And here is the Wannaskan Almanac for Wannaska World Wednesday, October 10, 2018, brought to you by the 2018 October Festival, The Point Park, Warroad, October 12-13: Music, Food, and Beer.
October 10 is the 283rd day of the year, with 82 days remaining until the end of the year, and 173 days remaining until April Fools Day.
Nordhem Lunch: Swiss Steak
Earth/Moon Almanac for October 10, 2018
Sunrise: 7:36am; Sunset: 6:45pm
Moonrise: 9:08am; Moonset: 7:58pm, waxing crescent
Temperature Almanac for October 10, 2018
Average Record Today
High 69 98 35
Low 47 28 28
October 10 Local News Headline
Roseau County Population to Double by 2050: Officials Blame Babies
October 10 Celebrations from National Day Calendar
October 10 is the 283rd day of the year, with 82 days remaining until the end of the year, and 173 days remaining until April Fools Day.
Nordhem Lunch: Swiss Steak
Earth/Moon Almanac for October 10, 2018
Sunrise: 7:36am; Sunset: 6:45pm
Moonrise: 9:08am; Moonset: 7:58pm, waxing crescent
Temperature Almanac for October 10, 2018
Average Record Today
High 69 98 35
Low 47 28 28
October 10 Local News Headline
Roseau County Population to Double by 2050: Officials Blame Babies
October 10 Celebrations from National Day Calendar
- National Curves Day
- National Angel Food Cake Day
- National Cake Decorating Day
- National Handbag Day
- World Mental Health Day
- National Emergency Nurse’s Day
- National Bring Your Teddy Bear to Work/School Day
- National Stop Bullying Day
October 10 Riddle
How can you cut your National Angel Food Day cake into eight equal pieces using only three cuts?*
October 10 Pun
In Wannaska, our mountains aren't just funny; they're hill areas.
October 10 Notable Historic Events, Literary or Otherwise, from On This Day
How can you cut your National Angel Food Day cake into eight equal pieces using only three cuts?*
October 10 Pun
In Wannaska, our mountains aren't just funny; they're hill areas.
October 10 Notable Historic Events, Literary or Otherwise, from On This Day
- 1868 First written account of a Canadian football game
- 1871 The Great Chicago Fire is finally extinguished after 3 days, leaving approximately 300 dead, 100,000 homeless, and costing $222m in damage; Irish cow futures plummet
- 1903 The Women's Social and Political Union was formed by Emmeline Pankhurst to fight for women's rights in Britain
October 10 Author/Artist Birthdays, from On This Day
- 1804 Albin Masek, Czech composer
- 1813 Giuseppe Verdi
- 1917 Thelonious Monk
- 1925 Ivan Sviták, Czech philosopher and poet
- 1930 Harold Pinter, British playwright
- 1930 Mustafa Zaidi, Pakistani Urdu poet
Words I Looked Up This Week Writer's Challenge
Make a single sentence (or poem) from the following words:
appurtenance, belvedere, bugloss, coir, en fuego, hoggling, moai, moll, nictate, philippic, weskit, wombat
Make a single sentence (or poem) from the following words:
appurtenance, belvedere, bugloss, coir, en fuego, hoggling, moai, moll, nictate, philippic, weskit, wombat
Wannaska World 2018.10.10
Then the phone rang. Smoothly, seamlessly, and without a word, Paula locked eyes with Peter, extended her right arm and pointed right between Peter's eyes, transformed her point into a palmed STOP, all while drifting across the kitchen floor to her green Southern Bell and holding Peter motionless as she lifted the receiver with her left hand. "Yes? Please hold." Paula dropped her right hand as she extended the phone to Peter. "It's for you."
Eyes lowered, Peter walked toward Paula and took the phone; he knew better than to stretch Paula's cord. "What. What? HOW? When? But... I'm not happy about this. Yes. Yes. Yes. Bye." Peter handed the receiver back to Paula.
"When are you leaving?"
"Now."
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Be better than yesterday, learn a new word today, and try to stay out of trouble - at least until tomorrow.
*Solution 1: Use two cuts to divide the cake into four equal pieces (quarters). For the third cut, cut the cake in half, horizontally. Some pieces may not have any icing, but their size will be equal.
Solution 2: As in the first solution, use two cuts to divide the cake into four equal pieces (quarters). Then, stack the four pieces on top of each other and use a third cut to cut all four pieces in two.
Then the phone rang. Smoothly, seamlessly, and without a word, Paula locked eyes with Peter, extended her right arm and pointed right between Peter's eyes, transformed her point into a palmed STOP, all while drifting across the kitchen floor to her green Southern Bell and holding Peter motionless as she lifted the receiver with her left hand. "Yes? Please hold." Paula dropped her right hand as she extended the phone to Peter. "It's for you."
Eyes lowered, Peter walked toward Paula and took the phone; he knew better than to stretch Paula's cord. "What. What? HOW? When? But... I'm not happy about this. Yes. Yes. Yes. Bye." Peter handed the receiver back to Paula.
"When are you leaving?"
"Now."
Contribute to Wannaska World, a community writing project where story ideas or contributions left in the comment section or elsewhere on Wannaskan Almanac will be incorporated into ongoing installments.
Be better than yesterday, learn a new word today, and try to stay out of trouble - at least until tomorrow.
*Solution 1: Use two cuts to divide the cake into four equal pieces (quarters). For the third cut, cut the cake in half, horizontally. Some pieces may not have any icing, but their size will be equal.
Solution 2: As in the first solution, use two cuts to divide the cake into four equal pieces (quarters). Then, stack the four pieces on top of each other and use a third cut to cut all four pieces in two.
A wombat weskit was just the appurtenance what made my molly wink. But our tryst was interruptus when a moai-sized member of PETA burst into our belvedere, unleashing a philippic I shall not soon forget. "How dare you strip a poor little wombat of his only pelt?" she demanded. I was en fuego, I tell you. Nictating furiously, I said. "It took a ton of hoggling to get that weskit. There is no better weskit than a wombat one." "Au contraire," she said displaying her own weskit made from fresh coir and dyed a lovely shade of bugloss. "Hoggle on, Phillipa," I said, for that was the moai moll's name.
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