Sep 24

Week: 39 Day: 267
Ave. Sky Cover:  10%\Visibility: 10 miles
Local Temp:   76°\ 42° Wind: 5mph\ Gusts: 11mph
High risk of fire Active fire: 121mi. \ Lightning: 225mi.
Sep Averages: 74°\32° (5 days w/moisture) 

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Weekly Observations

 

National Ballroom Dance Week Link

17-26  

Farm Animal Awareness Week:

18-24  

Balance Awareness Week:  Link   
Build A Better Image Week:  

Child Passenger Safety Week:  
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Deaf Dog Awareness Week:  
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International Clean Hands Week:  

International Go-Kart Week:  
International Interpreters and Translators Week:  
International Women's E-Commerce Days:
Mitochondrial Disease Awareness Week:  
  
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National Dog Week: 
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National Employ Older Workers Week:
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National Farm & Ranch Safety and Health Week:  
National Historically Black Colleges & Universities Week:

National Indoor Plant Week:  
National Rehabilitation Awareness Week:  
National Security Officer Appreciation Week:  

National Singles Week:   
Pollution Prevention Week: 19-24   
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Prostate Cancer Awareness Week: 
  
Tolkien Week:
 
World Reflexology Week:

 

 

 

19-25

National Go-Kart Week Link

20-26

National Love Your Files Week Link 

20-24  

Minimally Invasive Surgery Week Link 

22-10/21  

International Sand Sculpting Championships Link

24-10/3 

 

Daily Observations

 



 

 

Favorite Memes

 

 




 

 


 

 

A quick smile!

 

 

What do you call a potato cutting Friar?

A Chip Monk.

 

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

 

I am much, much better. Did 2 loads of laundry. I took a short nap about 2pm and stayed up until 10pm…almost back to normal.

Seven US Representatives in the house have been notified they did not file the necessary paperwork on stock purchases while in office. Only one responded to the press. This is not leadership.

There is crazy stuff going around about the vaccine. Here’s two…first Mike Flynn, was at a meeting and said that he read that somebody is going to put the vaccine in SALAD DRESSING. Then another crazy reported that Smartphones that are upgraded will no longer open if the owner is not vaccinated. We are living a crazy world.

Several busses with Haitian refugees kicked out the driver and took the bus. Another bus had the windows kicked out so the refugees could run. Now busses have a high-risk escort as they deliver refugees around the nation. This whole Haitian program was not well thought out.

A study came out that Flagstaff has the rudest drivers in AZ. Not surprised, but sad.

Another concerning idea…the Navajo Nation has approved Tesla Charging Stations for the Rez, but the Utility Company has many elders deep in the reservation that have no electricity.

 

 

 

Historical Events

1683 King Louis XIV expels all Jews from French possessions in America

1890 – The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints officially renounced polygamy.

1906 – President Theodore Roosevelt proclaimed Devils Tower in Wyoming as the nation’s first National Monument.

1948 The Honda Motor Company is founded in Hamamatsu-city, Japan

1952 American fast food restaurant chain "KFC" [Kentucky Fried Chicken] opens its first franchise in Salt Lake City, Utah

1960 – USS Enterprise, the world’s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, was launched.

1976 Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst sentenced to 7 years for her part in a 1974 bank robbery. Released after 22 months by US President Jimmy Carter

1991 – Influential album, Nevermind, by Nirvana was released.

2015 Pope Francis becomes the 1st pope to address the US Congress. Names Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Thomas Merton, and Dorothy Day as his American heroes.

2019 – An impeachment inquiry was initiated by the United States House of Representatives against President Donald Trump.

 

Birthdays Today

 

@86 – Jim McKay, American sportscaster, and journalist (d.2008)

76 – Lou Dobbs, American journalist, and author

75 – ‘Mean Joe’ Greene, American football player, coach, actor

63 – Kevin Sorbo, American actor

@56 – Linda McCartney, singer, photographer, activist (d. 1998; liver cancer)

@53 – Jim Henson, Puppeteer (d. 1990; pneumonia)

@44 – F. Scott Fitzgerald, American novelist, short-story writer (d. 1940; heart attack)

  

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I retired in '06--at the ripe old age of 57. I enjoy blogging, photography, traveling, and living life to it's fullest.