Aug 5

 

Aug 5, 2021 Week: 32 Day: 217

Ave. Sky Cover:  5%\Visibility: 10 miles

Local Temp:   84°\ 51° Wind: 9mph\ Gusts: 14mph

EXTREME risk of fire Active fire: 132mi. \ Lightning: 273mi.

Aug Averages: 79°\50° (9 days w/moisture) 

Today’s Quote

  

Weekly Observations

 

XXXII Olympic Games (postponed from 2020):	7/23-8/8
Gallop International Tribal Indian Powwow	7/31-8/9
Gold Panning Week:  Link  Cancelled	2-7
National Bargain Hunting Week Single Working Women's Week Link	2-8
National Environmental Services Week: Li`nk	2-20

 

Daily Oberservations

 

Chile Pepper Day Oyster Day Underwear Day Work Like a Dog Day

 

Favorite Memes

 

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

A great summer day. Slight breeze helping with the higher temperatures.

The USPS and our HOA have finally shaken hands and yesterday I got my first mailbox delivery in a week. All good now.

The Olympics keep giving great completion. So nice to see these young, and some not so young, athletes competing at top levels. It is so enjoyable to watch.

I got a call yesterday that the Business Tech I worked with at Tonalea School passed away yesterday. She had left Tonalea School about 15 years ago and was in her early 60’s. It was quite a shock. I’m waiting to find out what happened. Delores was born and raised in Tonalea. In her early 20’s she was Miss Western Navajo and competed for the Miss Navajo title. After her reign she started working at the school. She was kind, friendly, hardworking, and dedicated to her family. She had 2 adult children and a husband. Very unexpected.

I will never understand the trauma that police officers face. I also don’t understand why there is not a lot of mental health experts available to assist officers without putting a negative mark on their official record.  I will not understand how people who were there can continue to say it was just like any other day. Since the ‘incident’, 4 police officers who were there have committed suicide. These suicides were preventable if mental health services had been available immediately. I can’t help but wonder how much the denial of the actual incident led to the choice to commit suicide. So sad.

 

Historical Events

 

1305 – William Wallace, who led the Scottish resistance against England, was captured, tried, and executed by the English near Glasgow.

1583 – Sir Humphrey Gilbert established the first English colony in the New World, in (now) Newfoundland’s St. John’s harbor.

1864 Battle of Mobile Bay, won by the Union Army led by Rear Admiral Farragut with the cry "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!" (US Civil War)

1884 Cornerstone for Statue of Liberty laid on Bedloe's Island (NYC)

1924 – Little Orphan Annie, Comic Strip debuted

2014 Obama signs The Iron Dome Bill providing $225 million in additional funding for Israel's Iron Dome defense

 

Birthdays Today

 

@84 – Conrad Aiken, American novelist, short story writer, critic, poet (d. 1973)

@84 – Don Matheson, American actor (d. 2014)

@83 -- John Saxon, American character actor (d. 2020)

@76 – Neil Armstrong, American astronaut (d. 2012; heart disease)

76 – Loni Anderson, American actress

@67 – Bob Clark, American director, producer, and screenwriter (2007)

59 – Patrick Ewing, Jamaican-American basketball player

55 – James Gunn, American director, producer, and screenwriter