February 28, 2026

1 Mar

 






     



           

Week 9  Day 60 Flag Today  57°/38°                             Wind 4 mph Gusts - mph

Active Fire: 444 miles away Risk of fire High  Nearest Lightning: 887miles away

Air Quality: Fair Sunshine

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

 

Monthly Observations

Action & Skill Toys Month
Adopt A Rescued Guinea Pig Month 
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Alport Syndrome Awareness Month
American Red Cross Month or Red Cross Month  
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APS Month Link

Asset Management Awareness Month  Link

Brain Injury Awareness Month Link
Child Life Month Link
Clap 4 Health Month

Colic Awareness Month

Weekly Observations

2/12-3/1

Date (Fruit) Weeks

1-7

Hearing Awareness Week Link
National Cheerleading Week
National Write A Letter of Appreciation Week
National Ghostwriters Week
National Invest in a Veteran Week 
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National Pet Sitters Week 
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Return The Borrowed Books Week
Termite Awareness Week
Universal Human Beings Week 
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Will Eisner Week 
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World Hearing Awareness Week
Telecommuter Appreciation Week
National Consumer Protection Week  
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Celebrate Your Name Week
Consumer Protection Week
National Dental Assistants Recognition Week 
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National Schools Social Work Week  
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National Words Matter Week
Read an E-Book Week  
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Save Your Vision Week  
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Termite Awareness Week 
Words Matter Week

Daily Observations

Asiatic Fleet Memorial Day Link
Baby Sleep Day
Black Women's Day
Breast Implant Illness Awareness Days-30 
(Not monthly observance)
Dadgum That's Good Day
(Masterbuilt food products & cookbooks)
Endometriosis Day or Wear Yellow Day
Finisher's Medal Day 
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Horse Protection Day 
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Indie Music Day
Meteorlogical Spring
(Temperature)
Namesake Day

National Peanut Lovers Day Link
National Sunkist Citrus Day 
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Peace Corps Birthday
Pig Day
Plan a Solo Vacation Day
Refired, Not Retired Day
Saint David's Day 
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Self-injury Awareness Day  
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U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement Day
World Compliment Day 
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World Seagrass Day
Zero Discrimination Day 
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Today’s Thoughts

It’s a nice winter day. Lots of blue sky and sun.

I took my vehicle for a car wash to get rid of the dirt from the last few storms.

I was reading about the lowest recorded temps. 1/7/72 was Harley Lake, AZ @-40° and 2/1/85 Maybell, CO @ -61°. I sure appreciate a mild winter.

I did not expect to wake up on my birthday to learn that the US has attacked Iran. More disturbing is that dear leader did not develop a coalition of countries before the strike and that diplomatic negotiations were occurring at the time of the attack. If my history memory is correct, that is what Japan did while attacking Pearl Harbor and we know how that attack turned out. 

Historic Trivia

Luck of the Draw

In 1911, a Paris orphanage held a raffle where the prize was live human babies. Now that's a dark fact. 

Ferocious Females

When armadillos mate, the female armadillo can postpone her pregnancy until she feels she is in a safe, nurturing environment for her little one. And all this can be done with no harm to the little unborn critter, who stays (presumably) blissfully unaware. It's an adaption known as “delayed implantation". No more babies by accident!

mmm, Random BBQ Smell

If you could breathe in space without dying, it would in fact smell like barbecue, gunpowder, and diesel. These combined scents are created by dying stars. 

Try Rebus

Ban ana

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Historic Events

 March in History

 

REBUS ANSWERS

Banana split

Read between the lines

Birthdays

Jerry Fisher (84 years old), American R&B singer (Blood, Sweat & Tears), born in DeKalb, Texas

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Roger Daltrey (82 years old)

1944 English singer and founder of the rock band "The Who", born in East Acton, London, England

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Dirk Benedict (Dirk Niewoehner), (81 years old) American actor (A-Team, Battlestar Galactica), born in Helena, Montana

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Ron Howard (72 years old), American actor and director (American Graffiti, Happy Days), born in Duncan, Oklahoma

