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Flagstaff
Today 50°:
32° Week 1 Day 1 Air
Quality: Fair Sunshine Wind
5 mph Gusts 12 mph Breezy Active Fire:
247 miles away Risk
of Fire: Moderate Nearest
lightning: 1727 miles away Jan
Averages: Temps: 44°\18° Moisture: 4 Days |
Monthly Observations
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January in Navajo: Yas Niłtʼees melting or cooking the
snow |
Book Blitz Month |
Weekly Observations
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Diet Resolution Week: 1-7 |
14-1/5/25 Christmas Bird Count Week Link Chanukah It's About Time Week Kwanzaa |
Daily Observations
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Apple
Gifting Day Mummer's
Parade |
New
Years Day |
Today’s Quote
Today’s Meme
Thoughts for the day
Hoping for some moisture as Flag
begins 2025. We had a very dry December.
There are enough clothes in the world
to clothe the last 6 generations. That’s everyone alive since your great-great-great
grandparents to all the people alive today.
The Hogmanay, the New Year’s Eve celebration
in Edinburgh had to be cancelled this year due to stormy weather. Sad.
The local Pinecone Drop in downtown
Flagstaff has been around for 25 years. I’ve seen it several times since living
here. It is usually very cold, and parking is a real hassle, but a fun experience
all around.
This morning, I did my last blood draw
of 2024. Easy one.
Inventions…
Sarah Boone - Ironing Board
Sarah Boone, a former slave, patented
an improved ironing board in 1892 that made ironing sleeves and women’s
garments much easier. Her design featured a narrow, curved board that could fit
a sleeve and was padded on both sides. The board could be folded up for
storage, making it perfect for home use. Boone’s innovation became the
foundation for modern ironing boards, though she received little recognition
during her lifetime.
Random Thoughts…
Micheal Collins, one of the Apollo 11 astronauts, became the loneliest human ever when
he solitarily orbited the dark side of the moon, and lost all radio
contact with Earth and his fellow astronauts for 48 minutes.
Hangovers cost an estimated $220 billion loss in productivity per year.
An ore (like a gold or silver ore) is only called an ore if it’s economically
feasible to mine the mineral.
Almost all cattle are descended from only 80 aurochs tamed in northern Mesopotamia about
10,000 years ago.
The seven sins according
to Gandhi: “Wealth without work. Pleasure
without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality.
Science without humanity. Religion without sacrifice. Politics without
principle.”
Quirky town names…
Booger Hole, West Virginia
This unsettling name comes from local folklore about ghosts,
or “boogers,” haunting the area. While it sounds spooky, the town remains a
charming slice of Appalachian history.
Historic Events
On Jan. 1, 1863,
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring that
slaves in rebel states shall be “forever free.”
On this date:
In 1660, Englishman
Samuel Pepys (peeps) began keeping his famous diary.
In 1892, the Ellis
Island Immigrant Station in New York formally opened.
In 1953, country
singer Hank Williams Sr., 29, was discovered dead in the back seat of his car
during a stop in Oak Hill, West Virginia, while he was being driven to a
concert date in Canton, Ohio.
In 1954, NBC
broadcast the first coast-to-coast color TV program as it presented live
coverage of the Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, California.
In 1959, Fidel
Castro and his revolutionaries overthrew Cuban leader Fulgencio Batista, who
fled to the Dominican Republic.
In 1975, a jury in
Washington found Nixon administration officials John N. Mitchell, H.R.
Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman and Robert C. Mardian guilty of charges related to
the Watergate cover-up (Mardian’s conviction for conspiracy was later
overturned on appeal).
In 1979, the United
States and China held celebrations in Washington and Beijing to mark the
establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries.
In 1984, the breakup
of AT&T took place as the telecommunications giant was divested of its 22
Bell System companies under terms of an antitrust agreement.
In 1992, Boutros
Boutros-Ghali succeeded Javier Perez de Cuellar (hah-vee-EHR’ PEHR’-ehs day
KWAY’-yahr) as secretary-general of the United Nations.
In 1993,
Czechoslovakia peacefully split into two new countries, the Czech Republic and
Slovakia.
In 2005, desperate,
homeless villagers on the tsunami-ravaged island of Sumatra mobbed American
helicopters carrying aid as the U.S. military launched its largest operation in
the region since the Vietnam War. Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman elected
to the U.S. Congress, died near Daytona Beach, Florida, at age 80.
In 2014, the
nation’s first legal recreational pot shops opened in Colorado at 8 a.m.
Mountain time.
Birthdays
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@91 –
J. D. Salinger, American soldier and author (d. 2010)
@83 –
Dana Andrews, American actor (d. 1992) @83
– Paul Revere, American silversmith and engraver (d. 1818)
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…The End for today…
