12 Mar

 

12 March 2023

Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 11 Day 70 \ Ave. Sky Cover 80% \ Visibility 11 miles Flagstaff Today 57° \32°  Wind 8mph \ Gusts 12mph 
Air Quality: Fair \Very Low Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire 251mi \ Nearest Lightning 147mi
Mar. Averages for Flagstaff: 51° \ 23° \6 Days of moisture
Mostly cloudy with light showers

Today’s Quote

Weekly Observations

  22-4/8
  Lent
  5-12
  Women in Construction Week:   Link 
  Women of Aviation Worldwide Week
  Words Matter Week
10-12
  Women of Aviation Worldwide Week
  Words Matter Week
10-12
  World Rattlesnake Roundup
  10-16
  Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Week
11-17
  Turkey Vultures Return to the Living Sign
12-18
  Campfire USA Birthday Week
  Girl Scout Week Link  Link
  Teen Tech Week

Daily Observations

Academy Awards
Alfred Hitchcock Day
Baked Scallops Day
Check Your Batteries Day
Daylight Saving Time Begins  (Turn Ahead 1 Hour)  @2:00 am)
Girl Scout Birthday Day Link
National "I AM" Day
Plant a Flower Day
Working Moms Day Link

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

The rain is a nice change. Snow piles are still slowly disappearing.

Tonight is the Academy Awards. For those watching…enjoy. I guess it is one way to honor great performances.

For many, don’t forget to move your clocks forward. My part of AZ will just keep on keeping on and leave our clocks alone.  I am reminded how artificial the keeping of time has become. In Ethiopia, they start a new day at 6am (sunrise) and that is when their day changes. Neat idea.

One Cartel in Mexico has apologized for the murder of 2 Americans and turned over those who were responsible for the kidnapping and killing. If you believe either part of that, I have a bridge I would like to sell you. In the past decades, Cartels have kidnapped over 100,000 Mexican citizens. Most have never been found.

I have been hearing a new term to me: atmospheric river. It is a narrow corridor or filament of concentrated moisture in the atmosphere. It seems the AR is giving our little town its rain.

Republican lawmakers want to put Arizona teachers behind bars if they so much as recommend a book to students that is considered too “sexually explicit.”  On Thursday, AZ Senate Republicans advanced a measure punishing teachers who “refer students to or use sexually explicit” materials with a class 5 felony, which carries with it a prison sentence as long as two years. The only exception included in the bill is if the school has first obtained written parental consent, and the material has serious educational value for minors or possesses serious “literary, artistic, political or scientific value.” Gov Hobbs will probably veto the bill.

Enjoy…

Facts…

"From a botanical standpoint, strawberries and raspberries aren't berries, but bananas and avocados are." 

More Slang origins…

Ankle-biter

If it's small, crawls near your feet, and has teeth, it's an ankle-biter. That includes everything from pets to children. Which begs the question, did all Baby Boomers grow up gnawing on their parents' ankles?

Beauty in our 50 states…

37. New Jersey

Look, even if New Jersey hadn't gone and covered the bulk of the state with jug handles and suburban sprawl, it still wouldn't be a stunner. That said, if you can manage to escape the sprawl, many parts of the state are lovely, with rolling hills and glacial lakes, nice beaches, and the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area—a truly beautiful and underappreciated stretch of earth that NJ shares with Pennsylvania. And don't forget the Palisades.

Historical Events

1609 – Bermuda was colonized by England
1933 – President Roosevelt gave his first ‘Fireside Speech’
1938 – Austria was invaded by Germany
1998 – The Church of England ordained its first female priests.

Birthdays Today

90 – Barbara Feldon, American actress
@87 – Harry Harrison, American author, illustrator (d. 2012)
@76 – Al Jarreau, American singer (d. 2017; respiratory failure)
77 – Liza Minnelli, American actress, singer and dancer
76 – Mitt Romney, American businessman and politician
“Free enterprise has done more to lift people out of poverty, to help build a strong middle class, to help educate our kids, and to make our lives better than all the programs of government combined.”– Mitt Romney
75 – James Taylor, American singer-songwriter
“You have to choose whether to love yourself or not.”– James Taylor
66 – Marlon Jackson, American singer-songwriter, Jackson 5
@64 – Gordon MacRae, American actor and singer (d. 1986; pneumonia)
63 – Courtney B. Vance, American actor
61 – Darryl Strawberry, American baseball player
@58 – W.H.R. Rivers, English anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist, psychiatrist (d. 1922; strangulated hernia)
55 – Aaron Eckhart, American actor
“The day you stop caring what other people think of you is the day your life begins.”– Aaron Eckhart 54 – Jake Tapper, American journalist
@47 – Jack Kerouac, American author and poet (d. 1969; hemorrhage)
“Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that g*dd*mn mountain.”– Jack Kerouac
39 – Jaimie Alexander, American actress
@22 – Christina Grimmie, American singer-songwriter (d. 2016; murdered)
“Be stupid, be dumb, be funny, if that’s who you are. Don’t try to be someone that society wants you to be, that’s stupid. So be yourself.”– Christina Grimmie