Daily Holidays - July 3

[Sherman A1]

National Chocolate Wafer Day National Chocolate Wafer Day is observed each year on July 3rd. Once again, chocolate lovers across the country have a reason to enjoy their favorite flavor for breakfast, lunch and supper and as snacks in between.

These crispy snacks are an American favorite. With their waffle surface pattern and thin layers, they make an excellent addition to ice cream. They are a popular ingredient in cakes and cheesecakes. Chocolate wafers can be crushed to make a delicious pie crust.

No matter where or how you are eating your wafers, these delicious treats are truly worth celebrating! http://nationaldaycalendar.com/national-chocolate-wafer-day-july-3/

National Eat Your Beans Day National Eat Your Beans Day is a “live healthy” holiday celebrated every year on July 3. This day celebrates the bean vegetable in all sizes, shapes and colors. Beans (legumes) are one of the longest cultivated plants dating back to the early seventh millennium BCE.

Now, just as throughout the Old and New World history, beans are an important source of protein. A very healthy choice for any meal or snack, they are also an excellent source of fiber, are low in fat and are high in complex carbohydrates, folate and iron. http://nationaldaycalendar.com/national-eat-your-beans-day-july-3/

Compliment Your Mirror Day Take a step back, and examine your reflection. This is you, the only you, and the best you there is. Compliment Your Mirror Day encourages you to recognise your own inner beauty, and to give yourself a great face-to-face prep talk! https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/compliment-your-mirror-day/

International Plastic Bag Free Day Most of us use them every day, the thin plastic bags used by almost every retailer we visit. Whether we’re shopping for groceries or the newest Prada, you can almost guarantee that you’ll be leaving the store with a plastic bag stuffed full of your new goodies. Then, when you arrive home, you’ll quickly remove them like a kid opening Christmas presents, tossing aside the wrapping with thoughtless abandon. Have you ever stopped to consider what happens to those plastic bags? Has it ever occurred to you just how many of them we go through, individually, in a year?

International Plastic Bag Free Day is dedicated to heightening awareness about these and very real and pressing issues brought about by this most popular of disposable carrying devices. We are reminded that those bags we pick up from the retailers are used for an incredibly short time, usually under 25 minutes, and are then disposed of. They may pass out of our thinking then, but they do not pass out of our world. Plastic bags remain in the world for anywhere from 100-500 years before finally decaying completely, and have a profound impact upon our environment as a result.

Out in the great reaches of the ocean are massive reefs made up of all sorts of plastic waste, and plastic bags play heavily among them. Such is the magnitude of the problem that these great floating islands reach hundreds of miles, like great monuments to mankind’s wastefulness, and disregard for the world upon which we live. International Plastic Bag Free Day gives us an opportunity to remind ourselves, and others, that every action we take, and every bag we dispose of, effects the lives of everyone in the world for generations to come. https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/international-plastic-bag-free-day/

Stay Out Of The Sun Day Everybody loves a sunny day, but in the height of summer it’s easy to get dehydrated, sunburnt and worse. Stay Out Of The Sun Day is about looking after yourself by taking a day away from the sun and finding some nice, relaxing shade – and if you are out and about, make sure you’ve got sun cream, plenty of water and some shade! https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/stay-out-of-the-sun-day/

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[betsuni]

1. Every day is Stay Out Of The Sun Day for me.

The sun is too bright and hot and makes you feel like you should go outside and do something. Moon is better. If I have to walk around on a sunny day I always use a parasol. Some kind of moisture in the air is preferable -- summer storms are the best. Is there any more deliciously fresh smell than when a cool summer rain hits the hot asphalt and dry soil and thirsty plants?

[pinboy3niner]

2. Stuart Smalley!

[betsuni]

3. Happy Birthday Franz Kafka

From his diaries:

The greed for books is certain in me. Not really to own or to read them, but rather to see them, to convince myself of their actuality in the stalls of the bookseller. ... It is though this greed came from my stomach, as though it were a perverse appetite.

Self-pity, because it is cold, because of everything. Now, at half-past nine at night, someone in the next apartment is hammering a nail into the wall between us.

The craving that I always have, when for once I feel my stomach is healthy, to heap up in me notions of terrible deeds of daring with food. I especially satisfy this craving in front of pork butchers. If I see a sausage that is labeled as an old, hard sausage, I bite into it in my imagination with all my teeth and swallow quickly, regularly and thoughtlessly, like a machine. The despair that this act, even in the imagination, has as its immediate result, increases my haste. I shove the long slabs of rib meat unbitten into my mouth, and then pull them out again from behind, tearing through the stomach and intestines. I eat dirty delicatessen stores completely empty. Cram myself with herrings, pickles and all the bad, old, sharp foods. Bonbons are poured into me like hail from their tin boxes. I can enjoy in this way not only my healthy condition but also a suffering that is without pain and can pass at once.

At bottom I am an incapable, ignorant person, who, if he had not been compelled -- without any effort of his own part and scarcely aware of the compulsion -- to go to school, would be fit only to crouch in a kennel, to leap out when food is offered and to leap back when he has swallowed it.

The difficulties I have in speaking to people arise from the fact that my thinking, or rather the content of my consciousness, is entirely nebulous, that I remain undisturbed by this, so far as it concerns only myself, and am even occasionally self-satisfied; yet conversation with people demands pointedness, solidity, and sustained coherence, qualities not to be found in me.

Nothing.

Germany has declared war on Russia -- Swimming in the afternoon.

[bigwillq]

4. I love beans!

[Sherman A1]

6. Me too...

very fond of them ....

[femmocrat]

5. George M. Cohan's birthday: Almost born on the Fourth of July!

http://www.famousbirthdays.com/people/george-m-cohan.html