🌼It's allergy season again?! You've got to be pollen my leg!!🌻
🌼It's allergy season again?! You've got to be pollen my leg!!🌻
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April 25
Established 2015. Celebrating Our Tenth Year of Publication
Two blonde carpenters are building a house. One is on a ladder nailing. She reaches into her nail pouch, pulls out a nail, looks at it, and either tosses it over her shoulder or proceeds to nail it into the wood. The other carpenter can't stand it any longer and yells, "Why are you throwing some of the nails away?"
The first carpenter explains, "When I pull it out of my nail pouch, if it's pointed toward me, I throw it away. If it's pointed toward the house, then I can use it!"
The second blonde carpenter gets really mad, calls her all kinds of names, then yells. "Quit throwing those nails away that are pointed toward you! They're for the other side of the house!"
See you tomorrow!!
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1507 - German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller is the first to use the name America on his world map "Universalis Cosmographia".
1846 - Thornton Affair: Open conflict begins over the disputed border of Texas, triggering the Mexican–American War.
1953 - Francis Crick and James Watson's discovery of the double helix structure of DNA is published in "Nature" magazine.
1954 - Bell labs announces the first solar battery made from silicon. It has about 6% efficiency.
1960 - First submerged circumnavigation of Earth is completed by the USS submarine Triton in 60 days and 21 hours.
1940: Say hello to my little friend. Actor Al Pacino of Scareface and The Godfather movies, has a birthday today.
National Hairball Awareness Day - My cat makes me aware of these all the time when I'm walking around the house in the dark!!
I started writing The Digest in the third quarter of 2015. I was filling in as temporary General Manager until we could find a permanent one to take over the leadership of the store. I had some time on my hands and was kicking around how to fill it when I remembered an idea I saw in a hotel in Winslow, Az. In the lobby, they had a chalk board of some simple trivia that happened on that day as well as the weather forecast of sunny, hot, cold rainy or whatever the day was going to bring. I stole some of those ideas and came up with the WNTS Digest. As I was temporarily living at the time in Why, I would spend some time each morning putting together those trivia facts, weather, a cute Pet Picture of the Day from Freekibble.com and an ad hoc picture of something I talked about in the Digest. I would then print the two pages out and tack it to our Bulletin Board in front of the store. The two pictures to the left are from a copy of the Digest that was published in or around February 2016. Eventually we found a permanent GM and I went back to my home in Northern California. A few months later, I was asked to stand up a website for the store and because I didn’t need to be at the site, I was able to do my work in California. When designing the site, I wanted to incorporate the concepts of The Digest. It had paused publication when I moved and here was an opportunity to bring it back in electronic form.
So, over the years, I made a few changes to the format, but it is still has the basic constructs I started out with. The ‘Weather’ report was discontinued due to not having a viable good option for displaying current conditions and forecast. Perhaps that will change and the weather will be put back in. If it is, it would be better on the home page and not The Digest. But, we kept Today in History, Born on this Day, Today is (national quirky holidays), moved Pet Picture of the Day to its’ own page, which later became a contest for Pet of the Month. The static graphic that referenced something in The Digest became “Why Nutts!!” and transitioned into a YouTube related video to something I referenced in The Digest. We added a ‘Quote of the Day’ but transitioned that into ‘Joke of the Day’.
And that is how we got here and looking for the next ten years!!