April 27, 2026

28 Apr

 





                

Week 18  Day 118 Flag Today  56°/34°                             Wind 17 mph Gusts 30 mph

Active Fire: 169 miles away Risk of fire: High    Nearest Lightning: 278 miles away

Air Quality: Fair Sunshine Partly Cloudy Breezy

April Averages: Temps: 60°\35°

 

Weekly Observations

21-5/2

Sky Awareness Week Festival of Ridvan
24-30

National Scoop The Poop Week
World Immunization Week
26-5/2

National Apprenticeship Week Link 
National Small Business Week
26-5/3

Stewardship Week
Preservation Week
Link (re: Libraries)
National Volunteer Week
World Hurricane Preparedness Week
27-5/1

Patient Experience Week  Link
International Mariachi Week
Link

Daily Observations

Biological Clock Day
National Brave Hearts Day  
Link
National Superhero Day  
Link
Poetry & The Creative Mind Day  
Link
Save The Frogs Day  
Link
School Bus Driver Appreciation Day 
Link  Link 
Workers Memorial Day
World Day for Safety and Health at Work
 Link

Today’s Quotes                                                                 



 

Today’s Memes

 



Today’s Thoughts

I’m calling it a breezy day because I can’t write windy one more day.

Oops…it turns out that even through the shutdown, the secret service agents are being paid. That is a good thing, and I apologize as I repeated incorrect news they were not being paid.

I agree with Trump when he said on 60 Minutes last night that one crazy person should not stop the event and that it should be held within 30 days. It will be difficult, but it needs to happen. It is also a good thing that King Charles and his Queen are visiting the US just days after the craziness at the Correspondence Dinner.

My body is producing some deep lung mucus. It’s a pain but so far, the OTC meds are helping. The drainage is also making me much less hungry, but I am doing lots of liquids and some chicken noodle soup. Today is better than yesterday. 

 Interesting Trivia 

Fate or Random Chance?

Some things just aren’t meant to be, and sometimes that's actually for the best. A New York woman decided to end it all by jumping off the Empire State Building’s 86th floor, only to be blown back safely onto the floor below by a strong wind. Let’s all hope she took advantage of this new lease on life that she was lucky enough to get! 

After all, that's the sort of freak occurrence that does tend to drive people to religion, or at the very least some kind of epiphany. 

 

Random Access Boo-Yah

Here's a fact for the ages: a singing birthday card has more computing power than the entire Allied forces had during WWII. 

Rebus returns

 

yourballcourt

 

 

me

hard        me       finish

hard        me       finish

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Random historical facts you didn’t know

Cleopatra was of Greek origin

Many might not know this, but the famous Egyptian ruler was of Greek origin and a descendant of Alexander the Great’s Macedonian general, Ptolemy.

 

Italian doctors invented a fake disease to save Jews from the Holocaust

In 1943, a mysterious and frightening illness spread through Nazi-occupied Rome. But it was revealed 60 years later by Italian doctors that they invented ‘Syndrome K’ to save Italian Jews. At least 20 people were saved from deportation. 

Historic Events

 April in History

Rebus Answers

Ball in your court                                                                                             Too hard for me to finish.

Birthdays Today

Ann-Margret [Olsson], (85 years old) Swedish-American actress (Bye Bye Birdie; Viva Las Vegas: Tommy; Grumpy Old Men), and singer, born in Valsjöbyn, Sweden

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Jerome "Jay" Apt, (77 years old)

American astronaut (STS 37, 47, 59, 79), born in Springfield, Massachusetts

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Jay Leno (76 years old)

American comedian and TV talk show host (Tonight Show), born in New Rochelle, New York

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John Daly (60 years old)

American golfer (PGA C'ship 1991, British Open 1995), born in Carmichael, California

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Penélope Cruz (52 years old)

Spanish actress (Vanilla Sky, Waking Up in Reno), born in Madrid, Spain

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Drew Scott, (48 years old)

Canadian TV personality (Property Brothers), born in Vancouver, British Columbia

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Jonathan Scott, (48 years old) Canadian TV personality (Property Brothers), born in Vancouver, British Columbia

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Jessica Alba (45 years old)

American actress (Dark Angel, Sin City) and businesswoman (The Honest Company), born in Pomona, California

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Gone but not forgotten

James Monroe (1758-1831; @73; heart failure)

5th US President (1817-25), born in Monroe Hall, Virginia

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Lionel Barrymore (1878-1954; @76, heart failure)

American actor (It's A Wonderful Life; Dr. Kildare (films); Key Largo), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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António de Oliveira Salazar (1889-1970; @81)

Dictator of Portugal (1932-68) who founded and controlled the Estado Novo (New State), born in Vimieiro, Santa Comba Dão, Portugal

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Heinrich Müller, German Nazi, Director of the Gestapo (1939-45) and most senior Nazi official never captured or confirmed to have died, born in Munich, German Empire (d. ?; disappeared at 45)

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Oskar Schindler (1908-1974; @66, liver failure)

Austrian businessman and subject of the novel "Schindler's Ark" and the film "Schindler's List", born in Zwittau, Austria-Hungary

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Ferruccio Lamborghini (1916-1993; @76, heart attack)

Italian auto-designer (Lamborghini), born in Cento, Ferrara, Kingdom of Italy

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Harper Lee (1926-2016; @89)

American author (To Kill a Mockingbird), born in Monroeville Alabama

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Eugene M. Shoemaker, (d. 1997; @69, car crash)

American planetary scientist and geologist (Shoemaker-Levy comet), born in Los Angeles, California

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Carolyn Jones (1930-1983; @53, cancer)

American actress (Morticia-Addams Family), born in Amarillo, Texas

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Saddam Hussein (1937-2006; @69, hanging)

President of Iraq (1979-2003), born in Al-Awja, Iraq

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…The End for today…

               

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