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Storm Lake, Iowa (1973)
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None of this means Trump will win the presidency, or even that his full-throttle political style will help him over the next 10 months. U.S. presidential elections are notoriously unpredictable and Trump has profound political liabilities. In recent years, surveys have found that nearly half of Americans rank him among the worst presidents ever. He faces massive legal peril in four separate jurisdictions and will likely have to spend more time in a courtroom than on the campaign trail over the coming year. Millions of Americans recoil at the memory of his first term, the images of a mob in MAGA hats storming the Capitol. In November, he would need to win over skeptical voters—unlike the crowd of diehards who braved frigid sub-zero temperatures to help him claim a dominant victory Monday night.
“He's gonna do everything he says he’s gonna do,” says Tammy Hechart, a 52-year-old realtor from Ankeny, Iowa. “He's gonna fix the wall. He's gonna fix the economy. It's gonna be awesome.” Others called his victory a vindication for Trump and the MAGA movement. “It feels even sweeter that people think they can use the courts as a way to win elections,” says Natalie Blasingame, a retired teacher from Texas who traveled all the way to Iowa to see Trump, echoing his unsubstantiated claims that his indictments are designed to damage his political aspirations.
The margin of victory made it hard to see how and where his rivals were capable of unseating him. “How are they going to put a dent in him?” asked Kari Lake, the GOP Arizona Senate candidate. “Who?”
#defying the laws of political gravity#i hate this man#hate hate hate#flames on the side of my face#help us giant meteor#we need the Futurama sun cannon
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the language of flowers and silent things
Whumptober 2023: Day 19 - A floral bouquet
Warnings: child abuse, nightmares
Word Count: 1.7k (gif not mine)
Summary: after Clint proposes, they both need time to recover and recuperate.
A/N: this is completely unread, forgive the mistakes bound to be embedded. I don’t have the energy to read it though.
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2011
IOWA
Recovery time is granted as a courtesy and requirement. It sets Natasha’s teeth on edge but even she can see that Clint needs it.
She wants the next assignment, the almost dying part not really phasing her. She’d almost died many times before.
If she was a cat, she would have used her nine lives by now. It doesn’t mean the panic for Clint doesn’t permeate into her dreams.
She dreams that she can’t breathe, and wakes up gasping, when she gets back to sleep, she watches Clint gasping for breath.
She performs CPR only to break his ribs and watch him die anyway.
It’s disconcerting and always results in her focusing on him sleeping into the hours of the morning.
He comments that she looks tired, but she always retorts that he does too.
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There’s a cabin south of Iowa, he invites her to, she knew he had it but they’d never been able to go.
The dainty log cabin smells musty when they arrive, but as soon as it’s aired out, Natasha takes in all the details.
Surrounded by trees, the cabin is four rooms, a kitchen and main room all together, a bedroom and a bathroom.
There’s wood everywhere; bow and arrows on the walls, and a shot gun for good measure. He watches her surveil the place and stands in place, waiting for her assessment.
“Whatddya think?” he smiles.
“Did you make these arrows?” she asks in awe, touching them and continuing to look around.
“Yeah,” he nods, “the bow too.”
The wood fire sits inert and Clint promises to light it at night.
“Come for a walk,” he offers, taking her hand and leading to her to the door, “the weather is good and we can gather some wood.”
Natasha smiles and grabs her jacket as they head out.
The lake surrounds, birds chirping and flowers line the path they take.
It’s renewing in a way she’s never felt before; maybe that the air feels fresher than in the city, and whilst since they’d been released from hospital, breathing had been a little more labored, it feels like it can loosen off.
“Pick some flowers,” Clint prompts, “I’m going to get some twigs and kindling.”
It feels like an odd request, but Natasha follows it, starting with small flowers, pink ones that have tiny petals, she then finds some white ones, cutting them cleanly with her switchblade. She moves away from Clint and finds other flowers, longer ones that look like bells, the purple blending with the others as she traverses around the lake.
The yellow flowers spread everywhere, and she chooses them more selectively. Large petals, and smaller cone shaped ones.
As she heads back up the incline, Clint calls for her to come over.
“This one too?”
The delicate blue wildflowers were small, easy to pick and went well with the bunch that Natasha had picked
“They were my mums favourites,” she smiles.
She holds the bunch up for his approval and he smiles.
“Perfect,” he tells her.
They walk back, conversation easy, light gossip and commenting on the world around.
“Do you think it will storm tonight?” Natasha asks.
Clint shrugs, opening the door and allowing Natasha to enter first.
“Maybe, depends if the temperature drops, then you’re in for a chance.”
They both go about unpacking some food and Natasha starts cooking and cutting vegetables.
He sets about lighting the fire then puts her flowers in water and smiles as he places the forget me nots to the front.
