Apr 15

 Week 16 Day: 105  Ave. sky cover: 5% \ Visibility: 10 miles Flagstaff Today 63° \23°  Wind: 5mph \ Gusts: 10mph
Extreme risk of fire \ Nearest active fire: 254mi \ nearest Lightning: 1467mi
Apr Averages for Flagstaff: 59° \ 28°  (3 days of moisture)

Today’s Quote

Monthly Observations

Pharmacists War on Diabetes Month Pet First Aid Awareness Month Physical Wellness Month Prevent Lyme in Dogs Month Link Prevention of Animal Cruelty Month    Link Rosacea Awareness Month School Library Media Month Sjogren's Awareness Month  Soy Foods Month Straw Hat Month

Stress Awareness Month  Testicular Cancer Awareness Month Tulip Month Women's Empowering Month  Women's Eye Health & Safety Month Workplace Conflict Awareness Month World Habitat Awareness Month World Landscape Architecture Month Worldwide Bereaved Spouses Awareness Month

 

Weekly Observations

Passiontide: 3-17	10-16 Holy Week Animal Control Officer Appreciation Week Link  National Dog Bite Prevention Week Link   National Public Safety Telecommunicators (911 Operators) Week Pan American Week National Student Employment Week:  Link
Money Smart Week: 9-16 Link World Irish Dancing Week: 10-17 Nat’l Work Zone Safety Awareness Week: Link 14-16   National Coin Week
Global Youth Service Days: 15-17	Ramadan: 3- 5/1

 

Daily Observations

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

A nice spring day. Slowly warming up.

I had lunch with Mary and Mike today. Mike just retired from his NAU job. All good for them.

I headed out this morning to get a much-needed haircut. I feel much lighter.

Slowly getting back into my routine. I’m still waiting for a chocolate on my pillow and someone to make my bed every morning. I’m working on a presentation of my trip. Going slow, because I stop to remember how much I saw and how much I learned.

Favorite Memes

 

A bit of Humor

What do call a man with seagulls on his head?

"Cliff"

Trivia

·        Conspiracy theorists often claim that the gold vaults at Fort Knox are empty, but the United States government contends that Fort Knox houses a ton of gold. Actually, more. There is said to be more than 147.3 million ounces of gold. Nearly all of the gold has been converted into gold bars, each weighing about 27 pounds. That much gold, at the current market of gold, means that Fort Knox is storing about $190 billion worth of gold.

·        Back to those conspiracy theorists. They believe that the gold has all been removed and sold off and that the government, to keep up the ruse, has painted a whole bunch on tungsten bricks to look like gold bars, just in case someone does get a chance to peer inside the vault.

Historical Events

Ø   1755 – Samuel Johnson’s A Dictionary of the English Language was published in London.

Ø   1817 – The Erie Canal was authorized, to link between Buffalo on Lake Erie and the Hudson River at Albany New York

Ø   1912 – Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean, near Newfoundland & Nova Scotia, Canada, after hitting an iceberg the night before.

Ø   1923 – Insulin became available for use by people with diabetes.

Ø   1947 – Jackie Robinson, became the first African-American player in Major League Baseball when he played at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Ø   1955 – McDonald’s opened its first franchised restaurant, owned by Ray Kroc, in Des Plaines, Illinois.

Ø   1989 – 96 fans were killed in The Hillsborough Tragedy in Sheffield, England with poor crowd control planning at a soccer match between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest.

Ø   1983 – Tokyo Disneyland opened to the public.

Ø   2013 – The Boston marathon Bombing killed three people and injured 260 runners and supporters. At approximately 2:50 PM (EDT), in a terrorist attack, two explosions around Copley Square were caught live on camera during the telecast of the Boston Marathon.

Ø   2019 – The cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris in France was seriously damaged by a large fire

Birthdays Today

@82 – Kim Il-sung, 1st Supreme Leader of North Korea (d. 1994)

75 – Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, American screenwriter, producer

@65 – Hans Conried, American voice actor (d. 1982; stroke)

63 – Emma Thompson, English actress

@62 – Elizabeth Montgomery, American actress (died in 1995)

56 – Samantha Fox, English model, singer-songwriter

40 – Seth Rogen, Canadian-American actor, director, producer, screenwriter

32 – Emma Watson, English actress