I was on the bus earlier today and noticed that one of the houses I lived in as a child has been demolished as part of a neighbourhood renewal programme. It was a prefab built in the 1960s, and so I'm actually older than the house was.
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Bizarre U.S. Holidays Celebrated in July
@ 04 Jul. 2007 – 06:20:01
July 1 is Creative Ice Cream Flavor Day and Build A Scarecrow Day
July 2 is Visitation Of The Virgin Mary Day
July 3 is Stay Out Of The Sun Day and Compliment Your Mirror Day
July 4 is National Country Music Day and Tom Sawyer Fence-Painting Day
July 5 is Workaholics Day
July 6 is National Fried Chicken Day
July 7 is National Strawberry Sundae Day
July 8 is Video Games Day
July 9 is National Sugar Cookie Day
July 10 is Clerihew Day
July 11 is National Cheer Up The Lonely Day
July 12 is National Pecan Pie Day
July 13 is Fool's Paradise Day
July 14 is National Nude Day
July 15 is National Tapioca Pudding Day and Respect Canada Day
July 16 is International Juggling Day
July 17 is National Peach Ice Cream Day
July 18 is National Ice Cream Day and National Caviar Day
July 19 is Flitch Day
July 20 is Ugly Truck Contest Day
July 21 is National Tug-Of-War Tournament Day
July 22 is Ratcatcher's Day
July 23 is National Vanilla Ice Cream Day
July 24 is Amelia Earhart Day
July 25 is Threading The Needle Day
July 26 is All Or Nothing Day
July 27 is Take Your Pants For A Walk Day
July 28 is National Milk Chocolate Day
July 29 is Cheese Sacrifice Purchase Day
July 30 is National Cheesecake Day
July 31 is Parent's Day
Of course, today [July 4th] is also U.S. Independence Day. Maybe one day the people of England will get our chance to mark our independence from the United Kingdom...because at the moment I consider that England gets a really bad deal out of the union.
