8 Apr

8 April 2023

Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 14 Day 98 \ Ave. Sky Cover 5% \ Visibility 22 miles Flagstaff Today 65° \23°  Wind 5mph \ Gusts 6mph 
Air Quality:  \ Moderate Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire 443mi \ Nearest Lightning 913mi
Apr. Averages for Flagstaff: 60° \ 27° \3 Days of moisture
Sunshine

Today’s Quote

 

Monthly Observations

Rosacea Awareness Month
School Library Media Month
Sjogren's Awareness Month  Link
Soy Foods Month
Straw Hat Month
Stress Awareness Month  Link
Testicular Cancer Awareness Month
Tulip Month
Women's Empowering Month Link
Women's Eye Health & Safety Month
Workplace Conflict Awareness Month
World Habitat Awareness Month
World Landscape Architecture Month
Worldwide Bereaved Spouses Awareness Month

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

3/26-4/9

Passiontide

2-8

Bat Appreciation Week

Holy Week

National Blue Ribbon Week (Child Abuse)

National Public Health Week

National Window Safety Week

2-9

World Irish Dancing Week

3-9

Explore Your Career Options Week

4-10

Hate Week

National Dental Hygienist Week

6-9

The Masters Tournament

Daily Observations

Baby Massage Day Link 
Buddha Day (Historical Birth Date)  Link
Dog Fighting Awareness Day
Draw A Bird Day  Link
Empanada Day
International Roma Day
National Catch and Release Day
National Dog Fighting Awareness Day
Record Store Day
World Circus Day
Zoo Lover’s Day

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

Nice spring day.

Headed to Home Depot for some new furnace filters. Of course, found some other stuff I didn’t know I needed. I also stopped at the dealership to look at my ‘auto’ temp control. When on ‘auto’ it has its own plan for where the air will be shot into the car and there doesn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason which one it chooses. Sometimes it shoots straight out, other times it comes from the floor, sometimes from the defroster. I did get a work around until they can figure out what is happening. It is not a big deal, just seems no one knows why. I got my new parking permits for my vehicle and a list of HOA rules. More later on the ‘rules’.

The Tennessee House voted to expel Dem. members who protested for stricter gun laws. They did this after the Speaker refused to recognize them and turned off their mics. The Republicans have a super majority. They expelled 2 young black Reps and let the white lady stay…by one vote, even though all three did the exact same thing. There must be more of an explanation.

The violence in Israel is horrific…three major religions (Christian, Jewish, Muslim) are all celebrating their religion’s holy days. Religious fighting makes no sense to me, especially when at all religions sacred sites. What can be done to stop this insanity.  

Enjoy…

 

Facts…

The Hawaiian islands are actually the peaks of the Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain, a mostly undersea mountain range. As such, Mauna Kea, a volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii, is the highest point in the state of Hawaii and tallest mountain on Earth. It originates beneath the Pacific Ocean and rises over 33,500 feet from base to peak. 

More Slang origins…

That Old Dog Won’t Hunt

When someone says “that old dog won’t hunt,” what they’re really saying is that your idea is terrible. This is a phrase used by people who feel cynical and doubtful towards things. “That dog won’t hunt” is like saying “that’s not going to work.”

This piece of slang obviously roots from the use of hunting dogs. When dogs get too old or frail, they can’t hunt anymore, quite as odd as southern sayings can be.

Beauty in our 50 states…

10. Wyoming

Here marks the start of the truly elite, best-of-the-best portion of this list. Everyone in the top quarter of the list has some singular, majestic facet that can make a case for being the best in the land.

Wyoming is so rich with beauty that even the Grand Tetons—quite possibly the single most dramatic vista in the country—somehow get overshadowed by Yellowstone National Park right next door. But if all you've ever seen of Wyoming is Jackson Hole and I-80, you're missing out on the other-worldly high plains outside of Laramie and Cheyenne, the ghostly rocks of Vedauwoo, the mountains of the Front Range (the very same mountains you saw on your trip to Denver), the Wind River Range, the Bighorns, and the brightest Milky Way views in the lower 48. That's not to mention Red Canyon, the Red Desert, Devils Tower, or the wildlife, including elk, moose, bison, and pronghorn populations that number in the hundreds of thousands. Few people venture into Wyoming to see just how the light shimmers off gold Aspen trees on a limitless mountain prairie—and folks in the Cowboy State like that just fine.

Historical Events

1820 – Created nearly 2,000 years earlier, the Venus de Milo staue was discovered on the Aegean island of Milos.

1974 – Henry Aaron hit his 715th Home Run, beating Babe Ruth’s record of 714.

2005 – Olympic Park bomber Eric Rudolph agreed to plead guilty.

A security guard named Richard Jewell was initially considered the prime suspect in the case.

Birthdays Today

97 – Shecky Greene, American comedic actor
@93 – Betty Ford (Elizabeth Bloomer), 40th American First Lady (d. 2011)
@87 – Mary Pickford, Canadian-American actress, co-founded United Artists (d. 1979)
“Today is a new day. You will get out of it just what you put into it…If you have made mistakes, even serious mistakes, there is always another chance for you. And supposing you have tried and failed again and again, you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.”– Mary Pickford
76 – Steve Howe, English guitarist/songwriter
63 – John Schneider, American actor
60 – Julian Lennon, English singer-songwriter
“Nothing changes, until you change. Everything changes, once you change.”– Julian Lennon
@57 – Sonja Henie, Norwegian-American figure skater, actress (d. 1969; leukemia)
“The world never puts a price on you higher than the one you put on yourself.”– Sonja Henie @57 – Biz Markie, American rapper
57 – Robin Wright, American actress
55 – Patricia Arquette, French-Canadian Russian/Polish Jewish-American actress
39 – Ezra Koenig, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
39 – Taran Noah Smith, American actor
@27 – Kim Jong-hyun, South Korean singer-songwriter, 27 club (d. 2017; suicide)