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Week 25 Day 169 Flag Today 85°/48° Wind 10 mph Gusts 15 mph Active Fire: 132 miles away Risk of fire: Extreme Nearest Lightning: 1134 miles away Air Quality: Fair Sunshine Moderate
Breeze Red Flag Warning Jun Averages: Temps: 80°\43° Moisture: 1 Day
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Weekly Observations
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1-30 National
Lemonade Days Link National
Automotive Service Professionals Week National
Nursing Assistants Week Link National
Hermit Week National
Waste & Recycling Workers Week Link |
16-22 cont… National
Old Time Fiddlers' Frolic Link National
Week of Making Link |
Daily Observations
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Apple
Streudel Day |
World Crocodile Day Link |
Today’s Quote Today’s Meme
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"Summertime
is always the best of what might be." — Charles Bowden
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Today’s Thoughts
Not a cloud in the
deep blue sky.
Looking forward to a
great week ahead.
Flagstaff is filled
with out-of-state license plates right now. I hope all these tourists are
spending lots of money in our little mountain town. Somehow it seems that many
tourists see our town as the wild west where there are few, if any traffic
laws. Little need to signal a lane change or three or a turn, drive the speed
limit, have your huge camper stay in one lane. Oh well, we live for the tourist
money.
1961 was 63 years ago…
1961
US Cuban
Exiles and CIA mount unsuccessful attempt to overthrow Castro known as the Bay
of Pigs
Yuri
Gagarin becomes the first human in space.
East
German Authorities close the border between east and west Berlin and
Construction of the Berlin Wall begins.
U.S.
President John F. Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps
The
World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) started.
John F.
Kennedy was sworn in by Chief Justice Earl Warren as the 35th President of the
United States
Texas
Sales Tax Introduced
President
John F. Kennedy advises American families to build bomb shelters
"Freedom
Riders" test the United States Supreme Court decision Boynton v. Virginia
by riding racially integrated interstate buses
IBM
introduces the Selectric typewriter Golfball
Origin of common phrases
Whistle Dixie
To "whistle Dixie" is to have
unrealistic expectations. It comes from the U.S. Civil War-era song
"Dixie" and the failed hope of a Confederate victory.
Historic Events
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1885 – The Statue of
Liberty arrived in New York Harbor.
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1901 – The College
Board introduced its first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT.
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1967 – China
announced a successful test of its first thermonuclear weapon.
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1971 – President
Richard Nixon declared the US War on Drugs.
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1994 – O.J. Simpson
was arrested for the murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her
friend Ronald Goldman.
Birthdays with some quotes
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81 –
Barry Manilow, singer 81 –
Newt Gingrich, American historian and politician 73 –
Joe Piscopo, American actor 66 –
Jello Biafra (Eric Reed Bouche), American singer-songwriter “If
voting could change anything, it would be illegal.” 61 –
Greg Kinnear, American actor 58 –
Jason Patric, American actor 54 –
Will Forte, American comedic actor 44 –
Venus Williams, American tennis player “Some
people say I have attitude – maybe I do… but I think you have to. You have to
believe in yourself when no one else does; that makes you a winner right
there.” 42 –
Jodie Whittaker, English actress, The Thirteenth Doctor 37 –
Kendrick Lamar, American rapper “Build
your own pyramids, write your own hieroglyphs.” |
@73
– M.C. Escher, Dutch illustrator (d. 1972) “Only
those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it’s in my
basement… let me go upstairs and check.” @72
– Art Bell, American broadcaster and author (d. 2018; respiratory failure) “The
greatest question of all is whether our experience on this planet is “it” or
whether there is something else. Things in the supernatural realm give
support, strangely perhaps, to the things we take on faith.” @58
– Red Foley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1968; respiratory failure)
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…The End for today…
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