Aug 7

 

Aug 7, 2021 Week: 32 Day: 219

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

Local Temp:   84°\ 55° Wind: 10mph\ Gusts: 21mph

High risk of fire Active fire: 132mi. \ Lightning: 90mi.

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: Link	2-20

 

Daily Oberservations

 

Lighthouse Day Professional Speakers Day Raspberries & Cream Day

 

 

Favorite Memes

 

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

Another warm day and another day of a breeze making it bearable. Hoping the monsoon returns very soon.

I’m still enjoying the Tokyo games. I’m not into the equestrian events, but the gymnastics is very enjoyable. The 50K walk race was interesting. I never did understand the yellow and red card stuff. Given the opportunity I wouldn’t walk 50K in that heat and humidity, let alone call it a race. Some parts of the walk were over 90° at 70% humidity. This was the last time it will be an Olympic event.

When a family member passes on the Navajo Rez, there are four nights of ‘meetings’ where friends and relatives meet, make plans for the funeral and burial, collect donations, share food and stories of the lost relative/friend. The funeral is then the next morning. In the case of our business tech, the final arrangements were not announced until the last night meeting. I got a text from a friend about 9:30 last night with the final arrangements. I then notified some friends who had asked. I would have had to leave Flagstaff at 6am to make the 9am funeral, due to daylight time on the Rez. I let them know I couldn’t make it. Since she was Miss Western Navajo in 1982, the service was at the Tuba Community Center to honor her accomplishments. Nice.

 

Historical Events

 

1782 – General George Washington ordered the creation of the badge that would become America’s Purple Heart.

1802 Napoleon orders re-instatement of slavery on St Domingue (Haiti)

1882 – The famous Hatfield & McCoy Feud began at the Kentucky/West Virginia border.

1934 US Court of Appeals upheld lower court ruling striking down government's attempt to ban controversial James Joyce novel "Ulysses"

1947 Thor Heyerdahl and the crew of the Kon-Tiki crash into a reef in the Tuamotu Islands, French Polynesia after 101 days crossing the Pacific Ocean

1959 – US satellite Explorer 6 took the first photograph of Earth from space.

1978 – Love Canal, NY, near Niagara Falls, was declared a disaster area by President Jimmy Carter.

1990 – Operation Desert Shield began in response to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait.

2007 – Barry Bonds beat Hank Aarons home record with his 756th home run. 

 

Birthdays Today

 

@88 – Stan Freberg, American puppeteer and voice actor (d. 2015)

79 – Garrison Keillor, American humorist, and radio host

@78 – B.J. Thomas, American singer (d. 2021)

61 – David Duchovny, American actor

55 – Jimmy Wales, American businessman, co-founder of Wikipedia

@41 – Mata Hari [Margaretha Geertruida MacLeod], Dutch dancer, and spy (d. 1917; executed)