“Tell me about her,” Natasha asks, “your mother? What was she like?”
There’s a beat of silence before Clint acquiesces.
“She loved nature. I think we would have got an animal if it wasn’t for him. I think she knew that if we did it would become another thing for him to destroy or use against us, but she made it up in other ways.”
He moves to the kitchen to help her, grabbing a carrot and chewing on it.
“You don’t have to talk about it if you don’t —“
He waves her off.
“Nah, I want to, otherwise she just lives in my memories, and I’d like her to live in yours too,” he smiles, crunching down.
“She had brown hair, maybe a bit shorter than you, smart but in a clever way. Not book smart I think, as she struggled to read, but the way she could deduce and read people was easy. It always made me wonder how she ended up with my father.”
Natasha turns the portable gas heater on, and passes him the chicken for cooking.
“Did she like to cook?”
Clint laughs.
“No, not at all, we would eat the same thing over and over, meat and vegetables, or potatoes; there were lots of potatoes.”
He takes onions and places them in the pan.
“Barney liked to cook,” he says a bit more softly, “he’d take over from my mother when my father wasn’t home. He loved making sauces and mixing flavours.”
The sizzle on the chicken is loud and so the next words feel more for him than anything else.
“He found Barney once, cooking with my mother looking on, yelled and ranted that it was women’s work. He threw the hot saucepan at him and burnt him across the arm, here,” he says gesturing to his forearm.
“Barney still liked to cook, but was just more careful about how he did it after that.”
Natasha stands next to him.
“I’m sorry,” she tells him.
“It’s okay, I was telling you about her, not him.”
Clint puts the next piece of chicken on the small fryer.
“She liked stories, any stories. So I’d tell her them from school, also, Gus; he had the best stories, so I’d tell her them too. I think she liked to think about them, maybe they helped in some way.”
Natasha takes over the fryer, motioning to the cooked meat for cutting.
“She could be forgetful, and told me things usually more than once, but I didn’t mind. She had the kind of voice that when she spoke you’d listen regardless of what she was saying.”
He stops cutting and thinks.
“I think she would have liked you,” he says generously.
Natasha looks to the pretty little flowers.
“Yeah. I think I would have liked her too.”
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The distinct smell of the wood fire brings Clint out of his nightmare. The disorientation makes him freeze on the spot dampening his breathing so that he doesn’t wake Natasha.
He ruminates on the images the dream produced, the dodging of beer bottles before one caught him, the way he was small and his father was big, and his mothers face, blood coming out of her mouth and the familiar bruise covering her cheek and throat.
He sorts the images and finds the truth in the lies, then separates it further, smelling and grounding himself with Natasha’s gentle breathing and the smell of the fires.
He’d hoped talking about her would be cathartic, and in a way it was. He’d just not anticipated the memories it produced.
He sighs wanting to get up but knowing it would wake Natasha.
If they get married, he’s not going to become like him. He’s not his fathers son, he is his mother’s though.
He pulls out his phone and googles how far it is to visit her and settles back down with a plan for the next day.
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The grave reads Edith’s name, the date of her birth and death and words that read ‘beloved mother’.
The fact that she has a headstone at all is something Natasha can’t help but comment on.
“The circus helped us pay for it, it came about a year and a half after her death, maybe 6 months we’d both been there. We agreed to work for free to get it done.”
Gently, Natasha moves the moss and Clint pulls the weeds around it.
It takes them some time but they clear it and make it neat in its appearance.
Natasha pulls the little bouquet of forget me nots she’d picked and places them down.
Clint hugs her and they stand side by side in silence.
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The ride home is comfortable, soft country music playing as Clint taps his finger to the beat.
“Do you think my mother has a grave?” Natasha asks, a question she’s never thought to think.
Clint reaches across and holds her hand.
“I hope so,” he says, squeezing it.
“Maybe she had a sister or someone to lay some flowers at her grave too,” she hopes.
Clint nods.
“Maybe she’s hanging out with my mother, wherever they may be.”
Natasha smiles, then laughs.
“They’d tell lots of stories to each other I think,” she says.
“My mother would like that,” he nods.
“Are you okay?” Natasha asks, squeezing his hand.
“I know you had… dreams last night, but do you think this will make sleep hard as well? Can I do anything?”
Clint shrugs.
“I don’t know. Maybe? Nothing you can do, but maybe we can play a game or watch a movie together before sleeping.”
He sighs.
“It’s been a long day.”
Natasha nods, opening the window then closing it with the smell.
It breaks the mood and he laughs.
“Cows are certainly an acquired smell,” he grins.
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“She liked magic too,” Clint offers, the movie finishing.
“Can I show you some?”
