Jun 6

 

 

 

Jun 6, 2021   Week: 24    Day: 157

Visibility: 10 miles Ave. Sky Cover:25 %

Local: H 82°\ L 49°

Wind:  4mph/ Gusts:  17mph

EXTREME Risk of Fire:  Active fire:  141mi Nearest Lightning: 118mi.

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

 

Today’s Quote

 

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed. Mark Twain

 

Random Tidbits

 

In addition to their physical beauty, butterflies act as one of nature's couriers. In the case of Monarch butterflies, which pollinate milkweed, they may transfer a pollen sac to the next plant on their legs or other body parts.

Millions of Monarch butterflies, which reside in the Northeast in the summer, make a 2,000-mile migration down to Mexico for the winter months. After congregating there, they'll mate and new generations will make the return trip back north in the warmer months.

Monarchs are toxic and in fact, some butterfly species such as the Viceroy play on that feature by mimicking the signature bright orange and black coloring of Monarchs to discourage birds from eating them.

 

Humor

 

What do you call an Amish guy with his hand in a horse’s mouth? A mechanic.

Welcome to Rhode Island! Enjoy it because it ends in 40 feet.

 

Real Cities

 

Bland, Virginia is a census-designated place (CDP) in and the county seat of Bland County, Virginia, United States. Bland was originally known as Bland Court House.   The population as of the 2010 Census was 409.

 

True Things

 

-- Volusia County (Florida) Sheriff's deputies responding to a fire at Myers Marine Service in Deland on March 13 were met by witnesses who said they saw Sean Sword running out of the building saying, "I lit a tow rope on fire." Sword, who was severely burned, told deputies conflicting stories about his motives, according to court papers, but after being interviewed at the hospital, he admitted he was looking for a vehicle to steal, but "it didn't work out," so he set a tow rope on fire and the flames spread, adding that he hoped to be in jail for a long time. Boats and equipment valued at nearly $100,000 were damaged, records show, and Sword faces arson and burglary charges. [ClickOrlando.com, 3/15/2021]

 

Monthly Observations

 

Scleroderma Awareness Month Link Skyscraper Month Sorghum Month Link Sports America Kids Month Student Safety Month Vision Research Month Link World Naked Bike Ride Month (Northern Hemisphere) Link Link Women's Golf Month Link   Link World Infertility Month World Roller Coaster Appreciation Month

 

Weekly Observations

 

National Marina Days Link	5/31-6/9
Horseradish Days Link	4-6
International Clothesline Week	5-12
National Lemonade Days Link	5-13
Bedbug Awareness Week Link Black Single Parents Week End Mountain Top Removal Week Link    National Automotive Service Professionals Week National Business Etiquette Week  National Headache Awareness Week Link   Pet Appreciation Week Link	6-12

 

Today’s Observations

 

Artichoke Days: 5-6  Link   Atheists Pride Day Link Children's Awareness Memorial Day   D-Day, WWII Drive-In Movie Day National Eyewear Day Link National Animal Rights Day Link National Cancer Survivors Day Link  National Frozen Yogurt Day National Gardening Exercise Day National Gingerbread Day National Higher Education Day  National Yo-Yo Day Link Russian Language Day Link YMCA Day (Organization, not the song.)

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

A nice day. Yesterday my plan worked. I washed my vehicle and in the late afternoon we had a big thunder/lightning storm. Rain was bouncing about 2” of the pavement. It lasted about 20 minutes, then a nice gentle rain another 20 minutes. It wasn’t in the forecast but greatly appreciated. Hopefully today will bring the same. I learned that Nepal is a real hot spot for Covid. Lots of cases, lots of deaths, and no vaccine available. Sad. Hong Kong banned any demonstrations on the anniversary of Tiananmen Square’s military takeover. This is the first year since the killings that any demonstration has been banned. It is getting harder and harder to recognize Hong Kong as a separate entity. Sad. One of the yesterday’s warmest US cities was BISMARK, NORTH DAKOTA, at 106. Record shattering. WOW! President Biden has stated that Ransomware attacks on US companies are now considered a National Security Issue. That opens many new pathways to prevent future attacks. I sure hope this works.

