low Risk of Fire:  Active fire:  23mi Nearest Lightning: 74mi.

Jun Averages: 70°/42° (1 day w/moisture)

 

Today’s Quote

 

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know. Diane Arbus

 

Random Tidbits

 

The health benefits of rice include its ability to provide fast and instant energy, regulate and improve bowel movements, stabilize blood sugar levels, and slow down the aging process, while also providing an essential source of vitamin B1 to the human body. Other benefits include its ability to boost skin health, increase the metabolism, aid in digestion, reduce high blood pressure, help weight loss efforts, improve the immune system, and provide protection against dysentery, cancer, and heart disease.

 

True Things

 

Mystery

Police in Hertfordshire, England, received about 100 complaints over a three-day period from people parked at a Tesco store in Royston who reported their car alarms inexplicably went off, and they couldn't use their key fobs to lock or unlock their vehicles. Communications watchdog company Ofcom told the BBC in March 1 its investigators checked the area for signs of interference, but found nothing. No cars have been reported stolen, and police said they were not treating the incidents as malicious. [BBC, 3/1/2021]

 

Weekly Observations

 

Animal Rights Awareness Week Link    Link Greencare For Troops Awareness Week National Play Catch Week  Old Time Fiddlers Week Link Carpenter Ant Awareness Week  Fish Are Friends, Not Food! Week Link   Lightning Safety Awareness Week Link  National Craft Spirits Week Link  National Mosquito Control Awareness Week Link   Universal Father's Week	20-26
Old Time Fiddlers Week	21-26
National Insect Week National Pollinator Week Link	21-27
American Library Week	24-29
World Hula Week Link	24-26
Watermelon Thump Seed Spitting Week Link	24-27
Water Ski Days	25-27

 

Today’s Observations

 

Color TV Day (CBS) Day of The Seafarer  Link Drive Your Corvette to Work Day Link  Global Beatles Day Link Global Smurfs Day Link International Rose' Day Link  Leon Day  Link Log Cabin Day National Catfish Day Link National Food Truck Day  Link  National Police Community Cooperative Day  Link Please Take my Children to Work Day School Prayer Banned Anniversary Strawberry Parfait Day Take Your Dog to Work Day  Link Victory Day/Battle of Little Big Horn

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

A nice day with some rain clouds. Fires continue to burn. Nearest fire is now 35,000 acres.

Our country is slow, but it works. Rudy Giuliani can’t practice law in NY. The St. Louis rich couple who brought guns to their porch during BLM protests pleaded guilty, paid a $2500 fine, and gave the cops their guns.

With all this talk about canceling the Olympics due to Covid, the contract from 2013 says that the IOC is the only one that can postpone or cancel the games.

The Sec of Interior has set up an investigation regarding the BIA’s dark history of boarding schools. I’m all for it. I arrived on the Navajo Rez in 1971 and children were still being punished for speaking their language. The punishment was usually more cleaning or loss of privileges. It changed the next year but took a long time for ‘old timers’ to stop doing it. This on the heels of finding another burial site at another Catholic boarding school in Canada with possible over 700 children buried in unmarked graves. It is a dark history that must be acknowledged.

 

2 New Puzzles Everyday

Answer: bottom of the page

 

RETRAUQ

TROUT

 

 

Historical Events

 

1867 – Barbed wire was patented (#66,182) by Lucien B. Smith of Kent, Ohio.

1876 – Native American forces, led by Chiefs Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, defeated the US Army troops lead by Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer in a battle near southern Montana’s Little Bighorn River.

1910 – The US Congress passed the Mann Act, which prohibited interstate transport of females for “immoral purposes.”

1910 – Igor Stravinsky’s ballet The Firebird premiered in Paris,

1914 – The Great Salem Fire, Massachusetts

1944 – The final page of the comic strip Krazy Kat was published, months after the author, George Herriman died.

1947 – The Diary of a Young Girl (better known as The Diary of Anne Frank) was published.

1949 – The cartoon classic, Long-Haired Hare starring Bugs Bunny, was released in theaters.

1967 – The special Our World was the first live worldwide “via satellite” TV broadcast, transmitting to 30 countries via the BBC. The Beatles closed the show with All You Need Is Love. Performers include Mick Jagger, opera singer Maria Callas, Vienna Boys’ Choir, Keith Richards, Keith Moon, Eric Clapton, Pattie Harrison, Jane Asher, Graham Nash, and others. The show lasted 2 and a half hours.

1978 – The rainbow flag, representing gay pride, was flown for the first time in the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade.

1997 – The National Hockey League approved expansion franchises for Nashville

 

2009 – Michael Jackson died after suffering from cardiac arrest caused by a fatal combination of drugs given to him by his personal doctor, Conrad Murray.

2014 The US Supreme Court rules that police cannot examine the digital contents of a cell phone without a court order

2015 Obamacare subsidies in The Affordable Care Act preserved by US Supreme Court Ruling in King v Burwell 6-3

2018 Californian Governor Jerry Brown declares State of Emergency for wildfire spread over 8,200 acres in Lake County

 

Birthdays Today

 

96 – June Lockhart, American actress

76 – Carly Simon, American singer-songwriter

74 – Jimmie Walker, American comedic actor

61 – Ricky Gervais, English comedian, actor, director and producer

@61 – Anthony Bourdain, chef (d. 2018; suicide by hanging)

@53 – George Michael [Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou], English singer-songwriter (d. 2016; heart failure)

55 – Dikembe Mutombo, Congolese-American basketball player

@46 – George Orwell, British novelist, essayist, and critic (d. 1950; TB)

 

Puzzles Answer

 

Quarterback                                                            Rainbow Trout

 

 

Jun 24

 

 

 

Jun 24, 2021   Week: 26    Day: 175

Visibility: 10 miles Ave. Sky Cover: 95%

Local: H 71°\ L 49°

Wind:  4mph/ Gusts:  8mph

High Risk of Fire:  Active fire:  23mi Nearest Lightning: 222mi.