Natasha feels a curl of excitement.
Giving him her full attention, he produces a bunch of flowers.
It makes her burst out laughing.
“Can you do it again?”
He pulls a coin from her ear and then makes the flowers disappear again.
She takes the coin and rolls it over her fingers.
Clint nods in approval.
He smiles again.
“One more.”
From her ear, he produces two rings.
“I know we were dying, and that you may have just said yes—“
She doesn’t even let him finish.
“I want to marry you Clint Barton,” she tells him, taking the rings off him and examining them carefully.
Both of them thin, one with a red ruby and the other larger in size but just as thin, the metal infused with a purple hue.
“They’re for us, like your necklace, no one has to see them.”
He loves that she puts it on straight away, kisses him again and then tries to imitate the magic trick.
“Teach me,” she requests, “show me how to do magic just like you do.”
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A male in office was going to let a child rapist free but a woman defeated him in last Novembers election and is now keeping him locked up. This is why every vote counts means more than just the presidential election.
By Genevieve Gluck January 31, 2024
A serial child rapist who had previously secured a release from prison after identifying as transgender has finally been deemed a “sexually violent predator” under Iowa state law. A judge has determined that Joseph Matthew Smith, who now uses the name Josie Maria Dunham or Josie Smith, should be confined in a secure facility indefinitely, quashing a previous ruling that claimed Smith was no longer a sexual risk due to being on feminizing hormones.
Newly-elected Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird is behind the push to keep Smith in custody, having recently defeated the nation’s longest-tenured attorney general, Tom Miller, in a November election.
In 2020, Miller endorsed the move that saw Smith released from custody. Bird then condemned his judgement in the matter, running ads during her campaign slamming Miller as sympathetic to the sexual predator.
A petition filed in December in Buena Vista County District Court requested a civil trial in order to determine whether Smith should be re-classified as a sexually violent predator with a high chance of re-offending.
“[Smith]’s mental abnormality makes him more likely than not to engage in predatory acts constituting sexually violent offenses if not confined in a secure facility,” the petition reads. “[Smith] should be committed to the custody of the Department of Human Services to be held in a secure facility for control, care, and treatment until such time as his mental abnormality has so changed that he is safe to be at large in the community.”
In December 2015, Smith was convicted in Buena Vista County of lascivious acts with a child. At the time, Assistant Attorney General Andrew Schoonhoven determined that Smith suffers from “at least one mental abnormality, specifically the mental abnormality of pedophilic disorder,” which predisposes Smith to “commit sexually violent offenses to a degree constituting a menace to the health and safety of others.”
A pre-sentence psychological report was prepared by the State’s expert, Dr. Jeffrey Davis, a psychologist from the University of California.
Davis recommended that Smith be confined at the Cherokee Civil Commitment Unit for Sex Offenders (CCUSO) for an indefinite period based on what he determined to be a high likelihood of sexual re-offending. The report noted that Smith had told a state forensic psychologist he had molested as many as 15 children under the age of 13, the youngest being a 1-year-old baby. He added that he believed Smith was more likely to commit a sexual assault than 92% of male sex offenders.
There has not been even one recorded case of a female patient having been committed to the CCUSO in the unit’s 25-year history, reports the Cherokee Chronicle Times. But there have been at least three trans-identified males in the civil commitment unit. One of those patients, a man named Christian Schiebel who uses the feminine name Tina Keller, told the Storm Lake Times-Pilot he was advised by his attorney that a transgender identity would increase his chances of release.
Smith made international headlines in 2020 after being released from prison just 4 years into an indefinite prison sentence. He had been convicted of sexually assaulting an 11-year-old resident at Midwest Christian Services (MCS), a treatment facility for juveniles following another conviction for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old when he was a teenager.
Despite his record of sexual offending, on January 9, 2020, the Iowa Attorney General’s office filed a motion to dismiss a petition requesting that the serial pedophile be considered a sexually violent predator. The Iowa Attorney General office’s defended the decision by citing Smith’s reduced testosterone levels as a result of hormone treatments. Attorney general spokesman Lynn Hicks stated that “an offender’s hormone levels are an important part of substantiating an offender’s likelihood of recidivism.”
Officials claimed Smith was at a lower risk of re-offending due to an altered testosterone level, and that he “no longer had the sex drive of a man.”
Smith had been receiving hormones related to his self-declared gender identity while being held at Newton Correctional Facility, where, in January 2016, he began serving an indefinite sentence after being convicted of molesting a child. In October 2017, he first expressed a desire to “get started on transgender classification” and started using female pronouns.
Hicks also claimed that an expert had determined that Smith was not at a risk of re-offending due to his gender identity. An Iowa district court judge therefore granted the motion to dismiss “in the interests of justice.”
