Ridley's
Believe It Or Not—May 10, 2014: As always, after some
searching, I have found some holidays worthy of mention and in the case of
shrimp definitely worth celebrating in a culinary fashion, to go with the
factoids and quote to enjoy as you are getting ready to celebrate Mother’s Day tomorrow and are stressing out over
what to get and how to celebrate the day.
1. National Train Day—celebrating the
contribution of trains to passenger travel—great day to leave the keys at home
and take the Surfliner to Santa Barbara or San Diego.
2. National Babysitters Day—celebrated on
the Saturday before Mother’s Day—motherhood is
a lot more fun when the parents can find a reliable babysitter for a night on
the town.
3.
Lupus Day—creating awareness for an
autoimmune disease affecting millions for which there is currently no cure.
4. Mother Ocean Day—it has taken we humans a
long time but we have managed to pollute huge sections of our oceans; a great
day to take one of the roses your mother will receive tomorrow and symbolically
toss it into the ocean from a pier, beach, or boat.
5.
National Shrimp Day—another great food item to celebrate by
enjoying today—from the grilled giant prawns
to the tiny bay shrimp in salad, a tasty and nourishing repast.
On this day
in:
a. 1869 the First Transcontinental Railroad coming from the West and the East was
joined at Promontory Summit Utah, with Governor Leland Stanford, later founder
with his wife Jane of Stanford University, pounding in the last rail spike.
b. 1908 the first Mother’s Day in the U.S. was celebrated in Grafton, West Virginia.
c. 2013 One World Trade Center was completed at a symbolic height of 1776 feet
making it the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere.
If only are problems
today could be solved so easily: “The
one moral, the one remedy for every evil, social, political, financial, and
industrial, the one immediate vital need of the entire Republic, is the Pacific
Railroad." Rocky Mountain News, 1866.
Please enjoy
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entertaining poems on my blogs--click on links below. www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com for
poems on Mother’s Day, climbing into the
mountains to be nearer to God; the 2014 Boston Marathon; on the Mustangs going
to the Dance with a losing record; to honor Cindy Abbott, a half blind 54 year
old mother suffering from a rare disease who competed in last year's Iditarod
until forced out with a broken pelvis after 600 miles to join a great
collection of my poems to inspire, touch, emote, elate and enjoy. Go to Rhymes
On The Newsworthy Times for poems on Boko Haram’s jihadist war on school
girls; Blues and Reds uniting to force approval of Keystone XL; Condi Rice at
Rutgers’ loss withdrawing as a commencement speaker; death of a 77 year old
pilot at air show trying to cut a ribbon; more on Phoenix VA deaths; the
just released nonredacted Benghazi emails; Kerry’s apartheid characterization
of Israel; Obama’s admission that he does not know whether new “sanctions” will
work against Putin; the scandal of vets dying in Phoenix while waiting to see a
doctor; coffee as the new wonder drug to curtail Type II Diabetes to join
numerous other comments on news events always in rhyme of course.
©May 10,
2014 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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