8 Jun

 

Flagstaff Today 77°: 44° Week 24 Day 159 Wind 6 mph Gusts 11 mph Active Fire: 531 miles away Risk of Fire: High Nearest lightning: 1030 miles away Air Quality: Fair Partly Cloudy Overcast Sunshine Jun Averages: Temps: 70°\43° Moisture: 1 Day

Monthly Observations

Perennial Gardening Month                                                  Rainbow Book Month
Pharmacists Declare War on Alcoholism Month                  Rebuild Your Life Month
Potty Training Awareness Month Link                                 Scleroderma Awareness Month Link
Professional Wellness Month                                                Skyscraper Month
PTSD Awareness Month Link                                                 Sorghum Month Link

Weekly Observations

National Marina Days: 19-9/1  Link                                 Zoot Suit Week: 3-8         
Wear Orange Weekend: 6-8  Link (Gun violence)           International Clothesline Week: 7-14
National Automotive Service Professionals Week: 8-14   National Flag Week: 8-14 
National Pet Wedding Week: 8-14    Link                        World Sea Turtle Week: 8-16  Link

Daily Observations

Abused Women and Children's Awareness Day             National Brain Tumor Awareness Day
Best Friends Day                                Nat’l Caribbean American HIV/AIDS Awareness Day Link
Chicken Tetrazzini Day                                                   National Marina Day
Children's Sunday                                                          Pentecost
Ghostbusters Day  Link                                                  Race Unity Day
Jelly-filled Doughnut Day                                               Daisy Day

Multicultural American Child Day                        Whitsunday
National Best Friends Day                                        World Oceans Day Link

Today’s Quotes                                                             

 

Today’s Memes

 

Thoughts for the day

A nice spring day.

I went out bright and early to get some groceries. Right now I’m have the hoses watering the trees at Andy & Faith’s place. They are out to sea on their Alaskan Cruise.

As my mom would say, I don’t trust him (Musk) any farther than I can throw him. He has ‘evolved’ too many times for my taste.

I’m hoping for a nice quiet weekend.

Historic Figures who never existed…

Homer©Bibi Saint-Pol on Wikimedia

Though Homer is often credited as the supposed author of the Odyssey and Iliad, there's no concrete evidence that points to him being a real person. Some scholars believe that Homer was invented out of a need to have an author for these epic works, but these poems may have actually been written by multiple writers and created earlier than initially thought.Ranoughts…

 

Historic Events

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Birthdays

74 – Bonnie Tyler, Welsh singer-songwriter 68 – Scott Adams, American author, illustrator, Dilbert creator 68 – Keenen Ivory Wayans, American actor, director, and screenwriter 48 – Kanye West, American rapper and producer

@92 – Jerry Stiller, American comedic actor (d. 2020)   @91 – Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect (d. 1959)   @88 – James Darren, American actor (d. 2024) @81 – Joan Rivers, American comedian, actress, and television host (d. 2014)

…The End for today…