Apr 13

 

Week 16 Day: 103  Ave. sky cover: 5% \ Visibility: 10 miles Flagstaff Today 45° \14°  Wind: 12mph \ Gusts: 25mph
High risk of fire \ Nearest active fire: 254mi \ nearest Lightning: 736mi
Apr Averages for Flagstaff: 59° \ 28°  (3 days of moisture)

Today’s Quote

onthly Observations

Global Child Nutrition Month Link Grange Month Holy Humor Month Home Improvement Time (April-Sept.30) Honor Society Awareness Month  Informed Women Month

International Black Women's History Month Link International Customer Loyalty Month International Guitar Month Link International Twit Award Month IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome) Month Link Jazz Appreciation Month Keep America Beautiful

 

Weekly Observations

Passiontide: 3-17  Ramadan: 3- 5/1	10-16 Holy Week Animal Control Officer Appreciation Week Link  National Dog Bite Prevention Week Link   National Public Safety           Telecommunicators  (911Operators) Week Pan American Week National Student Employment Week:  Link
Money Smart Week: 9-16 Link World Irish Dancing Week: 10-17 Nat’l Work Zone Safety Awareness Week: 11-15 Link

 

Daily Observations

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

A very windy day. Got my taxes filed. Getting some $$ back. I always have more deducted so I can feel good about getting money back. It doesn’t make sense, but it works for me.

Our cruise had 2 real off-road excursions. Both required 4-wheel drive-low to get up the mountain. Both were over rough rock roads. The views from the top of various mountains made the trip very memorable. One driver was great in English, the other was very limited but had google translate which helped. We saw the bay where the original and remake of Mutiny on the Bounty was filmed. A memory from Ireland was all the shades of green. This trip has a memory of all the shades of blue of the ocean.

Early Colonizers decided the indigenous people should grow cotton over pineapple and other fruits. The indigenous could not understand why one would spend all that time tending a crop that one could never eat. Cotton growth never took off. What a great place.

Favorite Memes

 

A bit of Humor

What do you call a tiny pig reciting Shakespeare?

Hamlet.

Trivia

·        The most popular ballet in the world is Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker, which was first performed in 1892.

·        The movie Footloose is based on a true story about a town that outlawed dancing until local high schoolers successful challenged the law in 1979.

Historical Events

Ø   1204 – Constantinople fell to the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade.

Ø   1742 – Handel’s Messiah premiered in Dublin, Ireland.

Ø   1870 – The New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded.

Ø   1943 – The Jefferson Memorial was dedicated in Washington, DC.

Ø   1962 – Silent Spring by Rachel Carson was published.

Ø   1964 – Sidney Poitier became the first African-American male to win the Best Actor award for the 1963 film, Lilies of the Field.

Ø   1974 – Western Union, with NASA and Hughes Aircraft, launched the US’ first commercial geosynchronous communications satellite, Westar 1.

Ø   1976 – The United States Treasury Department reintroduced the two-dollar bill as a Federal Reserve Note.

Ø   1997 – Tiger Woods became the youngest golfer to win the Masters Tournament.

Birthdays Today

@93 – Alfred Mosher Butts, American architect. game designer, created Scrabble (d. 1993)

@83 – Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States (d. 1826)

83 – Paul Sorvino, American actor

@83 – Samuel Beckett, Irish novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died in 1989)

@76 – Madalyn Murray O’Hair, American activist, founded American Atheists (died in 1995)

76 – Al Green, American singer-songwriter and pastor

@74 – Seamus Heaney, Irish poet (d. 2013)

72 – Ron Perlman, American actor

71 – Peter Davison, English actor, The Fifth Doctor

58 – Caroline Rhea, Canadian comedic actress

52 – Ricky Schroder, American actor

@42 – Butch Cassidy [Robert LeRoy Parker], American criminal (d. 1908; shot in Bolivia)

@35 – Guy Fawkes, English soldier, planned the Gunpowder Plot (d. 1606; executed)

 

Apr 12

 

