Mar 18

 

Week 12 Day: 77  Ave. sky cover: 5% \ Visibility: 10 miles Flagstaff Today 49° \21°  Wind: 7mph \ Gusts: 16mph
High risk of fire \ Nearest active fire: 257mi \ nearest Lightning: 1643mi
Mar Averages for Flagstaff: 53° \ 23°  (6 days of moisture)

Today’s Quote

 

Weekly Observations

 

11-17	Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Week Turkey Vultures Return to the Living Sign
13-19	Campfire USA Birthday Week  Teen Tech Week
14-20	International Brain Awareness Week Link National Fix A Leak Week  Link
14-18	Native American Awareness Week Link

 

Daily Observations

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

A nice early spring day. I headed out about 9a to drop of my taxes. I’ll pick them up when I’m back from Tahiti.

Gas prices are impossible to understand. When the war in Ukraine started about 3 weeks ago, gas prices soared…even though a barrel of law was about $105. By Mar 8 it hit an all-time high of $125 Now a barrel costs about $105. Yet gas price per gallon has stayed around $4.79 since March 9^th. They seem to go up as the price of oil goes up, then just stay high as the price of oil goes back down. I realize that gas stations work on a very small margin. But somebody is making big money through this mess.

At the small Red Lake Day School, where I was the supervisor for many years, I watched lots of kids grow up. One family of 6 was most interesting. The oldest was Susan. She was popular and a good student. During our summer camps, she would come in with her 5 siblings. The youngest was about 2. She would ‘mother’ them, change diapers for the youngest, and be sure they were in the right group before heading off to her own group of peers. This happened every summer for at least 5 years. She graduated and lived at Flag Dorm where she graduated from Flag High. That was years ago. She’s been living in Tuba with her own four kids. I am friends on FB with her, her momk, and her brother from those Red Lake Days. Yesterday I learned she had passed away. She must have been in her mid-40’s.  From the posts on FB, she was very popular in Tuba and at her work. She will be missed.

Favorite Memes

 

A bit of Humor

How do you fix a broken pumpkin?

With a pumpkin patch.

Trivia

Because it gets liquids from the prey it eats, the polar bear rarely has to drink water.

A polar bear's blubber helps it float in water and acts as a nutritional reserve, allowing the bear to go months without eating.

The polar bear is the largest land carnivore and the most carnivorous member of the bear family since its diet heavily relies on seals.

The polar bear has the richest milk of any bear species; it contains 35 percent fat.

Historical Events

Ø    1834 – The first US railroad tunnel was completed between Hollidaysburg and Johnstown, Pennsylvania.

Ø    1852 – Henry Wells and William G. Fargo founded Wells, Fargo and Company.

Ø    1874 – Hawaii signed a treaty with the United States granting exclusive trade rights.

Ø    1922 – Mohandas Gandhi was sentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience (he served only two).

Ø    1925 – The Tri-State Tornado hit the Midwestern states of Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, killing 695 people.

Ø    1937 – The New London School explosion in New London, Texas, killed over 300 people, mostly children.

Ø    1944 – Mount Vesuvius in Italy erupted, killing 26 people

Ø    1965 – Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, left his spacecraft Voskhod 2, for 12 minutes, becoming the first person to walk in space.

Ø  1990 – In the largest art theft in US history, 12 paintings, collectively worth over $500 million, were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.

Birthdays Today

@88 – Lillian Vernon, founded the Lillian Vernon Company (d. 2015)

@86 – Charley Pride, American country music singer and musician (d. 2020)

@83 – Peter Graves, American actor (d. 2010)

78 – Michael Reagan [John Charles Flaugher], American journalist, radio host, son of Ronald

@71 – Grover Cleveland, 22nd & 24th President (died in 1908)

@71 – Neville Chamberlain, English politician, UK  Minister (d. 1940; cancer)

@76 – George Plimpton, American writer (d. 2003; heart atatck)

@76 – John Updike, American novelist, short story writer, critic (d. 2009; lung cancer)

70 – Will Durst, American journalist, actor

@67 – Edgar Cayce, American mystic and psychic (d. 1945; stroke)

@64 – Wilson Pickett, American singer-songwriter (d. 2006; heart attack)

59 – Vanessa Williams, American model, actress, and singer

@59 – Kicking Bear [Matȟó Wanáȟtaka], Lakota tribal leader, holy man (d. 1904)

@55 – Rudolf Diesel, German, invented the Diesel engine (d. 1913; disappeared at sea)

52 – Queen Latifah [Dana Elaine Owens], American rapper, actress

50 – Dane Cook, American comedic actor

43 – Adam Levine, singer

33 – Lily Collins, English-American actress