Easter 2022

Week 17 Day: 107  Ave. sky cover: 5% \ Visibility: 10 miles Flagstaff Today 65° \30°  Wind: 9mph \ Gusts: 11mph
Extreme risk of fire \ Nearest active fire: 10mi prescribed burn \ nearest Lightning: 1013mi
Apr Averages for Flagstaff: 59° \ 28°  (3 days of moisture)

Today’s Quote

 


Weekly Observations

Passiontide: 3-17 

Ramadan: 3- 5/1

World Irish Dancing Week: 10-17  

Global Youth Service Days: 15-17 

16-22

INVICTUS GAMES

16-24  

National Park Week: Link

17-23

Animal Cruelty/Human Violence Awareness Week Link 
Chemists Celebrate Earth Week
Numismatic Week ( National Coin Week)
 Link 
National Paperboard Packaging Week
National Pet ID Week
Link  Link
National Princess Week
Link
National Volunteer Week

 

Daily Observations

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

Happy Easter.

A nice walk through the neighborhood on a great spring day.

I did some laundry. I must get ready for Easter.

I am so glad that I was a very small part of helping the French Polynesia people recover from the 2-year lockdown due to Covid. Most, if not all, of the local vendors seemed happy that we had stopped in. It usually seemed more than the typical tourist welcome.

The Daily Show with Trevor Noah is back with a live audience. I’ve been recording that show for years, midnight is just too late to stay up. After two years without an audience, I had forgotten how great the show is with an audience.

Strange: I pay my landlord with autopay. I’ve been doing it since I moved in. For April he called and said he never got the check. Checking with the bank, they say it was returned because it was damaged. My landlord said he never got it. The bank had refunded the money to my account because the check was damaged. I sent him another check, and he still insists he never got the first check. Hmmm. 

Favorite Memes: Thanks to my friend Ed for these good ones.

 


 

 


 

A bit of Humor

Why should you never trust stairs?

They’re always up to something.

Trivia

o   The mosquito is the single deadliest animal in the world and also one of the smallest. Mosquitoes are estimated to cause between 750,000 and one million human deaths per year. They are a vector for many diseases that are deadly to mankind including malaria, dengue fever, and the West Nile and Zika viruses. Malaria alone accounts for over half a million fatal infections annually.

o   Only the female mosquito feeds on humans with the male feeding on nectar. Some scientists have estimated that potentially half of all human deaths since the beginning of our species may be the result of illnesses transmitted by mosquitoes.

o   In fact, this tiny insect that weighs about as much as a grape seed has destroyed armies, crippled economies and rewrote U.S. history.

Historical Events

Ø   1397 – Geoffrey Chaucer told The Canterbury Tales for the first time at the court of Richard II.

Ø   1521 – The trial of Martin Luther over his teachings began during the assembly of the Diet of Worms.

Ø   1861 – The first oil well fire occurred at the Little and Merrick well at Oil Creek, near Rouseville, Pennsylvania, killing 19 people.

Ø   1906 – San Francisco was hit by a disastrous earthquake, with an estimated magnitude of 7.8.

Ø   1907 – The Ellis Island immigration center in New York processed 11,747 people, more than on any other day.

Ø   1961 – The unsuccessful Bay of Pigs invasion began.

Ø   1964 – The Ford Mustang was introduced to the North American market.

Ø   2014 – NASA’s Kepler space telescope confirms the discovery of the first Earth-size planet, Kepler-186f.

Birthdays Today

@78 – Thornton Wilder, American novelist, playwright (d. 1975; heart failure)

@75 – J.P. Morgan, American banker and financier, founded J.P. Morgan & Co. (d. 1913)

@77 – Rod Steiger, American character actor (d. 2002; kidney failure)

71 – Olivia Hussey, Argentinian-English actress

50 – Jennifer Garner, American actress

48 – Victoria Beckham, English singer and fashion designer

  

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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.