A True Wednesday Medley

Hosted by Terri!

This will be a true Medley of questions and Calendar Day celebrations!  Terri learned a little from a couple of these!!  Hope you enjoy this week's Medley!

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

NATIONAL PEACH ICE CREAM DAY – July 17

NATIONAL PEACH ICE CREAM DAY

National Peach Ice Cream Day on July 17th sweetens the day with a few scoops at the peak of peach season. 

Since peaches begin peaking in July, this celebration comes just in time. It also lands right in the middle of National Ice Cream Month. So, it’s an excellent time to add peach ice cream to the growing list of flavors to choose from when it comes to frozen, creamy treats. 

Generally speaking, there are two types of peaches – freestone and clingstone. The difference has to do with how the flesh comes away from the stone or the pit in the middle of the peach. When the meat comes away freely from the stone, the peach is a freestone peach; if the flesh clings to it, it’s a clingstone.

While Georgia may be the first state to come to mind when we think of peaches, California actually leads the nation in production. In the United States, 20 states produce peaches commercially. Besides California and Georgia, the other two top producers are South Carolina and New Jersey. Pennsylvania and Washington grow a lot of peaches, too.

This sweet stone fruit makes delicious ice cream when it’s very ripe and full of peachy juices. However, you don’t have to use fresh peaches to make this ice cream. Buy frozen peaches if the grocery or farmer’s markets don’t have them in yet. The family will love making homemade ice cream together. The best part will be eating up the finished product on a hot summer day. 

HOW TO OBSERVE NATIONAL PEACH ICE CREAM DAY

Grab your ice cream maker and invite your friends and neighbors over for an old-fashioned ice cream social! Give this homemade peach ice cream recipe a try. If you need tips for picking fresh peaches visit Frog Hollow for an easy guide to the best peaches. 

You can also visit an ice cream parlor and order a dish or cone. Don’t hesitate to add sprinkles or some pecans.

1.  Do you enjoy fresh peaches?  What is your favorite way to use them in a recipe?

I absolutely love peaches...  and especially peach ice cream..  I  enjoy the free stone  peaches best.  never  a fan of having to   desecrate a peach  tearing it away from the pit!!!

I found this yummy recipe    in Southern Living  Online!

Ginger-Peach Shortbread Cobbler Recipe |  

hands on time 40 Mins Total Time 1 Hour 10 Mins

 Yield Makes 6 to 8 servings 

Ingredients 1 cup butter, softened

 1/2 cup loosely packed light brown sugar

 1/8 teaspoon kosher salt

 2 1/4 cups plus 3 Tbsp. all-purpose flour, divided

 1 (1/2-inch) piece fresh ginger, peeled 

3/4 cup turbinado sugar, divided 

7 to 9 medium-size peaches (such as 'Elberta'), halved

 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice

 1 large egg white, lightly beaten

 2 teaspoons granulated sugar

 How to Make It 

 Step 1 Preheat oven to 400°. Beat first 3 ingredients and 2 1/4 cups flour at medium speed with a heavy-duty electric stand mixer just until combined. Place dough on a lightly floured surface; roll to 1/4-inch thickness. Cut about 14 rounds with a 2 1/2-inch fluted round cutter. Place rounds in a single layer on a baking sheet; cover and chill until ready to use.

 Step 2 Pulse ginger and 1/4 cup turbinado sugar in a food processor 5 to 6 times or until well combined. Stir together ginger mixture and remaining 1/2 cup turbinado sugar in a large bowl. Add lemon juice, peaches, and remaining 3 Tbsp. flour; toss to coat. Place peach halves, slightly overlapping, in a greased (with butter) 10-inch cast-iron skillet, and pour any remaining juice over peaches. 

Step 3 Bake at 400° for 15 minutes. Remove from oven, and nestle shortbread dough rounds among peaches. Brush rounds with egg white, and sprinkle with granulated sugar. Bake 17 to 20 minutes or until golden brown. 

