Colorado officially joined the Union on August 1, 1876.
Coloradans should fly U.S. flags today in honor of statehood. Colorado was the 38th state admitted to the union.
Colorado statehood day, August 1, 2018
July 31, 2019
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August 2019: Unfurl Old Glory on these days
July 31, 2019
August in the U.S. is a lazy, often hot, summer month. It’s a month for vacation, picnicking, local baseball games, camping, cookouts and beach vacations. It’s not a big month for events to fly the U.S. flag.
Except, perhaps, in Olympics years, when the U.S. flag is often flown a lot, in distant locations. About 50 percent of photographs of the U.S. flag flying in August features an American Olympic athlete. 2019 is not an Olympics year.
Only one event calls for nation-wide flag-flying in August, National Aviation Day on August 19. This event is not specified in the Flag Code, but in a separate provision in the same chapter U.S. Code. Will the president issue a proclamation to fly the flag for National Aviation Day?
Three states celebrate statehood, Colorado, Hawaii and Missouri.
Put these dates on your calendar to fly the flag in August:
- August 1, Colorado statehood (1876, 38th state)
- August 10, Missouri statehood (1821, 24th state)
- August 19, National Aviation Day, 36 USC 1 § 118
- August 21, Hawaii statehood (1959, 50th state)
If Texans want to fly their flags for the children’s returning to school on August 18, no one will complain. The Flag Code says all public schools should be flying the U.S. flag every school day — check to be sure your child’s schools do that.
You may fly your U.S. flag any day. These are just the days suggested in law.
More:
- Did the first flying of the Stars and Stripes occur at Ft. Stanwix, in August 1777, during a British siege? Probably not, historians now say. Still . . .
- Colorado Day is August 1; here’s an old post on the subject
- Your Flag, for $10.99 from Scout Stuff, features a lot of good information on flag etiquette and display; and Boy Scouts of America make a few nickels off of the sale
- O Say, Can You See, a blog of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, has pointers on flag etiquette, and a lot of neat stories about the flag
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Signs of life: Traffic trouble with squirrels
July 15, 2019
Why are they even allowed to drive at all?
Tip of the old scrub brush to the Unitarian Universalist Church of Oak Cliff (Texas).
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Wherever it can, life blossoms
July 5, 2019Oops. Misattributed, misidentified photo. Turns out this is really from the Atacama Desert in South America. Point still stands, but I got hoaxed on the identification of the photo.
Even just in cracks in the desert clay.
Near Hanksville, Utah. Alt National Park and Forest Service photo. Atacama Desert, South America.
Hmmm. Too far south, too dry an area for me to recognize the species right off the bat. Anyone got suggestions?
See: www.facebook.com/AltNPFS/photos/a.827680717399205/1281923281974944
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Out of hibernation?
July 3, 2019
No, I didn’t take a vacation through May and June. Well, we did spend a few days on a trip to a graduation at the University of Arkansas, and to hunt diamonds, but that’s no excuse.
Haven’t posted a lot lately. Working to do better.
In the meantime, remember to fly your flag today, Idaho residents, for Idaho Statehood Day. And remember to post the colors tomorrow, for Kathryn’s birthday the 4th of July.
When Gerald Ford told the nation in an evening broadcast in August 1974, “Our long, national nightmare is over,” many of us realized we’d been through hell the previous couple of years, and didn’t know it. Now, we know it’s hell every day. God give us another Gerald Ford moment like that, soon.
(I’ll fly the flag for Kathryn’s birthday, too; you don’t have to.)
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Millard Fillmore's Bathtub 