April 24, 2024

25 Apr

 

 

  




Week 17  Day 116 Flag Today  71°/34°

Wind 9mph Gusts 18mph

Active Fire:  3 miles away Risk of fire: Extreme Nearest Lightning: 389 miles away

Air Quality: Fair SunshineBreezy

Apr. Averages: Temps: 60°\27° Moisture:  3 Days

Weekly Observations

20-25 

International Wildlife Film Week: Link
20-27 National Dance Week: Link 
20-28 National Park Week Link 
21-27 Administrative Professionals Week)
Animal Cruelty/Human Violence Awareness Week
Link 
Chemists Celebrate Earth Week
Fibroid Awareness Week
21-5/2 Festival of Ridvan
21-27 National Crime Victims Rights Week Link
National Infertility Awareness Week
Link
National Karaoke Week
National Paperboard Packaging Week
National Pediatric Transplant Week
National Pet ID Week 
Link  Link
National Princess Week  
Link 
Numismatic Week ( National Coin Week)  
 Link 
Oral, Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Week
Link
Sky Awareness Week

21-28 National African Violet Week 22-26 Financial Practice Week
National Playground Safety Week 
Link
National Youth Violence Prevention Week
Link

22-28 National Infant Immunization Week (NIIW) Link
23-29 Disability Book Week Link
24-27  American Quilters Society Week Link
24-30 National Scoop The Poop Week
World Immunization Week
25-27 Gathering of the Nations Powwow Link
25-28 Fiddler's Frolic

Daily Observations

Celebrate Teen Literature Day
DNA Day
Link

Meets West Day (aka Elbe Day)   Link



Hairstylists Appreciation Day  Link

Hug a Plumber Day
Telephone Day
World Malaria Day
World Penguin Day
Zucchini Bread Day 
 

Today’s Quote                                                        Today’s Meme

 




"The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts."

— Marcus Aurelius

 

 


Today’s Thoughts

Blue sky, fairly nice, a little breeze.

It’s springtime. College campus demonstrations are nothing unusual. In my day it was to protest the Vietnam. Now it’s all about the Middle East issues. I hate to see it, but it looks like the police learned some lessons from 1968 and know better how to prevent violence.  I’m hoping for peace at these demonstrations so each side can say what they want.

A couple of nights ago I was fixing a Knorr side dish for dinner. It was still a little runny so I left it on the stove after I took out my portion. Sadly, I forgot to turn off the burner. As I as cleaning up I smelled something burning. Yep, the side dish was a lot of burned pasta stuck to the bottom of the corning ware I was using. I soaked it, then added Dawn Power spray, let it soak. The next day a scrubbed it, soaked the few burnt places, added mor Dawn, let it soak. The day after that I added a lot of water and boiled water in the dish, scraped off more black. Now it’s in the dishwasher and I hope I learned a good lesson.

Did you Know?

 


 Interesting Facts

A Litter Of Kittens Can Have Different Fathers

Cats are induced ovulators, meaning the act of copulation triggers the release of multiple eggs from the ovaries into the uterus. The eggs remain in utero for 24 hours. If the female mates with multiple males, each egg can technically be fertilized by sperm from a different donor, called superfecundation

Simply put, it means that each kitten in a litter can have a different father. However, just because each kitten looks different doesn't mean they actually do have different fathers. Sometimes that's just how cat genetics are.

Historic Events

·         1901 – New York required the first license plates.

·         1953 – Francis Crick and James D. Watson published Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid describing the double helix structure of DNA.

·         1990 – The Hubble Space Telescope was deployed.

Birthdays with some quotes

85 – Al Pacino, American actor

“They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.”

78 – Talia Shire, American actress

77 – Jeffrey DeMunn, American character actor

63 – Dinesh D’Souza, Indian-American journalist and author

60 – Hank Azaria, American actor and voice artist

55 – Joe Buck, American sportscaster

55 – Renée Zellweger, American actress

54 – Jason Lee, American actor

50 – Marguerite Moreau, American actress

 

@91 – William Brennan, American jurist, US Supreme Court Associate Justice (d. 1997)

“The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to ‘create’ rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting.”

@79 – Ella Fitzgerald, American singer (d. 1996; stroke)

“It isn’t where you came from, it’s where you’re going that counts.”

@78 – Jerry Leiber, American songwriter (d. 2011)

@78- Len Goodman, Judge, DWTS

@63 – Guglielmo Marconi, Italina inventor; wireless telegraph (d. 1937; heart attack)

@59 – Oliver Cromwell, English general and politician, Lord Protector of Great Britain (d. 1658; malaria)

@57 – Edward R. Murrow, American journalist (d. 1965; lung cancer)

“A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.”

 

…The End for today…

               

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