Sep 7

 

Sep 7, 2021 Week: 37 Day: 250
Ave. Sky Cover:  5%\Visibility: 10 miles
Local Temp:  80 °\ 49° Wind: 4mph\ Gusts: 9mph
High risk of fire Active fire: 131mi. \ Lightning: 407mi.
Sep Averages: 74°\32° (5 days w/moisture) 

Today’s Quote

 

Monthly Observations

 

One-on-One Month Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month Link Pain Awareness Month  Link Pediatric Cancer Awareness Month Link Pet Health Insurance Month  Link Pleasure Your Mate Month Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome Awareness Month  Link Save The Koala Month Link Save Your Photos Month  Link Sea Cadet Month Self-Care Awareness Month Link Self Improvement Month Link September Is Healthy Aging Month Shameless Promotion Month Sports and Home Eye Health & Safety Month Subliminal Communications Month Superior Relationships Month Thyroid Cancer Awareness Month  Link Update Your Resume Month Whole Grains Month Wild Rice Month Link Women's Friendship Month World Alzheimer's Month World Animal Remembrance Month   Link  Link World Beach Month World Speak Out Month Youth Leadership Month National Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15-October 15)

 

Weekly Observations

 

US Open Tennis Championships	30-9/12
International Enthusiasm Week National Nutrition Week (UNICEF-India) Link Self-University Week Link	1-7
Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over Link	3-7
International Air Ambulance Week   Link	4-12
Substitute Teacher Appreciation Week Suicide Prevention Week National Waffle Week	5-11
National Payroll Week	6-10
Play Days	7-11

 

Daily Observations

 

Beer Lover’s Day Grandma Moses Day Napoleon Day National Neither Snow Nor Rain Day commemorates the opening of the New York Post Office in the James A. Farley Post Office Building on September 7, 1914. “Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds”– unofficial US Mail Motto Salami Day

 

Favorite Memes

 

 

A quick smile!

 

What do you call a knight who is afraid to fight? Sir Render

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

Great day outside. My dentist decided to observe Labor Day, so Tylenol will have to do until tomorrow. The toothache is not getting better on its own. I knew Flag is having a wet monsoon…but so far there has been 170% more moisture than average. That means in 2021 there has been 10.35”; while the average is 6.09”. Better news is that monsoon season doesn’t end until Sep 30. Ever hear of the WWII Richie Boys? I hadn’t until last night on 60 Minutes. They were a group that gathered intel on the European Front. They were German-Jews who had fled Nazi Germany in the late 1930’s and came to America. Because they spoke fluent everyday German, they were trained in Intelligence Gathering by the US Army at Fort Richie. They were able to interrogate German POW’s and figure out lots about troop movements and locations of troops. They are now being recognized for the major contribution they provided on the European Front. This is much like the Navajo Code Talkers to the Pacific Front in the Marines.  As I watched the report I had to wonder if the US Military had any secret Intelligence groups in Korea, Vietnam, and Afghanistan. I certainly hope they did in Afghanistan and that they are still operating. The mission would still be top secret.

 

 

Historical Events

 

1888 Edith Eleanor McLean is 1st baby to be placed in an incubator at State Emigrant Hospital on Ward’s Island, New York

1901 – The Boxer Rebellion in the Qing dynasty (China) officially ended with the signing of the Boxer Protocol.

1940 – Germany’s Blitz air attacks began in London, England.

1963 – The Pro Football Hall of Fame opened in Canton, Ohio.

1977 US President Jimmy Carter and Panama's General Omar Torrijos sign the Panama Canal treaties, guaranteeing Panama control of the Panama Canal after 1999

1996 – Tupac Shakur was shot and killed at an intersection in Las Vegas.

2013 Chinese President Xi Jinping announces plans to develop a new 'Silk Road Economic Belt' (part of Belt and Road Initiative) during visit to Kazakhstan

2019 US President Donald Trump says he has cancelled a secret meeting with the Taliban for peace talks at Camp David

 

Birthdays Today

 

@101 – Grandma Moses [Anna Mary Robertson Moses], American painter (d. 1961)

78 – Gloria Gaynor, American singer

@69 – Elizabeth I of England (d. 1603)

69 – Corbin Bernsen, American actor

@61 – Peter Lawford, English-American actor (d. 1984; cardiac arrest)

54 – Leslie Jones, SNL comedian

34 – Evan Rachel Wood, American actress

27 – Taylor Gray, American actor

@22 – Buddy Holly, American singer-songwriter, guitarist (d. 1959’ plane crash)

 

 

Sep 6 LABOR DAY

 

