30 Aug

 

Week 35 Day 243 Flag Today  79°/55° Wind 3 mph Gusts 10 mph Light Breeze    Active Fire:  333 miles away Risk of fire: High  Nearest Lightning: 12 miles away Air Quality: Fair Sunshine Partly Cloudy Aug Averages: Temps: 79°\50° Moisture:  9 Days

Weekly Observations

8/14-9/2  Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over Link  25-31 World Water Week 25-29  Link Be Kind To Humankind Week Brake Safety Week 25-31 Link World Princess Week 26-30   National Composites Week Link National Safe at Home Week

29-9/1 Chuckwagon Races 29-9/2 Sweetcorn Days 30-31   Cow Chip Throwing Days 30-9/2  Hog Days

Daily Observations

Beach Day Frankenstein Day Grief Awareness Day International Day of The Victims of Enforced Disappearances  Link International Whale Shark Day

National Beach Day  Link National College Colors Day  Link National Grief Awareness Day   Link National Holistic Pet Day National Toasted Marshmallow Day   Link

Today’s Quote                                                       

 

Good artists copy, great artists steal. Pablo Picasso

 

Today’s Meme

 

Thoughts for the day

Expecting more rain anytime.

I had lunch with our whole retirement group. Good conversation, good food. It was a very nice lunch.

I wish there were more Paralympics on my TV. Most of it is in the early morning hours while I’m sleeping. Guess I’ll have to DVR some of the events.

 Riddles

If you drop me, I will crack. Smile at me, and I smile back. What am I?

Random Thoughts…

 Men are six times more likely to be struck by lightning than women.

If you see someone who needs help, stop asking yourself if they need help. Instead, just help.

Prior to 1964, the Mr. Potato Head kits didn’t come with a body as it was expected you would supply your own potato.

A group of Cats (feral) is called a Destruction.

Much like a watched pot never boils, a watched phone never charges.

Historic Events

• 70 – Titus ended the siege of Jerusalem after destroying The Second Temple.
• 1967 – Thurgood Marshall was confirmed as the first African American Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
• 1984 – The Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-41-D) takes off on its maiden voyage.

Riddles Answer

While all of these things would crack if you dropped them, only a mirror will show your reflection and "smile back" at you if you smile at it.

Birthdays

Cameron Diaz, 52 Movie Actress Sean Ryan Fox, 23 TV Actor Warren Buffett, 94 Investor Sophia Valverde, 19 TV Actress Lewis Black, 76 Comedian Michael Michele, 58 Movie Actress

@53 – Mary Shelley, English novelist, and playwright, Frankenstein (died in 1851; brain tumor) @43 – Huey Long, American lawyer, and politician, 40th Governor of Louisiana (died in 1935; assassinated) @94 – Shirley Booth, American actress (died in 1992) @73 – Joan Blondell, American actress (died in 1979; leukemia) @83 – Fred MacMurray, American actor (died in 1991) @83 – Ted Williams, American baseball player (died in 2002) @92 – Kitty Wells, American singer-songwriter (died in 2012) @83 – Daryl Gates, American police officer, created the D.A.R.E. Program (died in 2010) @80 – Geoffrey Beene (Samuel Albert Bozeman Jr.), American fashion designer (died in 2004) @91 – Bill Daily, American comedic actor (died in 2018) @65 – John Phillips, American singer-songwriter (Mamas and Papas) (died in 2001; heart failure) @72 – Peggy Lipton, American model, and actress (Mod Squad) (died in 2019; colon cancer)

 

…The End for today…