Summer

It is hard to tell if we have had a better weather day in Flagstaff. It was only 79° and the constant breeze made it a little cooler. A couple of hours south, in Phoenix, it was 109°. This always clogs the main arteries for Flagstaff on the weekend. I spent some time in the forest. I drove over Shultz Pass, stopped a few times and wandered around the area. Nothing is better than the smell of the ponderosa, the quiet forest noise, and the many shades of green that are there right now. I did see a couple of doe, but alas no bucks or fawns. It was the middle of the day, so I probably just spooked the does from their rest and they probably drew my attention from their young. The shades of green don’t match the hues of Scotland but we have sunshine. After our almost two weeks of no sun in May, I’ll give up a few shades of green to see the sun most days—all day.

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Random Fact
Most alcoholic beverages contain all 13 minerals necessary to sustain human life.

June is…

Adopt a Shelter Cat Month…Effective Communications Month…Gay & Lesbian Pride Month [National GLBT Month]…Great Outdoors Month…National Accordion Awareness Month…Rebuild Your Life Month…National Candy Month

Week of June 28
National Prevention of Eye Injury Awareness Week
June 28—179 days so far this year…186 days remain in 2009
America’s Kids Day
Descendant’s Day
Gay & Lesbian Parade Day
Log Cabin Day


BIRTHS ON THIS DAY…
1491
Henry VIII of England (1509-47), Don't lose your head over him
1577
Peter Paul Rubens Siegen, Flemish Baroque painter (Circumcision)
1703
John Wesley religious leader: founder of ‘Methodism
1902
Richard Rodgers Hammels Station NY, composer (Rodgers & Hammerstein)
1926
Mel Brooks comedian/actor/director (Blazing Saddles, Spaceballs)
1946
Gilda Radner Detroit, comedienne (SNL-Baba Wawa)
1948
Kathy Bates Academy Award-winning actress: Misery
1960
John Elway NFL QB (Denver Broncos)
1966
John Cusack actor (Stand By Me, Sure Thing, Better Off Dead)

IT HAPPENED ON THIS DAY…

1770
Quakers open a school for blacks in Philadelphia
1820
Tomato is proven nonpoisonous
1838
Britain's Queen Victoria crowned in Westminster Abbey
1894
U.S. President Grover Cleveland signed an act of Congress, making Labor Day a federal holiday in the U.S.
1918
1st flight between Hawaiian Islands
1919
Treaty of Versailles ending WW I signed
1928
Alfred E Smith (NY-Gov) nominated for president at Dem Convention
1956
1st atomic reactor built for private research operates Chicago Ill
1997
Mike Tyson was disqualified after biting off part of Evander Holyfield's ear
2007
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service removes the American bald eagle from the Endangered Species list after finding that nesting populations had sufficiently recovered.

Word Puzzle from NPR Sunday Puzzler…1987

Every answer involves a familiar phrase in the form “____ & ____”, in which the first word starts with the letter F.

EX: ______ & son Answer: father

1. ____ & foremost
2. ____ & square
3. ____ & fortune
4. ____ & fiction
5. ____ & dandy
6. ____ & stream
7. ____ & loose
8. ____ & chips
9. ____ & brimstone
10. ____ & away

*Bonus: ____ & a day
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Answers:
1. First
2. Fair
3. Fame
4. Fact
5. Fine
6. Field
7. Fast
8. Fish
9. Fire
10. Far

Bonus: Forever
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