8 Mar

 

Week 11  Day 67 Flag Today  45°/29°                             Wind 20 mph Gusts 33 mph

Active Fire: 410 miles away Risk of fire: High  Nearest Lightning: 739 miles away

Air Quality: Fair Sunshine Windy

Mar. Averages: Temps: 54°\24° Moisture: 12 days

Monthly Observations

Transgender Month of Action for Healthcare Equality Link  Link Trisomy Awareness Month Link Vascular Abnormalities Awareness Month

Women's History Month: Link Workplace Eye Wellness Month Worldwide Homeschooling Awareness Month Youth Art Month

Weekly Observations

2-8 No More Week Link Women of Aviation Worldwide Week 2-6 Women in Construction Week  Link  National School Breakfast Week 6-8 International Festival of Owls

8-14 Campfire USA Birthday Week Girl Scout Week Link  National Procrastination Week Teen Tech Week National Patient Safety Awareness Week

Daily Observations

Check Your Batteries Day Day for Women's Rights & Internat’l Peace Daylight Saving Time Begins  Girl Scout Sunday Link  Girls Write Now Day Hockey USA Day Link National Biobased Products Day  Link

International Women's Day Link International Working Women's Day National "I AM" Day National Breast Implant Awareness Day  National Proofreading Day National Peanut Cluster Day Link National Retro Video Game Day  Link Volunteers of America Day

Today’s Quote                                                                  

Today’s Meme

Today’s Thoughts

It’s going to be another windy day here. It is drying out our forest. We need moisture.

Another first: Melania Trump became the first First Lady to gavel in the UN Security Council Meeting. In the past it was the President or another official in the administration. I believe this was a slam to the UN. WOW

The Iran bombing continues. The killing of civilians continues on both sides of this crazy conflict. I never thought that Iran’s government was good. I have always supported the citizens of Iran who wanted the government gone. Much more intelligence should have been done before anyone started bombing to ensure that there  would be minimal civilian casualties. This will be a sad commentary on America and Israel for decades. 

Common Saying’s Origin

Bats in the belfry

To have "bats in the belfry" means to be eccentric or insane. It is an American phrase from the early 20th century referring to bats that lived inside a belltower.

Raring to

"Raring to," as in very eager, seems to have originated in the early 19th-century South. It's likely to have come from rearing, when a horse rises up on its hind legs in excitement or agitation.

Happy as a clam

The phrase is believed to have originally been "happy as a clam at high tide," popular in the early 1800s in the Northeast. It refers to the fact that clams are dug up in low tide but unreachable and safe from human harvest at high tide. 

Try Rebus

M1y L1i1f1e

Get it Get it Get it Get it

Historic Events

 March in History

 

REBUS ANSWERS

For once in my life

Forget it

Birthdays

Carole Bayer Sager (82 years old) 1944 American singer-songwriter ("On My Own"; "That's What Friends Are For"), and wife of Burt Bacharach (1982-91), born in Manhattan, New York City φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Micky Dolenz(81 years old) 1945 American singer (The Monkees - "I'm A Believer"), and actor (Circus Boy), born in Los Angeles, California φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Little Peggy March [Margaret Battavio] (78 years old), American pop vocalist ("I Will Follow Him"), born in Lansdale, Pennsylvania φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Lester Holt (67 years old), American journalist and news anchor (NBC Nightly News, 2015-present), born in Hamilton Air Force Base, California φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Camryn Manheim (65 years old), American actress (The Practice), born in Caldwell, New Jersey φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Petra Kvitová(36 years old) 1990 Czech tennis player (Wimbledon 2011, 14), born in Bilovec, Czech Republic φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ

Anne Bonny (1697-1782) Irish Caribbean pirate and lover of Calico Jack [date of birth is approximate], born in Kinsale, Ireland φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Karl Ferdinand von Graefe (1787-1840) German surgeon who helped create modern plastic surgery, born in Warsaw, Poland φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr (1841-1935; @93) US 59th Supreme Court justice (1902-32), born in Boston, Massachusetts φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932; @73) British author (The Wind in the Willows), born in Edinburgh φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Alan Hale Jr. (1921-1990; @68, thymus cancer) American actor (Skipper-Gilligan's Island), born in Los Angeles, California φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Cyd Charisse [Tula Finklea], Amesrican dancer and actress (Singin' in the Rain), born in Amarillo, Texas (d. 2008; @86) φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Johnny Ventura (1940-2021; @81) merengue and salsa bandleader (“Patacon Pisao”), and politician (Mayor of Santiago, 1998-2002), born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Lynn Redgrave (1943-2010; @67, cancer) British-American actress (Gods and Monsters, Georgy Girl), born in London, England φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ James Van Der Beek (1977-2026; @48, colorectal cancer) American actor (Dawson in "Dawson's Creek"; Varsity Blues), born in Cheshire, Connecticut φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ

 

…The End for today…