Happy Friday! Once more I bring you a diary of small days of celebration for the next week.
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Monday: Crimson Quillfeather/Tuesday: ejoanna/Wednesday: Caedy
/Thursday: art ah zen/Friday: FloridaSNMOM/Saturday: jan4insight/Sunday: loggersbrat
29 National Puzzle Day
If you have some free time and want to try to complete some puzzles online, this site is excellent.
29 National Cornchip Day
- Charles Elmer Doolin invented Fritos in the 1930's
- He hired farmers throughout Texas to grow specific varieties of corn until he found the one he wanted to use.
- Applied the assembly line and conveyor belt to food manufacture.
- Vegetarian, who rarely ate salt, and almost never ate Fritos
- Wife, Katherine, was known for her social work and good relationships with workers
30 National Inane Answering Message Day
Homestarrrunner is one of my son’s favorite online comics, and they have some excellent Inane Answering Messages.
31 Backward Day
31 Inspire Your Heart with Art Day
1 National Freedom Day
No, it's not a day to celebrate tea party Free-dum, but a day to celebrate the signing of the 13th Amendment by President Lincoln in 1865.
2 Ground Hog Day
2 Candlemas
3 The Day the Music Died - Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and the Big Bopper died in a plane crash in 1959.
4 Create a Vacuum Day
Create a Vacuum Day just might leave you in an empty void. We found no factual information or records about this day. So, we can only speculate to its cause.......…
Theory #1: A hard working housewife, frustrated over her vacuuming chores, declared a day to commemorate the chore of vacuuming. The hole in this theory is that the day would likely be simply called "Vacuum Day" or "No Vacuuming Day". Why include the word "Create" in the title? This led us to.....…
Theory #2: A (mad!?) scientist created this day to celebrate the creation of a vacuum during laboratory work. But, isn't this routine scientific work!? We think so. Therefore, it led us to...........…
Theory#3: Someone desperately in need of a simpler life, conceived this day. They wanted to create a vacuum that would suck all of the daily work, chores and clutter out of their life. If only for one day, they would be freed to enjoy the simple life of leisure. Now, here's a theory that really makes sense for today!
4 Thank a Mailman Day