Apr 13

 

Week 16 Day: 103  Ave. sky cover: 5% \ Visibility: 10 miles Flagstaff Today 45° \14°  Wind: 12mph \ Gusts: 25mph
High risk of fire \ Nearest active fire: 254mi \ nearest Lightning: 736mi
Apr Averages for Flagstaff: 59° \ 28°  (3 days of moisture)

Today’s Quote

onthly Observations

Global Child Nutrition Month Link
Grange Month
Holy Humor Month
Home Improvement Time (April-Sept.30)
Honor Society Awareness Month 
Informed Women Month

International Black Women's History Month Link

International Customer Loyalty Month
International Guitar Month 
Link
International Twit Award Month
IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome) Month 
Link
Jazz Appreciation Month
Keep America Beautiful 

 

Weekly Observations

Passiontide: 3-17 

Ramadan: 3- 5/1

10-16

Holy Week

Animal Control Officer Appreciation Week Link 
National Dog Bite Prevention Week Link  
National Public Safety  

        Telecommunicators  (911Operators) Week
Pan American Week

National Student Employment Week:  Link

Money Smart Week: 9-16 Link World Irish Dancing Week: 10-17 Nat’l Work Zone Safety Awareness Week: 11-15 Link

 

Daily Observations

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

A very windy day. Got my taxes filed. Getting some $$ back. I always have more deducted so I can feel good about getting money back. It doesn’t make sense, but it works for me.

Our cruise had 2 real off-road excursions. Both required 4-wheel drive-low to get up the mountain. Both were over rough rock roads. The views from the top of various mountains made the trip very memorable. One driver was great in English, the other was very limited but had google translate which helped. We saw the bay where the original and remake of Mutiny on the Bounty was filmed. A memory from Ireland was all the shades of green. This trip has a memory of all the shades of blue of the ocean.

Early Colonizers decided the indigenous people should grow cotton over pineapple and other fruits. The indigenous could not understand why one would spend all that time tending a crop that one could never eat. Cotton growth never took off. What a great place.

Favorite Memes

 






 

 

 

A bit of Humor

What do you call a tiny pig reciting Shakespeare?

Hamlet.

Trivia

·        The most popular ballet in the world is Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker, which was first performed in 1892.

·        The movie Footloose is based on a true story about a town that outlawed dancing until local high schoolers successful challenged the law in 1979.

Historical Events

Ø   1204 – Constantinople fell to the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade.

Ø   1742 – Handel’s Messiah premiered in Dublin, Ireland.

Ø   1870 – The New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded.

Ø   1943 – The Jefferson Memorial was dedicated in Washington, DC.

Ø   1962 – Silent Spring by Rachel Carson was published.

Ø   1964 – Sidney Poitier became the first African-American male to win the Best Actor award for the 1963 film, Lilies of the Field.

Ø   1974 – Western Union, with NASA and Hughes Aircraft, launched the US’ first commercial geosynchronous communications satellite, Westar 1.

Ø   1976 – The United States Treasury Department reintroduced the two-dollar bill as a Federal Reserve Note.

Ø   1997 – Tiger Woods became the youngest golfer to win the Masters Tournament.

Birthdays Today

@93 – Alfred Mosher Butts, American architect. game designer, created Scrabble (d. 1993)

@83 – Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States (d. 1826)

83 – Paul Sorvino, American actor

@83 – Samuel Beckett, Irish novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died in 1989)

@76 – Madalyn Murray O’Hair, American activist, founded American Atheists (died in 1995)

76 – Al Green, American singer-songwriter and pastor

@74 – Seamus Heaney, Irish poet (d. 2013)

72 – Ron Perlman, American actor

71 – Peter Davison, English actor, The Fifth Doctor

58 – Caroline Rhea, Canadian comedic actress

52 – Ricky Schroder, American actor

@42 – Butch Cassidy [Robert LeRoy Parker], American criminal (d. 1908; shot in Bolivia)

@35 – Guy Fawkes, English soldier, planned the Gunpowder Plot (d. 1606; executed)

 

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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.