Jun 9

 

 

Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 24 Day: 160 \ Ave. Sky Cover: 10% \ Visibility: 10 miles Flagstaff Today 85° \52° 
Wind: 7mph \ Gusts: 15mph
Extreme Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire: 10mi \ Nearest Lightning: 211mi
June Averages for Flagstaff: 80° \ 43° (1 day of moisture)

 

Today’s Quote

 

Weekly Observations

Thru Sep.5 National Marina Days (From Memorial Day to Labor Day)  Link

4-11  International Clothesline Week

4-12  National Lemonade Days Link

5-11    Bedbug Awareness Week Link Black Single Parents Week   End Mountain Top Removal Week Link    Flag Football Week Link  National Business Etiquette Week    National Headache Awareness Week Link   Pet Appreciation Week Pet Appreciation Week  Link Link

Daily Observations

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

Heat wave continues at 7000’. I don’t remember it being this hot for this long in June. We need moisture for the forest…and soon.

I headed out this morning for a much-needed haircut. As my hair thins on top, it keeps getting thicker and heavier on the back and sides. Crazy.

I am so tired of this crazy gun debate. My grandfather was a hunter, my dad was a hunter, I was a hunter. We all took gun safety courses. Alcohol was never allowed in a gun-hunting camp. Our guns were locked up with the ammunition and bolts locked up in a different room. The only person I knew who that was shot was a grown neighbor’s son who was in his 20’s and practicing quick draw when he shot himself in the leg. The uninformed congressman who stated that his constituents used assault rifles to kill prairie dogs knows not of what he speaks. One assault rifle bullet hitting a prairie dog would blow it up and make it unrecognizable. Listening to the 2^nd Amendment people are cherry-picking the amendment…they always leave out the part about a ‘well-regulated militia’. Some of the children killed in Texas were only identified by their shoes, as that was all that was identifiable.

I heard an interesting discussion this morning: Should photos of the children killed in Texas be released so that people could actually see the devastation. Of course, parents are against the release of the photos…they want to remember their children when they were alive. Another group said that the photos should be seen by the legislators who are blocking gun regulation. I believe the legislators should have to see the photos and videos of gun violence. I believe they just don’t get the devastation these crazy people are making.  It is time to protect the innocent.

Favorite Memes

Everyday Phrases with a Dark Meaning

Crocodile tears

This is a popular phrase usually used to describe false sorrow and faking an emotional response. But the whole phrase is based on a medieval myth.

People back then believed that crocodiles actually cried tears of sadness while they killed and ate their prey.

Riddle of the Day

v   Which word in the dictionary is always spelled incorrectly?

v Hard riddles obsess over wordplay and word games. This one has such an easy answer that it trips you up by getting you to think in a complex way. Some riddles require that. Not this one.

Answer: “Incorrectly.”

Historical Events

Ë 1650 – The Harvard Corporation, one of the two administrative boards of Harvard, was established. It was the first legal corporation in the Americas.

Ë 1856 – 500 Mormons left Iowa City, Iowa, and headed west for Salt Lake City.

Ë 1902 – Horn & Hardart opened the first restaurant with vending machine service at the Automat Restaurant at 818 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Ë 1915 – William Jennings Bryan resigned as Woodrow Wilson’s Secretary of State over a disagreement regarding the United States’ handling of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania.

Ë  1934 – Donald Duck debuted in The Wise Little Hen.

Ë 1954 – Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, called out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during the Army-McCarthy hearings, giving McCarthy the famous rebuke, “You’ve done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?”

Ë 1959 – The first nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine, the USS George Washington was launched.

Ë 1973 – Secretariat won the US Triple Crown (The Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, and Belmont Stakes).

Birthdays Today

@94 – Les Paul, American guitarist, songwriter (d. 2009)
@93 – Jackie Mason, American comedian, actor (d, 2021)
@73 – Cole Porter, American composer, songwriter (d. 1964; kidney failure)
@67 – Samuel Slater, English-American engineer,businessman (d. 1835)
61 – Michael J. Fox, Canadian-American actor
59 – Johnny Depp, American actor
@52 – Peter the Great, Russian emperor (d. 1725; bladder failure)
41 – Natalie Portman, Israeli-American actress