Daily Holidays - June 10
Herbs & Spices Day
National Herbs and Spices Day, an “unofficial” National holiday is celebrated annually on June 10.
It is the season for fresh herbs and spices and they are an essential part of flavorful cooking as well as fun and easy to grow.
Gardening your own herbs can be a form of relaxing therapy.
Herbs and spices have been used for many hundreds of years and besides making our food delicious, each has its own specific health benefits. http://nationaldaycalendar.com/days-2/national-herbs-and-spices-day-june-10/
National Iced Tea Day
National Iced Tea Day is celebrated annually on June 10th.. This day is set aside to celebrate one of summer’s favorite drinks. Whether it is sweetened or unsweetened, with or without lemon, it is loved by many and enjoyed by the glass full all summer long.
Iced tea can be found in many flavors including lemon, peach, raspberry, lime, passions fruit, strawberry and cherry.
An alternative to carbonated soft drinks and very popular in the United States, iced tea makes up about 85% of all tea consumed. It can readily be found in restaurants, convenience stores, vending machines, grocery stores and self-serve soda fountains.
Recipes for iced tea have been found dating back to the 1870′s. The Buckeye Cookbook, published in 1876 and Housekeeping in Old Virginia, published in 1877 both contain iced tea recipes. It is believed however, that iced tea started to appear in the United States in the 1860′s and became widespread in the 1870′s where it was found offered on hotel menus and was on sale at railroad stations. The popularity of this refreshing drink grew rapidly after it was introduced at the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis.
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National Black Cow Day
National Black Cow Day is celebrated each year on June 10. Are you in the mood for ice cream? We are all familiar with the “Root Beer Float” but did you know that it is also called the “Black Cow”?
A “Black Cow” was originally made with root beer and vanilla ice cream. Now it is sometimes made with root beer and chocolate ice cream or cola and vanilla ice cream.
Frank J. Wisner of Cripple Creek, Colorado, gets the credit for inventing the “Black Cow” way back in August of 1893. http://nationaldaycalendar.com/days-2/national-black-cow-day-june-10/
One night, as Wisner, owner of the Cripple Creek Cow Mountain Gold Mining Company, was staring out the window and thinking about the line of soda waters that was producing for the citizens of Cripple Creek, he came upon an idea. The full moon that night that was shining on the snow-capped Cow Mountain reminded him of a scoop of vanilla ice cream. He hurried back to his bar and added a scoop toRthe children’s favorite flavor of soda, Myers Avenue Red Root Beer, tried it, liked it and served it the very next day. It was an immediate hit.
National Ballpoint Pen Day
Grab your ballpoint pen and write this on your calendar, June 10 of each year is National Ballpoint Pen Day. This special day commemorates an item that most of use everyday, the ballpoint pen and marks the anniversary of the patent filing on June 10, 1943.
Prior to 1943, anyone who wanted to write a letter or scribble some notes on a piece of paper had to find a different source to use other than the ballpoint pen. Now the dominant writing instrument, the ballpoint pen was originally conceived and developed as a cleaner and more reliable alternative to the quill and fountain pens. Every day, millions are manufactured and sold worldwide. Lost cost and its omnipresence assure that there is always a ballpoint pen within your reach.
In earlier years, many attempts by inventors lead to failed patents as their try at inventing workable ballpoints, found pens that did not deliver the ink evenly and also had overflow and clogging issues.
Brothers, Laszlo and Gyorgy Biro, are credited with the invention of the ballpoint pen and obtained a patent in June of 1943. http://nationaldaycalendar.com/days-2/national-ballpoint-pen-day-june-10/
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Have some Iced Tea to celebrate!!!!
And a 
to Your Dad!
Love using fresh herbs (make my own pesto sauce), learned from my grandmother to appreciate root beer and celebrate the invention of the ballpoint pen! 
It's also my brother's birthday, am cooking dinner to bring him tomorrow right now. He's also a FOX-watching Republican *sigh*, but he's my only sibling, so I try... 
and that is a very nice thing to do for your brother. I am sure that it is greatly appreciated!
He's not a big eater, is awfully thin, sometimes acts like I'm trying to force feed him, LOL. But he mainly eats frozen dinners, says he likes them. But I like to cook, make things from scratch and make things he likes that my mother made, so he eats them. It makes me feel better to know he's eating better, in any case... We're okay as long as we don't discuss politics. 