In January of 2020, Smith was released on parole; but by October of 2021, he had already violated the terms of his strict conditions by using an unauthorized electronic device and seeking out sex. Despite the violation, Smith was not remanded to custody, and was instead allowed to continue to live in the small city of Sloan, Iowa.
In January 2022, Christine Louis, administrative law judge for Iowa Correctional Services, sentenced Smith to two more years in prison, as he had again violated the terms of his parole. During an inspection in January, Smith’s parole officer discovered child pornography on his phone which depicted boys and girls aged between five and eight years old. Smith requested leniency, but was ultimately denied.
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I thought I'd let you know it looks like the lake house and ranch are part of an area forecasted with a 70% chance of a tornado outbreak today, similar to the outbreak that hit Nebraska and Iowa yesterday. I know Ada is within the area. This forecast is being shown on The Weather Channel (TWC). I've been a weather geek my whole life, and rarely are areas predicted over 50%. Yesterday's outbreak was 50%. I'm scared for BG's houses. Of course I want to be wrong, but saying some prayers and sending good karma for their safety couldn't hurt. I'd imagine if BSE flies to OK in the next couple days it could be because of storm damage. I'll be watching The Weather Channel all day so I'll update if The Weather Channel shows tornadoes hitting the area. Again, I hope my fears are unfounded.
Ugh. So glad to be out that part of the country.
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To follow up on yesterday’s post with the Rock Island train, I have one today that was definitely taken on the Chicago & North Western main line in Iowa. These shots were taken between Woodbine and Dunlap in the western part of the state.
It’s interesting to note that the C&NW had pulled one of the two tracks in this section, between Denison and Missouri Valley, only to have it put back in later (by the Union Pacific, I believe, after they absorbed the line). Too bad it's not double track here so we can witness the distinctive "wrong-way" running this railroad was known for—but this helped pin down the locale.
These are some of my earliest rail images. We were visiting the grandparents in Storm Lake, Iowa, to the north. I would bug my brother to drive me around a bit (as I was only fifteen at the time) so I could shoot trains with an old camera of my dad's. I saw several trains like this: Union Pacific power with C&NW on the point (for cab signals, I reckon)..
Two images by Richard Koenig; taken December 22nd 1975.
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Walter O'Reilly, salesman from the Style Right Shoe Company of Storm Lake, Iowa
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Windy.com --The derecho, which has been on a rampage since late Wednesday, has already produced winds over 80 mph and left more than 200,000 without power in parts of the Midwest. Accuweather. --Classic derecho but with one caveat: It’s only late June. These usually only occur towards the end of summer. This suggests that we should expect to see a few more; perhaps more than hurricanes that make landfall. Crops will be decimated. Fenfir
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The storms formed amid a “ring of fire” pattern, which features relentless waves of severe thunderstorms cresting up and over a stubborn high-pressure “heat dome.” Excessive heat warnings blanket the lower Mississippi Valley, where triple-digit temperatures will combine with tropical humidity to push heat indexes above 115 degrees.
That heat and moisture is fueling vicious thunderstorms, which remain in the forecast through the weekend. Thursday’s qualified as a derecho, since it produced damage over a continuous track more than 400 miles long and delivered winds to hurricane force.
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100 mph — Good Hope, Ill.
100 mph — Swan Creek, Ill.
100 mph — Kahoka, Mo.
100 mph — Adrian, Ill.
100 mph — Scotia, Ill.
100 mph — Roseville, Ill.
90 mph — Adrian, Ill.
88 mph — Good Hope, Ill.
82 mph — Holyoke, Colo.
82 — Lake of the Woods, Ill.
80 mph — Mooar, Iowa
80 mph — Lerna, Ill.
77 mph — Vermillion, Kan.
77 mph — Corning, Kan.
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OBIT: Betty Jane Collins
OBIT: Betty Jane Collins
Betty Jane Collins, beloved music teacher and devoted mother, passed away on April 22, 2024, in Ames, Iowa. She was born on October 5, 1943, in Storm Lake, Iowa, to her loving parents Warren and Arleen Fulton Hanson. Betty’s life was marked by a deep love for music and teaching, as well as an unwavering devotion to her family and friends.
Betty pursued her passion for music by earning a Music…
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"....singer Grace Cameron, who in September, 1919 sued for an annulment of her marriage [probably why it ran in the Bain News Service.]
She was in a number of shows between 1900 and 1908.
A biographical sketch taken from the LOC page:
"Grace Cameron was born on August 1, 1879 (with the name Grace Kerr) in Storm Lake, Iowa. The comic singer joined the famous touring group called The Bostonians and was in Robin Hood, playing the role of Maid Marian.
