Sep 26

 

Week: 40 Ave. Sky Cover:  25%\Visibility: 10 miles Local Temp:   72°\ 66° Wind: 8mph\ Gusts: 13mph Low risk of fire Active fire: 377mi. \ Lightning: 95mi. Sep Averages: 74°\32° (5 days w/moisture)

 

Today’s Quote

 

Weekly Observations

 

National Ballroom Dance Week Link	17-26
National Go-Kart Week Link	20-26
Minimally Invasive Surgery Week Link	22-10/21
International Sand Sculpting Championships Link	24-10/3
Banned Books Week International Week of the Deaf Link  National Chimney Safety Week National Fall Foliage Week National Keep Kids Creative Week Remember to Register to Vote Week Sea Otter Awareness Week	26-10/2

 

Daily Observations

 

 

Favorite Memes

 

 

A quick smile!

 

What is round on both ends & hi in the middle? Ohio - The two 'o's are round with 'hi' in the middle.

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

Got my Covid test this morning, should have the results Monday. I am so much better I flipped the mattress and laundered the linens. Good deal! Since I had a career with the Federal Government, I as used to government shutdowns October 1. It is Congress way of saying: our ideas are more important than a functioning government. The shutdowns are usually when there is a Republican President, but not always. The government sends all the workers home for a few days, they finally vote, the employees return. Employees always get paid. That means that for however long the Feds are shut down, no daily work gets done…and employees are paid anyway. There are exceptions for ‘essential workers’. In my Bureau that was the Principal and the Superintendent only. This is one of the craziest practices I have ever seen. Time will tell if the Gov’t shuts down on Oct. 1. I am pleased that so many of my friends keep calling and checking to be sure I don’t need anything. I don’t, but it sure is a good feeling.

 

 

Historical Events

 

1665 Height of the Great Plague of London as 7,165 people die throughout the previous week 1580 – Francis Drake completed his circumnavigation of the Earth. 1789 – George Washington appointed Thomas Jefferson the first United States Secretary of State. 1957 – West Side Story debuted on Broadway 1960 Cuban leader Fidel Castro delivers a 4 hour and 29 minute long speech at the United Nations 1960 – The first televised Presidential Debate took place between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon. 1969 – Abbey Road, the last album by The Beatles, was released. 1984 – President Reagan vetoes sanctions against South Africa 2020 – 108 pilot whales survive, while 350 die in Australia's largest mass stranding at Macquarie Harbour, Tasmania

 

Birthdays Today

 

@96 – Jack LaLanne, American fitness expert (d. 2011) @76 – [Thomas Stearns]T.S. Eliot, English poet, playwright and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965; emphysema) 72 – Olivia Newton John, pop singer @70 – Johnny Appleseed, American gardener, environmentalist (d. 1845) 65 – Linda Hamilton, American actress 59 – Melissa Sue Anderson, American-Canadian actress 53 – Jim Caviezel, American actor 40 – Serena Williams, tennis @38 – George Gershwin, American pianist, and composer (d.1937; brain tumor)

 

 

Sep 25

 

Ave. Sky Cover:  35%\Visibility: 10 miles

Local Temp:   73°\ 45° Wind: 6mph\ Gusts: 15mph

High risk of fire Active fire: 121mi. \ Lightning: 243mi.

Sep Averages: 74°\32° (5 days w/moisture) 

Today’s Quote

 

Weekly Observations

 

National Ballroom Dance Week Link	17-26
Balance Awareness Week:  Link    Build A Better Image Week:   Child Passenger Safety Week:  Link   Deaf Dog Awareness Week:  Link   International Clean Hands Week:   International Go-Kart Week:   International Interpreters and Translators Week:   International Women's E-Commerce Days: Mitochondrial Disease Awareness Week:    Link National Dog Week:   Link   Link  Link National Employ Older Workers Week:  Link  National Farm & Ranch Safety and Health Week:   National Historically Black Colleges & Universities Week: National Indoor Plant Week:   National Rehabilitation Awareness Week:   National Security Officer Appreciation Week:   National Singles Week:    Pollution Prevention Week: 19-24   Link Prostate Cancer Awareness Week:    Tolkien Week:   World Reflexology Week:	19-25
National Go-Kart Week Link	20-26
Minimally Invasive Surgery Week Link	22-10/21
International Sand Sculpting Championships Link	24-10/3

 

Daily Observations

 

 

Favorite Memes

 

 

A quick smile!

 

How does Darth Vader eat with a mask on? He force feeds himself.

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

Every day I feel better. Getting back to my old self. I can climb the stairs again without having to hold onto the railing all the way up or down. Gabby Petitio is in the headlines. However, there are thousands of non-white missing persons who get no national coverage, and many don’t get even local coverage. In the 80’s a newborn was stolen from the Tuba City hospital. The mother was from Tonalea, where I worked. Her father was a bus driver at our school. There was lots of coverage throughout the reservation, Northern AZ, and nationally. Satellite trucks were around the community, interviewing anyone who they could get on the TV. The baby was found safe after a couple of weeks. Wyoming, where Gabby was found had 710 missing Natives; 57% were female; 85% were children. The media needs to change its criteria for making an abduction/missing person a National story. OMG…Cyber ninjas released their ‘audit’ of the AZ election in 2020. Biden won by a few more votes than previously announced. Even so, AZ is expecting to see many laws proposed to stop the steal that never happened. There was another mass shooting in Tennessee. Lots of coverage at the instant it happened, now 20 hours later, hardly on the news. Sad.

 

 

Historical Events

 

1513 – Vasco de Balboa ‘discovered’ the Pacific Ocean. 1676 – Greenwich Mean Time was established. 1890 – The United States Congress establishes Sequoia National Park. 1926 Henry Ford announces an 8 hour, 5-day work week for workers at the Ford Motor Company 1957 – Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated, using United States Army troops. 2020 Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg becomes the 1st woman to lie in state in the US Capitol in Washington D.C.

 

Birthdays Today

 

92 – Barbara Walters, American journalist, producer, author 77 – Michael Douglas, American actor 74 – Cheryl Tiegs, American model 70 – Mark Hamill, American actor @68 – Shel Silverstein, author, poet, illustrator, songwriter (d. 1999; heart attack) @52 – Christopher Reeve, American actor, activist (d. 2004) 56 – Scottie Pippen, American basketball player, sportscaster 53 – Will Smith, American actor 52 – Catherine Zeta-Jones, Welsh actress @20? – Fletcher Christian, English sailor (d.1793; unknown)