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@taci,

Good morning in S. California and I pray your State will recover quickly from all that is going on.
The news keeps is reporting everything. I pray people all 50,000 have homes to come back to.
Very sad about animals not being allowed in shelters and other places. I would sneak Poppy in
if i had to go somewhere during an emergency order. 😎

Oz is beautiful today and I am in the wind. 😎🎈

Enjoy the trails and what ever you choose to do. Enjoy this Memorial Day. 😎

@oodiebom,

Good day on the Gulf Coast of Florida. 😎🎈💕 Wishing you and hubby a nice Memorial Day.
I hope you are well and will have good eats.

Keep safe and cool out there.

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Proud to remember & reflect on this Memorial Day 🎈

Good Morning Peeps and enjoy the HSN Community. 😎🎈

Have a safe Memorial Day.

GEEK PRIDE DAY

Get your geek on! Let your geek flags fly on May 25! Geek Pride Day celebrates all things geeky. It is for those people who appreciate sci-fi, fantasy, board games, video games, comic books, cosplay, anime, steampunk, and zombies, and much more.

NATIONAL BROWN-BAG-IT DAY

National Brown-Bag-It-Day on May 25 each year recognizes the benefits of packing your lunch for work or school.

Taking your lunch to work or school is an effective way to save money and to ensure you and your family are eating healthy. Brown-bagging-it allows you to make better choices and save money. For every meal you make at home, you can save several dollars a day. This is especially true if you are normally prone to eating out, ordering in from restaurants or eating out of vending machines at work. If you’re time is short supply during the day, taking your lunch to work helps you limit your choice to have something unhealthy. Even though we try to control our portions while eating out, we know the serving size just keep getting bigger and bigger. When we brown-bag-it, we maintain that control.

TOWEL DAY

Towel Day on May 25 commemorates the work of the author Douglas Adams, most known for his series The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

We think we need to note, for those who are unfamiliar with Douglas Adams, what Towel Day and the author have in common. The answer is nothing more than a mention about the purpose of a towel in his The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

“A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have.”

Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

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.

n 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 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.