She recorded five titles issued on two-minute Edison Standard cylinders and four issued on four-minute wax Amberols. "Adam and Eve" (Amberol 136) and "Whose Baby Girl Are You?" (Standard 10265) had been introduced by Cameron in the 1908 show The Pied Piper.
She was probably a mezzo-soprano though Edison literature identified her only as "comedienne."
Her single Columbia disc featured "Since Dolly Dimples Made A Hit" backed by "I'll Bet I'd Be A Riot Down On Broadway" (A1205), recorded on July 11, 1912. "Since Dolly Dimples Made A Hit," with lyrics by William Jerome and music by Jean Schwartz, is from the 1904 musical Piff! Paff! Pouf!, which was produced by F.C. Whitney for the Casino Theater in New York and starred Eddie Foy, with Cameron cast as one of his daughters. In telling of Dolly, the song alludes to many topical events and stage personalities--Lillian Russell, David Belasco, Charlie Frohman, Leslie Carter, Duse. Dolly is a mere chorus-girl in a musical comedy, but because its author gave Dolly a few lines to speak, she behaves as though she is the show's star:
Dolly Dimples in the chorus
She had served her time.
She joined it when Kirlafy Brothers
They were in their prime.
She carried a spear
For many a year.
Contented in the back row
With her eighteen per a week
Until the night the author
Handed her a line to speak
And little Dolly Dimples made a hit.
Since Dolly Dimples made a hit
There's been an awful change.
Her mother really wouldn't know her now.
She gives the other girls the icy bow...
In the June 1970 issue of Hobbies, Jim Walsh reports that she was the first theatrical performer to pay, in 1905, for advertising in Variety. The date of her death is unknown. Walsh states in the August 1973 issue of Hobbies that Cameron was said to be living in Long Beach, California, in retirement in the early 1960s."
Library of Congress. LC-B2- 5013-11. hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.29342
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Storm Lake Downtown Assessment Public Presentation Scheduled Next Week
The findings of a Storm Lake downtown assessment project will be shared during a public presentation next Thursday, April 25th at 1:30pm in the council chambers at Storm Lake City Hall.
The City of Storm Lake will also receive a written report to help guide future planning efforts for the central business district.
The downtown assessment is a three-day process coordinated with the Iowa Economic…
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Celebration of Life Service of Crystal Irene Larimer from St Andrew UMC - Florissant, MO on Vimeo.
Crystal I. Larimer
July 09, 1926 - January 24, 2024
Crystal Irene Larimer passed away peacefully on Wednesday, January 24, 2024, surrounded by family at the Arbors at Dunsford Court in Sullivan, MO at the age of 97 years. She was born on July 9, 1926 in Sac County, Iowa in the home of her parents, Jay Waskom and Mabel (Hines) Waskom, who were respected farmers. Crystal was the youngest of hersisters, Mildred, Evelyn and Lucile. She was joined in marriage on 24, 1948 to Don Larimer. The couple had three children, Alan,Bruce and Diane. Her husband was in construction and the family lived inmany interesting places throughout his career. Crystal graduated fromBuena Vista College in Storm Lake Iowa, becoming a teacher. After marriage, she was an excellent wife, homemaker, and mother. She was devoted to her family and enjoyed spending time with them, especially her grandchildren. She was an award-winning quilter, skilled seamstress andartist with a quick wit and delightful sense of humor. She and Donenjoyed camping and traveling. She was a faithful member ofBellefontaine United Methodist Church in St. Louis, where she enjoyed volunteering for many years and had many friends. Crystal is survived by son, Alan Larimer (Tess) of Columbia; son, Bruce Larimer of Florissant;and daughter, Diane (Larimer) Hawkey of Florissant; five grandchildren: Dennis Larimer (Bryana), Michael Larimer, Sarah Hawkey, David Hawkey,
and Emily Pupillo; three great-grandchildren: Gabriel Shelton, Elizabeth Hawkey and Logan Larimer; sister-in-law, Sharon (Larimer) Greene; and many other beloved nieces, nephews, and friends. She is preceded in death by her husband, Don Larimer; her parents, Jay and Mabel Waskom; her three sisters: Mildred Rogers (Dean), Evelyn Grau (Harald), and Lucile Schnirring (Glen), and her daughter-in-law, Cathy (Nicklaus)Larimer, wife of son Bruce.
The family wants to Thank You for attending this celebration of Crystal’s life. All of you have been an important part of her life.
If you would like to give a memorial gift to celebrate Crystal’s life; donations can be made to: Alzheimer’s Association
alz.org Celebrant and Participants. The Rev. Monica Jefferson Senior Pastor Barbara Kay Pianist, Jennifer Proffitt Visual Presenter.
