9 Apr---Easter

 

9April 2023 Easter

Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 15 Day 99 \ Ave. Sky Cover 40% \ Visibility 23 miles Flagstaff Today 65° \28°  Wind 5mph \ Gusts 12mph 
Air Quality:  Moderate\ Moderate Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire 664mi \ Nearest Lightning 1315mi
Apr. Averages for Flagstaff: 60° \ 27° \3 Days of moisture
Sunshine

Today’s Quote

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

2-9

World Irish Dancing Week

3-9

Explore Your Career Options Week

4-10

Hate Week

National Dental Hygienist Week

6-9

The Masters Tournament

8-16

National Robotics Week

9-15

Animal Control Officer Appreciation Week 

National Dog Bite Prevention Week  

National Occupational Health Nursing Week  

National Public Safety Telecommunicators (911 Operators) Week

Pan American Week

National Student Employment Week 

Daily Observations

Appomattox Day Link
Chinese Almond Cookie Day
Easter
Global Day to End Child Sexual Abuse Link 
Jenkins Ear Day
Jumbo Day  (Elephant came to US and created the word for big in our language.)
Name Yourself Day
National Cherish An Antique Day
National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day
National Unicorn Day Link (Note: This is in Scotland, but it's become popular worldwide.)
Plum Pudding Day Link (Note: Eaten on Easter. But, if eaten on 12/25 it's Christmas Pudding Day.)
Winston Churchill Day

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

Warm spring day with high clouds.

I took my car to the dealership for their free drive-thru car wash. My silver vehicle was covered with the results of the wind the other day. Now it is all shiny again.

After reviewing the new HOA Rules and Regulations, I expect some backlash from owners. 1. Each lot is restricted to use as a dwelling for residential use by one family only.  Note: the renters on one side of me are college grad students, and on the other side, a group of local workers who cause no problems…. 16. Each lot owner shall be responsible for ice and snow removal on their walkways in the front of their townhouse. The Association shall be responsible for snow removal of the common area walks and parking lot. Note: They have always done the stairs and sidewalks….19. The Association shall provide exterior maintenance for the improvements upon each lot so far as the painting, repair and replacement of roofs, fascia, soffits, siding, and trim. This does not include glass surfaces, window screens, rain gutters or any fixtures or additions made by the individual owner. Each owner shall be responsible for preventing ice dams and shall be responsible for ice and snow removal within its Lot, this includes regular maintenance of rain gutters.  Note: guess I’ll be cleaning my own gutters, on a ladder. I get most of the rules, but these seem a little odd.

Enjoy… 

Facts…

The first socks were created to be worn with sandals, making this the original (proper?) way to wear socks... 

More Slang origins…

Till The Cows Come Home

If you’re waiting till the cows come home, you’re waiting for a very long time. The phrase may even refer to things that will continue on forever – or at least until the foreseeable future. Southerners are no strangers to cattle, and they know that cows can take a very long time to wander home once they get lost. That’s where this phrase comes from.

Beauty in our 50 states…

9. Arizona

Arizona’s baseline is a riot of desert oranges and fuchsias that only build to perhaps the most-ogled feature on the continent: the Grand Canyon, the climax of a million American road trips. Monument Valley has been scientifically proven to be where cowboys' souls go when they die. Elsewhere, Arizona's B-sides—the Superstition Mountains, the Petrified Forest, Lake Powell, the areas around Flagstaff and Sedona—would alone make it a top-20 state. And don't sleep on one of the most dramatic terrestrial features anywhere: the 560ft-deep meteor crater that, befitting so much of Arizona's look, literally came from elsewhere in the solar system.

Historical Events

1784 – The Treaty of Paris was ratified by King George III of the Kingdom of Great Britain, ending the American Revolutionary War.
1816 – The AME (African Methodist Episcopla) Church was founded in Philadelphia, PA.
1865 – The American Civil War ended at Appomattox, Virginia.
1882 – Jumbo the Elephant arrived in America. His name popularized the term “Jumbo”.
1942 – The Bataan Death March began, approximately 10,000 Allies Soldiers died during the week-long trek.
1991 – Georgia declared independence from the Soviet Union.

Birthdays Today

@91 – Hugh Hefner, American publisher, founded Playboy Enterprises (d. 2017)
84 – Michael Learned, American actress
@77 – Paul Robeson, American singer, actor, activist (d. 1976; stroke)
“Art is not just to show life as it is, but to show life as it should be.”– Paul Robeson
69 – Dennis Quaid, American actor
60 – Joe Scarborough, American journalist
@67 – Carl Perkins, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1998; strokes)
58 – Paulina Porizkova, Czech-born Swedish-American model
58 – Jeff Zucker, American businessman
57 – Cynthia Nixon, American actress
@52 – Valerie Solanas, radical feminist author, attempted murderer (d. 1988; pneumonia)
46 – Gerard Way, American singer-songwriter, comic book writer
“Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.”– Gerard Way
36 – Jesse McCartney, American singer-songwriter
33 – Kristen Stewart, American actress
“Judging a person does not define who they are. It defines who you are.”– Kristen Stewart
25 – Elle Fanning, American actress
23 – Jackie Evancho, American singer
“My advice would be to follow your dream. Most of my life, I was in second place before I came in first place. I hope that inspired people to never give up.”– Jackie Evancho