26 Sep

  

Week 39 Day 270 Flag Today  79°/41° Air Quality: Fair Sunshine Wind 3 mph Gusts 16 mph Fresh Breeze Active Fire: 61 miles away Risk of fire: Extreme Nearest Lightning: 618 miles away Sept. Averages: Temps: 72°\44° Moisture:  5 Days

Weekly Observations

20-26  International Week of the Deaf Link National Ballroom Dance Week 20-28 Link International Women's Commerce Days 21-27 Clean Up The World Weekend Farm Animal Awareness Week 22-28  Banned Books Week Link   International Interpreters and Translators Week Deaf Dog Awareness Week Link   National Dog Week  Link  Link National Employ Older Workers Week Link   National Keep Kids Creative Week

22-28… Remember to Register to Vote Week   Sea Otter Awareness Week   Tolkien Week World Hearing Aid Awareness Week   World Reflexology Week 23-27  Ally Week Link 25-28   Minimally Invasive Surgery Week Link

Daily Observations

Astronomy Day Compliance Officer Day   Link Forget-Me-Not Day  Link  International Day For The Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons Johnny Appleseed Day  Link Love Note Day Mesothelioma Day  Link National Dumpling Day  Link

Pancake Day  Remember Me Thursday   Shamu the Whale Day Situational Awareness Day   Link World Body Painting Days  - 30  Link World Contraception Day  Link World Maritime Day   Xterra World Championship Day -29 Link

Today’s Quote                                                       

 

 

 

Today’s Meme

 

Thoughts for the day

The cold nights have had all the beautiful wildflowers along the side roads dry up. Fall is here.

Andy & Faith are in town for a couple of appointments, so we are having lunch on Friday.

There is lots of rain at my brother’s place just outside Merida. It must be the edge of Helene.

 Riddles

What runs, but never walks. Murmurs, but never talks. Has a bed, but never sleeps. And has a mouth, but never eats?

Random Thoughts…

Luke Skywalker went from wanting to join the imperial academy to blowing up the Death Star in like two days…

If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.

Nintendo started out as a trading card company.

A group of Kids is called a Migraine.

The “g” in “bingo” is pronounced twice.

When filming Return of the Jedi they used the name Blue Harvest to avoid press and fans trying to sneak onto the set.

Slang Words…

Catfish

- Pop culture reference point: "Catfish" (2010)

A catfish is a person who poses as someone they're not for fraudulent purposes. Long before the term became popular on the Netflix social media-based reality show "The Circle," it rose to popularity because of the 2010 documentary "Catfish," in which co-directors Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman attempt to help the latter's brother track down a catfish who he had a romance with on Facebook. The film later spawned a TV show following similar stories

Historic Events

·   1580 – Francis Drake completed his circumnavigation of the Earth.

·   1789 – George Washington appointed Thomas Jefferson the first United States Secretary of State.

·   1957 – West Side Story debuted on Broadway

·   1960 – The first televised Presidential Debate took place between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon.

·   1969 – Abbey Road, the last album by The Beatles, was released.

Riddles Answer

Answer: A river.

Birthdays

Serena Williams, 43 Tennis Player Nev Schulman, 40 TV Producer Linda Hamilton, 68 Movie Actress

@96 – Jack LaLanne, American fitness expert (d. 2011) @85 – George Raft, American actor (d. 1980) @76 – T.S. Eliot, English poet, playwright and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965; emphysema) @74 – Julie London, American singer, and actress (d. 2000; lung cancer) @70 – Johnny Appleseed (Johnathan Chapman), American gardener, and environmentalist (d. 1845) @57 – Marty Robbins, American singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1982; heart disease) @38 – George Gershwin (Jacob Gershwine), American pianist, and composer (d. 1937; brain tumor)   @28 – Shannon Hoon, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1995; OD)

 

…The End for today…