Daily Riddle

Answer: bottom of the page

 

What can you break, even if you never pick it up or touch it?

 

Historical Events

 

1816 10" of snowfall in New England, part of a "year without a summer" which followed the eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia

1822 Alexis St. Martin shot in the stomach and treated by physician William Beaumont on Mackinac Island. Leads Beaumont to conduct digestion experiments through hole in St. Martin's stomach.

1912 The eruption of Novarupta in Alaska begins, the largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century

1916 The death of Yuan Shikai, ruler of much of China since 1912, causes the central government to virtually collapse in the face of warlords, including Sun Yat-sen

1933– America’s first drive-in opened near Camden, New Jersey, opened.

1942 – The United States Navy’s victory over the Imperial Japanese Navy at the Battle of Midway.

1944 – D-Day: The Normandy Landings

1967 Israeli troops occupy Gaza during second day of the Six-Day War

1968 Senator Robert F. Kennedy dies from his wounds after he was shot the previous night

1983 – Reading Rainbow premiered on PBS

2018 Iraqi parliament orders manual recount of legislative elections in May after Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi claims evidence of irregularities

2019 On 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, New York City’s police commissioner James O’Neill apologizes for his department's actions during the 1969 raid on the Stonewall Inn

 

Birthdays Today

 

74 – Robert Englund, American actor

65 – Björn Borg, Swedish tennis player

60 -- Carole Baskin, animal rights activist

@59 – Sam Simon, American director, producer, screenwriter; co-developer of The Simpsons (d. 2015; cancer)

54 – Paul Giamatti, American actor

@21 – Nathan Hale, American soldier (d. 1776; hanged)

 

Puzzle Answer

 

A promise

 

 

Jun 5

 

 

 

Jun 5, 2021   Week: 23    Day: 156

Visibility: 10 miles Ave. Sky Cover: 30%

Local: H 81°\ L 50°

Wind:  2mph/ Gusts:  5mph

EXTREME Risk of Fire:  Active fire:  150mi Nearest Lightning: 141mi.

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

 

Today’s Quote

 

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds. John F. Kennedy

 

Random Tidbits

 

Butterflies are a long-standing part of the earth's environmental fabric, with butterfly fossils dating back as far as 40-50 million years ago.

Butterflies are sensitive to pesticides and habitat loss, both of which have been driving a decline in butterfly populations. Some of the most successful butterflies eat agricultural products that man has modified.

 

Humor

 

Howard dies and waits in line for judgment. He notices that some souls go right into heaven, while Satan throws others into a burning pit. But every so often, instead of hurling a poor soul into the fire, the devil tosses him aside. Curious, Howard asks Satan,” Excuse me, but why are you tossing them aside instead of flinging them into hell with the others?”

“They’re from Oregon,” Satan replies. “They’re too wet to burn.”

 

Real Cities

 

Mosquitoville, Vermont s a populated place located within the Town of Barnet, a minor civil division (MCD) of Caledonia County.

The elevation of Mosquitoville is 1,004 feet. Mosquitoville appears on the Peacham U.S. Geological Survey Map.

 

True Things

 

Least Competent Criminals

-- Robert Radek, 29, of Marlboro, New York, scored a hat trick on March 7 when he was arrested three times in one day, the Daily Freeman reported. First stopped that morning in the city of Newburgh, driving a Jeep Cherokee, Radek was found by the trooper to have a suspended license and crack cocaine with him, for which he was charged with a misdemeanor and released, according to authorities. At 2:30 p.m., police said, the same trooper stopped him again, this time in a Honda Civic, and again found him in possession of crack cocaine, along with heroin. His final arrest came at 5:45 p.m., when Radek was stopped driving the Cherokee again and detained after the trooper determined he appeared to be under the influence of drugs, said police. Radek was released with tickets on all three violations and ordered to appear in court in April. [Daily Freeman, 3/17/2021]

 

Monthly Observations

 

Oral Health Month Link Outdoor Marketing Month Perennial Gardening Month Pharmacists Declare War on Alcoholism Month  Link Potty Training Awareness Month Link Professional Wellness Month PTSD Awareness Month Link Rainbow Book Month Rebuild Your Life Month

