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Week 38 Day 266 Flag Today 66°/39° Air Quality: Fair Moderate Sunshine Partly Mostly Cloudy Overcast Snowy Smoky
Red Flag Warning Wind 6 mph Gusts 12 mph Gentle Breeze Active Fire: 60 miles away Risk of fire todayModerate Nearest Lightning: 10 miles away Sept. Averages: Temps: 72°\44° Moisture: 5 Days |
Weekly Observations
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16-22 Fall
Astronomy Week Constitution
Week National
Guitar Flat-Picking Days Link Hummingbird
Celebration Link International
Week of the Deaf Link Clean
Up The World Weekend Farm Animal Awareness Week |
22-28 Banned
Books Week Link |
Daily Observations
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American Business Women's
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National Centenarian's Day National Girls' Night In Link |
Today’s Quote
Today’s Meme
Thoughts for the day
Our first fall storm started last
night with lots of thunder, rain, and lightning. It is still cloudy with
occasional rain. It will be sunny and warm again starting Sunday afternoon.
Yesterday was a bad tech day. My
dentist sent me a text and an email that I needed to schedule an appointment. I
already had one, so I called and the secretary apologized. It was sending such
messages to every patient. They don’t know why, but were working on it. Then while
writing my daily blog, the computer got a blue screen saying I had to restart. I
did, continued my work and it happened again. I gave up and decided not to deal
with the crazy computer.
I heard this on NPR: The number of buildings
destroyed or damaged in Ukraine since the war began is 4 times the number of
buildings in Manhattan, NY. That is very sobering for sure. FYI there are about
80,000 buildings in Manhattan, more than any borough.
Riddles
What is red and smells like blue
paint?
Random Thoughts…
Actor Dolph Lundgren has a Masters in
Chemical Engineering from the University of Sydney.
The man standing behind George Washington and holding the American flag in the famous painting “Washington Crossing the Delaware” is an 18-year-old officer and future president James Monroe.
The average life span of a modern major league baseball is 7 pitches.
A group of Toads is called a Knot or Knab or Nest.
The whole point of the Internet was to
make people be less dumb and look at what we’ve done with it.
Slang Words…
Just hay fever
- Pop culture reference point:
"The Story of Tracy Beaker" (2002)
In a memorable scene from the British
show "The Story of Tracy Beaker," the title character rebuffs a boy's
attempt to ask her why she's crying by insisting, "It's just hay
fever." An audio clip of the scene went viral on TikTok in April 2022,
with users lip-syncing to the moment and using a crying filter to describe sad
moments from their own lives that they tend to downplay.
Historic Events
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The
Emancipation Proclamation |
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By
the President of the United States of America: A
Proclamation. Whereas
on the 22d day of September, A.D. 1862, a proclamation was issued by the
president of the United States, containing, among other things, the
following, to wit: That
on the 1st day of January,
A.D. 1863, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of
a State the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United
States shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the executive
government of the United States, including the military and naval authority
thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons and will do
not act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they
may make for their actual freedom. That
the executive will on the 1st day of January aforesaid, by proclamation,
designate the States and parts of States, if any, in which the people
thereof, respectively, shall then be in rebellion against the United States;
and the fact that any State or the people thereof shall on that day be in
good faith represented in the Congress of the United States by members chosen
thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such
States shall have participated shall, in the absence of strong countervailing
testimony, be deemed conclusive evidence that such State and the people
thereof are not then in rebellion against the United States. Now,
therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, president of the United States, by virtue of
the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the
United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and
government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for
suppressing said rebellion, do, on this 1st day of January, A.D. 1863, and in
accordance with my purpose so to do, publicly proclaimed for the full period
of one hundred days from the first day above mentioned, order and designate
as the States and parts of States wherein the people thereof, respectively,
are this day in rebellion against the United States the following, to wit: Arkansas,
Texas, Louisiana (except the parishes of St. Bernard, Plaquemines, Jefferson,
St. John, St. Charles, St. James, Ascension, Assumption, Terrebonne,
Lafourche, St. Mary, St. Martin, and Orleans, including the city of New
Orleans), Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North
Carolina, and Virginia (except the forty-eight counties designated as West
Virginia, and also the counties of Berkeley, Accomac, Northhampton, Elizabeth
City, York, Princess Anne, and Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk and
Portsmouth), and which excepted parts are for the present left precisely as
if this proclamation were not issued. And
by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare
that all persons held as slaves within said designated States and parts of
States are, and henceforward shall be, free; and that the Executive
Government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities
thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons. And
I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all
violence, unless in necessary self-defense; and I recommend to them that, in
all cases when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages. And
I further declare and make known that such persons of suitable condition will
be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts,
positions, stations, and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in
said service. And
upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the
Constitution upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of
mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God. |
Riddles
Answer
Answer: Red paint.
Birthdays
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Michael
Rainey Jr., 24 TV Actor Andrea
Bocelli, 66 Opera Singer |
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…The End for today…
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