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Community Pubs Week begins (UK) [3rd Saturday through 4th Saturday]
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Seven Founders of the Servite Order (Christian; Saint)
Sheep Shearing and Blessings Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)
Silvia of Auchy (Christian; Saint)
Sepandārmazgān (Day of Women; Ancient Persia; Zoroastrian)
Tanis Diena (Pig Celebration; Latvia)
Theodulus and Julian, in Palestine (Christian; Martyrs)
Toshigoi (For a Bountiful Rice Harvest; Shinto)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Lucky Day (Philippines) [10 of 71]
Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]
Tycho Brahe Unlucky Day (Scandinavia) [9 of 37]
Unfortunate Day (Pagan) [12 of 57]
Unglückstage (Unlucky Day; Pennsylvania Dutch) [9 of 30]
Very Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [11 of 60]
Premieres
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (Film; 2023)
Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (Film; 1989)
The Brady Bunch Movie (Film; 1995)
Camping Out (Disney Cartoon; 1934)
Destiny’s Child, by Destiny’s Child (Album; 1998)
Eagle: Their Greatest Hits (Compilation Album; 1976)
Exercises in Style, by Raymond Queneau (Book; 1947)
Fancy, by Iggy Azalea (Song; 2014)
Footloose (Film; 1984)
Gunga Din (Film; 1939)
Hell’s Fire, featuring WIllie Whopper (Ub Iwerks Cartoon; 1934)
Hey, Hey, It’s the Monkees (TV Special; 1997)
High Voltage, by AC/DC (Album; 1975)
Honeymoon Hotel (WB MM Cartoon; 1934)
Jerry, Jerry, Quite Contrary (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1966)
The Kick Inside, by Kate Bush (Album; 1978)
Madame Butterfly, by Giacomo Puccini (Opera; 1904)
The Marvels (Film; 2023)
Politics Among Nations, by Hans J. Morgenthau (Political Theory; 1948)
The Right Stuff (Film; 1984)
Scooby-Doo! Moon Monster Madness (WB Animated Film; 2015)
The Secret World Arrietty (Animated Studio Ghibli Film; 2012)
Simon Says, Be My Valentine, Parts 3 & 4 (Underdog Cartoon, S3, Eps. 19 & 20 1967)
Symphony in D Minor, by César Franck (Symphony; 1889)
This Means War (Film; 2012)
Valleri, by The Monks (Song; 1968)
Variations on a Nursery Song for Piano and Orchestra, by Ernst von Dohnanyi (Orchestral Work; 1917)
Today’s Name Days
Alexius, Benignus, Bonosus (Austria)
Bartol, Benedikt, Flavije (Croatia)
Miloslava (Czech Republic)
Findanus (Denmark)
Salmo, Väino, Väinu (Estonia)
Karita, Rita, Väinämö, Väinö (Finland)
Alexis (France)
Alexis, Benignus (Germany)
Theodoros (Greece)
Donát (Hungary)
Donato, Marianna, Patrizia (Italy)
Auce, Donāts, Konstance (Latvia)
Donata, Donatas, Vaišvilas, Viltė (Lithuania)
Aleksandra, Sandra, Sondre (Norway)
Donat, Donata, Franciszek, Izydor, Julian, Konstanty, Łukasz, Niegomir, Sylwin, Zbigniew, Zbyszko (Poland)
Teodor (Romania)
Miloslava (Slovakia)
Alejo, Alexis, Teodoro (Spain)
Alexandra, Sandra (Sweden)
Jordan, Jordana, Jordanne, Jorden, Jordon, Jordyn, Leroy, Reggie, Reginald, Regis, Rex, Rexanna, Rexford, Rexine, Roy, Royce (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 48 of 2024; 318 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 6 of week 7 of 2024
Celtic Tree Calendar: Luis (Rowan) [Day 28 of 28]
Chinese: Month 1 (Bing-Yin), Day 8 ()
Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025)
Hebrew: 8 Adair I 5784
Islamic: 7 Sha’ban 1445
J Cal: 18 Grey; Foursday [18 of 30]
Julian: 4 February 2024
Moon: 63%: Waxing Gibbous
Positivist: 20 Homer (2nd Month) [Lucian]
Runic Half Month: Sigel (Sun) [Day 9 of 15]
Season: Winter (Day 59 of 89)
Week: 2nd Week of February
Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 27 of 28)
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Holidays 2.17
Holidays
Aegle Asteroid Day
Analog to Digital TV Day
Baird Color TV Day
Celandine Day (French Republic)
Commemoration of all the Defunct Member of the Royal Family (Belgium)
Daisy Gatson Bates Day (Arkansas)
Day of Cancelled Expectations
Dia Internacional do Gato (International Cat Day; Portugal)
