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Good Morning Peeps enjoy this Memorial Day Weekend and keep safe. 😎🎈

TOWEL DAY

Observed annually by fans of Douglas Adams, Towel Day commemorates the work of the author most known for his series The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

First and foremost, it’s important to note for those who are unfamiliar with Douglas Adams, according to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, “A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have.”

And that’s mighty important. Even we mere Earthly hitchhikers require towels for many immensely useful purposes. We dry our furry pets and roll towels neatly into coordinated rows. On long trips, they ease the kinks in our necks. Even our tiny humans use them to dry off after taking a swim. Though, perhaps not very effectively. It can also offer shade on a sunny day.

We’ve found that towels in small forms are effective for sport, too. Golfers and bowlers use them. Add a small towel to a footballer’s hip and call it a flag or wave a white one in a battle to surrender.

In an emergency, a towel can stop bleeding or can carry the wounded. It also can cool a fever. Wrap it around you on a cool day. Wash a car or wipe up the oil. A really large towel might suffice for a toga party. However, in reality, it probably wouldn’t.

The list of options goes on both here on Earth and beyond in every galaxy. The important lesson of the day is, don’t leave home without your towel.

NATIONAL WINE DAY

On May 25th each year, wine lovers everywhere pour a glass of their favorite wine to celebrate National Wine Day. Whether it is Red or White, the sound of glassing “clinking” will be heard around the world today.

Made from fermented grapes or other fruits, wine is an alcoholic beverage. During the fermentation processes, yeast consumes the sugars in the grapes converting it into alcohol. Different grapes produce different wines. Winemakers will combine different wines to create more complex flavors. Wines made from fruit or honey are often named according to the variety of fruit used.

Red wine varietals produce deep ruby reds as well as subtle ambers and browns. Their beautiful colors hint at the coming change in the season. With that, we can look for delicious menu changes, too. Besides, what better way to enjoy a great bottle of wine than by pairing it with excellent company and food.

Winemakers produce white wines from grapes with light yellow-green skins or light red skins. However, it’s not the color of the grapes that give the wine its color. It’s the tannins in the grape skins that color wine red and also the flavor. White wines are generally sweeter than red wines and are best served chilled. Most red wines are served at room temperature. However, a sweet red should also be chilled for the best flavor.

NATIONAL TAP DANCE DAY | May 25

On May 25 during National Tap Dance Day, we pay tribute to one of America’s original dancing art forms.

Tap dance is a percussive dance dating back to the early 1800s, with a combination of primarily influences of African and Irish heritage.

Incorporating complex rhythmic step combinations, tap dance performers often expressed enormous amounts of character through sound and body movement. From clogging to buck and wing styles, soft-shoe to the sand step, and a little bit of jazz, tap dancing evolved from a stiff Irish jig to the bodily Cakewalk and vocal Ring-shout.

Famous Tap Dancers
Bill “Bojangles” Robinson
Fred Astaire
Gregory Hines
Ginger Rogers
Each of these performers added their own flair to a dance style that continues to influence film, music and stage.

Another dance similar to tap dance is called soft-shoe. While still rhythmic, the sound is muffled since tap shoes are not necessary to perform the steps. Many of the dance steps in tap transfer to soft-shoe making the two very compatible.

The popular Shim Sham of the vaudeville era became a line dance in the 1980s.

@xango

Welcome back dear friend. I really and truly missed you. I could not figure out what was wrong. The last post said you would write when you had something to say.. You and your hubby have been through a lot in the past two years. Take it easy and rest. Glad you are home and I hope you have some extra pair of hands beside hubby’s to help you mend. Take care of yourself. I am so thankful that you are home. Nothing like sleeping in your own bed.

Sheba, glad we heard from Xango. Oh my things have been rough for her.
I am still congested and a bit sick. Can’t get rid of it fast enough.
Since I worked a tech job for 30 years and was glued to my seat day and many nights; it’s been great to get out and stay out. Plus I worked in offices prior to that so been in lock up. 🙂

Your backyard looks really beautiful.

Xango, Sorry about all your going through. Wishing you a speedy recovery!♥