22 Feb

  

Week 8  Day 53   Flag Today  53°/27° Sky cover:  40% Wind 8mph Gusts 12mph Active Fire:  325 miles away Risk of fire: Very Low  Nearest Lightning: 2147  miles away Air Quality: Moderate Partly Cloudy Feb. Daily Averages: Temps: 47°\19° Moisture:  5 Days

 

Weekly Observations

16-25 Date (Fruit) Week 17-24  National FFA Week Link  18-24  Bird Health Awareness Week Link   Build A Better Trade Show Image Week National Engineers Week National Justice for Animals Week Link  Link

18-25   National Sauna Week Link    19-23  Through With The Chew Link 19-25  Hockey Week Across America Link 21-25 American Birkebeiner Cross-Country Ski Race

Daily Observations

Cook a Sweet Potato Day Bus Driver Appreciation Day Digital Learning Day Discover Girl Day   For The Love of Mike Day;  Link George Washington's Birthday Hockey History Day  Link The Great American Spit Out  Link Introduce Girls to Engineering Day   National Margarita Day  Link

Nat’l School Bus Driver Appreciation Day  Link Link  Nat’l Supermarket Employee Day   Link National Wildlife Day  Link   Recreational Sports & Fitness Day Tex Avery Day  Link Walk The Dog Day  Woolworth's Day World Thinking Day  Link

Today’s Quote                                                Today’s Meme

Today’s Thoughts

A storm is moving in, expecting rain and/or light snow the rest of today.

The current House bill for aid to Ukraine is actually a bill that makes jobs for Americans to re-build our stockpile of weapons that will provide many jobs for Americans. Too bad the right doesn’t see this.

The Alabama Supreme Court has ruled that frozen embryos are children and that destroying such embryos is murder. The ramifications are huge if it remains. In this case a patient at the clinic got into the room with embryos, picked up some test tubes and dropped them. The parents filed suit against the lab and the patient. Now frozen embryos cannot be destroyed by the parents if they choose. If the power goes out and the frozen embryos are destroyed, the lab and employees can be charged with murder. This seems very extreme.

If God wanted us to vote…Thanks to a reader for providing this list

If God wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates. ~Jay Leno~

The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

~Henry Cate, VII~

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

~Aesop~

America’s Top Attractions

1910s: National Parks established

The National Park Service system was established in 1916, more than 40 years after the designation of America's first national park, Yellowstone, whose explosive Old Faithful Geyser is depicted in this retro travel poster. The Californian park was a hugely popular travel attraction, drawing more than 35,000 people to explore it in 1916.

Historical Facts about Native Americans…

They Cooked Food Using Earthen Ovens

Native Americans had to come up with clever ways of cooking their traditional dishes. One of their most prominent inventions was the earthen, or hornos ovens.

These were made from sun-dried mud bricks covered in a layer of mud. These ovens had the capacity to steam, bake, and roast any kind of food.

Historic Events

1651 – St. Peter’s Flood (I): A storm surge flooded the Frisian (Germany/Netherlands) coast, drowning 15,000 people.

1856 – The US Republican Party opened its first national convention in Pittsburgh.

1878 – In Utica, NY, Frank Woolworth opened the first five-and-dime Woolworth store.

1956 – Montgomery, Alabama arrested several civil rights protestors and bus boycotters, including Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks and E.D. Nixon.

1980 – Winter Olympics: Miracle on Ice: In Lake Placid, New York, the United States hockey team defeats the Soviet Union hockey team 4-3.

2012 – PlayStation Vita released, Video Game Console.

Birthdays with some quotes

@97 – Sir John Mills, English actor (d. 2005)
@96 – Don Pardo, American radio and television announcer (d. 2014)
@91 – Robert Young, American actor (d. 1998)
“You have a Happiness Switch in you that you can switch on at any time. All you have to do is stop switching it off in order to blackmail yourself or others.”
@89 – Sheldon Leonard, American actor, director and producer (d. 1997)
@83 – Robert Baden-Powell, British founder of the boy Scouts (and Girl Guides) (d. 1941)
@86 – Marni Nixon, American soprano and actress (d. 2016)
“Having the presence of mind to react to any situation on stage is what makes the best performers keep their spontaneity intact.”
@77 – Edward Kennedy, American politician (d. 2009; tumor)
@76 – Sparky Anderson, American baseball manager (d. 2010; dementia)
“People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I’ve got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There’s no future in it.”
74 – Julius Erving, American basketball player and sportscaster
@67 – George Washington, American patriot, general, politician, 1st President (d. 1799)
“I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.”
65 – Kyle MacLachlan, American actor
60 – Ed Boon, American video game designer, co-created Mortal Kombat
@58 – Edna St. Vincent Millay (aka Nancy Boyd), American poet playwright (d. 1950; fall)
“I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.”
@54 – Oliver (William Oliver Swofford), American pop singer (d. 2000; lymphoma)
49 – Drew Barrymore, American actress, director, producer and screenwriter
“Life is very interesting… in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.”
@44 – Steve Irwin, Australian zoologist and television host (d. 2006)
@22 – Robert Wadlow, American, tallest man ever recorded at 8 feet, 11.1 inches tall (d.1940; autoimmune disease)

…The End for today…