Week 16 Day: 102  Ave. sky cover: 5% \ Visibility: 10 miles Flagstaff Today 63° \31°  Wind: 578mph \ Gusts: 35mph
High risk of fire \ Nearest active fire: 254mi \ nearest Lightning: 971mi
Apr Averages for Flagstaff: 59° \ 28°  (3 days of moisture)

Today’s Quote

 

Monthly Observations

Defeat Diabetes Month Distracted Driving Awareness Month  Emotional Overeating Awareness Month Fair Housing Month

Fair Housing Month Financial Literacy Month Fresh Florida Tomatoes Month Genocide and Human Rights Awareness Month

 

Weekly Observations

Passiontide: 3-17  Ramadan: 3- 5/1 Mule Days: 6-12 Money Smart Week: 9-16 Link World Irish Dancing Week: 10-17

10-16 Holy Week Animal Control Officer Appreciation Week Link  National Dog Bite Prevention Week Link   National Public Safety Telecommunicators (911 Operators) Week Pan American Week National Student Employment Week:  Link

 

Daily Observations

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

A very windy day. Glad there is no sand to be blowing.

The cable guy came so I could watch CNN. I haven’t had that channel since two weeks before I left. It was not my box issue, but the signal is not getting to my house. No idea when it will be fixed.

Our first night of cruising took us to the island of Raiatea. Ed and I did an ‘off-road’ excursion on the island. It was beautiful. We were on paved roads all the time, but it was a great experience. I’m working on a presentation and will make it available when it is completed.

All the islands were green, green, green and the ocean was always a variety of blues. Some of the ocean was a deep blue but around the shores it was various shades of turquoise. Every time we got off the boat, we were greeted by a local with a fresh flower. At the smaller islands there were no credit cards and cash only and only some took US dollars. We always had great guides, although some had limited English. They were all friendly and wanted us to love the island as much as they did. COVIOD really left many in dire straits…especially those with working in the tourist industry. The Filipino guy that had us waiting to get on the ship had been trapped on an island for 3 months as no visas were being given. Tough times. Most of the guides were basically unemployed for almost 2 years. 

Favorite Memes

 

A bit of Humor

What did the customer say to the barber?

“I mustache you a question, but I’ll shave it for later!”

Trivia

·        The Whirling Dervishes (Mevlevi) are a Sufi order in Konya (modern day Turkey). They are famous for the unique whirling dances, which symbolize the rotation of the universe in the presence of God.

·        "The Dancing Plagues," or dancing manias, occurred sporadically throughout Western Europe from the 14th to the 17th centuries. For reasons unknown, people, sometimes hundreds at a time, danced until they collapsed from exhaustion or died.

·        Michael Flately of Riverdance holds the record for the world's highest-paid dancer, earning $1.8 million a week at his prime. His legs were insured for $44.7 million.

Historical Events

Ø   1606 – The Union Jack (the Union Flag) was adopted as the flag of English and Scottish ships.

Ø   1633 – Galileo was convicted of heresy, for announcing that the Earth revolved around the Sun.

Ø   1934 – The strongest surface wind gust ever recorded on Earth, at 231 mph, was measured on the summit of Mount Washington, New Hampshire.

Ø   1955 – The polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, was declared safe and effective.

Ø   1961 – Aboard the spacecraft Vostok 1, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin became the first human being to travel into space.

Ø   1992 – The Euro Disney Resort officially opened with its theme park Euro Disneyland. It was later renamed Disneyland Paris.

Birthdays Today

@104– Beverly Cleary, author

76 – Ed O’Neill, American comedic actor

@75 – Henry Clay, 9th United States Secretary of State (d. 1852)

75 – David Letterman, American talk show host

@67 – David Cassidy, American singer-songwriter (d. 2017; liver failure)

@66 – Tom Clancy, American author (d. 2013; heart failure)

67 – Andy Garcia, Cuban-American actor

65 – Vince Gill, American singer-songwriter

@64 – Tiny Tim, American singer and ukulele player (d.1996; heart attack)

51 – Shannon Doherty, American actress

51 – Nicholas Brendon, American actor

43 – Claire Danes, American actress

43 – Jennifer Morrison, American actress