6 Dec

 

December 2022

Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 50 Day 340 \ Ave. Sky Cover 40% \ Visibility 10 miles Flagstaff Today 46° \35° 
Wind 9mph \ Gusts s15mph  Air Quality: Fair \Low Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire 38mi \ Nearest Lightning 1382mi
Dec Averages for Flagstaff: 43° \ 17° `
Mostly Sunny

Today’s Quote

 

Weekly Observations

Cookie Cutter Week: 1-7 Link
Clerc-Gallaudet Week: 3-10
National Hand Washing Awareness Week: 4-10 Link  
Recipe Greetings For The Holidays Week: 4-10 
Andisop (Meterological Fiddling): 5-24   Link
Older Driver Safety Awareness Week: 5-9 Link 
Computer Science Education Week: 5-11 Link

Daily Observations

International Sweater Day

Miner’s Day

Mitten Tree Day Link

National Gazpacho Day

National Pawnbrokers Day

National Microwave Oven Day

Put on Your Own Shoes Day

Saint Nicholas Day

World Trick Shot Day

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

Finally, some sunshine.

Yesterday the Cardinals had a bye and the Broncos lost to the Ravens.

So nice to see that the White House has returned the Kennedy Center honorees pre-party. Trump had stopped the party and refused to attend the Kennedy Center Honors.

Deion Sanders is now the Head Football coach for the Univ. of CO Buffaloes. He has plans that may have a number of scholarship students transferring to another program. I’ll see how he does.

60 Minutes did a segment on Gorongosa Mountain and National Park in Mozambique. A former tech billionaire has poured over $100 million into rebuilding the Park after a civil war that destroyed most of the wildlife. The locals are now part of the park. It sounds fascinating. Adding it too my shortened bucket list.

Favorite Memes

One lonely Aspen in a see of Pine trees

Little known Native American History

You need to hear about Maria Tallchief

If you managed to get through school without hearing about Maria Tallchief, you missed out on hearing about a pioneering woman who changed the world. Tallchief, whose father was a member of the Osage Nation, dreamed of being a ballet dancer from the time she was a little girl. At 17, she moved to New York City to pursue a career as a ballerina, but racism stood in her way. She was advised many times to change her last name so her Native American heritage wouldn't be readily apparent, but Tallchief refused. Her hard work, talent, and unwavering persistence paid off. Maria Tallchief eventually broke barriers as the first American to dance with the Paris Opera Ballet and the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow. She became the prima ballerina at the New York City Ballet and was regarded as one of the greatest dancers in the world. 

Slang Origins

1927: Zozzled

Meaning: drunk

First recorded in Edmund Wilson’s "Lexicon of Prohibition," “zozzled” was one of many words used during Prohibition to describe the effect of now-illegal drinking. “Zozzle” most likely comes from the word the word “sozzle,” another word for drunk that also means to splash something on someone, something a drunk person may be more likely to do.

Historical Events

1897 – London became the world’s first city license taxicabs.

1969 – The Altamont Free Concert, featuring Santana, Jefferson Airplane, The Flying Burrito Brothers and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and the Rolling Stones. It also had several deaths, and hundreds were injured. It was the focus of the 1970 documentary film titled Gimme Shelter.

Gerald Ford was sworn in as US Vice President in 1973.

Birthdays Today

@91 – Dave Brubeck, American pianist, composer (d. 2012)
“It is stern work, it is perilous work, to thrust your hand in the sun And pull out a spark of immortal flame to warm the hearts of men: But Prometheus, torn by the claws and beaks whose task is never done, Would be tortured another eternity to go stealing fire again.”
– Joyce Kilmer
@86 – Ira Gershwin, American songwriter (d. 1983)
“One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.”– Ira Gershwin
86 – Kenneth Copeland, American evangelist
“Don’t try and fit your faith into your busy schedule, build your schedule around your faith.”
– Kenneth Copeland
74 – JoBeth Williams, American actress
@73 – Agnes Moorehead, American actress (d. 1974; cancer)
69 – Tom Hulce, American actor
55 – Judd Apatow, American director, producer, screenwriter
@48 – Wally Cox, American actor (d. 1973; heart attack)
@37 – Linda Creed, American singer-songwriter (d. 1986; breast cancer)
Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all. – Michael Masser & Linda Creed
@31 – Joyce Kilmer, American soldier, author, poet (d. 1918; KIA)
I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in Summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.
– Joyce Kilmer
@25 – Baby Face Nelson, American gangster (d. 1934; shot by FBI)
“You drive. I’ve been hit!”– George “Baby Face” Nelson