Daily
Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 40 Day 270 \ Ave. Sky Cover 30% \ Visibility 10 miles Flagstaff Today 73° \40°
Wind 4mph \ Gusts 7mph Air Quality Moderate
High Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire 102mi \ Nearest
Lightning 104mi
Sep Averages for Flagstaff: 74° \ 42° (5days of moisture)
Today’s Quote
Weekly Observations
19-30
|
25-10/1
|
Daily Observations
Ancestor Appreciation Day
Chocolate Milk Day
Corned Beef Hash Day
Crush A Can Day Link
Gay Men's HIV/AIDS Awareness Day Link
Google's Birthday
National
Scarf Day Link
National
Woman Road Warrior Day
Rabi'-al-Awwal Link [Islamic holiday]
Saint
Vincent De Paul Feast Day
World Tourism Day
My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
Fall is
here. Morning lows just keep getting lower.
Yesterday
the AZ Cards lost…Broncos beat the 49ers is a good game.
Hurricane Ian
is causing pre-havoc on much of Florida. I hope my friends and readers in
Florida are all doing well. Anytime there is a mandatory evacuation notice,
residents are worried.
After Roe v
Wade was overturned, AZ went to court. Now an 1864 Abortion Law is being
enforced in AZ. It was 1912 when AZ became a state. I find this unbelievable.
Reminds me of an early flight I took from Denver to Phoenix, in the early 1970’s.
As we were landing at the tiny airport in Phoenix, the captain said: “…we will
be landing in about 15 minutes. Fasten your seatbelts and set your clocks back
ten years.”
The last
time a meteor hit near Flagstaff was about 50,000 years ago. That fear has not
been on my list of fears…even after seeing several movies that was about
asteroids crashing into our planet. Tonight, the US will attempt to change the
orbit of a small moon that is attached gravitationally to an asteroid far from
the earth’s orbit. If it succeeds, all is good. If it fails, more testing will
be done. There will be live camera on
the probe and should be interesting to watch, until the screen goes black, and
scientists know it was a hit. Then in a couple of days they will be able if
they changed the orbit of the tiny moon. They are expecting a 10 minute change
in the orbit. WOW!
Favorite Memes
 |
 |
 |
 |
Superstitions
Black Cat Crossing Your Path
Many
cultures throughout history regarded all cats as good luck omens, but black
kitties got a bad rap in the Middle Ages when they were associated with
witchcraft and actually viewed as demons. That demon thing snowballed into an
idea that if a black cat crossed your path, they were blocking your connection
to God and path to heaven.
US Facts
Alaska and Rhode
Island
Although Alaska is 429 times larger than
the state of Rhode Island, it has a significantly lower population.
Historical Events
1540 – Pope Paul III approved the charter
for the Society of Jesus (Jesuits).
1888 – The first letter from Jack The
Ripper was received by London’s Central News Agency.
1903 – The Wreck of the Old 97, a
real-life American rail disaster that became the subject of a popular dirge.
1905 – Albert Einstein’s paper “Does the
Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?”, introducing the equation
E=mc² was published.
1908 – Model T #0001 came out of Henry
Ford’s car factory today.
1912 – W C Handy published The Memphis
Blues, the first Blues Song
1937- The first Santa Claus training
school opened in Albion, New York.
1962 – Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring
was published.
1964 – The Warren Report, regarding the
assassination of JFK was released.
1998 Google launched its li’l Search
Engine.
Birthdays Today
@95 – Jayne Meadows, American actress (d. 2015)
“There is only one
secret. To love what you are doing.”– Jayne Meadows @85 – Wilford Brimley, American actor (d. 2020)
“It is in the
interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot
live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail.”– Samuel Adams
@80 – Harry Blackstone, Sr., American magician (d. 1965)
@75 – Don Cornelius, American television host (Soul Train) (d.
2012; suicide)
“I always felt a
love for music, but I never got my nerve up enough to try a musical instrument
in school.”– Don Cornelius
@74
– Meat Loaf [Marvin Lee Aday], American
singer-songwriter (d. 2022; Covid)
@62 – Greg Morris, American actor (d. 1996; brain tumor)
50
– Gwyneth Paltrow, American actress
48
– Carrie Brownstein, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress
“I will say, as a
woman when you put a mustache on, you find out a lot of things about yourself.”–
Carrie Brownstein
40
– Lil Wayne, American rapper
38
– Avril Lavigne, Canadian singer-songwriter
