9 Mar

 

Week 11  Day 67 Flag Today  55°/35°                             Wind 7 mph Gusts 7 mph

Active Fire: 495 miles away Risk of fire: High   Nearest Lightning: 571 miles away

Air Quality: Moderate Sunshine

Mar. Averages: Temps: 54°\24° Moisture: 12 days

Weekly Observations

8-14 Campfire USA Birthday Week Girl Scout Week Link ) National Procrastination Week

Teen Tech Week National Patient Safety Awareness Week

Daily Observations

Barbie Day Fill Our Staplers Day Get Over It Day Link Joe Franklin Day

Napping Day  National Urban Educator Day  Link Panic Day Link

Today’s Quote                                                                  

Today’s Meme

Today’s Thoughts

It is a nice, sunny, warm winter day.

A day I’m happy that I don’t have to change my clocks. No DST in Flag is very nice. The one issue, many cable channels have programs I enjoy coming on an hour off.

Way too many former military leaders are saying the administration completely abandoned Americans when the US bombed Iran. The government told everyone, including former military, in the area to find a commercial flight knowing full well that ALL airports in the region were closed. Sad.

Many post WWII sitting presidents started armed conflicts without the approval of Congress. Trump is the only one to call it ‘war’, while all the others used the term ‘conflict’. In my opinion, that is simply semantics…each conflict cost many American lives. 

Common Saying’s Origin

Kangaroo court

"Kangaroo court" goes back to the 19th-century U.S. frontier days, when roaming judges tried legal cases. They were paid by the trial, and a kangaroo court refers to the image of them hopping from case to case to try as many as possible.

Grab the bull by its horns

To "grab the bull by its horns" means to confront something head-on, without delay. One theory has it originating in the American West, where an effective way for ranchers to catch and subdue a bull was to grab its horns and wrest it to the ground.

Full of beans

Meaning energetic, "full of beans" is thought to come from late-1800s horse racing, when horses would be fed beans to make them gassy in the belief that they would run faster. 

Try Rebus

SECRET SECRET SECRET

D MOVIE D MOVIE D MOVIE

Historic Events

 March in History

 

REBUS ANSWERS

Top Secret

3D movies

Birthdays

Charles Gibson (83 years old), American television journalist (Good Morning America), born in Evanston, Illinois φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Kimberly Guilfoyle (57 years old), American television personality (Fox News, 2006-18; The Five) and prosecutor, born in San Fransisco, California φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Emmanuel Lewis (55 years old), American actor (Webster), born in Brooklyn, New York φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Sunisa Lee (23 years old), American gymnast (All-round Olympic Gold 2021), born in St. Paul, Minnesota   φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ

Amerigo Vespucci (1454-1512; @57) Italian explorer (America), born in Florence φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ John Evans, American physician, railroad promoter, founder of Mercy Hospital (Chicago), Northwestern University, and University of Denver, and politician (Territorial Governor of Colorado, 1862-65) who was implicated in the Sand Creek Massacre of Cheyenne Indians, born in Waynesville, Ohio (d. 1897; @83)  φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Vyacheslav Molotov (1890-1986; @96) Russian politician (Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1939-49, 1953-6), born in Kukarka, Russian Empire φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Will Geer [William Aughe Ghere], American actor (Salt of the Earth, The Waltons), born in Frankfort, Indiana (d. 1978; @76, respiratory failure) φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Mickey Spillane [Frank Morrison Spillane], American mystery writer (I the Jury), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2006; @86) φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Carl Betz, American actor (The Donna Reed Show; Love of Life), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 1978; @56, lung cancer) φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Yuri Gagarin (1934-1968; @34, on training flight) Russian cosmonaut and 1st man into space (aboard Vostok 1), born in Klushino, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Marty Ingels, American comedian (I'm Dickens He's Fenster), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2015; @79, stroke) φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Mickey Gilley, American nightclub owner (Urban Cowboy) and country singer ("Roomful of Roses"), born in Natchez, Mississippi (d. 2022; @86)  φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Raul Julia, Puerto Rican actor (Addams Family (films); Kiss of the Spider Woman), born in San Juan, Puerto Rico (d. 1994; @54, stroke) φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Bobby Fischer (1943-2008; @64, kidney failure) American chess player (world champion 1972-75), born in Chicago, Illinois φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Bobby Sands (1954-1981; @27, on hunger strike) Irish IRA member and leader of the hunger strike at Maze Prison where he died, born in Newtownabbey, Northern Abbey   φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ

 

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8 Mar

 

Week 11  Day 67 Flag Today  45°/29°                             Wind 20 mph Gusts 33 mph

Active Fire: 410 miles away Risk of fire: High  Nearest Lightning: 739 miles away

