25 Mar

25 March 2023

Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 12 Day 84 \ Ave. Sky Cover 30% \ Visibility 15 miles Flagstaff Today 50° \15°  Wind 8mph \ Gusts 19mph 
Air Quality: Fair \Very Low Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire 251mi \ Nearest Lightning 241mi
Mar. Averages for Flagstaff: 51° \ 23° \6 Days of moisture
Windy--Sunshine

Today’s Quote

Weekly Observations

  22-4/8
  Lent
  19-4/16
  National Cherry Blossom Festival Link  
19-25
  American Chocolate Week Link
  National Agriculture Week
  National Animal Poison Prevention Week Link  Link
  National Inhalant and Poisons Awareness Week  Link   Link
  National Poison Prevention Week Link
  National Protocol Officer's Week
  World Folktales & Fables Week
20-26
  Act Happy Week
  International Teach Music Week
  National Fix A Leak Week  Link
  National Fragrance Week Link
  Shakespeare Week Link
  Wellderly Week
21-27
  International Week of Solidarity with People's Struggling Against Racism & Discrimination
  22-4/20
  Ramadan
24-30
  National Farm Workers Awareness Week Link
25-31
  National Physicians Week Link

Daily Observations

Be Mad Day
Earth Hour Link (This pertains to turning off lights at 8:30 pm local time.)
Endometriosis March Day Link 
International Day of Remembrance of The Victims of Slavery and The Transatlantic
International Day of The Unborn Child 
International Day of Remembrance of The Victims of Slavery and The Transatlantic
International Day of The Unborn Child  Link
International Day of Solidarity with Detained and Missing Staff Lobster Newburg Day
Maryland Day
Medal of Honor Day
Members Link
National Day of Celebration of Greek & American Democracy
National Medal of Honor Day
Old New Year's Day
Pecan Day
Support Women Artists Now Day 
Tolkien Reading Day
Vaffeldagen (Waffle Day) Link (Note: This is Sweden and Denmark.)
Waffle Day
Walk In The Sand Day Link 
  Whole Grain Sampling Day
  Whole Grain Sampling Day

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

About an inch of snow last night. Mostly melted. A bit windy.

I headed out for a haircut this morning. I asked about the lady who has been cutting my hair for a couple of years. Stylist replied, “I don’t get into the gossip.” Good haircut. I’ll stick with this one, until this one disappears.

Andy and Faith are heading back to Flag. They have been in Phx about 2 weeks to care for his brother in the hospital. He is now eating some food and will be moved to rehab center today. Hopefully he will recover.

French protests over retirement age are increasing in violence. Now they are burning vehicles. The raise in age is from 62 to 64. France still will have the lowest retirement age of most developed countries are at 65, with a few at 67.  

Enjoy…

 

Facts…

Donald Trump, George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton were born in consecutive months of the same year. 

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"I want to remind folks that Michelangelo’s statue of David was commissioned to be installed in a niche in a cathedral.

"However, once Michelangelo unveiled it, the people who paid for it changed their minds: they decided that it was too magnificent to be displayed up in the cathedral where it would be 80m away from its viewers.

Instead, they installed it in Florence’s municipal square: the most visible and public possible place of honor.

"Those Florida parents who objected to their children seeing it would have been considered backwards and ignorant in 1504."

More Slang origins…

Fuzz

Yes, people in the 1960s had a whole lot of slang for the police. Still, why policemen were called the fuzz during the '60s is anybody's guess. Could it be the military style crew cuts that cops preferred during that decade? Possibly, but we may never know.

Beauty in our 50 states…

24. Minnesota

This US state might as well change its name to Canada Lite. Along the North Shore, you’ll find rugged lakeside cliffs lined with lighthouses and deep forests that conceal stellar hiking trails and waterfalls; come in the summertime, when the Boundary Waters offers some of the most sought-after fishing and canoeing in the upper prairie. The sheer, rugged Lake Superior shoreline gives another glimpse of raw North America, and the pocky glacial holes around Interstate State Park will remind you how far north you really are.

Historical Events

1584 – Sir Walter Raleigh is granted permission to colonize Virginia.
Until 1752, March 25 was considered New Year’s Day in Great Britain and its colonies.
1807 – The Slave Trade Act abolished the slave trade in the British Empire.
1911 – The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in NYC killed146 garment workers.
1969 – John Lennon and Yoko Ono staged their “Bed-In For Peace” in Amsterdam.

Birthdays Today

97 – Gene Shalit, American journalist, critic
80 – Paul Michael Glaser, American actor
@77 – Howard Cosell, American broadcaster,journalist, author (d. 1995; embolism)
@76 – Aretha Franklin, American singer-songwriter, Queen of Soul (d. 2018; cancer)
“Be your own artist, and always be confident in what you’re doing. If you’re not going to be confident, you might as well not be doing it.”– Aretha Franklin
76 – Sir Elton John, English singer-songwriter,
@61 – Hoyt Axton, American singer-songwriter, actor (d. 1999; heart attack)
“Oklahoma is the cultural center of the universe.”– Hoyt Axton
61 – Marcia Cross, American actress
58 – Sarah Jessica Parker, American actress
41 – Danica Patrick, American race car driver
“Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you’ll never know. I truly believe what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.”– Danica Patrick
39 – Katharine McPhee, American singer-songwriter, actress
35 – Big Sean, American rapper
“Patience is the ability to accept trouble, suffering, delay without getting angry or upset, I feel like if you can master patience you can master anything.”– Big Sean
34 – Aly Michalka, American singer-songwriter, actress
“You have to be happy with yourself first of all – that’s the most important thing.”– Aly Michalka
@30 – Johnny Burnette, American singer-songwriter (d. 1964; boating accident)

 

  

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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.