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NATIONAL BAGELFEST DAY

National Bagelfest Day on July 26 recognizes the kosher carbohydrate that is crunchy on the outside and chewy on the inside. Join us as we explore the delicious facts behind the bagel and add our own schmeer to the topic.

Polish-Jewish immigrants introduced the bagel to the United States some time during the 19th century. Throughout New York City and the surrounding boroughs, they grew thriving bagel businesses. Of course, it didn’t take long for the bagel bakers to form an organization for bagel bakers in the city. The International Beigel Bakers’ Union was created in 1907. For decades, Bagel Bakers Local 338 held contracts with nearly all bagel bakeries in and around the city for its workers.

Until the 1960s, bakeries made bagels by hand. Then Daniel Thompson invented the bagel maker and along came a heated debate of man versus the machine. Thereafter, the question of the better bagel dangled before customers. Was it the handcrafted bagel or the manufactured bagel?

The bagel became more common throughout North America during the last quarter of the 20th century. Credit for the bagels’ spread across the country goes in part to the efforts of bagel baker Harry Lender, his son, Murray Lender, and Florence Lender. Their pioneering efforts led to the automated production and distribution of frozen bagels in the 1960s. Murray also invented pre-slicing the bagel.

NATIONAL GET GNARLY DAY

The last Friday in July provides an opportunity to embrace new ideas and toss out old ways on National Get Gnarly Day. Much like surfers challenging the waves, Get Gnarly Day challenges us to put some gnarliness into everything we do.

The word “Gnarly” seems to have originated in the 1960s by surfers as a description of waves while surfing. Any surfer knows the water in the wave can appear dangerous, scary, but can also be exciting. If you could ride the wave, surfers would respond with a “gnarly dude.” Interestingly, gnarly was carried over into the 1980s in pop culture slang, meaning “excellent” or “gross.”

5 Ways to Get Gnarly

Find a gnarly hobby. Hulda Crooks, born in 1896, didn’t start hiking and climbing until she was 54 years old after her husband’s death. While she was an active jogger and walker prior to his death, she was by no means a qualified mountain climber. Crooks first scaled Mount Whitney in California, the highest summit in the contiguous United States, at the age of 66. She completed a total of 23 ascents of Mount Whitney and at the age of 91 climbed Mount Fuji in Japan. Mountain climbing added gnarliness to her life.
Meet gnarly people. Take a cooking class, volunteer for a local charity, accept those invites you’ve previously declined. Stepping out of your comfort zone from time to time will introduce you to different experiences and as a result new people. It will make for a gnarly social circle.
Get a gnarly passport. A first-time passport costs $135 including fees and can take up to 6 weeks to process. If gnarliness is truly your new way of life, you’ll want to have a passport. Gnarly people are world travelers. Even if travel plans are not immediate, having a passport places the potential of global travel within reach and potential is pretty gnarly.
Find a gnarly new style. Redecorate a room in the house or find a fresh new hairstyle. Both can revitalize an attitude and an outlook on life. Gather a group of friends and take turns helping paint a room in each other’s home a gnarly color. The gnarly part? The homeowner doesn’t get to pick the color. Be kind, though. Turn around is fair play. Apply the same idea to hairstyles or makeovers.
Throw a gnarly party. Celebrate all this gnarliness! It’s something to share, so be sure to let the enthusiasm show. Invite those new friends to fully incorporate them into your gnarly social circle. Show off the stamps in your gnarly passport and take lots of pictures to document for National Get Gnarly Day!

NATIONAL AUNT AND UNCLE’S DAY

National Aunt and Uncle’s Day on July 26 honors a special set of relatives we look up to throughout our lives. During holidays, family events, and sometimes sleepovers, aunts and uncles often hold an extraordinary place in our hearts. They fill our lives with fun, laughter, love, and incredible memories.

National Aunt and Uncle’s Day provides an opportunity to spend time with our parents’ siblings. You know, those people we trusted and leaned on growing up. Today’s National Day is an excellent time to get out the old photo albums to look through the pictures, and relive the memories of earlier days with your family.

Any time you can spend with your family is something to be treasured. Aunts and uncles hold many memories of growing up with our parents and our grandparents. Each time they share a story, they are sharing a part of life you may not have known about. Enjoy having them in your life and celebrate the lessons they’ve taught you. Those memories with be carried through the next generation through you.

@shoelady60,

I am so ready for the Olympics I really want to see the opening ceremony. 💕😎🎈

Lady I do have a list for all the drinks I posted today. Give me a day or so and I will list
each one. 💕

Let The Games Begin. 🎈🎈

Viva France! 😎

@taci,

I bet your hubs or son can make this move. We have a few men in the family that can do this.
I call them show offs. LOL! 💕😎

Love the Bunnies. 💕

I cannot see you not hiking that is the vision I see of you all the time. 😎

@oodiebom,

Enjoy your evening with hubby. I am so glad your items came a day early that will work out
great. 💕

I get so much Andrew Lessman he his own bathroom. 💕😎Hubby and I both like to stay
healthy.

Let me know how it all pulls together I know it’s a beach theme now all you need is
hubby home. 💕🎈

Enjoy some tea with your Manuka Honey. 💕

Heroes
Song by David Bowie

I, I will be king
And you, you will be queen
Though nothing will drive them away
We can beat them, just for one day
We can be heroes, just for one day
And you, you can be mean
And I, I’ll drink all the time
‘Cause we’re lovers, and that is a fact
Yes we’re lovers, and that is that
Though nothing will keep us together
We could steal time just for one day
We can be heroes for ever and ever
What d’you say?
I, I wish you could swim
Like the dolphins, like dolphins can swim
Though nothing, nothing will keep us together
We can beat them, for ever and ever
Oh we can be Heroes, just for one day
I, I will be king
And you, you will be queen
Though nothing will drive them away
We can be Heroes, just for one day
We can be us, just for one day
I, I can remember (I remember)
Standing, by the wall (by the wall)
And the guns, shot above our heads (over our heads)
And we kissed, as though nothing could fall (nothing could fall)
And the shame, was on the other side
Oh we can beat them, for ever and ever
Then we could be Heroes, just for one day
We can be Heroes
We can be Heroes
We can be Heroes
Just for one day
We can be Heroes
We’re nothing, and nothing will help us
Maybe we’re lying, then you better not stay
But we could be safer, just for one day
Oh-oh-oh-ohh, oh-oh-oh-ohh, just for one day

Peace Out Peeps enjoy your evening. 😎

Happy Birthday Iman aka Mrs. David Jones.

Sheba, Wow! The drinks look great and so creative. Love it. My drink of the day is Efficient C Berry flavor because I was tired of water. I have also been adding watermelon and lemon to my water and it is very good too.
The gym is ok and I prefer hiking. Maybe when it cools down I will think about it. Hubs was Mtn Biking in an area with wildlife, and he only seems to see bunnies.

Stay Cool in Oz!

@sheba2011

Wow! Every one of those drinks look wonderful.🍸🍷🍹 I wish I knew the name of them, would like to try them all, one drink at a time of course, lol!

Pretty nice day in the ‘burgh, it will be getting warmer for the weekend.🔥 Opening ceremonies tomorrow afternoon, I am ready. Mom is ready, too. Since she will be by herself in the evenings, she already had me open a bottle of wine as her companion while watching the Olympics, yikes!😂 Since I had errands to run today, stopped at Panera to pick up sandwiches for dinner.🥪

I guess Poppy will be wearing his sandals with the heat.🐾 Cool hugs from me and Jake.🤗💖