13 Apr

 

13 April 2023

Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 15 Day 103 \ Ave. Sky Cover 60% \ Visibility 20 miles Flagstaff Today 64° \36°  Wind 6mph \ Gusts 13mph 
Air Quality: Moderate \ High Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire 85mi \ Nearest Lightning 170mi
Apr. Averages for Flagstaff: 60° \ 27° \3 Days of moisture
Sun with high clouds

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
                  International Phace Syndrome Awareness Week
                  National Cleaning Week
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 
11-13       National Catholic Educational Association Week
13-15       American Council on Education
13-16       Satchmo Days

Daily Observations

Make Lunch Count Day
International Plant Appreciation Day Link 
Make Lunch Count Day 
National Borinqueneers
Make Lunch Count Day 
National Borinqueneers Day (Puerto Rico) Link
Peach Cobbler Day
Plant Appreciation Day
Scrabble Day
Sterile Packaging Day
Thomas Jefferson Day

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

Cooler than yesterday but still a nice day. Yesterday I had the front door and window open until 7:30pm. Not so much today.

I had my regular phlebotomy yesterday afternoon. This one was easy and quick.  When I arrived home, there was a small fire on Mt. Elden and I could see the smoke from my place. Turned out, thanks to all the moisture the fire was easily contained to about 1/10 acre.

The Afghanistan withdrawal did not go as planned. I just heard a story about the dogs that assisted in the war over there. There were two types of dogs…military dogs and private contractor’s dogs. Both types were used for security purposes. The military dogs were evacuated by the military. The contractor’s dogs were at the mercy of the private contractors. Mostly they simply left the dogs in Afghanistan. It hardly seems right.

Happy I’ll be busy tomorrow morning. A friend needs a ride to work at 7:30 and I need to put out Andy & Faith’s trash, as they are back in Phoenix with Andy’s sick brother. I’m always up by 7am, just usually not ready to be out and about.

Both Tennessee reps have been chosen to replace themselves after being kicked out of the TN House. Guess the House there was a little too quick in condemning their behavior.

Enjoy…

Facts…

Houses can host many common dream symbols, but the building as a whole represents your inner psyche. Each room or floor can symbolize different emotions, memories and interpretations of meaningful events.   

Moon Facts…

The Moon is moving away from Earth

It’s not something you’d notice by looking up in the night sky, but the Moon is actually moving away from our planet at a rate of 3.8 centimetres (1.5 inches) per year, which is about the same rate at which human fingernails grow. The Moon used to be closer to Earth, billions of years ago, but due to “lunar retreat,” which happens when the gravity of the Moon pulls at the oceans and the oceans pull back a little, increasing the orbit of the Moon, our dear satellite is spinning away from us.

Beauty in our 50 states…

5. Colorado

To make it into the top 10% of scenic states, you’ve gotta have a certain je ne sais quoi. That’s no problem for Colorado, since anybody who’s ever set foot here has been wowed by the sheer verticality. Colorado has more than 50—that’s FIVE ZERO—peaks higher than 14,000ft, more than triple the rest of the lower 48 combined. Harder to reach, but no less amazing, are the state's abundant mountain lakes—places that make the journey up those peaks worth the trek and provide some of the most underrated beachfront on the planet. The only drawback to Colorado is that the eastern third or so feels like Nebraska got a director's cut. To get the most out of this state, take a drive from Denver to Telluride and prepare to be blown away.

Historical Events

1962 – Silent Spring by Rachel Carson was published.
1964 – Sidney Poitier became the first African-American male to win the Best Actor award for the 1963 film, Lilies of the Field.
1976 – The United States Treasury Department reintroduced the two-dollar bill as a Federal Reserve Note.

Birthdays Today

@93 – Alfred Mosher Butts, American architect, game designer, created Scrabble (d. 1993)
@83 – Thomas Jefferson, American lawyer and politician, 3rd President (d. 1826)
“When the people are afraid of the government, that’s tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that’s liberty.”– Thomas Jefferson
@83 – Samuel Beckett, Irish novelist, poet, playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1989)
“The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.”– Samuel Beckett
@83 – Paul Sorvino, American actor (d. 2022)
77 – Al Green, American singer-songwriter and pastor
“Teach success before teaching responsibility. Teach them to believe in themselves. Teach them to think, ‘I’m not stupid’. No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.”– Al Green
@76 – Madalyn Murray O’Hair, activist, founded American Atheists (d. 1995; murdered)
@74 – Seamus Heaney, Irish poet (d. 2013)
“Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.”– Seamus Heaney
73 – Ron Perlman, American actor
@62 – Christopher Hitchens, essayist, literary critic, journalist (d. 2011; cancer)
59 – Caroline Rhea, Canadian comedic actress
53 – Ricky Schroder, American actor
“There have been times I almost got a persecution complex. I felt like people wouldn’t let me grow up. They always saw me as a smiling kid or goofy teenager, no matter how much I’d changed.”– Ricky Schroder
@42 – Butch Cassidy(Robert LeRoy Parker ), American criminal (d. 1908; gunshots in Boliva)
@35 – Guy Fawkes, planned the Gunpowder Plot (d. 1606; hanged, drawn & quartered)
“A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy.”– Guy Fawkes
35 – Allison Williams, American actress and singer
19 – Brooklyn Nelson, American actress