 

Weekly Observations

 

INVICTUS GAMES Link Cancelled	5/29-6/5
National African Violet Week	5/30-6/5
National Marina Days Link	5/31-6/9
Horseradish Days Link	4-6
International Clothesline Week	5-12
National Lemonade Days Link	5-13

 

Today’s Observations

 

Apple II Day Artichoke Days: 5-6  Link   Baby Boomers Recognition Day Belmont Stakes Link Do-Dah Parade Day (Kalamazoo, Mi ) Drawing Day or Pencil Day  Festival of Popular Delusions Day Link Gingerbread Day Hot Air Balloon Day National Black Bear Day  Link National Bubbly Day  Link   National Ketchup/Catsup Day National Moonshine Day National Play Outside Day Link  National Prairie Day  National Trails Day National Veggie Burgers Day  Link The Wicket World of Croquet Day Link   Turtle Races Day  World Environment Day

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

Warm, calm, a great Friday. I really enjoy the Olympics. I think there is a real chance that they will be postponed again. Japan is not vaccinating very quickly. Spectators will be few and far between. Vendors, hotels, restaurants will loose money. If they decide to go hold them, I hope these young athletes are vaccinated and that they are kept safe. The NBA finals continue…now it’s Denver v Phoenix. I am torn as to which team I want to win. I guess I’ll watch and yell for both teams. I washed my vehicle this morning, hoping that a clean vehicle will bring us some much needed rain.

Daily Riddle

Answer: bottom of the page

 

There is a one-story house in which everything is yellow. Yellow walls, yellow doors, yellow furniture. What color are the stairs?

 

Historical Events

 

1837 – Houston was incorporated by the Republic of Texas.

1851 – Harriet Beecher Stowe’s anti-slavery serial, Uncle Tom’s Cabin (or Life Among the Lowly) began a ten-month run in the National Era, an abolitionist newspaper.

1883 – The first regularly scheduled Orient Express left Paris.

 

1916 – Louis Brandeis was sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court, the first American Jew to hold the position.

1933 – US President Franklin D. Roosevelt took the United States off the “Gold Standard”, a result of the Great Depression. President Nixon, in 1971, completed the transition when he announced that the United States would no longer convert dollars to gold at a fixed value, $35 an ounce at that time.

1956 – Elvis Presley introduced his new single, Hound Dog, on The Milton Berle Show

1966 – The Beatles had a taped appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, debuting music videos for Rain and Paperback Writer.

1968 – Robert F. Kennedy was shot and killed at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, by Sirhan Sirhan, a Palestinian.

1977 – The Apple II went in sale.

1981 – The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that five people in Los Angeles, California, had a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened immune systems, in what turns out to be the first recognized cases of AIDS.

1989 – The Tiananmen Square protests ended violently in Beijing by the People’s Liberation Army, with at least 241 dead. Many western journalists had errantly speculated that the army would not fight against the people.

1990 South African troops plunder Nelson Mandela's home

1991 Mikhail Gorbachev receives his 1990 Nobel Peace Prize

 

2013 The first article based on NSA leaked documents by Edward Snowden are published by the Guardian Newspaper in the UK

2018 US President Donald Trump administration's policy of separating immigrant children from their families violates international law according to the UN

2019 Average person ingests 50,000 pieces of microplastic a year and breathes in similar amount according to first-ever such study published in journal "Environmental Science and Technology"

 

Birthdays Today

 

@77 – William Boyd, American actor, producer (d. 1972; Parkinson’s)

70 – Suze Orman, financial adviser, author, television host

65 – Kenny G, American saxophonist

@62 – John Maynard Keynes, British economist (d. 1946; heart attacks)

@57 – Pat Garrett, American sheriff (d. 1908; gunshot)

50 – Mark Wahlberg, American actor, (aka rapper Marky Mark)

42 – Pete Wentz, American singer-songwriter and bass player

@26 -- Breonna Taylor, EMT (d. 2020; mistakenly shot by police)

 

Puzzle Answer

 

There aren’t any—it’s a one-story house.