And Happy Birthday to your brother!
For all the 'I hate Republicans' threads here, I have to say that I live in a very red area of CA and have a lot of Republican friends. We work together in community and veterans projects and politics doesn't come up much (even though everyone knows my politics, lol). And like family, a lot of us are vets who have bonds that transcend politics. With both vets and non-vets, political differences don't prevent our loving and caring about each other.
And I agree with you about today's holidays. Today we have an embarrassment of riches.
And I'm not saying that I don't have resentments, LOL. I'm fortunate that most, if not all, of my long time friends turned out to be liberal Democrats, even here in a traditionally Republican area. Then there are those who are clueless, as so many are, so I'm not shy about urging them in the right direction, LOL. I worked on the campaign for our Democratic congressional candidate (won the first election, lost the second *sigh*) who ran for Kirsten Gillibrand's House seat when she was appointed senator - to replace Hillary Clinton when she was appointed Secretary if State. So I got used to speaking out...
I come from a whole family of Republicans, but my parents were also liberals, if that makes sense. I wasted a lot of breath explaining to my mother how she really didn't agree with George Bush* on much of anything. And she did say she voted for our congressman who I was working for. But my brother is a true believer, likes to remind me he has a Masters in political science. I won't name the school, but it wasn't here in the Northeast. I haven't given up, but it's an uphill battle, especially since he has FOX News on the TV most of the time. 
Though shorting out his TV might be the best birthday present anyone could give him. 
Though he had trouble with it, had to get it replaced right after he got it and I wasn't all that sympathetic. But I do make an effort to hold my tongue - a lot of the time. My brother is very proud of his name, reflects our Irish heritage, and he likes to use the whole name. So during the 2004 election I didn't say a thing - to him. It's spelled differently, but it sounds the same. My brother's given name is Jon Kerry... 
I almost mentioned above that when I drove back to my red area of CA after that election, still with big Kerry placards on my car, I stopped at a McDonald's near home and a woman took one look at my car and said, "So YOU'RE the other Democrat in the Valley." 
I come from a family of Irish Catholic Democrats. When I was a freckle-faced kid my grandmother from County Cork (and all the other Irish) used to tell me, "You've got the map of Ireland all over your face."
My grandfather in Chicago shared the name of a famous Irish boxer--Jack Dempsey. Grandpa Jack lived in Mayor Daley's neighborhood of Bridgeport, and you could see the back of Mayor Daley's house from Grandpa's back porch. From his front stoop you could see the lights flash at Commiskey when the Sox scored.
I ended up with a Welsh surname because Grandma's first husband (she outlived three of them) was a Welsh coal miner in PA. It's not a bad name--even if it isn't Irish. 
Getting him to just watch some non-news programs would help. We picked up on MeTV to watch all the oldies which can remind one of a hopefully happier time and it gets Faux News off the screen.
Then I wouldn't need you bums!
Funny thing is, I seem to be thriving without servants. I am also an elder gentleman, living alone in an apartment. Lucky for me I can read recipes and cook, so I don't need you bums
The only time it gets used is when I'm doing some "bulk prep" on his behalf!
I've gotten him to the egg-and-toast/pan-fry a steak point, and he will go no further! He is a classic example of stubborn lazy intransigence!
Much appreciated! We do what we can.
And today's is a doozey.
Thankyou for what you do. 
Thank You Kindly! Your thoughts and participation are always appreciated, but I'm just the guy who does the thing..... 
And keeping it up EVERY fucking daY? There should be a DU medal for that. 
This is a spin off of a daily list I do on FB for my workplace which was a spin off/replacement for a monthly print employee newsletter I did for years. They are naturally based in the same information, but tailored a bit differently.
It does take a few minutes each morning to post, but I like doing so and get a kick out of the comments and participation. I have found it is much more enjoyable staying in the Lounge and some of the more specifically focused forums and groups rather than the GD, Good Reads, LBN and alike (all of which i have personally sent to the trash bin).
I have a nice tall one next to me right now and delivered one to my favorite co-worker early this AM.
How about You????
Birthday wishes!!!