Sep 6, 2021 Week: 37 Day: 249
Ave. Sky Cover:  5%\Visibility: 10 miles
Local Temp:   79°\ 51° Wind: 6mph\ Gusts: 13mph
High risk of fire Active fire: 160mi. \ Lightning: 213mi.
Sep Averages: 74°\32° (5 days w/moisture) 

Today’s Quote

 

Monthly Observations

 

National Organic Harvest Month Link National Osteopathic Medicine Month Link National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month (Gov't) National Passport Awareness Month  Link National Pediculosis (Head Lice)  Prevention Month Link National Pet Memorial Month Link National Piano Month Link  Link (Note: World Piano Day is March 29) National Preparedness Month  Link National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month  Link National Prime Beef Month Link National Prosper Where You Are Planted Month National Pulmonary Fibrosis Awareness Month  Link National Recovery Month National Rice Month National Save A Tiger Month Link  Link National Sewing Month  Link National Service Dog Month National Shake Month (Ice Cream) National Sickle Cell Month  Link National Skin Care Awareness Month National Spinal Cord Injury Awareness Month  Link National Suicide Prevention Month  Link National Translators Month (Moved from Feb.)  Link National Wilderness Month

 

Weekly Observations

 

US Open Tennis Championships	30-9/12
International Enthusiasm Week National Nutrition Week (UNICEF-India) Link Self-University Week Link	1-7
Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over Link	3-7
International Air Ambulance Week   Link	4-12
Substitute Teacher Appreciation Week Suicide Prevention Week National Waffle Week	5-11
National Payroll Week	6-10

 

Daily Observations

 

Coffee Ice Cream Day Fight Procrastination Day Read a Book Day

 

Favorite Memes

 

 

A quick smile!

 

How do you dress up a pig? With a hog-tie

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

Great Sunday, time for some deck time. I got a toothache last night…first one in decades. I just enough to be irritating. I’ll call the dentist in the morning. I’m sure his office doesn’t observe Labor Day.  Hopefully it is not anything major. I’ve been following the Texas Abortion debate. As always, I am conflicted. As an adoptee I’m glad my birth mother didn’t choose abortion. As a human, I believe it is the woman’s right to choose. I also wish the father had some say. The problems I see with the new Texas law: There are no exceptions for rape or incest. The six-week part is unfair, as most women don’t know they are even pregnant that early. The worst part is that ordinary citizens now can get paid about $10,000 for reporting anyone involved in an illegal abortion…the person who drove the lady to the clinic, the clinic staff, or anyone else with knowledge of the abortion. Seems very vigilante to me. I am also bothered by the anti-abortion people who demand that every fetus be carried to term. They offer no solutions to the issues around raising that newborn to adulthood. They haven’t pushed for laws that help the unwed mother, they haven’t made adoption easier, they haven’t offered assistance to the new mother and child. The battle cry of the anti-vaxxers is ‘my body, my choice’. Many of those same people do not say that, or anything like that, when talking about abortion. That seems very hypocritical to me.

 

 

Historical Events

 

1628 – Puritans settled in Salem which became part of Massachusetts Bay Colony.

1651 King Charles II of England spends a day hiding in an oak tree during his escape after losing the Battle of Worcester

1666 After St Paul's Cathedral and much of the city had been burned down over four days, the Great Fire of London is finally extinguished.

1839 Cherokee Nation unites and ratifies constitution at Tahlequah, Oklahoma

1899 Carnation processes its first can of evaporated milk

1901 US President William McKinley is shot by Leon Czolgosz, an anarchist, while visiting the Pan-American Exposition in New York

1916 1st true supermarket, the "Piggly Wiggly" is opened by Clarence Saunders in Memphis, Tennessee

1916 – The first self-service grocery store Piggly Wiggly was opened in Memphis, Tennessee by Clarence Saunders.

1991 – The Baltic states – Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, were recognized as independent by the Soviet government.

Other countries recognized them on September 2.

1995 – Cal Ripken, Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles played in his 2,131st consecutive game, breaking a record that had stood for 56 years.

The final record was set in 1998 by him, with 2,632 games.

1995 Senate Ethics committee votes 6-0 to ask for expulsion of Bob Packwood

1997 Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales held at Westminster Abbey in London

2017 Catalonia's parliament passes law to allow referendum on independence from Spain

 

Birthdays Today

 

84 – Jo Anne Worley, American comedic actress

78 – Roger Waters, English singer-songwriter, Pink Floyd

77 – Swoosie Kurtz, American actress

@74 – Jane Addams, American sociologist, author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1935)

74 – Jane Curtin, American comedic actress

63 – Jeff Foxworthy, American comedian

59 – Chris Christie, American politician

57 – Rosie Perez, American actress

43 – Foxy Brown, American rapper