Jun 24

 

 

Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 26 Day: 175 \ Ave. Sky Cover: 70% \ Visibility: 10 miles Flagstaff Today 78° \45° 
Wind: 5mph \ Gusts: 14mph  Air Quality: Moderate
High Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire: 12mi \ Nearest Lightning: 1mi
June Averages for Flagstaff: 80° \ 43° (1 day of moisture)
 

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Weekly Observations

Thru Sep.5
National Marina Days (From Memorial Day to Labor Day)  Link

17-30  
National Little League Week: Link

19-25  
Animal Rights Awareness Week: Link Link
Greencare For Troops Awareness Week
National Play Catch Week
Carpenter Ant Awareness Week
Fish Are Friends, Not Food! Week Link  
Lightning Safety Awareness Week Link 
Universal Father's Week
National Mosquito Control Awareness Week

20-26  
National Pollinator Week: Link 
National Insect Week

20-25 
Old Time Fiddlers Week

23-26 
Watermelon Thump Seed Spitting Week

Daily Observations

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

Cloudy with a good chance for a nice monsoon rain. So happy that the monsoon arrived about a week early this year. We had nice rainstorms today. Not lot of total rain, but nice to have it. We need moisture to help with the fires. There are still 700+ firefighters on our two fires. Pipeline is about 70% contained, Haywire Compound is about 40% contained.

I was saddened to see that the Hong Kong Jumbo Floating Restaurant has capsized and sank in 1000’ of water. It was a beautiful site for sure. Thankfully no one was lost or injured.

I am not happy about gas prices…but am against a tax holiday of 90 days to help lower gas prices. Our country needs the $10billion that will be lost and that is not a drop in the bucket. The 18 cents a gallon on gas and 24 cents a gallon on diesel IS a drop in the bucket when gas is close to $5/gallon. Bad move Mr. President.

I am still trying to digest the most recent Supreme Court decision that overturned a 100+ year-old law in NY on concealed weapons. From my point-of-view the Supreme Court majority seems to see nothing wrong with every American carrying a weapon anywhere they please…including church, big venues for sports and concerts, school campuses. I don’t believe this was an idea of our founding fathers.

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Earth’s Secrets

The Planet Is 10,000 Times Older Than Humans

"Planet Earth has an estimated age of 4.5 billion years," Jeremiah P. Ostricker, a senior research scholar at Princeton University, tells Popular Mechanics. "Homo Sapiens has been around for at most 450,000 years, that is 1/10,000 the age of the planet. And then, more recently, we spread over the whole globe in 1/100,000 of the age of the planet."

US Flag Myths

Myth #2: The flag has always had stars and stripes

America's earliest flags did not have stars and stripes. A flag used in 1775, for example, did have stripes, but it displayed the British Union Jack crosses in the canton, the top left corner of the flag that's also known as the union. The primary use of a national flag at that time was for naval ships to be able to recognize each other.

Congress didn't adopt the flag with 13 stars and 13 stripes as the official U.S. flag until 1777. 

Historical Events

Ë 1374 – An early morning, a sudden outbreak of ‘St. Vitas’s Dance’ caused people in the streets of Aachen, Germany, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapsed from exhaustion.
Ë 1873 – Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) received a patent (#140,245) for a self-pasting Scrapbook.
Ë 1916 – Mary Pickford became the first female film star to sign a million-dollar contract (with Adolph Zukor/Paramount).
Ë 1949 – The first television western, Hopalong Cassidy, aired on NBC, starring William Boyd.
Ë 1950 – In South Africa, the Group Areas Act was passed, formally segregating races (Apartheid).
Ë 1957 – In Roth v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment.
Ë 1997 – US Air Force officials released a 231-page report dismissing all of the claims of an alien spacecraft crash in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947.
Ë 2004 – In New York, capital punishment was declared unconstitutional.

Birthdays Today

@96 – Al Molinaro, American character actor (d. 2015)
@87 – Jack Dempsey, American boxer (died in 1983)
78 – Jeff Beck, English guitarist
@75 – Thomas Blanchard, American inventor (assembly line) (d. 1864)
75 – Mick Fleetwood, English-American drummer
76 – Robert Reich, American economist and politician
@72 – Ambrose Bierce, American short story writer, essayist, journalist (d.  1914)

 

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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.