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Today 58°/34° Wind 7 mph Gusts 7 mph
Active
Fire: 213 miles away Risk of fire: Low Nearest Lightning: 440
miles away
Air
Quality: Moderate
Mar.
Averages: Temps: 54°\24°
Moisture: 12 days
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Weekly Observations
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8-14 Campfire USA Birthday Week |
10-20 Native American Awareness Week Link 11-17 Turkey
Vultures Return to the Living Sign |
Daily Observations
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COVID-19 Global Pandemic Day |
National Funeral Director and Mortician
Recognition Day Link Link Link |
Today’s Quotes
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Today’s Memes
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Today’s Thoughts
A nice winter day. Love the sunshine and the blue sky.
I got my delivered meds today. I must be at home as a signature is
required. FedEx said by 1:30pm and they were here at 12:05. Nice!
This morning the Glen Canyon Recreation Area…think Lake Powell…issued a
quicksand warning due to the low levels of the lake. The lake has been dropping
for at least 5 years, but this is the first quicksand advisory. Sad.
I was in college during the military draft for Vietnam. When I was in the
dorm, I remember when the lottery started. The Commons of the dorm area was
filled with male students watching the live drawing on TV. I was lucky and had
298, but I saw several students see that their number was in the single digits.
I will never forget it. Now it appears that Trump is considering starting the
draft again. He recently said ‘that is not off the table’.It is one thing to
honor the volunteer military who have fallen. It is a whole different world if
we are honoring the drafted who have fallen. During a couple of summers, I worked
on my uncle’s ranch in Montana. That’s where I learned about the ‘draft board’…local
citizens served on a board to see who would be drafted. These boards had the
power and often they would or would not draft a young man based on his standing
or his family’s standing in the community. It was a very bad system.
Yesterday I googled the recently killed leader and his son, the new
leader. The information I gained was
massive. These two are highly educated, with the new leader being fluent in
several languages…including English. I suggest every American look at the
Wikipedia site for each of them. They are not the stereotypical terrorists.
Common Saying’s Origin
Close but no cigar
To come "close but no cigar" refers to almost but not quite
winning or succeeding. According to one theory, it dates to the 1800s when
country fairs would hand out cigars as prizes to game winners. The phrase would
be shouted out when a player came close to winning to attract an audience.
Whistle Dixie
To "whistle Dixie" is to have unrealistic expectations. It comes from the U.S. Civil War-era song "Dixie" and the failed hope of a Confederate victory.
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Birthdays
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1931 Australian-born
American media mogul (NY
Post, News of the World, FOX-TV), born in Melbourne, Victoria φ φ φ φ φ φ φ
φ φ φ φ φ Sam Donaldson (91
years old), ABC White House correspondent (Prime Time), born in El Paso,
Texas φ φ φ φ φ φ φ
φ φ φ φ φ Jerry Zucker (76
years old), American director and producer (Airplane!; The Naked Gun; Ghost),
born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin Gale Norton (72
years old), American 48th United States Secretary of the Interior, born in
Wichita, Kansas φ φ φ φ φ φ φ
φ φ φ φ φ Jesse Jackson, Jr.
(61 years old), American politician (US House of Representative from
Illinois, 1995-2012), born in Greenville, South Carolina φ φ φ φ φ φ φ
φ φ φ φ φ Terrence Howard (57
years old) 1969 American actor (Mr. Holland's
Opus; Hustle & Flow; Empire), and singer-songwriter ("Shine
Through It"; "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp"), born in
Chicago, Illinois φ φ φ φ φ φ φ
φ φ φ φ φ Johnny Knoxville
[Philip Clapp], (55 years old) American stunt performer and actor (Jackass
franchise), born in Knoxville, Tennessee φ φ φ φ φ φ φ
φ φ φ φ φ American actress (American
Beauty, Ghost World), born in Los Angeles, California φ φ φ φ φ φ φ
φ φ φ φ φ American
basketball center (2012 NBA Draft:
#1 pick New Orleans Pelicans), born in Chicago, Illinois φ φ φ φ φ φ φ
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Otto Friedrich Müller, Danish Naturalist who was a pioneer in the study
of microorganisms including bacteria, diatoms, and infusoria, born in
Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 1784; @54) φ φ φ φ φ φ φ
φ φ φ φ φ Shemp Howard (Samuel
Horwitz) (1895-1955; @60, stroke) American actor and comedian (3
Stooges), born in Brooklyn, New York φ φ φ φ φ φ φ
φ φ φ φ φ James
Franklin Hyde (1903-1999; @96) American inventor who
created silica, born in Solvay, New York φ φ φ φ φ φ φ
φ φ φ φ φ Lawrence Welk,
American accordionist and orchestra leader (Lawrence Welk Show), born in
Strasburg, North Dakota (d. 1992; @89) φ φ φ φ φ φ φ
φ φ φ φ φ Harold Wilson (1916-1995; @79, dementia) British
Prime Minister (Labour: 1964-70, 1974-76), born in Huddersfield,
England φ φ φ φ φ φ φ
φ φ φ φ φ Robert L. Carter, American civil rights activist and judge (Brown v.
Board of Education, NAACP v. Alabama), born in Caryville, Florida (d. 2012;
@94) φ φ φ φ φ φ φ
φ φ φ φ φ Louise Brough (1923-2014; @90) American tennis
player (Wimbledon 1948-50, 55), born in Oklahoma City φ φ φ φ φ φ φ
φ φ φ φ φ Malcolm Wells, American architect regarded as "the father of
modern earth-sheltered architecture", writer, and solar energy
consultant, born in Camden, New Jersey (d. 2009; @83) φ φ φ φ φ φ φ
φ φ φ φ φ Ralph
Abernathy (1926-1990; @64, blood clot) American civil rights
leader (Southern Christian Leadership Conference), born in Linden,
Alabama φ φ φ φ φ φ φ
φ φ φ φ φ George Stamatoyannopoulos, Greek genetics researcher (founder of
American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy), and educator, born in Athens,
Greece (d. 2018; @84) φ φ φ φ φ φ φ
φ φ φ φ φ George Kooymans, Dutch rock singer-songwriter, and guitarist (Golden
Earring - "Radar Love"), born in The Hague, Netherlands (d. 2025;
@77, ALS) φ φ φ φ φ φ φ
φ φ φ φ φ Douglas Adams (1952-2001; @49, heart attack) English author (Hitchiker's
Guide to the Galaxy), born in Cambridge, England φ φ φ φ φ φ φ
φ φ φ φ φ Antonin Scalia,
105th Supreme Court Justice (1986-2016), born in Trenton, New Jersey (d. 2016;
@79, in his sleep) φ φ φ φ φ φ φ
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