23 Feb

 

 

Week 8  Day 54   Flag Today  53°/23° Sky cover:  A% Wind 2mph Gusts 7mph Active Fire:  588miles away Risk of fire: Very Low  Nearest Lightning: 1489  miles away Air Quality: Fair Sunshine 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   18-24  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

Curling is Cool Day  Link Diesel Engine Day Digital Learning Day Dog Biscuit Appreciation Day Hockey Jersey Day   Link Iwo Jima Day (Flag Raised) National Banana Bread Day

National Dog Biscuit Day  Link National Tile Day   Link Rationalization Day Single Tasking Day Skip The Straw Day   Link  Tootsie Roll Day   Link World Understanding & Peace Day

Today’s Quote                                                Today’s Meme

Today’s Thoughts

Clouds are not bringing any moisture.

I had lunch with Mary & Mike today. Fat Olives’ Pizza was great. Good conversation to catch up. Things are going well in Phoenix for them. They enjoy time with her son and the grandkids.

I’ll be watching the moon landing this evening. The first one in over 50 years.

Lottery winner from DC is suing the lottery after his winning numbers were posted on their official website for 3 days…showing he won $340 million. When he tried to turn in his ticket, the actual numbers did not match the website. I hope he gets a big win in court.

If God wanted us to vote…

If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these State of the Union speeches, there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven. ~Will Rogers~

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge 

even where there is no river. ~Nikita Khrushchev~

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President;

 I'm beginning to believe it. ~Clarence Darrow~

America’s Top Attractions

1910s: the Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona

Many new national parks were established between 1916 and 1933, including the Grand Canyon National Park in 1919. The natural wonder in Arizona had already become a must-see destination and was declared a national monument by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1908. In its first year as an official national park, some 44,000 visitors came to marvel at the mile-deep canyon. This grew to one million in 1956 and hit around five million in 2019, the park’s centennial.

Historical Facts about Native Americans…

Pocahontas Had A Life-Changing Wedding

It's often easy to forget that Pocahontas was actually kidnapped during the Anglo-Powhatan war. She was converted to Christianity and imprisoned.

During this time she was introduced to John Rolfe and agreed to marry him to ease the tensions between the British and the Powhatan tribe. This ended up being the first recorded interracial marriage in history.

Historic Events

1893 – Rudolph Diesel received the German patent for his engine.

1945 – American Marines lifted the flag at Iwo Jima.

1991 – A ground war began in Iraq (Operation Desert Storm)

1997 – Scientists announced the first successful cloning of an animal, a lamb named Dolly.

Birthdays with some quotes

@95 – W.E.B. Du Bois, American sociologist, historian, and activist (d. 1963)
“The function of the university is not simply to teach bread-winning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools or to be a center of polite society; it is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment which forms the secret of civilization.”
@86 – Karl Theodor Jaspers, German philosopher (d. 1969)
“Man is always something more than what he knows of himself. He is not what he is simply once and for all, but is a process.”
86 – Paul Morrissey, American director and producer
@79 – Peter Fonda, American actor (d. 2019; lung cancer)
“I’m always changing the words. A screenwriter writes for somebody to read, but we are paid to take it off the page, to make it spoken. People stammer, they stutter, they take pauses, they drop stuff. It must drive writers crazy. But I’m making the character real.”
73 – Ed “Too Tall” Jones, American football player
@59 – Victor Fleming, director, cinematographer, producer (d. 1949; heart attack)
54 – Niecy Nash, American actress and producer
“I feel like love is the thing we were created for, yet it’s the place we struggle the most.”53 – Melinda Messenger, English model and television host
45 – S.E. Cupp, American journalist and author
43 – Josh Gad, American actor
40 – Emily Blunt, English actress
“People quit on jobs. They quit on marriages. They quit on school. There’s an immediacy of this day and age that doesn’t lend itself to being committed to anything.”
30 – Dakota Fanning, American actress

…The End for today…