26 Feb

 

 

Week 9  Day 56 Flag Today  63°/28° Sky cover:  40% Wind 5mph Gusts 7mph Active Fire:  Amiles away Risk of fire: Moderate  Nearest Lightning:   940 miles away Air Quality: Fair Partly Cloudy Feb. Daily Averages: Temps: 47°\19° Moisture:  5 Days

 

Weekly Observations

14-3/28 Lent 25-3/2  Telecommuter Appreciation Week

26-3/3  National Invasive Species Awareness Week Link

Daily Observations

Carpe Diem Day For Pete's Sake Day  Link Letter To An Elder Day Levi Strauss Day Museum Advocacy Day -27  Link  National Cupcake Day (Canada)   National Cupcake Day (Canada)  Link  National Customized Wheel and Tire Day National Customized Wheel and Tire Day

National Personal Chef's Day  Link  National Pistachio Day National Pistachio Day National Set A Good Example Day  Link Personal Chef’s Day  Play More Cards Day  Link  Tell a Fairytale Day Thermos Bottle Day Tell a Fairytale Day Thermos Bottle Day World Pistachio Day   Link

Today’s Quote                                                Today’s Meme

Today’s Thoughts

Another nice winter day.

Our discussion group was very good last night. The presenter took us on a fact mission of the area from 2100BC up to today. Today’s situation has been going on since early times. The theme: Religious groups in conflict for power and conquest of land. Another similarity is that many times, an outside force determined who got what land after the conflict was over. When neither the winners nor the losers determine the path forward, it just doesn’t work.

My traveling friend, Ed, had sent me a set of notes from his trip to the Middle East a little over a decade ago. I shared the paper with the group. Everyone certainly enjoyed it and a couple asked if any of his travel experiences had been published. Maybe someday.

When I was shopping, I found Cadbury Easter Eggs are back for lent. They have been one of my favorites since I got some for Easter as a child.  They are still delicious. It is just not Lent without them.

If God wanted us to vote…

I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. ~Charles de Gaulle~

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. 

~Doug Larson~

There ought to be one day -- just one -- when there is open season on Congressmen.

~Will Rogers~

America’s Top Attractions

1920s: Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, California

This world-renowned amphitheater opened in the Hollywood Hills neighborhood in 1922. The first stage was a simple wooden platform with a canvas top and the audience were seated on wooden benches. An arched stage was built in 1926 with its distinctive shell shape first added in 1929. The 55-ton shell became an architectural icon. The 1930s saw jazz performances here for the first time and it went on to host the likes of Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holliday and The Beatles.

Historical Facts about Native Americans…

Many Places Across The U.S. Are Named After Native Americans

Several cities and states across America have names rooted in Native American languages. The state of Alabama is derived from the Choctaw words Alba and Amo, which mean vegetation and gatherer.

Arkansas was named after the Quapaw Native Americans who lived downstream from the Algonquian people. The Algonquian used the word "Arkansas" for "south wind."

Historic Events

1616 – Galileo Galilei was formally banned by the Roman Catholic Church from teaching or defending the view that the earth orbits the sun.

1829 – Levi Strauss was born. He never married, so, ironically, he didn’t get to pass his genes on to the next generation.

1848 – The Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, was published.

1993 – The World Trade Center was the target of a bombing, injuring over 1,000 people and killing six more.

Birthdays with some quotes

@89 – Fats Domino, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 2017)
@86 – Betty Hutton, American actress (d. 2007)
@84 – Tony Randall, American actor (d. 2004)
@83 – Victor Hugo, French author, poet, and playwright (d. 1885)
@79 – William Frawley, American actor and vaudevillian (d. 1966; heart attack)
@78 – Robert Novak, American journalist and author (d. 2009; brain cancer)
“Always love your country – but never trust your government!”
@73 – Levi Strauss, founded Levi Strauss & Co. (d. 1902)
@70 – Buffalo Bill (William Frederick Cody), soldier, showman and hunter (d. 1917)
“Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.”
@71 – Johnny Cash, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (d. 2003)
I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down,
Livin’ in the hopeless, hungry side of town,
I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime,
But is there because he’s a victim of the times.
@72 – Robert Alda, American actor (d. 1986; stroke)
@71 – Jackie Gleason, American actor (d. 1987; liver cancer)
“If you have it and you know you have it, then you have it. If you have it and don’t know you have it, you don’t have it. If you don’t have it but you think you have it, then you have it.”
71 – Michael Bolton, American singer-songwriter
@67 – Theodore Sturgeon, American author (d. 1985; after asbestos exposure)
“Sure, ninety percent of science fiction is crud. That’s because ninety percent of everything is crud.”
53 – Erykah Badu, American singer-songwriter,
“The true division of humanity is between those who live in light and those who live in darkness. Our aim must be to diminish the number of the latter and increase the number of the former. That is why we demand education and knowledge.”
45 – Corinne Bailey Rae, English singer-songwriter
@29 – Christopher Marlowe, English playwright (d. 1593; stabbed in barroom brawl)
“I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn’t conform.”

…The End for today…