Electra Asteroid Day
Global Tourism Resilience Day
International Day of Responsible Gaming
International Juggalo Day
Inventor’s Day (Mexico)
League of United Latin American Citizens Day
LULAC Founder’s Day
Minimum Wage Day
Missouri Compromise Day
My Way Day
National Cat Day (Italy; Poland)
National Champion Crab Races Day
National GvHD Awareness Day
National PTA Founders’ Day
National Public Science Day
National Tennis Pro Day
National Women’s Emancipation Day (Lithuania)
Perfume Day
Practice Your Free Throws Day
Random Acts of Kindness Day
Saffron Crocus Day
When You Grow Up Day
Who Shall I Be Day
World Cat Day (Italy)
World Community Arts Day
World Human Spirit Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
Cafe au Lait Day
Canned Sardines Day
Dark Lord Tickets Go On Sale Day
Indian Pudding Day
International Crumpet Day
National Cabbage Day
Snow Ice Cream Day
3rd Saturday in February
Barley Wine Day (San Francisco) [Saturday before Presidents Day]
Community Pubs Week begins (UK) [3rd Saturday through 4th Saturday]
International Restaurant Day [3rd Saturday] (also May, Aug & Nov)
National Black Movie Day [3rd Saturday]
Red Sock Day [3rd Saturday]
Shopping Cart Saturday (New Orleans) [Saturday before Mardi Gras]
World Pangolin Day [3rd Saturday]
World Whale Day [3rd Saturday]
Weekly Holidays beginning February 17
National Engineers Week [thru 2.24]
National FFA Week [thru 2.24]
Take Your Family to School Week [thru 2.23]
Independence & Related Days
Great Lawl Reich (Declared; 2014) [unrecognized]
Greenia (Declared; 2019) [unrecognized]
Kosovo (from Serbia, 2008)
Libyan Revolution Day (Libya)
Sildavia (Declared; 2020) [unrecognized]
Festivals Beginning February 17, 2024
Anderson Vakey White Wine Weekend (Anderson Valley, California) [thru 2.18]
Annie Awards [Animation] (Los Angeles, California)
Arizona Strong Beer Festival (Phoenix, Arizona)
Bay Area Renaissance Festival (Date City, California) [thru 3.31]
Cedarburg Winter Festival (Cedarburg, Wisconsin) [thru 2.18]
Color the Wind Kite Festival (Clear Lake, Iowa)
Cortez Commercial Fishing Festival Cortez, Florida) [thru 2.18]
Hardee County Fair (Wauchula, Florida) [thru 2.24]
Jupiter Seafood Festival (Jupiter, Florida) [thru 2.18]
Lake Tahoe Winter Reggae Festival (Stateline, Nevada) [thru 2.18]
Melodifestivalen (Växjö, Sweden) [thru 2.17]
Menton Lemon Festival Menton, France) [thru 3.3]
Nice Carnival (Nice, France) [thru 3.3]
Omaha Beer Week (Omaha, Nebraska) [thru 2.25]
Panama City Beach Food Truck & Craft Beer Festival (Panama City Beach, Florida) [thru 2.18]
Philly Beer Fest (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) [ website ]
Sertoma Chili Cookoff (Springfield, Missouri)
Sourdough Bread Festival (Cherry Valley, California) [thru 2.25]
Feast Days
Alexis Falconieri (Christian; Saint)
Andre Norton (Writerism)
Cantre’r Gwaelod (Celtic Book of Days)
Commemoration of the Flight into Egypt (Christian)
Constabilis (Christian; Saint)
Donatus, Romulus, Secundian, and Companions (Christian; Martyrs)
Evermod (Christian; Saint)
Feast of Shezmu (Egyptian God of the Wine Press)
Festival of Quirinus (God of War, Storms & Thunder; Ancient Rome)
Finan (Christian; Saint)
Fintan of Clonenagh (Christian; Saint)
Flavian, Archbishop of Constantinople (Christian; Saint)
The Flutebird (Muppetism)
Fornacalia: Day of the Ovens (Old Roman Bread Festival)
Fornax’s Day (Pagan)
Fortchern of Trim (Christian; Saint)
Hachinohe Enburi Matsuri (Festival for a Good Harvest; Japan)
Hadaka Matsuri (Loincloth Festival; Japan)
Hopping Day (Pastafarian)
Isaac Asimov Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Janani Luwum (Anglican Communion)
Kali Yuga (The Evil Age; Everyday Wicca)
Lommán of Trim (a.k.a. Leman or Luman; Christian; Saint)
Lucian (Positivist; Saint)
Pierre-Auguste Cot (Artology)
The Quirinalia (Feast of Fools; Ancient Rome)
Raphaelle Peale (Artology)
Saidai-ji Eyo Hadaka Matsuri (Naked Festival; Japan)
Seven Founders of the Servite Order (Christian; Saint)
