February 06, 2026

7 Feb

 

 


 

Week 6  Day 38 Flag Today  53°/30°

Wind 5 mph Gusts 6 mph

Active Fire:  386 miles away Risk of fire: Moderate Nearest Lightning: 1704 miles away

Air Quality: Fair Sunshine

Feb. Averages: Temps: 46°\22° Moisture: 4.7Days

 

Monthly Observations

Responsible Pet Owner's Month  Link`
Return Shopping Carts to Supermarket Month
Spay/Neuter Awareness Month
Spunky Old Broads Month 
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Sweet Potato Month 
Wise Health Care Consumer Month
Worldwide Renaissance of the Heart Month
Youth Leadership Month

Weekly Observations

1-7

African Heritage & Health Week
Burn Awareness Week
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Children's Authors & Illustrators Week
Freelance Writer Appreciation Week
Women's Heart Week
World Interfaith Harmony Week
2-8

PeriAnesthesia Nurse Awareness Week Link
Pride in Foodservice Week
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Publicity for Profit Week
Tinnitus Awareness Week
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7-12

Solo Diners Eat Out Weekend

7-14
Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week
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Dump Your Significant Jerk Week
Have A Heart for A Chained Dog Week
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National Marriage Week  
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Risk Awareness Week
7-16
Take A Friend Snowmobiling Week 
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Daily Observations

Ballet Day
Barber Day 
Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
 "e" Day (math)
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Laura Ingalls Wilder Day
National Ice Cream For Breakfast Day  
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National Play Outside Day 
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National Periodic Table Day  Link
National Toboggan Days: 6-8

Take Your Child To The Library Day
Wave All Your Fingers At Your Neighbor's Day 
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Who Shall I Be Day
World Body Painting Day  
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Today’s Meme

 




Today’s Thoughts

A nice winter day with a few puffy clouds.

I am a tad confused…All the photos being released were take with film cameras and to be developed to see them. [Remember this all took place before phone cameras that allow instant publication on the internet.] Why would anyone allow some of the controversial photos to even be taken? It seems to me that these rich guys had no concept of basic human decency and didn’t care if such photos showed a crime. It looks to me like many people need to be in jail. A crime is a crime and these men/women who perpetrated the crime deserve to be punished by our legal system. The more I see and read; it is getting obvious that Epstein Island was where the pedophilia took place. Sad. 

Trivia

Close but no cigar

To come "close but no cigar" refers to almost but not quite winning or succeeding. According to one theory, it dates to the 1800s when country fairs would hand out cigars as prizes to game winners. The phrase would be shouted out when a player came close to winning to attract an audience.

Whistle Dixie

To "whistle Dixie" is to have unrealistic expectations. It comes from the U.S. Civil War-era song "Dixie" and the failed hope of a Confederate victory.

Historic Events

 Feb in History

Birthdays with some quotes

Thomas More (1478-1535; @57, beheaded)

English philosopher, Renaissance humanist, author (Utopia), statesman (Lord Chancellor 1529-32), and Catholic saint, born in London

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John Deere (1804-1886; @82)

American blacksmith and manufacturer (founded Deere & Company), born in Rutland, Vermont

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Charles Dickens (1812-1870; @58, strokes)

English writer ("Oliver Twist"; "A Tale of Two Cities"; "A Christmas Carol"), born in Portsmouth, Hampshire

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James Murray, Scottish lexicographer and philologist (Oxford English Dictionary), born in Denholm, Scotland (d. 1915; @78, pleurisy)

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Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867-1957; @90)

American author (Little House on the Prairie), born in Pepin, Wisconsin

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Alfred Adler (1870-1937; @67, heart attack)

Austrian psychiatrist (Inferiority Complex), born in Penzing, Austria

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[Harry] Sinclair Lewis, American writer and social critic (Nobel Prize in Literature 1930), born in Sauk Centre, Minnesota (d. 1951; @65, alcoholism)

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(James Hubert) "Eubie" Blake, American ragtime composer and pianist ("Memories of You"; "I'm Just Wild About Harry"), born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 1983; @96) 

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Clarence "Buster" Crabbe, American swimmer (Olympic gold 1932) and actor (Tarzan the Fearless, Flash Gordon), born in Oakland, California (d. 1983; @75, heart attack)

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Desmond Doss (1919-2006; @87)

American soldier and 1st conscientious objector to receive the Medal of Honor who was the subject of the film Hacksaw Ridge, born in Lynchburg, Virginia

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Jock Mahoney [Jacques Joseph O'Mahoney], American actor and stuntman (Dallas, Yancy Derringer, Day of Fury), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1989; @70, stroke)

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Herb Kohl, American businessman (Kohls department stores; Milwaukee Bucks, 1985-2014), politician (US Senator (D) from Wisconsin, 1989-2013), and philanthropist, born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (d. 2023; @88)

 

Marilyn Cochran (76 years old), American skier (Olympics 1972), born in Burlington, Vermont

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John Hickenlooper (74 years old), American politician (Senator-D-Colorado 2021-, Governor of Colorado 2011-19), born in Narberth, Pennsylvania

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James Spader (66 years old), American actor (Endless Love, Wall St, Mannequin), born in New York City

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Chris Rock (61 years old)

American Grammy and Emmy Award-winning comedian (SNL, 0990-93; CB4; Everybody Hates Chris), and film maker, born in Andrews, South Carolina

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Steve Nash (52 years old)

Canadian Basketball Hall of Fame guard (NBA MVP 2005, 06; 8 × NBA All-Star; Dallas Mavericks, Phoenix Suns, LA Lakers) and coach (Brooklyn Nets), born in Johannesburg, South Africa

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Ashton Kutcher (48 years old)

American model, actor (That '70s Show - "Kelso"; Punk'd; Two and a Half Men, 2011-15), and venture capitalist, born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa

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Tawakkol Karman (47 years old), Yemeni journalist, Nobel Peace Prize winner (2011), and human rights activist, born in Taiz Governorate, North Yemen (now Yemen Arab Republic)

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…The End for today…

               

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