May 7

 

 
Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 19 Day: 127 \ Ave. sky cover: 5% \ Visibility: 10 miles Flagstaff Today 76° \38° 
Wind: 8mph \ Gusts: 17mph
Extreme risk of fire \ Nearest active fire: 12mi \ nearest Lightning: 816mi

May Averages for Flagstaff: 68° \ 34°  (3 days of moisture)

 Today’s Quote

 

Monthly Observations

Necrotizing Fasciitis Awareness Month
Neurofibromatosis Awareness Month Link
Older Americans Month
Personal History Month Link
Pet Cancer Awareness Month Link
Prader-Willi Syndrome Awareness Month
Preeclampsia Awareness Month Link
Prepare Tomorrow's Parents Month (5/11-6/15)
React Month
Revise Your Work Schedule Month
Save Your Tooth Month
Social Security Education Awareness Month
Skin Cancer Awareness Month  Link
Spiritual Literacy Month
Strike Out Strokes Month
Sturge-Weber Awareness Month Link

Weekly Observations

May 1-7   Spring Astronomy Week  Be Kind To Animals Week  Dating and Life Coach Recognition Week  Link  Drinking Water Week  Link  Flexible Work Arrangement Week  Geek Week  Link  (First Week) Goodwill Industries Week   Hurricane Preparedness Week   Link International Clitoris Awareness Week    National Alcohol & Drug Related Birth Defects Awareness Week  National Anxiety & Depression Awareness Week National Correctional Officer's Week    National Family Week     National Hug Holiday Week National Root Canal Appreciation Week  Link   National Small Business Week National Tourism Week  National Small Business Week National Tourism Week Link   North American Occupational Safety & Health Week   Link Public Service Recognition Week   Link National Pet Week  Link   Update Your References Week

2-8    Children's Book Week Link  (Also Nov. 7-13) National Sun Safety Week Link Peripheral Neuropathy Awareness Week  Link National Wildflower Week  Screen-Free Week (Digital Detox Week) Link

3-11  (World) Dystonia Awareness Week Link

6-12  National Nurses Day and Week: Link  Link

6-15 National Public Gardens Week  Link

7-8  Toad Suck Daze

Daily Observations

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

Another nice day. Headed out to do weekly shopping.

Wind will start up about 7p and continue through the weekend. 40+ mph gusts are predicted. With the fire danger at extreme, it will be a dangerous weekend. Still our area is not having as many fires as New Mexico. One of their biggest is just barely outside Las Vegas, NM. I stopped for gas many times when I used to drive to Denver. It is a nice little town. Many have evacuated already and more evacuations as expected. Sad.

The picture party for our trip to French Polynesia is tomorrow. I won’t be there but posted a You-Tube video for them to watch. I had to use a new program and couldn’t figure out how to add the music. Here is the link: French Polynesia 2022 Focus Travel.

My brother’s half-brother is traveling England with his wife. He is posting great pictures. They have been planning for a few years and are doing B&B’s between driving from castles to castle. If you use FB, check out their pages: Lenny Scovel and Eleanor VanDeusen.

Favorite Memes

 

Myths that are not true

The family pet went to live on the farm

The truth may be difficult to explain to a child, but this is not only one of the biggest lies parents tell their children, it can actually be damaging to the development of their emotional resiliency.

If you cross your eyes, they will get stuck

Eye muscles can tire after remaining crossed for too long, but they will never freeze in that position.

If you touch a toad, you'll get warts

Warts are contracted from a virus, which has zero connection to the texture of this amphibian's skin.

Cracking your knuckles will give you arthritis

There is no scientific evidence to back up this claim, even if it does sound disgusting to many people.

State Trivia

Florida: both crocodiles and alligators live here

Florida's sprawling Everglades National Park is the only place in the world where alligators and crocodiles co-exist in the same environment. While crocodiles can live in both freshwater and saltwater, alligators prefer freshwater, which means the Everglades is the perfect place for both these reptiles to live. You probably don't want to get close enough to tell the difference, but crocs have longer, pointier snouts while gators' snouts are shorter and more rounded.

Georgia: it has an official state possum

Adopted as state symbol in 1992, Pogo is a major character in a comic strip, published in American newspapers from 1948 to 1975. Created by Walt Kelly after an inspirational visit to Okefenokee Swamp, the cartoon depicted Pogo, a friendly and funny swamp critter that offered commentary on social and political events. Set in the Georgia section of the swamp (part of it lies in Florida), the cartoon often poked fun at the vanity of people with Pogo once declaring "we have met the enemy and he is us".

Hawaii: Iolani Palace is America's only royal palace

The only official royal residence in the USA, Iolani Palace was home to the Hawaiian monarchy in the 19th century. The royal residence was completed in 1882 and was a sumptuous property ahead of its time, complete with electricity and indoor plumbing. The interiors are equally as opulent, and the Throne Room is the plushest of them all. Red velvet curtains frame vast windows, chandeliers hang heavy from the ceiling and a pair of gilded thrones sit on a raised platform.

Historical Events

Ø    1718 – La Nouvelle-Orleans (now New Orleans) was founded by the French Mississippi Company, under the direction of Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, on land inhabited by the Chitimacha. It was named for Philippe II, Duke of Orleans, the Regent of France.

Ø    1789 – George Washington was inaugurated as the first US President.

Ø    1824 – Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony premiered in Vienna, Austria.

Ø    1846 – The Cambridge Chronicle, America’s oldest surviving weekly newspaper, was published for the first time in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Ø    1915 – A German U-boat sank The Lusitania.

Ø    1946 – Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (later renamed Sony) was founded.

Ø    1952 – The concept of the integrated circuit was first published by Geoffrey Dummer.

Ø    1976 – The Honda Accord was launched.

Ø    1994 – Norway’s most famous painting The Scream by Edvard Munch (1893), was recovered almost three months after it was stolen from a museum in Oslo.

Ø    1998 – Germany’s Daimler-Benz announced the purchase of the Chrysler Corporation, forming DaimlerChrysler AG. It was sold again in 2006, forming Chrysler LLC.

Ø    2013 – The Dow Jones Index closed above 15,000 for the first time.

Birthdays Today

@83 – George “Gabby” Hayes, American character actor (d. 1969)

@83 – Darren McGavin [William Lyle Richardson], American actor (d. 2006)

@77 – Robert Browning, English poet (d. 1889)

76 Michael Rosen, British Children’s author

@69 – Johnny Unitas, American football player, sportscaster (d. 2002; stroke)

@65 – David Hume, Scottish philosopher (d. 1776; cancer)

@63 – Johannes Brahms, German pianist and composer (d. 1897; jaundice)

@62 – Anne Baxter, American actress (d. 1985; stroke)

@60 – Gary Cooper, American actor (d. 1961; cancer)

54 – Traci Lords [Nora Louise Kuzma], American actress

@53 – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (d. 1893; cholera)

35 – Aidy Bryant, comedian [SNL]