Sheep Shearing and Blessings Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)
Silvia of Auchy (Christian; Saint)
Sepandārmazgān (Day of Women; Ancient Persia; Zoroastrian)
Tanis Diena (Pig Celebration; Latvia)
Theodulus and Julian, in Palestine (Christian; Martyrs)
Toshigoi (For a Bountiful Rice Harvest; Shinto)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Lucky Day (Philippines) [10 of 71]
Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]
Tycho Brahe Unlucky Day (Scandinavia) [9 of 37]
Unfortunate Day (Pagan) [12 of 57]
Unglückstage (Unlucky Day; Pennsylvania Dutch) [9 of 30]
Very Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [11 of 60]
Premieres
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (Film; 2023)
Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (Film; 1989)
The Brady Bunch Movie (Film; 1995)
Camping Out (Disney Cartoon; 1934)
Destiny’s Child, by Destiny’s Child (Album; 1998)
Eagle: Their Greatest Hits (Compilation Album; 1976)
Exercises in Style, by Raymond Queneau (Book; 1947)
Fancy, by Iggy Azalea (Song; 2014)
Footloose (Film; 1984)
Gunga Din (Film; 1939)
Hell’s Fire, featuring WIllie Whopper (Ub Iwerks Cartoon; 1934)
Hey, Hey, It’s the Monkees (TV Special; 1997)
High Voltage, by AC/DC (Album; 1975)
Honeymoon Hotel (WB MM Cartoon; 1934)
Jerry, Jerry, Quite Contrary (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1966)
The Kick Inside, by Kate Bush (Album; 1978)
Madame Butterfly, by Giacomo Puccini (Opera; 1904)
The Marvels (Film; 2023)
Politics Among Nations, by Hans J. Morgenthau (Political Theory; 1948)
The Right Stuff (Film; 1984)
Scooby-Doo! Moon Monster Madness (WB Animated Film; 2015)
The Secret World Arrietty (Animated Studio Ghibli Film; 2012)
Simon Says, Be My Valentine, Parts 3 & 4 (Underdog Cartoon, S3, Eps. 19 & 20 1967)
Symphony in D Minor, by César Franck (Symphony; 1889)
This Means War (Film; 2012)
Valleri, by The Monks (Song; 1968)
Variations on a Nursery Song for Piano and Orchestra, by Ernst von Dohnanyi (Orchestral Work; 1917)
Today’s Name Days
Alexius, Benignus, Bonosus (Austria)
Bartol, Benedikt, Flavije (Croatia)
Miloslava (Czech Republic)
Findanus (Denmark)
Salmo, Väino, Väinu (Estonia)
Karita, Rita, Väinämö, Väinö (Finland)
Alexis (France)
Alexis, Benignus (Germany)
Theodoros (Greece)
Donát (Hungary)
Donato, Marianna, Patrizia (Italy)
Auce, Donāts, Konstance (Latvia)
Donata, Donatas, Vaišvilas, Viltė (Lithuania)
Aleksandra, Sandra, Sondre (Norway)
Donat, Donata, Franciszek, Izydor, Julian, Konstanty, Łukasz, Niegomir, Sylwin, Zbigniew, Zbyszko (Poland)
Teodor (Romania)
Miloslava (Slovakia)
Alejo, Alexis, Teodoro (Spain)
Alexandra, Sandra (Sweden)
Jordan, Jordana, Jordanne, Jorden, Jordon, Jordyn, Leroy, Reggie, Reginald, Regis, Rex, Rexanna, Rexford, Rexine, Roy, Royce (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 48 of 2024; 318 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 6 of week 7 of 2024
Celtic Tree Calendar: Luis (Rowan) [Day 28 of 28]
Chinese: Month 1 (Bing-Yin), Day 8 ()
Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025)
Hebrew: 8 Adair I 5784
Islamic: 7 Sha’ban 1445
J Cal: 18 Grey; Foursday [18 of 30]
Julian: 4 February 2024
Moon: 63%: Waxing Gibbous
Positivist: 20 Homer (2nd Month) [Lucian]
Runic Half Month: Sigel (Sun) [Day 9 of 15]
Season: Winter (Day 59 of 89)
Week: 2nd Week of February
Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 27 of 28)
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The Farm of Delbert and Ethel McCoy, Storm Lake, Iowa
I believe I took these photographs in the summer of 1979. Apparently, I climbed upon the roof of the corn crib for this point of view; I’m looking northward. None of this remains today, alas.
The three main buildings of the farm appear on this USGS map (from the same period). The farm was east of the lake itself, near Lakeside—of which my grandfather was mayor for a time.
Two images by Richard Koenig; taken in the summer of 1979.
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