9 Sep

 

 

Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 37 Day 252 \ Ave. Sky Cover 50% \ Visibility 10 miles Flagstaff Today 82° \54° 
Wind 3mph \ Gusts 7mph  Air Quality Moderate
High Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire 57mi \ Nearest Lightning 101mi
Sep Averages for Flagstaff: 74° \ 42° (5days of moisture)
 

Today’s Quote

Weekly Observations

Thru 9/11
US Open Tennis Championships

1-10 
Substitute Teacher Appreciation Week

3-11  Link
International Air Ambulance Week

4-10 
Suicide Prevention Week
National Waffle Week

5-9 
National Payroll Week

6-10 
Play Days

7-10  
Minimally Invasive Surgery Week  Link

8-10 
Popcorn Days Link

9-11 
National Days of Prayer & Remembrance

Daily Observations

Care Bears Share Your Care Day  Link
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Day Link
Hug Your Boss Day Link
International Buy A Priest A Beer Day Link
International Day To Protect Education From Attack
National Dog Walker Appreciation Day  
National Teddy Bear Day  Link 
Teddy Bear Day
Wiener Schnitzel Day
Wonderful Weirdoes Day

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

Clouds are coming in…maybe the monsoon is returning.

Queen Elizabeth II has passed. She passed Balmoral Castle in Scotland. I visited Balmoral on a Focus Travel Club trip to Scotland. The Queen enjoyed spending summers there. It is a magnificent castle. I remember a story from one of the kitchen staff, telling how the Queen Mother would come to the kitchen to inspect the preparation for breakfast.

While I am not a fan of our HOA, they do take good care of the parking lots. Today they are resurfacing and repainting the parking lines. They were here at 7am. They started just before 8am and finished about 11am…now just waiting for everything to set or dry or cure before we can drive on it. They will do the other half tomorrow.

I am not great when it comes to files and filing. My computer certainly helps. While I am concerned about the files found in Trump’s private residence, I am more concerned about the empty folders. What was in them and where are the contents?

Bullhead City, AZ had a terrible storm that knocked out power to most of the city…and it is well over 100°. Several places have opened up with generator-run cooling locations. What a mess.

Around 5am yesterday, a guy from Missouri broke into a gas station about 1/2mile from where I live. Police arrived. The guy attempted to attack an officer with a screwdriver. The guy was killed by another officer. A little too close to my place.            

Favorite Memes

 




 

 


 

Moon Facts…

 Stanley Kubrick Filmed the Moon Landing

Fresh off of the space cultural phenomenon that was 2001: A Space Odyssey, famed movie director Stanley Kubrick is secretly hired by the US government to produce a fake moon landing on a Hollywood sound stage.

Now, there’s a lot of evidence to why this isn’t true. For one, he was already deeply into pre-production for A Clockwork Orange. Also, the technology available in 1969 wasn’t even close in its ability to produce the images we saw on our TV screens on July 20th. Not to mention that there’s just too much footage and photos that shows the actual moon landing. Earlier this year, Kubrick’s daughter even shut down this theory.

Nonetheless, the conspiracy theory still exists with some claiming that another Kubrick masterpiece was actually an apology for faking the moon landing.

Myth Buster

Salem witches died at the stake

Many preconceived ideas persist about witchcraft, particularly around the infamous Salem trial of 1692. According to popular belief, those found guilty, frequently based on confessions extracted under torture, were burned, often alive, at the stake. While this practice was common in Europe, in the United States, the condemned were sent to the gallows. One man, however, refused to incriminate himself and died beneath heavy stones, while others perished in prison awaiting trial. This also dispels the myth that only women were accused of black magic.

Historical Events

1892 – The Pledge of Allegiance was first recited.

The U.S. Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag was written in 1892 by a then 37-year-old minister named Francis Bellamy. The original version of Bellamy’s pledge read, “I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic, for which it stands,—one nation, indivisible—with liberty and justice for all.”

in 1923, the pronoun “my” was dropped from the pledge and the phrase “the Flag” was added, resulting in, “I pledge allegiance to the Flag and Republic, for which it stands,—one nation, indivisible—with liberty and justice for all.”

 

A year later, the National Flag Conference, in order to completely clarify issue, added the words “of America,” resulting in, “I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands,—one nation, indivisible—with liberty and justice for all.”

June 14, 1954, in a Joint Resolution amending a section of the Flag Code, Congress created the Pledge of Allegiance recited by most Americans today:

“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”

 

Birthdays Today

@90 – Colonel ‘Harland’ Sanders, American businessman, founded KFC (d. 1980)
“One has to remember that every failure can be a stepping stone to something better.”– Colonel Sanders
@88 – Cliff Robertson, American actor (d. 2011)
@82 – Leo Tolstoy, Russian author, and playwright (d. 1910)
“A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.”– Leo Tolstoy
@77 – Jimmy ‘the Greek’ Snyder, American sportscaster (d. 1996; heart attack)
77 – Dee Dee Sharp, American singer
70 – Angela Cartwright, English-born American actress
“As I got older, I never considered that tons of people were watching me on television every week. I give a nod to my parents for keeping me as normal as I could be in an un-normal adult world.”– Angela Cartwright
62 – Hugh Grant, English actor
“Teaching brings home to you very fast that you actually know nothing. I didn’t realize that before.”– Hugh Grant
56 – Adam Sandler, American actor, and screenwriter
47 – Michael Bublé, Canadian singer-songwriter
“As I’ve gotten older and the world has gotten far more complicated?” Michael Bublé
31 – Hunter Hayes, American singer-songwriter

 

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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.