9 April

 

Flagstaff Today 69°: 30° Week 15 Day 99 Air Quality: Fair Sunshine Active Fire: 90 miles away Risk of Fire: Extreme Wind 4 mph Gusts 15 mph Nearest lightning: 7 miles away Apr Averages: Temps: 60°\29° Moisture: 2 Days

Monthly Observations

National Poetry Month Link National Rebuilding Month National Safe Digging Month Link National Sarcoidosis Awareness Month Link  Nationally Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) Month

National Sexual Assault Awareness & Prevention Month  (SAAM) Link National Social Security Month  National Toddler Immunization Month Link National Youth Sports Safety Month Oral Cancer Awareness Month

Weekly Observations

2-9 Explore Your Career Options Week 4-10 Hate Week National Dental Hygienest Week  Link Link 5-11 Week of The Young Child 5-13 National Robotics Week Link 6-12 Bat Appreciation Week Consider Christianity Week Oral, Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Week  Link Passion Week (Beginning the 5th Sunday of Lent. Week before Holy Week)

6-12 cont. National Crime Victims Rights Week Link National Library Week  Link National Occupational Health Nursing Week  Link National Public Health Week National Window Safety Week 6-19 Passiontide (Begins on 5th Sunday of Lent and goes for 2 weeks) 7-13 The Masters Tournament World Water Week   Link

Daily Observations

Appomattox Day Link Chinese Almond Cookie Day International Day of Pink Link  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 Education and Sharing Day Link

National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day National Bookmobile Day Link  National Library Outreach Day RAINN Day (Rape Abuse Incest National Network) Link  National Unicorn Day Link (Note: This is in Scotland, but it's become popular worldwide.) Winston Churchill Day

Today’s Quotes                                                             

 

Today’s Memes

Thoughts for the day

It is so nice to have several spring days in a row.

Yesterday, while at the eye doctor, I was walking from the waiting room to the exam room. The doctor was walking briskly and I suddenly realized that I was walking slowly, like an old man. I picked up my step quite a bit and it felt good. Now I am doing that every time I walk somewhere. Feels good. I hadn’t noticed how lazy I had become.

This morning, while out and about, I stopped in for my COVID booster. Easy.

On the way home I saw a huge brown cloud climbing into the sky east of my place. When I got home, I checked and it’s simply another controlled burn. Dark smoke always alerts those of us who live right on the edge of the forest.

The administration says they are helping in the Myanmar disaster. They sent 3 USAID workers to the area. All 3 were fired soon after arriving. Shameful.

 

Trivia for all

Random Thoughts…

v    Peter O’Toole was nominated for eight performance Oscars and never won.

v    A group of Stingrays is called a Fever.

v    The working title for E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial was ‘A Boy’s Life.’

v    Sonny the Cuckoo Bird is the bird who is coo-coo- for Cocoa Puffs.

v    Biggest film of 2004: Shrek 2 (Action/Adventure) earned ~ $441,000,000

v    “Genuine Leather” is a grade of leather and does not just mean the product is made of leather.

v    Dusty Springfield – Real Name: Mary Isobel Catherine O’Brien

Historic Events

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Birthdays

86 – Michael Learned, American actress 71 – Dennis Quaid, American actor 62 – Joe Scarborough, American journalist 60 – Jeff Zucker, American businessman 59 – Cynthia Nixon, American actress 38 – Jesse McCartney, American singer-songwriter 35 – Kristen Stewart, American actress

@91 – Hugh Hefner, American publisher, founded Playboy Enterprises (d. 2017)   @77 – Paul Robeson, American singer, actor, and activist (d. 1976; stroke) @65 – Carl Perkins, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1998; strokes)

…The End for today…