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
Today’s
Quote
Weekly
Observations
17-22
Carnival
17-23
Great Backyard Bird Count Link
18-25
National FFA Week Link
National Sauna Week Link
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…
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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)
57
– Ed Boon, American video game designer, co-created Mortal Kombat
@54 – Oliver (William Oliver Swofford), American pop singer (d. 2000; autoimmune disease)
“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)
