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Week 24 Day 163 Flag Today 88°/45° Wind 6 mph Gusts 12 mph Active Fire: 478 miles away Risk of fire: Extreme Nearest Lightning: 359 miles away Air Quality: Fair Sunshine Partly Cloudy Jun Averages: Temps: 80°\43° Moisture: 1 Day
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Weekly Observations
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1-30 National
Lemonade Days Link National
Police and Fire Championships Link World Sea
Turtle Week Link National
Flag Week
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10-14 Community
Health Improvement Week (CHI) Link National
Stewardship Week Link 10-16 Meet A
Mate Week National
Automotive Service Professionals Week |
Daily Observations
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Call
Your Doctor Day Link |
National Get Outdoors Day LinkNational Making Life
Beautiful Day |
Today’s Quote Today’s Meme
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"Summers had a logic all
their own and they always brought something out in me. Summer was supposed to
be about freedom and youth and no school and possibilities and adventure and
exploration. Summer was a book of hope. That's why I loved and hated summers.
Because they made me want to believe." — Benjamin Alire Sáenz
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Today’s Thoughts
Another very warm
day.
Researchers believe
they have identified ‘rumbles’ of elephants that suggest they use their rumbles
to call and/or identify individual elephants. It has been known for decades
that dolphins have a similar propensity. Fascinating.
Not a lot happening
for me this week.
Indigenous People to Know
Kent
Monkman
A
creative visionary whose work has been commissioned by the Metropolitan Museum
of Art, Kent Monkman is a Swampy Cree artist born in Canada. His work centers
on the effects of Christianity on Indigenous communities. With solo exhibits
across Canada and group exhibits throughout North America, Monkman's impactful
art challenges conventional depictions of his people by white artists like Paul
Kane.
Origin of common phrases
Grab the bull by its horns
To "grab the bull by its
horns" means to confront something head-on,
without delay. One theory has it originating in the American West, where an
effective way for ranchers to catch and subdue a bull was to grab its horns and
wrest it to the ground.
Historic Events
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1895 –
Paris-Bordeaux-Paris, the “first motor race”, took place.
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1934 – Mandrake the
Magician, Comic Strip debuted
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1935 – The London
International Surrealist Exhibition opened.
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2001 – Game Boy
Advance released, Video Game Console
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2018 – 3 World Trade
Center officially opened.
Birthdays with some quotes
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68 –
Joe Montana,
American football player “Don’t
complain about not getting a chance and then be unprepared when you finally
do.” 65 –
Hugh Laurie,
English actor “It’s
a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you’re ready. I have this
feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is
almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it
now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.” 55 –
Peter Dinklage,
American actor “I
waited a long time out in the world before I gave myself permission to fail.
Please don’t even bother asking. Don’t bother telling the world you are
ready. Show it. Do it.” 38 –
Shia LaBeouf,
American actor “You
can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you’ll never be.
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@92
– Jeannette Rankin,
American social worker, politician (d. 1973) “Men
and women are like right and left hands: it doesn’t make sense not to use
both.” @90
– Richard Todd,
Irish-English actor (d. 2009) @87
– Jacques Cousteau,
French biologist, author, and inventor, co-developed the aqua-lung (d. 1997) “For
most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he
is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it.” @83
– Gene Wilder,
American comedic actor (d. 2016) @57
– Vince Lombardi,
American football player, coach, manager (d. 1970; cancer) “Watch
your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your
character.”
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…The End for today…
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