SUNDAY FUNDAY SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2021

 SUNDAY FUNDAY

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2021

IT’S NOVEMBER 

Yes, we are moving towards cooler weather.  Time to switch out of your summer wardrobe - put the shorts away, and get the warmer clothes out!!!

Yes - November - the eleventh month of 2021.  We are still fighting COVID.  The World Series of Baseball is over - the Atlanta Braves beat the Houston Astros.  (I remember the Braves as the Milwaukee Braves as a kid, and before that, they were the Boston Braves).  The Full Moon this month will be November 19th with the name of the Beaver Moon - as it is the time that beavers build their winter dams and homes.  

It is the month of Thanksgiving - celebrated this year on November 25th. I have one sibling.  My sister and brother-in-law moved to Surprise Arizona over the summer and I am going to visit them for Thanksgiving.  (I’m going to drive).  

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And, I hope you all had a fun Halloween!!!  I sure did!!!

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ADVENTURE

As we age, we sometimes get a little complacent.  Our “comfort zone” shrinks.  We’d rather sit at home in the evening and watch TV than do something.  

But, in recent weeks, I’ve had friends in the Florida Keys, another friend to Europe, and some of us being adventurous enough to dress up in costumes last week.  

Over the past several years, I have done language lessons on Duolingo (relearning German, my high school language).  One of the recent lessons was about an elderly man leaving his retirement center for a “great escape” to get an ice cream cone.  

That hit me a little - I need to keep some adventure in my life.  I need to do something different occasionally to keep pushing my comfort zone from shrinking.

NATIONAL DAYS

Daylight Savings - When is it? Why do we do it? What time do the clocks go back? (nationaltoday.com)

Okay, today is the end of Daylight savings time.  Yesterday in the Austin area, (November 6th), sunrise was at 7:49 and sets at 6:38; but today, Sunday, November 7th, the sunrise is at 6:50 and sets at 5:38.   (Remember "Spring ahead and Fall back"?)

Do you remember the ‘non-uniform’ time?  As a kid in Cedar Rapids Iowa, Cedar Rapids observed daylight savings, but my cousins in Maquoketa Iowa (a small farming community about seventy miles away) didn’t observe it.  

From Wikipedia: By 1962, the transportation industry found the lack of consistency confusing enough to push for federal regulation. The result was the Uniform Time Act of 1966 - where states had to observe it on a statewide basis or opt-out (like Arizona) 

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INTERNATIONAL TONGUE TWISTER DAY - November 8, 2021 - National Today

How about these familiar tongue twisters:

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers;
A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked;
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
Where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck
if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
He would chuck, he would, as much as he could,
and chuck as much wood as a woodchuck would
if a woodchuck could chuck wood.

And, one that might make you swear:

I slit the sheet

The sheet I slit

And on the slitted sheet, I sit

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GO TO AN ART MUSEUM DAY - November 9, 2021 - National Today

A few days ago, I went to the Anne Frank exhibit at the Georgetown Library. Hate triumphed for a while, millions of Jews and other protestors died.

There are days that I think there is too much hate in the world.  Let us love one another!!!

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MARINE CORPS BIRTHDAY - November 10, 2021 - National Today

Do you know any Marines?  (By the way, I think they say that once you’re a Marine, you always are a Marine - no “ex-Marines” out there!!!)

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Next Thursday is Veteran’s Day

VETERANS DAY - November 11, 2021 - National Today

The 11th day of the 11th month at 11:11 a.m. 

This was the ending of World War I - and while some aspects of that global war lead to World War II - the idea of alliances and trying to find peace exists.  

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CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL DAY - November 12, 2021 - National Today

Let’s have a short Chicken Soup story:

A farmer had some puppies he needed to sell. He painted a sign advertising the pups and set about nailing it to a post on the edge of his yard.  As he was driving the last nail into the post, he felt a tug on his overalls. He looked down into the eyes of a little boy “Mister,” he said, “I want to buy one of your puppies.”

“Well,” said the farmer, as he rubbed the sweat off the back of his neck, “These puppies come from fine parents and cost a good deal of money.”

The boy dropped his head for a moment. Then reaching deep into his pocket, he pulled out a handful of change and held it up to the farmer. “I’ve got 89 cents. Is that enough at least to take a look?”

“Sure,” said the farmer. And with that, he let out a whistle. “Here, Dolly!” he called.

Out from the doghouse and down the ramp ran Dolly followed by four little balls of fur. The little boy pressed his face against the chain-link fence. His eyes danced with delight. As the dogs made their way to the fence, the little boy noticed something else stirring inside the doghouse.

Slowly another little fur ball appeared, this one noticeably smaller. Down the ramp, it slid. Then the little pup began awkwardly wobbling toward the others, doing its best to catch up. “I want that one,” the little boy said, quickly pointing to the runt.

The farmer knelt down at the boy’s side and said, “Son, you don’t want that puppy. He will never be able to run and play with you as these other dogs would.”

The little boy stepped back from the fence, reached down, and began rolling up one leg of his trousers. In doing so he revealed a steel brace running down both sides of his leg attaching itself to a specially made shoe.  Looking back up at the farmer, he said, “You see, sir, I don’t run too well myself, and he will need someone who understands.”

With tears in his eyes, the farmer reached down and picked up the little pup. Holding it carefully he handed it to the little boy.

“How much?” asked the little boy.  “No charge,” answered the farmer, “There’s no charge for love and understanding.”

Like that special puppy, the world is full of people who need someone who understands.

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SADIE HAWKINS DAY - November 13, 2021 - National Today

Coming from Al Capp’s Comic Strip, (Lil Abner), Sadie Hawkins was so homely at age 35, her rich day set up a race where any man Sadie could catch would be her husband.  So, on this day, the 13th of November, ladies - you can chase after men!!!  (No guarantee that the one you catch will be your husband).

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MOVIES - do you remember these movies

1973 -

American Graffiti

The Sting 

The Exorcist

Paper Moon 

Live and Let Die

1978

Grease

Superman

Animal House

Deer Hunter

Hooper

1983

A Christmas Story

a young boy named Ralphie attempts to convince his parents, his teacher, and Santa that a Red Ryder BB gun really is the perfect Christmas gift.

Silkwood

A worker at a plutonium processing plant is purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured, and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing worker safety violations at the plant. - Meryl Strep

Scarface

In 1980 Miami, a determined Cuban immigrant takes over a drug cartel and succumbs to greed. - Al Pacino

The Right Stuff

The U.S. space program's development from the breaking of the sound barrier to the selection of the Mercury 7 astronauts, from a group of test pilots with a more seat-of-the-pants approach than the program's more cautious engineers preferred.

War Games

A young man finds a back door into a military central computer in which reality is confused with game-playing, possibly starting World War III. - Matthew Broderick

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Wrap Up

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Karen