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Jimmy Fortune (71 years old), American country singer (Statler Brothers - Class of '57), born in Newport News, Virginia

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Tim Daly (70 years old), American actor (Madam Secretary; Wings; Diner; Made in Heaven), born in Sufferin, New York

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George Eads (59 years old), American actor (CSI), born in Fort Worth, Texas

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Javier Bardem (57 years old)

1969 Spanish actor (No Country for Old Men), born in Las Palmas, Spain

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Jensen Ackles (48 years old)

1978 American actor (Days Of Our Lives, Supernatural, The Boys), born in Dallas, Texas

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Kesha (39 years old)

1987 American pop singer (Tik Tok), born in Los Angeles, California

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Justin Bieber (32 years old)

1994 Canadian pop singer and musician ("Baby"; "Sorry"; "What Do You Mean?"), born in London, Ontario

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Sandro Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi), Florentine Early Renaissance painter (Birth of Venus), born in Florence, Republic of Florence (d. 1510; @65) 
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Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849; @39)

Polish pianist and composer (Concerto in F Minor), born in Żelazowa Wola, Duchy of Warsaw

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Glenn Miller ( 1904-1944; @40, disappeared over English Channel)

American bandleader and jazz composer (Glenn Miller Orchestra - "In The Mood"; "Moonlight Serenade"; "String Of Pearls"), born in Clarinda, Iowa

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David Niven (1910-1983; @73. ALS)

British actor (Casino Royale, The Pink Panther), born in London, England

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Dinah Shore (1917-1994; @77, ovarian cancer)

American singer (See the USA in a Chevrolet), actress and TV personality (Dinah Shore Show; Nabisco DS Championship), born in Winchester, Tennessee

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Yitzhak Rabin (1922-1995; @73, assassinated)

Prime Minister of Israel (1974-77 and 1992-95) and 1994 Nobel Peace Prize winner, born in Jerusalem

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Pete Rozelle ( 1926-1996; @70, brain cancer)

American football executive (NFL Commissioner 1960-89), born in South Gate, California

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Robert Clary [Widerman], French-American actor (Hogan's Heroes - "Cpl LeBeau"; Days of Our Lives), singer, author, artist, lecturer, and Holocaust survivor, born in Paris, France (d. 2022; @96)
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Harry Belafonte (1927-2023; @96)

Jamaican-American Grammy, Tony, and Emmy Award-winning calypso singer ("Banana Boat Song"), actor (Buck & the Preacher), and human rights activist, born in Harlem, New York

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Judith Rossner (Judith Louise Perelman), American novelist ("Looking for Mr. Goodbar"; "August"), born in New York City (d. 2005; @70, leukemia)

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Robert Conrad [Conrad R. Falk], American actor (Wild Wild West), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2020, @84)

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Gerry Conlon, Irish human rights campaigner and member of the Guildford Four, born in Belfast, Northern Ireland (d. 2014; @60, lung cancer

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…The End for today…

               

February 27, 2026

28 Feb

 

 



                

                

Week 9  Day 59 Flag Today  63°/42°

Wind 7 mph Gusts 7 mph

Active Fire: 67 miles away Risk of fire: High 

Nearest Lightning: 1506 miles away

Air Quality: Fair Sunshine

Feb. Averages: Temps: 46°\22° Moisture:  4.7Days

 

Weekly Observations

2/12-3/1

Date (Fruit) Weeks
21-28

National FFA Week  Link 

22-28

National Engineers Week
National Justice for Animals Week
Link  Link
Bird Health Awareness Week
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National Eating Disorders Awareness Week  
National Invasive Species Awareness Week  
Link 
National Money Show

Daily Observations

Carnival begins
Floral Design Day  
Link
Global Scouse Day 
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National Public Sleeping Day 
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National Tooth Fairy Day  
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Open That Bottle Night
Rare Disease Day 
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Sisu Day 
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World Sword Swallowers Day

 

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Today’s Meme

 




Today’s Thoughts

A very nice weather day. Sunshine and no jacket needed.

I did shopping today to pick up the necessary monthly supplies. All stocked up and almost ready for March.

