Mark your calendar and don’t miss this juicy August 3 holiday. This big and juicy fruit deserves it’s own big day. So, we give pause to celebrate big melons on National Watermelon Day. Sweet and tasty, watermelons, are one of summer’s favorite fruit. It’s standard fare at picnics. While this fruit is over 90% water, it sure tastes good. And, what picnic would be complete without a seed spitting contest?

Summer is the time to consume watermelons in large quantities. They ripen in the field in July and August, and even earlier in some southern states. July is the peak month, just in time for Fourth of July picnics. But, please don’t limit your consumption of watermelon to just this month. Stores carry watermelon for twelve months of the year.

World Record Watermelon: This fruit can grow quite large, make that huge. Sure, there are small, home garden varieties that just about fit into the palm of your hand.  But, watermelons can weigh hundreds of pounds each.  The world record heaviest watermelon weighed in at 350.5 pounds on October 4, 2013. It was grown by Chris Kent of Sevierville, Tennessee.

Related Holidays:

Watermelon Month

Blame Someone Else Day is a wonderful holiday. What a great time you can have on this day. Imagine all the problems, errors, and mistakes you could heap on someone else today. On this day you don’t have to take responsibility, or the blame, for any faux pas on your part. On the downside, this day comes as a double-edged sword. While you are busy putting the blame elsewhere, someone might just be putting the blame on you!

So…….if thar is somethin wrong whif the spellin of this artickle, it’s not my fallt…..its’ yers.

Blame Someone Else Day could just be your day. But watch out….. any blame you place today, can come back to bite you tomorrow. After all…what comes around goes around.

Babe Ruth Day, an April 27 holiday, honors the “Great Bambino, one of Baseball’s greatest players ever.

On April 27, 1947, Babe Ruth attended Yankee Stadium for Babe Ruth Day. It was to be the second last time he was at the stadium. In 1946, he was diagnosed with throat cancer. Back then, there was not as much treatment as there is today.

On this day in 1947, baseball’s “The Bambino” returned to “The House that Ruth Built” to be honored.

Bake Cookies Day, a December 18 holiday, comes at an opportune time. It arrives amidst the major December holidays. It serves as a reminder to bake holiday cookies if you haven’t done so already. People, young and old, celebrate this day by baking their favorite cookies. Make a party of it, and bake cookies in groups with family, friends, kids, and grandkids. Don’t stop at baking just one kind of cookie. Plan to bake several varieties of cookies. Try a new recipe, or two, or three, or….

‘Ya gotta just love Bake Cookies Day………

….. Christmas is for Christians

….. Hanukkah is just for Jews

….  Ramadan is for those of Islamic descent

….. Kwanzaa is for those of African origin

….. Native American Day is for American Indians

…. But, Bake Cookies Day is for EVERYONE!

If you bake more than you can eat, good for you! Wrap up gift trays filled with cookies for friends and neighbors. Most cookies freeze well, too.

Important Note: we are very surprised that this day is not immediately followed by “Eat Cookies Day”. We did not even find an Eat Cookies Day. So, you can, and should, eat them every day!

Grab your telescope, look for a dark place and pray for no clouds, as Astronomy Day is upon us. This September 28 holiday is a stellar event. Tonight is a time to look up to the stars.  It was established to promote astronomy to the general public. Astronomy clubs and groups use this day and night to help teach people about the stars, and other celestial bodies in the universe. These groups take advantage of this day to offer people a view of the stars through a telescope, if possible.

There is also an Astronomy Week. It begins the Monday before Astronomy Day.  

Today is truly an Astronomical day!

Australia Day is a national holiday in Australia, celebrating national pride and culture, and an opportunity to recognize and enjoy accomplishments. Many Aussies, as they are fondly called, use this day to explore and learn more about their national identity and culture.

On January 26, 1788, Arthur Phillip sailed into Sydney Cove and planted the Union Jack flag. He brought with him convicts to create a penal colony. Of course, these convicts were not the original citizens of Australia. The Aborigines arrived in Australia about 45,000 to 50,000 years ago.

National Arbor Day is the Tree Planter’s holiday. It has been celebrated since 1872. It began in Nebraska, a largely treeless plain back in the 1800s. On April 10, 1872, Conservationist J. Sterling Morton proposed this day to the Nebraska State Board of Agriculture. in Lincoln, Nebraska. It grew to become a nationally recognized holiday.

Arbor Day is a day to plant and dedicate a tree to help nature and the environment. On this day organizations and individuals plant millions of trees. Many organizations provide young tree saplings for free.

The National Arbor Day Foundation provides millions of trees for planting. Organizations, groups, and individuals plant over 18 million trees d each year on Arbor Day. Did you know? The Latin word for “Tree” is “Arbor”…sure you did!!!

Learn how to plant a tree

Labor Day honors and celebrates the work and accomplishments of the American worker. It is also appropriately called the “Workingman’s Holiday”. The holiday offers respect and appreciation for the work you do in or outside of the home, union or non-union, big company, small company, or government. As long as you work somewhere doing some job of any kind, this holiday is for you!

The first Labor Day was held and celebrated in New York City on September 5, 1882. The Central Labor Union in New York City started Labor Day. In 1884, it was moved to the first Monday in September. Labor Day quickly became popular and one state after another voted for it as a holiday. On June 28, 1894, the U.S. congress voted it a national holiday.

Labor Day is also viewed as the official end of summer. Summer’s heat has already begun to wane. We have a couple of hours less sunlight than we did at the start of summer. While the Fall Equinox is still a few weeks away, kids go back to school, and summer vacations are over.

Canada, The United States, and Bermuda are the only countries to celebrate Labor Day in September. All other countries hold a holiday in honor of workers in May. It’s called May Day.

Labor Day tradition: Union-sponsored parades are common. Many people celebrate this weekend with one last picnic. It is also the date that many people close up the pool, and put away the boats.

The joke is on you! Traditionally, April Fool’s Day is an opportunity for playing jokes or tricks on one another. The stranger and the more absurd the better. The challenge is to carry out a trick that is believable, if only for a little while. Tricks are most successful when played earlier in the day before a person is wise to what is going on. After that first cup of coffee, people are wise to the fact that it is April Fool’s Day, and that anything can happen. Younger children are also more gullible. And, everyone seems to get into the act, including media organizations like the BBC, which has played more than one joke on the general public.

Any tricks or jokes must be harmless and in good taste for the unsuspecting “victim”. And, we suggest you think twice before pulling one on the boss, even if he or she is known to be of good humor.

Important: April Fool’s Day jokes and gags must not be dangerous or hurt anyone’s feelings. Give your jokes and gags some thought before carrying them out. Then, have fun!

Happy April Fool’s Day

Armed Forces Day is simply a day to salute sharply all of the men and women in all branches of the military, who protect you and our country. They are often upon at a moment’s notice to perform a risky and perilous mission for freedom and country. They train diligently both physically and mentally. So, they are prepared to prevail in any mission they face.