30 June

30 June 2023

Flagstaff Almanac

Week 26 Day 181 Ave. Sky Cover 5%\ Visibility  54mi. Flagstaff Today  82° \ 42° 
Wind  5mph \ Gusts  10mph  Nearest active fire: 25miles Nearest Lightning:  234mi
Air Quality: Moderate   Moisture Days this month: 5 days
Risk of fire: Very Low Moderate High Extreme June Averages: Flagstaff: 80° \ 43° June Average: 1 Day of moisture
Sunshine  Red Flag Warning

Today’s Quote

 

Weekly Observations

25-30
International Lace Week Link  
25-7/1  
25-7/1  
Carpenter Ant Awareness Week
Fish Are Friends, Not Food! Week Link 
Windjammer Days 
Windjammer Days Link
26-7/2  
National Tire Safety Week  Link
27-7/4
National Prevention of Eye Injuries Awareness

28-7/4
Fireworks Safety Week
Eid-Al-Adha, Feast of Sacrifice
30-7/6
Nat’l Wildland Firefighter Week of Remembrance
30-7/2 
Roswell UFO Days Link 
30-7/4 
National Tom Sawyer Days Link  (aka Fence Painting Days)

Daily Observations

Asteroid Day
California Avocado Day  Link
Drive Your Corvette to Work Day Link  
Ice Cream Soda Day
International Day of Parliamentarism
Leap Second Time Adjustment Day

National Meteor Watch Day
National Outfit Of The Day Day Link 
NOW (National Organization For Women) Day
Mai Tai Day
Meteor Watch Day
Social Media Day 

Today’s Thoughts

 Been busy this week. I hope the monsoon gets here soon.

Today I had lunch with Mary and Mike. Good food, good conversation. Faith and Andy were going to come but Faith called and said she was staying home with her foot problem.

I went in for my phlebotomy. They only got a little blood, so I’m going back Monday to do that. Still had to spend over an hour to get that result.

Paying for my travel insurance, Canadian Trip, and Vehicle registration today. New vehicle registration for the next year was $450.

There is a 2000-acre wildfire with only 30% containment near Scottsdale, AZ is still threatening hundreds of multi-million dollar home.  Mary’s son and family are only about a mile away from that fire.

Enjoy

Idioms explained…

Penny For Your Thoughts

At one time, pennies actually used to be worth something, so when you saw someone being pensive and wanted to know what they were thinking, offering them “a penny for your thoughts” was actually a good deal! Ironically though, now pennies are worthless, even nonexistent in some countries, so to say a penny for your thoughts is practically an insult.

Don’t Put All Your Eggs in One Basket

According to idioms online, this idiom comes from an old proverb, most likely Spanish or Italian, and was first found in print during the 17th century. It alludes to gathering all the eggs from your hens into one basket so that if you should drop the basket, you lose all your eggs.

Random Trivia…

The tallest man ever recorded was American giant Robert Wadlow (1918–1940), who stood 8 feet 11 inches. Wadlow's size was the result of an abnormally enlarged pituitary gland. (guinnessworldrecords.com)

The tallest living man is 39-year-old Sultan Kosen, from Turkey, who is 8 feet, 2.8 inches, who set the record in 2009. His growth is also due to a pituitary issue. (guinnessworldrecords.com)

The oldest person ever to have lived (whose age could be authenticated), a French woman named Jeanne Louise Calment, was 122 years old when she died in 1997. (guinnessworldrecord.com)

Historic Events

  • 1864 – President Abraham Lincoln granted Yosemite Valley to California for “public use, resort and recreation”.
  • 1908 – The Tunguska Event happened near Lake Baikal, Russia.
  • 1934 – The Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler’s violent purge of his political rivals in Germany, took place.
  • 1936 – Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind was published.

Birthdays with some quotes

@92 – Lena Horne, American singer (died in 2010)
“It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.”– Lena Horne
66 – David Alan Grier, American comedic actor
64 – Vincent D’Onofrio, American character actor
“It’s like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They’re scared, but they’re not going to get hurt.”– Vincent D’Onofrio @62 – Harry Blackstone Jr., American magician, author (died in 1997: cancer)
57 – Mike Tyson, American boxer
“Discipline is doing what you hate to do, but nonetheless doing it like you love it.”– Mike Tyson 40 – Lizzy Caplan, American actress
38 – Michael Phelps, Olympic swimmer

 

  

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I retired in '06--at the ripe old age of 57. I enjoy blogging, photography, traveling, and living life to it's fullest.