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
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Petroleum Day Link
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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)
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
@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…
