10 Oct

 

October 2022

Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 42 Day 263 \ Ave. Sky Cover 60% \ Visibility 10 miles Flagstaff Today 59° \40° 
Wind 9mph \ Gusts 47mph  Air Quality  Fair  Low Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire 28mi \ Nearest Lightning 167mi
Oct Averages for Flagstaff: 63° \ 32° (4 days of moisture)
 

Today’s Quote

Weekly Observations

3-10 No Salt Week Spinning & Weaving Week Link

4-10  World Space Week Link World Dairy Expo

6-12 National Physician’s Assistant Week

9-15   Death Penalty Focus Week National Metric Week   National Women's Motorcycle Week  Link  Drink Local Wine Week    Earth Science Week Link  Emergency Nurses Week Fire Prevention Week  Link  National Chestnut Week  Teen Read Week

9-16 Sukkot Jewish Holiday

10-17 Take Your Medicine Americans Week

10-15 World Rainforest Week: Link   Choose To Be G.R.E.A.T. Week Link   National School Lunch Week

Daily Observations

Angel Food Cake Day
Cake Decorating Day
Columbus Day  Link  Observed
Handbag Day
Hug A Drummer Day   Link
Indigenous Peoples' Day 
International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction
International Newspaper Carrier Day
International Stage Management Day Link
Little League Incorporated Day  Link
Motorsports Memorial Day
National Cake Decorating Day
National Handbag Day  Link
National Kick Butt Day 
National Online Banking Day Link 
Native American Day  
Naval Academy Day
Squid & Cuttlefish Day Link
US Naval Academy Day
World Day Against The Death Penalty Link 
World Homeless Day Link
World Mental Health Day

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

Dark clouds are suddenly moving in over the mountain. Rain in about 30 minutes.

I’m doing a couple of loads of laundry today. I’m packing away most of my short sleeve polo shirts for long sleeve knits as I prepare for colder temps.

Yesterday I had to wait until sunset for the moisture to fall from the sky. It wasn’t a lot, but it was appreciated.

As a teacher in Elementary school, I had to teach about Columbus Day to my students…mainly because it was a long weekend. It was always uncomfortable telling them that history books tell us that Columbus discovered America, when we all knew that hundreds of thousands of Indigenous tribes were here first. I am glad that today’s teachers are teaching Indigenous People’s Day instead. Today’s Quote of the Day explains more fully my feelings about Columbus.

Favorite Memes

Superstitions

Stepping on a Crack

There are some internet theories that this superstition actually had racist beginnings in the 19th century, but cracks have been something to avoid since far earlier. European and Early American folk tales spread the notion that the empty space in cracks (whether in sidewalks, floors, walls, etc.) were actually connections from earth to the spirit world and messing with them in any way would cause trouble and misfortune. This eventually gave way to the popular nursery rhyme, “Step on a crack and break you mother’s back.” 

US Facts

Cows take over

There are three times more cows in Montana than people.

Historical Events

1780 – The Great Hurricane of 1780 killed 20,000 to 30,000 people in the Caribbean.
1845 – The Naval School (later the United States Naval Academy) opened with 50 students in Annapolis, Maryland.
1886 – Griswold Lorollaerd created the first Tuxedo.
1957 – The finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbedemah, was refused service in a Howard Johnson’s restaurant in Dover, Delaware. It was a bit of an international incident. He later was invited to dine with US President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
1964 – NBC aired the 1964 Summer Olympics opening ceremony at Tokyo, Japan, with the first time of live Olympic telecast program, by geostationary communication satellite, Syncom 3.
1973 – Vice President of the US Spiro Agnew resigned, after being charged with evasion of federal income tax.

Birthdays Today

@92 – Helen Hayes, American actress (d. 1993)
“From your parents, you learn to love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.”– Helen Hayes
81 – Peter Coyote, American actor
76 – Ben Vereen, American actor, singer, and dancer
“At the end of the day, give up your worries and give thanks for the journey.”– Ben Vereen
@73 – John Prine, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2020; Covid)
68 – David Lee Roth, American singer-songwriter
“Money can’t buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.”– David Lee Roth
64 – Tanya Tucker, American singer-songwriter
52 – Brett Favre, NFL
49 – Mario Lopez, American actor, and television personality
@40 – Chris Penn, American character actor (d. 2006; heart disease)
38 – Lzzy Hale, American singer-songwriter
“I just got an apartment here in Nashville, and I invested in a Queen-sized bed because I’m like, “I haven’t had a big bed since I was a kid.” I woke up this morning on one side, like, in ‘coffin position’.”– Lzzy Hale
33 – Aimee Teegarden, American actress