Week 222  Day 186                                

 Weather Expectations  Flag Today  80°/56°    Wind17 mph Gusts 24 mph

Active Fire: A miles away Risk of fire: Extreme  

Nearest Lightning: 369 miles away Humidity:  %

Air Quality: Moderate Sunshine still smoky

July Averages: Temps: 82°\51°  9 days with rain

Today’s Observances:

Bikini Day Link
Thong Day Link

Weekly Observances:

National Tom Sawyer Days: 1-5

National Independent Living Week: 1-7
National Unassisted Homebirth Week: 1-7

Roswell UFO Days: 2-4 Link

Fleet Week 2026 (New York): 3-8

Freedom Week: 4-10

National Marijuana Facts Week: 4-10

World Orienteering Championships: 4-12 Link

Tour de France: 4-26  Link

 Be Nice To New Jersey Week: 5-11 
National Therapeutic Recreation Week: 5-11  Link 

Monthly Observances:

International Women with Alopecia Month
International Zine Month
National Anti-Boredom Month
Juvenile Arthritis Awareness Month Link
National Baked Beans Month Link
National Black Family Month
National Blueberry Month
National Blood Type Awareness Month
National Child-Centered Divorce Month Link
National Cleft & Craniofacial Awareness and Prevention Month Link

Fresh Quotation:

Strong people have a sense of self-worth and self-awareness; they don’t need the approval of others.

~Roy T. Bennett

Whenever one family has come to grief, a hundred families will send relief.

~Chinese Proverb

Today’s Reflection:

It’s a nice warm day. I slept well last night. I was up early…about 6am, with a list of things to do today. I changed the linens on my bed. It was much harder with the bed rail, but I finally got it done. Then I took out 2 bags of garage…one at a time, due to their weight and those pesky steps. Then I cut up two peppers and vacuumed sealed them for my daily salad. I had a nice talk with my brother. He was shopping at the slow market…think farmer’s market and having breakfast with a friend he ran into. Laura is on a business trip to Mexico City, so he has the hacienda to himself.

Last night I watched the PBS A Capitol Fourth special; it was outstanding as usual. Mount Vernon was a good choice for the fireworks in honor of our 250^th birthday.

NAU, our local university, just announced that they will have 250 less full-time employees in Aug. They expect there will be 3000 less students enrolling in the fall. Quite a blow.

Historical events

 

5 Jul

 

Good to know:

EXTRA 

Meaning additional or additionally, extra was borrowed into English from Latin in the 16th century. The slangier use of extra to describe something particularly good or impressive, however, first emerged back in 1917-although likely not as an extension of the older word, but as a shortening of extraordinary. 

Picture of the Day:

 

Today’s Trivia:

Kingfishers dive into the water to clean themselves and to eat. When hunting, they completely submerge themselves in the water, folding their wings back to create a V shape for better aerodynamics when they enter the water. They are even capable of diving straight through a thin layer of ice to catch a fish!

Today’s Birthdays:

Shohei Ohtani Baseball Player 32 years old

Birthplace Oshu, Japan

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Pauly D [Paul Michael DelVecchio Jr.] Baseball Player  46 years old

Birthplace Providence, RI

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Edie Falco TV Actress 63 years old

Birthplace New York City, NY

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Megan Rapinoe Soccer Player 41 years old

Birthplace Redding, CA

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Ji Chang-wook TV Actor 39 years old

Birthplace Anyang, South Korea

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That’s All for Now