Aug 27

 

2023

Flagstaff Almanac

Week 35 Day 239  Ave. Sky Cover 25%\ Visibility  27mi. Flagstaff Today  82° \ 51° 
Wind  2mph \ Gusts  8mph  Nearest active fire: 16miles Risk of fire: High Nearest Lightning:  66mi
Air Quality: Moderate   Moisture Days this month: 10 days Sunshine 
August Averages: Temps 79° \ 50° Moisture 9 Days   

Today’s Quote

Weekly Observations

16-9/4
Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over Link
21-27
National Composites Week Link
25-31
Be Kind To Humankind Week
26-27
International Bat Nights

Daily Observations

Banana Lovers Day
The Duchess Who Wasn’t Day
Go Topless Day Link 
International Bat Night
Just Because Day

Petroleum Day Link
Pony Express Day
Pots du Creme Day 
World Rock Scissors Paper Day Link

Today’s Thoughts

There was another monsoon last evening. More expected tonight.

Our discussion group had to cancel as the presenter is suffering from gout. Rescheduled and all is good.

Warm summer days and evenings give me a chance to keep my front door open. Things are changing. There are one or two families with pre-teen kids. Within the last week or so, kids have been coming to my screened security door and asking for things. A boy came up and asked if I want to buy the golf club he was holding. Another asked me if I wanted to buy an unwrapped sandwich. Yesterday a girl asked if I could give her some money. I have no idea which unit or units they live in. Next time it happens I’m going to snap their picture and watch to see where they go.

Today marks the 60th Anniversary of King’s March on Washington. I remember it but can’t believe it has been that long ago.

Bob Barker passed at 99. I remember him from The Price Is Right. RIP

Cards win over Vikings. Decent preseason game. Last few ‘knee plays’ is boring.

Enjoy


Unique National Treasures for the US …

Chocolate Chip Cookie

It’s the ultimate comfort food—warm, soft, sweet, homey. And it turns 79 this year. In 1938 Ruth Wakefield, owner of the Toll House restaurant in Whitman, Massachusetts, added cut-up bits of chocolate to the cookie she served with ice cream. A year later, she sold the rights to use her cookie recipe and the Toll House name to Nestle for $1. The cookie’s popularity was boosted by the hard times of the Great Depression and then WWII. Now it’s engrained in America, from care packages shipped to soldiers and college students to Pillsbury refrigerated chocolate chip cookie dough to Chips Ahoy, Famous Amos, Mrs. Fields and Ben & Jerry’s Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough ice cream.

Random Trivia…

The WWII German Luftwaffe had a master interrogator, Hanns Scharff, whose tactic was being as nice as possible. Scharff’s best tactics for getting information out of prisoners included: nature walks without guards present, baking them homemade food, cracking jokes, drinking beers, and afternoon tea with German fighter aces. His techniques were so successful that the US military later incorporated his methods into their own interrogation schools.

Historic Events

  • 1776 – In what is now Brooklyn, New York, British forces under General William Howe defeated Americans under General George Washington in The Revolutionary War’s Battle of Long Island..
  • 1859 – Petroleum was discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania leading to the world’s first commercially successful oil well.
  • 2003 – The initial six-party talks, involving South and North Korea, the United States, China, Japan and Russia, convene to find a peaceful resolution to the security concerns of the North Korean nuclear weapons program.

Birthdays with some quotes

@86 – Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky), American-French photographer, painter (d. 1976)
82 – Harrison Page, American character actor
80 – Tuesday Weld, American actress
@78 – Martha Raye, American actress, and comedian (d. 1994; pneumonia)
“Ask any girl what she’d rather be than beautiful, and she’ll say more beautiful.”
@78 – Ira Levin, American novelist, playwright, songwriter (d. 2007; heart attack)
” Being happy or unhappy – is that really the most important thing? Knowing the truth would be a different kind of happiness – a more satisfying kind, I think, even if it turned out to be a sad kind.”
76 – Barbara Bach (Goldbach), American actress
@70 – Paul Ruebens, actor (d. 2023; cancer)
@64 – Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President (d. 1973; heart attack)
62 – Yolanda Adams, American singer
“Anyone can love you when things are alright. It takes courage to love when things are not good and it does not feel right.”
62 – Tom Ford, Fashion Designer
54 – Chandra Wilson, American actress
47 – Sarah Chalke, Canadian actress
“Human beings are not meant to lose their anonymity and privacy.”
44 – Aaron Paul, American actor
“What’s so great about television. You’re able to tell a long story, where you couldn’t really do that in a film because you have to tell a story in an hour and a half or two hours.”
@32 – Charles Rolls, co-founded Rolls-Royce Limited (d. 1910; air show crash)
“Poor quality is remembered long after low prices are forgotten.”
31 – Blake Jenner, American actor, and singer

 

…The End for today…

 

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