26 Sep

 

 

Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 40 Day 269 \ Ave. Sky Cover 5% \ Visibility 10 miles Flagstaff Today 72° \40° 
Wind 10mph \ Gusts 12mph  Air Quality Fair
High Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire 132mi \ Nearest Lightning 371mi
Sep Averages for Flagstaff: 74° \ 42° (5days of moisture)
 

Today’s Quote

 

Weekly Observations

19-30 International Women's Commerce Days

25-10/1  Banned Books Week National Chimney Safety Week  National Fall Foliage Week   National Keep Kids Creative Week  Remember to Register to Vote Week  Sea Otter Awareness Week: 25-10/1   World Hearing Aid Awareness Week

Daily Observations

Astronomy Day
Compliance Officer Day  Link
Family Day  (4th Monday)
Forget-Me-Not Day Link  
Gold Star Mother's and Family Day
Happy Daughters Day   Link
Internat’l Day For The Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons
Johnny Appleseed Day Link
Love Note Day
National Dumpling Day Link
Pancake Day
Shamu the Whale Day
Situational Awareness Day  Link
World Contraception Day Link

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

Nice Fall day.

Yesterday was busy. A friend needed a ride to Holbrook to pick up her vehicle. Then it was off to Buffalo Park to help some other friends at the astronomy exhibit.  Then an artist friend came to town, and we met at a local for restaurant for pie and catching up. Redwing was trying to ship one of his paintings, a 6’ x 4’traditional ceremony piece. He must come back Monday, as the shipping place couldn’t handle it until then. It was a great day, but I was exhausted by the end of the day.

This morning I flipped my mattress, as the season’s changed. That meant washing the mattress pad and the summer quilt. All done and I now have a great fall quilt on my bed.

It is a football day. Broncos v 49ers tonight on my TV, Cards play Rams this afternoon. I’ll be watching.

I listened to Fareed on CNN this morning while I was busy in the bedroom. It was one of his better programs. He interviewed a leader of S. Korea and had a good discussion about their relationship with N. Korea, China, and Taiwan. It is all so intertwined. Then he had several guests talking about the current unrest in Iran around the young lady who died after being jailed, and then dying in jail, for wearing the hijab incorrectly. Women in Iran are protesting by burning their hijab in public. It is a very tense situation that could expand. Scary.

Favorite Memes

Superstitions

 Breaking a Mirror

Ancient Romans believed that mirrors held pieces of your soul. This, coupled with the myth that our body “renews” itself every seven years fueled the superstition that breaking a mirror means you are damning your soul to seven years of bad luck.

US Facts

Do-gooders

Americans were found to be the group of people most likely to assist a stranger, according to the World Giving Index.

Historical Events

1580 – Francis Drake completed his circumnavigation of the Earth.
1789 – George Washington appointed Thomas Jefferson the first United States Secretary of State.
1957 – West Side Story debuted on Broadway
1960 – The first televised Presidential Debate took place between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon.
1960 – Longest speech in UN history at 4 hours and 29 minutes, was given by Cuba’s Fidel Castro.
1962 – The Beverly Hillbillies premiered on CBS.
1969 – Abbey Road, the last album by The Beatles, was released.
1990 – The Motion Picture Association of America announced a new rating of NC-17 to apply to adult films, replacing the “X” rating.
2011 – On September 26th, 2011 Mikey Welsh posted on Twitter, “Dreamt I died in Chicago next weekend (heart attack in my sleep). Need to write my will today” followed by, “Correction – the weekend after next”. He died October 8th, 2011 from a heart attack in his sleep in a hotel room. In Chicago.

Birthdays Today

@96 – Jack LaLanne, American fitness expert (d. 2011)
“There is no fountain of youth, What you put into your body is what you get out of it. You would not feed your dog a coffee and doughnut for breakfast followed by a cigarette. You will kill the damn dog.”– Jack LaLanne
 @79 – George Raft, American actor (d. 1980’ emphysema)
@76 – T.S. Eliot, English poet, playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965; emphysema)
“Everyone gets the experience. Some get the lesson.”– T. S. Eliot
@74 – Julie London, American singer, and actress (d. 2000; lung cancer)
@73 – Olivia Newton-John, singer (d. 1845; cancer)
@70 – Johnny Appleseed, American gardener, and environmentalist (d. 1845)
“Do not worry at being worried; but accept worry peacefully. Difficult but not impossible.”– Johnny Appleseed
@57 – Marty Robbins, American singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1982; heart disease)
64 – Jim Caviezel, American actor
60 – Melissa Sue Anderson, American-Canadian actress
40 – Serena Williams, tennis champ
@38 – George Gershwin, American pianist, and composer (d. 1937; glioblastoma)
“Life is a lot like jazz. It’s best when you improvise.”– George Gershwin