1 July

 

1 July 2023

Flagstaff Almanac

Week 26 Day 181 Ave. Sky Cover 10%\ Visibility  14mi. Flagstaff Today  83° \ 42° 
Wind  4mph \ Gusts  8mph  Nearest active fire: 21miles Nearest Lightning:  378mi
Air Quality: Moderate   Moisture Days this month: 0 days
Risk of fire: Extreme July Averages: Temps 82° \ 51° Moisture 8 Days
Sunshine 

Today’s Quote

Monthly Observations

Air-Conditioning Appreciation Days (7/3 to 7/15)
Link
Alopecia Month for Women
Bereaved Parents Awareness Month
Bikini Month  Link

Bioterrorism/Disaster Education & Awareness Month
Cell Phone Courtesy Month  Link
Dog Days (7/3 to 8/11)   Link
Dry Eye Awareness Month
Eye Injury Prevention Month Link 

Weekly Observations

6/25-7/1  
Carpenter Ant Awareness Week
Fish Are Friends, Not Food! Week Link 
Windjammer Days 
Windjammer Days Link
6/26-7/2  
National Tire Safety Week  Link
6/27-7/4
National Prevention of Eye Injuries Awareness
6/28-7/4
Fireworks Safety Week
Eid-Al-Adha, Feast of Sacrifice
6/30-7/6
Nat’l Wildland Firefighter Week of Remembrance
6/30-7/2 
Roswell UFO Days Link 
6/30-7/4 
National Tom Sawyer Days Link  (aka Fence Painting Days)

1-4
Tom Sawyer Days
 
1-7
National Independent Living Week
National Unassisted Homebirth Week
1-24
Tour de France 

Daily Observations

American Zoo Day Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms Day
Canada Day
Devotion to Duty Day Estee Lauder Day
Drug Enforcement Administration Day
Early Bird Day Hop A Park Day
International Day of Cooperatives

International Cherry Pit Spitting Day Link 
International Chicken Wing Day

International Tartan Day Link 
National Corn Hole Day Link  

National Creative Ice Cream Flavor Day
National Gingersnap Day
National Postal Workers Day /U.S. Postage National Independent Beer Run Day  
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National Play Outside Day Link 
Medicare's Birthday
National GSA Employee Day
National Postal Workers Day 
 Link
Resolution Renewal Day
Second Half of the New Year Day

Slurpee Days or 7-11's Birthday-11 Link 
U.S. Postage Stamp Day
Zip Code Day

Today’s Thoughts

Ready for a new month. Looking forward to monsoons. Flag and most of AZ is in a heat wave…our mountain town will be in the 80’s for the next week, South in Phoenix, 110°-120°.

The US Government has a sad history of keeping track of the taxpayer’s money. In my day the story was about a $300 toilet seat bought by the government. Nowadays it is fraudsters applying for grants. It seems that the government figured out that about 17% of the government COVID grants were given to fraudsters. Shameful.

I really like my new evaporative cooler. Just figured out that the ‘swing’ feature has the air coming out by rotating the inside fan about 140° sending a nice cool breeze right to left, then back right throughout the room. Much better than a straight on blast of cool air.

Enjoy

 

Idioms explained…

Kick the Bucket

We already know that when someone or something kicks the bucket, they’re dead, but what poor soul died for this to become an idiom, and what’s the story behind it? The following is from wiktionary.org:

An archaic use of a bucket was a beam from which a pig is hung by its feet prior to being slaughtered, and to kick the bucket originally signified the pig’s death throes.

Random Trivia…

Sliced bread was first manufactured by machine and sold in the 1920s by the Chillicothe Baking Company in Missouri. It was the greatest thing since…unsliced bread? (chllicothenews.com)

The Earl of Sandwich, John Montagu, who lived in the 1700s, reportedly invented the sandwich so he wouldn’t have to leave his gambling table to eat. (pbs.org)

The first college football game was played on November 6, 1869, between Rutgers and Princeton (then known as the College of New Jersey) in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Rutgers won. (ncaa.com)

Historic Events

  • 1847 – The first US postage stamps were issued (Ben Franklin 5 cents & George Washington 10 cents)
  • 1848 – The first publication of a photograph in a newspaper, in L’illustraion Journel Universel
  • 1862 – The Internal Revenue Service was established
  • 1874 – The Philadelphia ‘America’s Oldest’ Zoo opened
  • 1899 Birthday (fictional) Indiana Jones, Movies
  • 1941 – NBC became broadcasting from the Empire State Building, NYC
  • 1941 - The first TV commercial aired :  Bulova Watches paid for the 10-second spot, shown before a baseball game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and Philadelphia Phillies at Ebbets Field.
  • 1916  – WWI: The Battle of Somme began, lasting until November 13
  • 1963 – The US Zip (Zone Improvement Plan) Codes were inaugurated.

·         1968 – Medicare went to effect (USA)

Birthdays with some quotes

@104 – Olivia de Havilland, British-American actress (d. 2020)
“It’s hard to keep on being civil when they ask you such annoying questions.” Olivia de Havilland
89 – Jamie Farr, American actor
87 – Wally Amos, American entrepreneur, founder of Famous Amos
“You can make your life whatever you want it to be”– Wally Amos
@85 – Estée Lauder, American businesswoman, co-founded the Estée Lauder Companies (d,2004)
“Give credit where credit is due: simply said, if you want loyalty and best effort, you must be thoughtful.”– Estée Lauder
@85 – David Prowse, English actor (d. 2020)
82 – Twyla Tharp, American dancer, choreographer
78 – Debbie Harry, American singer-songwriter, actress
@74 – Karen Black, American actress (d. 2013; cancer)
73 – David Duke, American white supremacist
72 – Fred Schneider, American singer-songwriter, keyboard player (B-52s)
72 – Dan Aykroyd, Canadian actor, screenwriter
“We’re on a mission from God.– Elwood J. Blues (Dan Akroyd), in The Blues Brothers
@71 – George Sand, French novelist (d.1876)
“One is happy as a result of one’s own efforts, once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness — simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self-denial to a point, love of work, and, above all, a clear conscience.”– George Sand
63 – Evelyn “Champagne” King, American soul/disco singer
56 – Pamela Anderson, Canadian-American model, actress
“Eventually you just have to realize that you’re living for an audience of one. I’m not here for anyone else’s approval.”– Pamela Anderson
41 – Hilarie Burton, American actress
@36 – Diana, Princess of Wales (d. 1997; car crash)
“Family is the most important thing in the world.”– Diana, Princess of Wales
28 – Savvy Shields, Miss America 2017
22 – Chosen Jacobs, American actor

…The End for today…

 

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