22 Feb

February 2023

Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 8 Day 53 \ Ave. Sky Cover 35% \ Visibility 150 miles Flagstaff Today 54° \22°  Wind 10mph \ Gusts 10mph 
Air Quality: Fair \Very Low Moderate High Extreme Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire 179mi \ Nearest Lightning 303mi
Feb. Averages for Flagstaff: 47° \ 19° \5 Days of moisture
Sunshine

Today’s Quote

 

Weekly Observations

  17-22
  Carnival
  17-23 
  Great Backyard Bird Count Link
  18-25 
  National FFA Week Link 
  19-26  
  National Sauna Week Link   
  19-25 
  Bird Health Awareness Week Link  
  Build A Better Trade Show Image Week
  National Eating Disorders Awareness Week
  National Engineers Week
  National Justice for Animals Week
  Build A Better Trade Show Image Week
  National Eating Disorders Awareness Week
  National Engineers Week
  National Justice for Animals Week Link  Link
  Through With The Chew Link
  20-22 
  International Petroleum Week Link
  National Invasive Species Awareness Week Link
  22-25
  American Birkenbreiner Race
  22-4/8
  Lent 

Daily Observations

Ash Wednesday
Cook a Sweet Potato Day
Digital Learning Day
For The Love of Mike Day; 22
George Washington's Birthday
Inconvenience Yourself Day 
National Margarita Day Link
National Supermarket Employee Day  Link
National Wildlife Day Link  (To honor Steve Irwin's birthday)
Pink Shirt Day Link 
Recreational Sports and Fitness Day
Tex Avery Day Link
Walk The Dog Day
Woolworth's Day
World Thinking Day Link

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

Weather guy says big storm on the way. I’ll wait and see.

It’s been a while since I had a pedicure. Headed out this morning and got it done. Feet feel great!

Changing literature to meet current standards is always a very slippery slope. It was disturbing to read that Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has been reworded. Most of the changes are changing ‘body image’ words to more 2023 acceptable forms.  This seems strange to me. I guess I’m not ‘woke’ enough.

The House has 41,000 hours of surveillance footage to the incident of Jan. 6. House leader McCarthy has given copies of all of it to Tucker Carlson for review. Hmmm…nothing political about that release.

While Biden was in Ukraine, he walked into a public area, just as air raid sirens blasted. No attack, just sirens. Some are saying it was a political stunt by Ukraine to show how life is in Kyiv. Maybe, but I’m sure Putin was not happy to see and hear Biden speaking in Ukraine about his war. Today, in Poland, Biden spoke again. I hope all this week helps the Ukrainian people get support for the war. Time will tell.

Enjoy…

Facts…

 The Stanley Cup is covered in misspelled words

Every year, an NHL team hoists the Stanley Cup after winning the NHL playoffs, and every year it seems like there are more misspellings engraved into the cup. Every player on every team that has ever won is engraved on the cup, resulting in a lot of misspellings. For instance, Jacques Plante won the Stanley Cup 5 times, and each time his name is spelled differently. I guess you don’t need to know how to spell in order to make it big in hockey!

Slang Origins

2000: Crib

Meaning: house; living place

MTV has been welcoming viewers to the cribs of the stars since the start of the new millennium, touring the mansions of the rich and famous. Thieves in the 1800s used a similar term to describe shops and houses. However, most believe the 20th century slang developed separately from its predecessor.

Trivia…

Hawaii is the only U.S. state never to report a temperature of zero.

The American state of Hawaii has never once reported a temperature of 0 degrees Fahrenheit. It is the only state in the United States of America that has never dropped below zero, at least in recorded history. In some states, like Wisconsin and Washington, it is commonly below zero multiple times a year. Other states, like Texas, are only very rarely below 0 degrees Fahrenheit. Hawaii is often seen as a tropical paradise, and with good reason.

Historical Events

1651 – St. Peter’s Flood (I): A storm surge flooded the Frisian (Germany/Netherlands) coast, drowning 15,000 people.
1856 – The US Republican Party opened its first national convention in Pittsburgh.
1878 – In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opened the first five-and-dime Woolworth store.
1956 – Montgomery, Alabama arrested several civil rights protestors and bus boycotters, including Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, and E.D. Nixon.
1980 – Winter Olympics: Miracle on Ice: In Lake Placid, New York, the United States hockey team defeats the Soviet Union hockey team 4-3.

Birthdays Today

@96 – Don Pardo, American radio, television announcer (d. 2014)
@91 – Robert Young, American actor (d. 1998)
“You have a Happiness Switch in you that you can switch on at any time. All you have to do is stop switching it off in order to blackmail yourself or others.”– Robert Young
@89 – Sheldon Leonard, American actor, director, producer (d. 1997)
@83 – Robert Baden-Powell, British founder of the boy Scouts (and Girl Guides) (d. 1941)
@82 – Rembrandt Peale, American painter (d. 1860)
“An artist will sooner and with more certainty, establish the character of skeletons, than the most learned anatomist, whose eye has not been accustomed to seize on every peculiarity.”– Rembrandt Peale
@77 – Edward Kennedy, American politician (d. 2009; brain cancer)
73 – Julius Erving, American basketball player and sportscaster
@67 – George Washington, American patriot, general and politician, 1st President of the United States (d. 1799)
“I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.”– George Washington
@58 – Edna St. Vincent Millay (aka Nancy Boyd), American poet and playwright (d. 1950; fall)
“I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.”Edna St. Vincent Millay
57 – Ed Boon, American video game designer, co-created Mortal Kombat
@54 – Oliver (William Oliver Swofford), American pop singer (d. 2000; autoimmune disease)
48 – Drew Barrymore, American actress, director, producer and screenwriter
“Life is very interesting… in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.”– Drew Barrymore
@44 – Steve Irwin, Australian zoologist and television host (d. 2006; ray bite)
@22 – Robert Wadlow, American, tallest man 8 feet, 11.1 inches tall (d. 1940; infection)