Air Quality: Fair Sunshine Windy

Mar. Averages: Temps: 54°\24° Moisture: 12 days

Monthly Observations

Transgender Month of Action for Healthcare Equality Link  Link Trisomy Awareness Month Link Vascular Abnormalities Awareness Month

Women's History Month: Link Workplace Eye Wellness Month Worldwide Homeschooling Awareness Month Youth Art Month

Weekly Observations

2-8 No More Week Link Women of Aviation Worldwide Week 2-6 Women in Construction Week  Link  National School Breakfast Week 6-8 International Festival of Owls

8-14 Campfire USA Birthday Week Girl Scout Week Link  National Procrastination Week Teen Tech Week National Patient Safety Awareness Week

Daily Observations

Check Your Batteries Day Day for Women's Rights & Internat’l Peace Daylight Saving Time Begins  Girl Scout Sunday Link  Girls Write Now Day Hockey USA Day Link National Biobased Products Day  Link

International Women's Day Link International Working Women's Day National "I AM" Day National Breast Implant Awareness Day  National Proofreading Day National Peanut Cluster Day Link National Retro Video Game Day  Link Volunteers of America Day

Today’s Quote                                                                  

Today’s Meme

Today’s Thoughts

It’s going to be another windy day here. It is drying out our forest. We need moisture.

Another first: Melania Trump became the first First Lady to gavel in the UN Security Council Meeting. In the past it was the President or another official in the administration. I believe this was a slam to the UN. WOW

The Iran bombing continues. The killing of civilians continues on both sides of this crazy conflict. I never thought that Iran’s government was good. I have always supported the citizens of Iran who wanted the government gone. Much more intelligence should have been done before anyone started bombing to ensure that there  would be minimal civilian casualties. This will be a sad commentary on America and Israel for decades. 

Common Saying’s Origin

Bats in the belfry

To have "bats in the belfry" means to be eccentric or insane. It is an American phrase from the early 20th century referring to bats that lived inside a belltower.

Raring to

"Raring to," as in very eager, seems to have originated in the early 19th-century South. It's likely to have come from rearing, when a horse rises up on its hind legs in excitement or agitation.

Happy as a clam

The phrase is believed to have originally been "happy as a clam at high tide," popular in the early 1800s in the Northeast. It refers to the fact that clams are dug up in low tide but unreachable and safe from human harvest at high tide. 

Try Rebus

M1y L1i1f1e

Get it Get it Get it Get it

Historic Events

 March in History

 

REBUS ANSWERS

For once in my life

Forget it

Birthdays

Carole Bayer Sager (82 years old) 1944 American singer-songwriter ("On My Own"; "That's What Friends Are For"), and wife of Burt Bacharach (1982-91), born in Manhattan, New York City φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Micky Dolenz(81 years old) 1945 American singer (The Monkees - "I'm A Believer"), and actor (Circus Boy), born in Los Angeles, California φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Little Peggy March [Margaret Battavio] (78 years old), American pop vocalist ("I Will Follow Him"), born in Lansdale, Pennsylvania φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Lester Holt (67 years old), American journalist and news anchor (NBC Nightly News, 2015-present), born in Hamilton Air Force Base, California φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Camryn Manheim (65 years old), American actress (The Practice), born in Caldwell, New Jersey φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Petra Kvitová(36 years old) 1990 Czech tennis player (Wimbledon 2011, 14), born in Bilovec, Czech Republic φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ

Anne Bonny (1697-1782) Irish Caribbean pirate and lover of Calico Jack [date of birth is approximate], born in Kinsale, Ireland φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Karl Ferdinand von Graefe (1787-1840) German surgeon who helped create modern plastic surgery, born in Warsaw, Poland φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr (1841-1935; @93) US 59th Supreme Court justice (1902-32), born in Boston, Massachusetts φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932; @73) British author (The Wind in the Willows), born in Edinburgh φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Alan Hale Jr. (1921-1990; @68, thymus cancer) American actor (Skipper-Gilligan's Island), born in Los Angeles, California φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Cyd Charisse [Tula Finklea], Amesrican dancer and actress (Singin' in the Rain), born in Amarillo, Texas (d. 2008; @86) φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Johnny Ventura (1940-2021; @81) merengue and salsa bandleader (“Patacon Pisao”), and politician (Mayor of Santiago, 1998-2002), born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Lynn Redgrave (1943-2010; @67, cancer) British-American actress (Gods and Monsters, Georgy Girl), born in London, England φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ James Van Der Beek (1977-2026; @48, colorectal cancer) American actor (Dawson in "Dawson's Creek"; Varsity Blues), born in Cheshire, Connecticut φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ

 

…The End for today…