Sept 10

 

Flagstaff Almanac

Week37 Day253   Ave. Sky Cover10%Visibility17mi. Flagstaff Today83°\ 50° 
Wind 3mphGusts10mph 
Nearest active fire: 11miles Risk of fire: High Nearest Lightning: 4mi
Air Quality Fair Moisture Days this month: 4days Sunshine 
September Averages: Temps: 74° \ 42° Moisture 5 Days  26 Sunny Days

Today’s Quote

Monthly Observations

Save The Koala Month Link Save Your Photos Month  Link Sea Cadet Month Self-Care Awareness Month Link September Is Healthy Aging Month

Shameless Promotion Month Sports and Home Eye Health & Safety Month Subliminal Communications Month Superior Relationships Month Thyroid Cancer Awareness Month  Link

Weekly Observations

8-14 Direct Support Professional Recognition Week Link International Housekeepers Week Link National Assisted Living Week National Security Officer Appreciation Week National Truck Driver Appreciation Week Link Suicide Prevention Week

9-14 Celebrate Community Link Line Dance Week 9-15 National Neo-Natal Nurses Week  Link 9-16 INVICTUS GAMES Link

Daily Observations

Grandparent's Day National Hug Your Hound Day National Pet Memorial Day Link  National TV Dinner Day Link

Swap Ideas Day Sewing Machine Day (World) Suicide Prevention Day  Link

Today’s Thoughts

There was a nice monsoon in the late afternoon. It only lasted about 20 min. and helped our forest.

Nancy Pelosi says she is running again at 83. I can’t believe I’m saying this: People in politics need to fully retire from politics at 75 and enjoy their remaining years with family and friends.  

There are city, state, and Federal firefighters protecting our people and land. They don’t get rich with money but risk their lives every time they fight a fire. There is now a bill in Congress that would cut Federal firefighters by $20,000 a year. It is signed that would happen in the middle of one or our worst fire seasons on record. It makes no sense. Unless this has happened to you, you can’t understand the psychological damage as well as the financial damage this does each employee. When I was working for the BIA, our salary was cut so we lost our summer pay. It still bothers me at times and that was done to all BIA teachers in the 1980’s.

Enjoy

Unique National Treasures for the US …

If you like the Lincoln Memorial, you’ll love…the Lincoln Cottage.

 

Lincoln Cottage

Statuesquely situated in Washington, D.C., the Lincoln Memorial is the most popular presidential memorial in the U.S., with 7.9 million visitors last year.

Just a few miles north, the Lincoln Cottage (30,000 visitors last year), the “summer White House” for Lincoln, wife Mary, and son Tad, sits amid 250 acres on the grounds of the Armed Forces Retirement Home. It is said that Lincoln, who referred to the White House as the ”iron cage,” did some of his best thinking at the Lincoln Cottage.

Random Trivia…

The Tale of Two Lovers, an erotic novel, was one of the best-selling books of the 15th century. It was written by Pope Pius II before he assumed the papacy.

It’s believed that roughly 97% of history has been lost over time. Written accounts of history only started roughly 6,000 years ago. Modern humans first appeared around 200,000 years ago.

Historic Events

• 1846 – Elias Howe was granted a patent for the sewing machine.
• 2002 – Switzerland, traditionally a neutral country, became a full member of the United Nations.
• 2008 – The Large Hadron Collider at CERN was powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.

Birthdays with some quotes

@91 – Robert Wise, American director, and producer (d. 2005)
@87 – Arnold Palmer, golf champion (d. 2016)
@85 – Karl Lagerfeld, German-French fashion designer, and photographer (d. 2019)
@80 – Mamie Dillard, African American educator, and suffragist (d. 1954)
@79 – Marie Laveau, American Voodoo practitioner (d. 1881)
78 – José Feliciano, blind Puerto Rican singer-songwriter
“Now everybody has been doing the national anthem in their own style, but in 1968 I was the one that took the heat. It cut my career for quite a while.”
74 – Bill O’Reilly, American pundit, and author
@72 – Isaac K. Funk, American minister, and publisher, co-founded Funk & Wagnalls (d. 1912)
@69 – Edmond O’Brien, American character actor (d. 1985; Alzheimer’s)
63 – Colin Firth, English actor
“I’m fully aware that if I were to change professions tomorrow, become an astronaut and be the first man to land on Mars, the headlines in the newspapers would read: `Mr. Darcy Lands on Mars.”
@62 – Charles Kuralt, American journalist (d. 1997; lupus)
55 – Guy Ritchie, English director, producer, and screenwriter
“If you change the rules on what controls you… you will change the rules on what you can control.”
@51 – Roger Maris, American baseball player and coach (d. 1985; non-Hodgkin lymphoma)
“I don’t want to be Babe Ruth. He was a great ballplayer. I’m not trying to replace him. The record is there and damn right I want to break it, but that isn’t replacing Babe Ruth.”
49 – Ryan Phillipe, actor
41 – Misty Copeland, American ballerina

…The End for today…