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Daily Bread for 1.18.25: A Powerful Crunch

Good morning.

Saturday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 34. Sunrise is 7:21 and sunset is 4:50, for 9 hours, 29 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 78.7 percent of its visible disk illuminated.

On this day in 1977,  scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announce they have identified a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires’ disease.


For Caturday, a short yet powerful crunch:


Canadian Lynxes:

Friday Catblogging: Cat Toys

At The Telegraph, Lucy Tobin reviews cat toys (and each and every feline is deserving as they’ve all been good this year): See Lucy Tobin, Best cat toys for play, exercise, and mental stimulation, The Telegraph, December 5, 2024.

Friday Catblogging: A Cat History Tour in NYC

Alaina Demopoulos reports From Truman Capote to feline firefighters – a day out at New York’s historical cat walking tour: Emily Warren Roebling was a groundbreaking engineer who took over construction of the Brooklyn Bridge after her husband, who had been leading construction, and son died of decompression sickness. On 24 May 1883, Roebling became the first…