15Apr

 

15April 2023

Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 15 Day 105 \ Ave. Sky Cover 40% \ Visibility 19 miles Flagstaff Today 49° \25°  Wind 8mph \ Gusts 16mph 
Air Quality: Moderate \ Low Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire 264mi \ Nearest Lightning 196mi
Apr. Averages for Flagstaff: 60° \ 27° \3 Days of moisture
Sunshine and clouds

Today’s Quote

Weekly Observations

3/19-4/16   National Cherry Blossom Festival 

3/22-4/20  Consider Christianity Week
                         International Phace Syndrome Awareness Week
                          National Cleaning Week

        8-16          National Robotics Week

        9-15          Animal Control Officer Appreciation Week 

                 National Dog Bite Prevention Week  

                 National Occupational Health Nursing Week  

                 National Public Safety Telecommunicators (911 Operators)

                 Pan American Week

                 National Student Employment Week 

11-13       National Catholic Educational Association Week

13-15       American Council on Education

13-16       Satchmo Days

14-15       Global Youth Service Days

15-22       International Dark Sky Week

15-16       Just Pray No! Worldwide Weekend of Prayer and Fasting  

15-21      Money Smart Week

              National Volunteer Week

Daily Observations

Auctioneers Day
Glazed Spiral Ham Day
Husband Appreciation Day
International Raw Milk Cheese Appreciation Day
Jackie Robinson Day Link
Laundry Day
McDonald's Day
National ASL Day (American Sign Language)  Link
One Boston Day Link
Purple Up! Day Link
Record Store Day 
Rubber Eraser Day  Link
Slow Art Day Link  
Take a Wild Guess Day
That Sucks Day
Titanic Remembrance Day
World Art Day (DaVinci's Birthday)  Link
World Circus Day

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

A good spring day, cooler than yesterday.

Tax Day is usually the 15^th but has been changed due to the weekend.  Hope you are ready. A former colleague and now friend comes from a wealthy family in Oregon. Their LLC sold a property this year. The sale was divided among the children. Due to the sale, she owed the government $40,000 in taxes. The LLC also sent each child the funds to pay the taxes. Cool.

I’m lazy today so not much is going on. Tomorrow I’m going to clean off the deck so I can enjoy some time sitting out there as the weather warms up.

Enjoy…

 

Geography…

Kansas City Is Also in Missouri

While it may seem illogical to those who live outside of Kansas or Missouri, the Greater Kansas City Metropolitan Area spans both states, which means there are actually two completely separate Kansas City’s, run by two completely separate city governments.

In fact, most Kansas City claims-to-fame wind up on the Missouri side. The Kansas City Chiefs, for example, actually hail from Missouri, not Kansas. 

Moon Facts…

There is a documentary about the last person on the Moon

Most people know Neil Armstrong was the first person to walk on the Moon, but few know the name of the last man to have taken these rare and special steps. As part of the Apollo 17 mission, astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt landed on the Moon’s surface on December 11, 1972. They both walked on its surface, but because Cernan was the last to board the spacecraft after Schmitt, he is officially credited as the last man on the Moon. There is a 2014 documentary about his life titled The Last Man on the Moon. Cernan died in 2017 at the age of 82.

Beauty in our 50 states…

3. Alaska

No state will leave you in complete awe of nature like Alaska. Whether it’s Kenai Fjords and the glaciers of the inside passage, Denali’s vast expanse of snow-capped peaks, or the sprawling tundra that makes up the interior, the state boasts the kind of rugged wilderness that just doesn’t exist in the rest of America. (For proof, look no further than its eight massive national parks, including Gates of the Arctic, the largest of all 63.) Part of the fun is that much of Alaska isn’t accessible by road, so the only way to get around is via scenic boat trips, helicopter tours, or Northern Lights train rides—all of which come with ample opportunities to spot whales, bears, sea lions, and other animals you typically never see outside of zoos. And although the land masses here are the biggest scenic draw, Alaska has some pretty respectable beach towns to boot.

Historical Events

1947 –
Jackie Robinson, became the first African-American player in Major League Baseball when he played at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
1989 –
96 fans were killed in The Hillsborough Tragedy in Sheffield, England with poor crowd control planning at a soccer match between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest.
2013 –
The Boston marathon Bombing killed three people and injured 260 runners and supporters.

Birthdays Today

@85 – Charles Willson Peale, American painter, soldier (d. 1827)
“The Learner must be led always from familiar objects toward the unfamiliar, guided along, as it were, a chain of flowers into the mysteries of life.”– Charles Willson Peale
@85 – Roy Clarke, American musician, television personality (d. 2018)
@82 – Kim Il-sung, North Korean general, 1st Supreme Leader of North Korea (d. 1994)
84 – Claudia Cardinale, Italian actress
76 – Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, American screenwriter, producer
@67 – Leonardo da Vinci, artist (d. 1827)
@64 – Hans Conried, American voice actor (d. 1982; heart attack)
64 – Emma Thompson, English actress
“Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn’t listening.”– Emma Thompson
@62 – Elizabeth Montgomery, American actress (d. 1995; cancer)
58 – Linda Perry, American singer-songwriter
57 – Samantha Fox, English model, singer-songwriter
@43 – Bessie Smith, African-American singer and actress (d. 1937; car crash)
“I don’t want no drummer. I set the tempo.”– Bessie Smith
41 – Seth Rogen, Canadian-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
“You want to create an environment where we’re fostering ideas, not rejecting them.”– Seth Rogen
33 – Emma Watson, English actress
“There’s nothing wrong with being afraid. It’s not the absence of fear, it’s overcoming it. Sometimes you’ve got to blast through and have faith.”– Emma Watson