4 Aug

 

 
Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 32 Day 216 \ Ave. Sky Cover 50% \ Visibility 10 miles Flagstaff Today 80° \58° 
Wind 1mph \ Gusts 5mph  Air Quality Fair
Moderate Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire 28mi \ Nearest Lightning 3mi
Aug Averages for Flagstaff: 79° \ 50° (9days of moisture)

 

Today’s Quote

Monthly Observations

National Breastfeeding Month Link
National Catfish Month Link
National Cowgirl Month Link
National Crayon Collection Month  Link
National Goat Cheese Month Link
National Immunization Awareness Month Link
National Panini Month  Link
National Political Affiliation Discrimination Awareness Month Link
National Minority Donor Awareness Month
National Read A Romance Novel Month
National Spinal Muscular Atrophy Awareness Month
National Traffic Awareness Month
National Truancy Prevention Month Link
National Water Quality Month  Link (Also in May)
National Wellness Month
National Win With Civility Month
Neurosurgery Outreach Month

Weekly Observations

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

Thru 8/6 National Exercise With Your Child Week

1-5  Psychic Week

1-7  Happiness Happens Week Link International Clown Week Link National Bargain Hunting Week   National Cleanse Your Skin Week  Link National Minority Donor Awareness Week Single Working Women's Week  Link (Always has 8/4 in it which is Single Working Women's Day. So, sometimes begins last week of July.) Simplify Your Life Week World Breastfeeding Week Link National Exercise With Your Child Week

4-7  Rock for Life Week: Link

Daily Observations

Chocolate Chip Cookie Day

India Pale Ale Beer Day Link 
National Chocolate Chip Day Link
Raisin Bran Day  Link
Single Working Women's Day

US Coast Guard Day

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

Weather app says we may have some rain in the next hour. I’ll happily wait.

I didn’t post yesterday. I had a very long lunch with my former retired financial advisor. She is renting a condo here in Flag for the month…$5K for a 2 bedroom. After about an hour of conversation, we went to Toasted Owl for lunch. We ordered and continued the conversation. Realizing we had been waiting 30 minutes I checked with the waitress. She apologized and brought us one of their famous hot cinnamon rolls. Lunch finally came after a total of 45 minutes. It was a good day, but I didn’t get home until almost 3:30.

Here's a new phrase for lots of rain…”It is raining chicken and ducks”…because it is ‘fowl’ weather. Haha.

I thought it was off that Trump’s first wife was recently buried at one of his golf courses…in a small 10-plot ‘cemetery’ near the first hole. I read today that this decision brought tax advantages as a golf course pays more taxes than a cemetery.

I also voted in the AZ Primary yesterday. While I live in a predominantly Dem area, overall, the state Republicans put Election deniers in almost all of the state-wide and national office positions for the upcoming general election.  WOW!

Favorite Memes

One Hit Wonders

The Hollywood Argyles: 'Alley-oop'

Based on the syndicated comic strip cartoonist Vincent T. Hamlin created in 1932, this song tells the story of prehistoric caveman Alley Oop. The Hollywood Argyles lead singer Gary Paxton named the band after the recording studio's location on Argyle Street and Hollywood Boulevard. In an interview with the Tennessean, Dallas Frazier said of writing the song while working in a California cotton gin, “I knew I had something. I just knew it. You kind of know it, sometimes. I knew that Alley Oop had potential.” 

Historical Events

70 – The Romans destroyed the Second Temple in Jerusalem.
1693 – This date is traditionally ascribed to Dom Perignon’s invention of champagne.
1790 – A tariff act created the need for the Revenue Cutter Service, later renamed The United States Coast Guard.
1821 – The Saturday Evening Post is published for the first time as a weekly newspaper. It is now published periodically throughout the year.
1892 – Andrew Jackson Bordon, along with his wife Abby, were found by Lizzie Bordon, who was arrested and acquitted of their grisly ax murder.
1921 – Cropdusting was invented. John B. Macready flew a Curtiss JN-4 over catalpa trees near Troy, Ohio, killing 99% of the leaf caterpillars, saving the 5000 trees with 175 pounds of lead arsenate pesticide.
1936 – Jesse Owens, black Olympic track star, won the Gold Medal in Germany’s Olympics, embarrassing Adolph Hitler.
1958 – The Billboard Hot 100 was published for the first time. The first number-one song of the Hot 100 was “Poor Little Fool” by Ricky Nelson.
1977 – The United States Department of Energy was formed.
1987 – The Federal Communications Commission rescinded the Fairness Doctrine, which had required radio and television stations to present controversial issues “fairly.”

Birthdays Today

@101 – Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother of the United Kingdom (d. 2002)
@92 – Helen Thomas, American journalist, author (d. 2013)
78 – Richard Belzer, American actor
@70 – Louis Vuitton, French fashion designer, founded Louis Vuitton (d. 1892)
@69 – Louie Armstrong, trumpeter (d. 1971; heart attack)
67 – Billy Bob Thornton, American actor
61 – Barack Obama, American politician, 44th President, Nobel Prize laureate
60 – Roger Clemens, American baseball player
54 – Daniel Dae Kim, actor
52 – Bret Baier, American journalist
51 – Jeff Gordon, American race car driver
41 – Meghan Markle, American actress
30 – Dylan Sprouse, American actor
30 – Cole Sprouse, American actor
@29 – Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet, and playwright (d. 1822; drowned at sea)