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
Today’s Quote
Weekly Observations
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11-17 |
Pediatric Nurse
Practitioner Week |
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13-19 |
Campfire USA Birthday Week |
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14-20 |
International Brain Awareness
Week Link |
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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 9th. 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
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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