Chef's Notes We tested with Sugar in the Raw Natural Cane Turbinado Sugar. Ginger-Peach Shortbread Cobbler July 2015 SOUTHERN LIVING Guests will rave over this impressive peach cobbler.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

NATIONAL WRONG WAY CORRIGAN DAY – July 17

NATIONAL WRONG WAY CORRIGAN DAY

National Wrong Way Corrigan Day on July 17th commemorates the transatlantic flight of an Irish-American stunt pilot from Galveston, Texas. Douglas Corrigan gained notoriety for an unplanned transatlantic flight to Ireland on July 17, 1938. 

Growing up as a boy, Douglas Corrigan’s (January 22, 1907- December 9, 1995) fascination with flight was not uncommon. Charles Lindbergh’s transatlantic flight may have been the most impressionable moment in his young life. In 1938, the young stunt pilot flew from his home in California to New York. Upon arrival, he requested permission to duplicate his hero’s historic flight. They quickly denied his request due to the age of Corrigan’s 1929 Curtiss Robin.  

With only a magnetic compass, Corrigan advised officials he was returning to California.  According to the story, after takeoff, cloud cover prevented Corrigan from accurate navigation. When Corrigan dropped below the clouds hours later, he saw he was surrounded by water. It was then that Corrigan realized his navigation was off. He continued, and 28 hours later, he landed in Ireland. 

That was the story as Corrigan told it. Reporters suggested Corrigan made secret plans to repeat his hero’s flight anyway. However, years later, Corrigan held fast to his original explanation.

After the Flight

The wayward pilot wrote about his misadventure in his memoir That’s My Story. While the book is out of print, a few copies can be found for the right price. Corrigan also received a movie deal and soon played himself in The Flying Irishman. During World War II, he tested bombers. After the war, the stunt man toured the country with other familiar war heroes in parades.  As the notoriety died down, Corrigan settled into a quiet life with his wife and family. Occasionally fame would catch up to him again when Corrigan would run into a reporter who wanted to question the veracity of his story.  

HOW TO OBSERVE NATIONAL WRONG WAY CORRIGAN DAY

Explore the history of transatlantic flight and more stories like Douglas Corrigan’s. Watch The Flying Irishman or visit an air museum. Use #WrongWayCorriganDay to share on social media. 

HISTORY OF NATIONAL WRONG WAY CORRIGAN DAY

National Wrong Way Corrigan Day originates with the date Corrigan left New York in 1938.  In 1987, Long Island commemorated the 49th anniversary of the 80-year-old Corrigan’s flight with a parade and called the day “Wrong Way Corrigan Day.”  The city of Galveston, Texas proclaimed Wrong Way Corrigan Day in 1992 to be celebrated on January 22nd, the date of their hometown hero’s birth. 

2.  Have you ever gone the wrong way on a one-way street?  What do you think about Mr. Corrigan's story?   True or False?

I  really  detest  trying to drive through major cities    not knowing how the streets run..  Some  cities  the  roads  run  one way this  way, then the next road the other way  and when you are trying to find a particular building  and you can't seem to ever be going the  "right" way,  it can be maddening...  and yes,  we have  in our time,  accidentally gone the wrong way  on a  metropolitan street..  Thankfully,  they  realized we were from the "South"  by  our  license plate and just  gave us  a bit of grace  and  a  bit of attitude like"What do you expect from a Virginian! " We  tucked our  behinds and just  moseyed on our way and righted ourselves,,    with  as much humility as we could muster and   figured it out!!   Richmond,  Boston, and Washington, DC,  well,  many   cities are  really bad  with one ways!!  Oh,  I think  Wrong Way Corrigan  knew exactly what he was doing and where he was going..  He sounds like he was  full of the blarney!

------------------------------------------------------------------

NATIONAL YELLOW PIG DAY – July 17

NATIONAL YELLOW PIG DAY

National Yellow Pig Day on July 17 honors the unique attributes of the number 17 and its significance to mathematics. 

If you don’t think the number 17 plays any role in our lives, consider these facts:

• The number 17 is a premium number in the arena of prime numbers. Add the first four prime numbers together, and 17 is their sum.
• The average loaded school bus weighs 17 tons
• Each of the following words has 17 letters:
  • interdisciplinary
  • telecommunication
  • misinterpretation
  • commercialization
  • electrophotometer
• The atomic number of chlorine is 17.
• Pebble Beach named a road 17 Mile Drive along the Monterey Peninsula in California. However, the exact length of the road is 16.78 miles.
• The 17th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution gave the citizens of the United States the right to elect their senators by popular vote. Before the states ratified the amendment on April 8, 1913, each states’ legislatures elected the senators to Congress.