Jun Averages: 70°/42° (1 day w/moisture)

 

Today’s Quote

 

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness. John Dewey

 

Random Tidbits

 

Rice is a symbol of life and fertility, which is why rice was traditionally thrown at weddings.

Brown rice is whole grain rice, with the inedible outer hull removed; white rice is the same grain with the hull, bran layer and cereal germ removed. Red rice, gold rice, black rice and purple rice are all whole rices, but with a differently pigmented outer layer.

 

True Things

 

Oops!

Mates Jackson Perry and Noah Palmer of Mandurah, Western Australia, planned a leisurely float offshore, drinking beer on a blowup air mattress on Feb. 27, but they wound up stranded in the Indian Ocean for nearly three hours after the wind blew them out to sea. "We couldn't paddle against the wind, and we just kept going further and further out," Perry told 7News, but they did manage to call a friend, who reached them on his jet ski just before their cellphones died. "We were kind of getting worried at that point," Perry said, but the beers helped with the anxiety. [7News, 3/1/2021]

 

Weekly Observations

 

Animal Rights Awareness Week Link    Link Greencare For Troops Awareness Week National Play Catch Week  Old Time Fiddlers Week Link Carpenter Ant Awareness Week  Fish Are Friends, Not Food! Week Link   Lightning Safety Awareness Week Link  National Craft Spirits Week Link  National Mosquito Control Awareness Week Link   Universal Father's Week	20-26
Old Time Fiddlers Week	21-26
National Insect Week National Pollinator Week Link	21-27
American Library Week	24-29
World Hula Week Link	24-26
Watermelon Thump Seed Spitting Week Link	24-27

 

Today’s Observations

 

Celebration of the Senses Festival of Goodwill, Festival of Christ & Humanity, World Invocation Day  Link International Fairy (or Faery) Day Link National Bomb Pop Day Link   National Handshake Day National Pralines Day Stonewall National Monument Day  Link Swim a Lap Day World UFO Day  Link

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

The local heat wave has finally broken. Last night for the first night in a couple of weeks that I did not need a fan running in my bedroom. I woke up to a hazy/smoky sky. There are also some rain clouds up there so hoping for a shower sometime today. The Rafael Fire is now over 35,000 acres.

Saddened to hear of the Arvada police officer killed in Olde Town. That area of Arvada always seemed so nice and peaceful.

It was 2 years ago Focus Travel got to Moscow for our Trans-Siberian adventure. I messaged our guide Vlad on FB to thank him again for his great music and tour guiding. He said he hasn’t traveled either since that trip…due to the Covid outbreak. However, he is doing something on a sea somewhere in two weeks. He has also been doing local gigs with his musical talent.

The Phoenix Suns had a heart-stopping win last night, beating the Clippers in the last 0.8 seconds. Awesome.

It is true that no one likes change…even a baby with a dirty diaper cries while being changed. I grew up learning and memorizing that this earth of ours has 7 continents and 4 oceans. Now National Geographic has identified a ‘new’ ocean near Antarctica. They say that its ecosystem is different from the other oceans in the area. Now there are 5 oceans, the new one being named ‘Southern Ocean.’ As it gains popularity it will make some great trivia questions.

 

2 New Puzzles Everyday

Answer: bottom of the page

 

snagrasske

ALL ≠  LOST

 

Historical Events

 

1497 – John Cabot landed in North America at Newfoundland

 

1873 – Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) received a patent (#140,245) for a self-pasting Scrapbook.

1880 – First performance of O Canada took place at the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français. The song later became Canada’s national anthem.

1916 – Mary Pickford became the first female film star to sign a million-dollar contract (with Adolph Zukor/Paramount).

 

1938 – Pieces of a meteor, estimated to have weighed 450 metric tons when it hit the Earth’s atmosphere and exploded, landed near Chicora, in western Pennsylvania. A cow was reportedly injured.

1948 – Veteran Pilots Clarence Chiles and Charles Whitted, in Alabama, saw a cigar-shaped vehicle, with windows, flying beside them.

1949 – The first television western, Hopalong Cassidy, aired on NBC, starring William Boyd.

1957 – Jack Parr became the host on The Tonight Show on NBC,

1997 – US Air Force officials released a 231-page report dismissing all of the claims of an alien spacecraft crash in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947.

 

2004 – In New York, capital punishment was declared unconstitutional.

2010 – The Apple iPhone 3GS & iPhone 4 were released.

2017 UN states Yemen cholera epidemic reached 200,000 cases, with 1,300 deaths. Worst cholera outbreak anywhere in the world.

2018 Women drive for the first time in Saudi Arabia after ban is lifted

2019 US President Donald Trump imposes sanctions on Iran, targeted at Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in response to the shooting down of a US drone

2020 COVID-19 pandemic worsens dramatically in Yemen, the Arab world's poorest country, with 25% mortality according to the UN

2020 Russia celebrates its victory 75 years ago over Nazi Germany with huge military parade through Red Square in Moscow (delayed from May 9 due to pandemic)

 

Birthdays Today

 

@96 – Al Molinaro, American character actor [Happy Days] (d. 2015)

77 – Jeff Beck, English guitarist

75 – Robert Reich, American economist, politician [Clinton’s Sec. of Labor]

74 – Mick Fleetwood, English-American drummer

 

Puzzles Answer

 

SNAKE IN THE GRASS                                                       ALL IS NOT LOST