I’m going to enjoy my birthday on Saturday. The journey has been long, but I still have much to do so I am looking forward to the next year. The one thing that older age has given me,  is that the skin on my hands is like tissue paper and bruise very easily. I have some cream, but the doctors say not to worry about it. It is still frustrating.

Now that both Clintons have testified under oath regarding their involvement with Epstein, it is time for Trump to also testify. What is good for the goose is good for the gander. The girls and women need to have the whole truth of Epstein’s escapades. 

Historic Trivia

The Chance Case of the Curious Mummy

Found in 1991 in the Ötztal Alps, Ötzi “the Iceman” is the earliest natural human mummy ever found in Europe. Ötzi was alive from sometime between 3400 and 3100 BCE. The most surprising thing about him? He had tattoos! And not just a couple...researchers have identified a total of 61 different tattoos covering his body. That means he's not only the oldest tattooed person ever found, but also (probably) one of the oldest ancestors to today's Brooklyn hipsters.

The tattoo ink itself was produced from ash or soot and is believed to have been used as a form of pain relief.

How (Not) to Get Rich

You may have heard of a little Internet outfit called Google? They're kind of a big deal. But the fact you probably don't know is that in 1999, when Google was still little more than a search engine at the very beginning of the Internet, the founders offered to sell the company for one million dollars, to another company called Excite.

The geniuses at Excite saw the opportunity, considered the potential...and promptly turned it down. Good thinking there, fellas. 

Try Rebus

Time        Time

BIRD

 

Historic Events

 Feb in History

 

REBUS ANSWERS

Time after time

Big Bird

Birthdays with some quotes

Linus Pauling (1901-1994; @93)

American chemist, engineer and peace activist (1954 Nobel prize for Chemistry, 1962 Nobel Peace Prize), born in Portland, Oregon

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Bugsy Siegel (1906-1947; @41, shot in home)

American gangster who built casinos in Las Vegas, born in Brooklyn, New York

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Samuel Joel "Zero" Mostel, American comedian and actor (Fiddler on the Roof, The Producers), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1977; @62, aortic aneurysm)

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Frank Gehry (1929-2025; @96)

Canadian-American Pritzker Prize-winning architect (Bilbao Guggenheim Museum; The Dancing House), born in Toronto, Ontario

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Gavin MacLeod [Allan See], American actor (The Mary Tyler Moore Show - "Murray"; The Love Boat - "Captain Stubing"; McHale's Navy - "Happy"), born in Mt Kisco, New York (d. 2021; @90)

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Brian Jones (1942-1969; @27, death by misadventrue)

British blues and rock guitarist, organist, and sitar player (Rolling Stones, 1962-69), born in Gloucestershire, England

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Bubba Smith, American College Football Hall of Fame defensive end (Michigan State; Pro Bowl 1970, 71; First Team All Pro 1971; Super Bowl 1971; Baltimore Colts) and actor (Police Academy), born in Orange, Texas (d. 2011; @66, acute drug intoxication & heart disease)

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 Gilbert Gottfried (1955-2022; @67, ventricular tachycardia)

American stand-up comedian, and actor (SNL; Aladdin - "Iago the Parrot"; The Afflac Duck), born in Brooklyn, New York

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Mario Andretti (85 years old)

Italian American auto racer (Indianapolis 500 1969; F1 World Champion 1978), born in Montona, Italy

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Charlie Frazier (77 years old)
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Bernadette Peters (78 years old)

American Tony Award-winning stage and screen actress and singer (Sunday in the Park with George; The Jerk; Pennies From Heaven), and author, born in Queens, New York

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Paul Krugman (73 years old)

American economist and New York Times columnist (Nobel Prize in Economics 2008), born in Albany, New York

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Jason Aldean(49 years old)

American country singer ("Dirt Road Anthem"), born in Macon, Georgia

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Luka Dončić(27 years old)

Slovenian basketball guard (EuroLeague MVP 2018; NBA Rookie of the Year 2019, NBA Scoring champion 2024 Dallas Mavericks; LA Lakers), born in Ljubljana, Slovenia

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…The End for today…