Look for the not so random occurrence of the number 17.  Look!  Yellow pig!

HOW TO OBSERVE

Brush up on your calculus and round up your yellow pigs. Look for the number 17. It’s everywhere! Post on social media using #NationalYellowPigDay.

HISTORY

Our research found that National Pig Day originated sometime during the early 1960s. Two mathematicians named Michael Spivak and David Kelly analyzed the random properties of the number 17 and a mysterious yellow pig. It seems the process became excessive and professional. Kelly lectured and developed classes around it. Spivak published several mathematics texts, while not based upon it, he does subtly reference the number 17 and Yellow Pig.

3.  Tell us about your life when you were 17.

I suppose it was  my  year to  learn   adulthood, and   how to  fend for myself...  MY mom put me on a plane   by myself for  Washington, DC to go work for my aunt who needed a baby sitter that summer  until her  regular sitter's son  returned to the front     in Viet Nam. He was home on leave for a few weeks..   I lived in the apartment with my Aunt and Uncle   and  cared for my  young cousin who was 9 months old.    On weekends I was shuttled  back and forth to 3 other aunts who lived in the greater area...  and it was  truly  adventurous all along the way..  I  learned to drive their cars,  do some of their    marketing,  learned  how to  drive  from my aunt's to the new  and up and coming  Mall,  Tyson's Corners  and buy whatever I wanted,  without asking any one. I got my ears pierced,  I met a very cute boy  who was also            staying with his uncle in the apartment complex,   and we  had a semi romance , very  17th summer- like  boy meets girl,  romance that lasted  about 2 weeks ,  but it  ended with  a kiss!  I felt it was a very defining  summer for me.. my 17th Summer!! (1967--- great music that summer!!)  And then  as I started my senior  year of HS I met  the  guy I'd marry 5 years later...    it was ALL good!

--------------------------------------------------------------

WORLD EMOJI DAY – July 17

WORLD EMOJI DAY

July 17 recognizes World Emoji Day and many of the world’s symbolic icons for digital calendars. The day encourages us to use emojis to send unique messages.

Now before the emoji, there were emoticons. Emoticons (emotion + icon) were developed as an expression of emotions in the cold hard texts that were devoid of them.

Emoji, a Japanese expression, roughly means “picture word” and was developed in 1990 by Shigetaka Kurita. While working for NTT Docomo, a Japanese telecom company, Kurita design these picture words as a feature on their pagers to make them more appealing to teens.

When Apple released the first iPhone in 2007, an emoji keyboard was embedded to nab the Japanese market. While not intended for U.S. users to find, they did and quickly figured out how to use it.

Every year new emojis (both emoji and emojis are acceptable plural forms of the word) are developed. The emojipedia.org keeps track of all the emoji updates across all platforms and operating systems. Over 1800 emojis cover much more than just emotions. From transportation, food, an assortment of wild and domesticated animals to social platforms, weather, and bodily functions, emojis virtually speak for themselves.

When it comes to celebration emojis, the designers created a variety to make sure we could express our excitement. Whether we celebrate the arrival of a new baby, an anniversary or a birthday, there’s something for every celebration. In fact, if we search our emojis carefully, we could probably Celebrate Every Day® on National Day Calendar® emoji style.

HOW TO OBSERVE WORLD EMOJI DAY

Explore emojis.  Send them to your friends.  if they it!  Use #WorldEmojiDay to share on social media.

HISTORY OF WORLD EMOJI DAY

In 2014, Emojipedia founder Jeremy Burge created World Emoji Day.  The date of July 17 has been intrinsic to the iconic red and black Apple calendar emoji since its launch in 2002.

4.  Do you use emojis when you text, email, or FB message? Do you have a favorite?

I love emojis... I  use    them all the time on facebook,    especially with my  daughter and grands!   I  use  music notes and hearts and flowers on birthday messages  for friends  where I type out  the happy birthday song!  I love the kissy kiss smiley faces with my daughter and grands  and I  do flowers on special friends messages.  I created  a great emoji of myself on my iphone  but I cant  figure out if I can use anywhere else!  hehehe

   

-------------------------------------------------------------------

NATIONAL TATTOO DAY – July 17

NATIONAL TATTOO DAY

National Tattoo Day on July 17th recognizes the history, culture, and artists dedicated to etching ink permanently on the skin. The day might just be the date to get that ink you’ve been contemplating.

Evidence of humans marking their bodies with permanent designs have existed for thousands of years. Egyptian and ice mummies reveal several forms of religious and status symbols.

The word “tattoo” is derived from the Polynesian language for tatau, which means “to tap or to mark.” Around the world, cultures surrounding tattooing vary, and some have changed very little over time. In the United States, sailors brought tattooing to coastal shores from their island exploits.

Getting inked continues to grow as technology and acceptance increases. While age, gender, religion, and class once divide the tattooed from the non-tattooed, those barriers are less common than they used to be. Reasons why we go under the needle differ. A tattoo may represent a significant event or hold intensely personal meaning. However, some people do get tattoos on a whim. Still, others confess, the need for a new tattoo is an addiction.

Getting a Tattoo

As the art form increases in popularity, it’s important to consider a few things before getting a tattoo.

• Research and find a reputable artist. Remember, this art is permanent. You will want the finished piece to be polished with no regerts – that is, no regrets.
• Once you’ve found an artist, be sure you have a design in mind. If you aren’t an artist, pulling an idea from your head and making it a reality will take time to develop.
• Check spelling. Fact check. If you use a foreign word or a quote in your design, research the meaning and check the spelling. The same applies to symbols. Just because a website translated a meaning or said symbol represented peace or love in a certain culture, doesn’t mean it’s true. It’s not the artist’s responsibility to know either.  Sometimes the design means something altogether different to the client.
• Be prepared to be placed on a waiting list. Good artists are in demand.
• Be prepared to pay for good art. Nobody wants a lousy tattoo.

Day of Your Appointment

• Clear your day, especially if you’re getting a large tattoo.
• Arrive on time. Most artists charge by the hour and any adjustment throws their entire day off. You can’t rush good art.
• Dress comfortably.
• Eat something. A protein bar won’t make you fill stuffed but will keep you alert and satisfied through the session.
• Bring water and stay hydrated.
• Tip your artists when the session is over.

HOW TO OBSERVE NATIONAL TATTOO DAY

Take some time to thank your tattoo artist. Do you have a new design? July 17th is the day.  Use #NationalTattooDay to share on social media.

HISTORY OF NATIONAL TATTOO DAY

National Tatto Day has been observed since 2016. The founder or source of the day has not been identified.

5.  It has been asked many times, but do you have a tattoo?  Do you want to get a tattoo? 

I absolutely do not want a tattoo.. I think  they are  hideously ugly and would not  deface  the temple of God!

------------------------------------------------------------------------

6.  Last, but not least, please tell us something about your week!
My husband and I are in  the midst of transition... We  are being called to change  churches..  and are so blessed to have found  the most precious smaller church  that  seems to really suit us  as  we in a new season of life.. This new pastor has a way about him that  truly challenges me in ways I've never been challenged before.. due to his  teaching I have been moved to create the  series of posts called the Road to Salvation which can be found  on the top right  side of my  blog.. We are focused on  getting the gospel message out in every way we can  and I decided  to use  this platform to  try to reach  the many folks to visit my blog  without ever leaving a comment.. I have    many  according to my   stats and  I have many who  have checked in to the  posts  in that series..  I pray that  a seed is at least planted that will take root and grow.  Another thing this week ,  We are going to  a reunion  soon and   I have been praying for a particular    family member  who  has never expressed an interest in  spiritual things..   I have been praying her heart would be softened and  I would have  an opportunity to  share with her.  Now I rarely ever hear form her  she lives  far away,,,imagine my thrill when  she  called me to tell me she is coming to the reunion..  SO now I am praying that  we have an opportunity to get apart and talk  seriously and  she will listen and    be moved in her  inner places to  accept the free gift being offered to her! Also,  that the Lord would give me exactly the words to say!!  I covet your prayers  on this as well!  God bless you all  in the  rest of this  marvelous week