On This Day: July 27th … Strange Holidays
National Scotch Day
National Love Is Kind Day
Take Your Pants For A Walk Day
Take Your Houseplants For A Walk Day
Walk On Stilts Day
Hmmm … there is a theme here. Anyone have a clue?
Take Your Houseplants For A Walk Day
Are thinking about houseplants right now? Are you giving all of your attention to your outdoor vegetable garden, and to your flower beds. If you stop and think about it, you might not have given those beautiful, indoor plants any time or attention in quite a while. Chances are those indoor plants are feeling a little neglected.
Like other houseplant owners, I'm sure you want to provide your houseplants with the very best plant care. Here's an opportunity for you to bond with your houseplants.
Take Your Houseplants for a Walk Day is a great day for you and your house plants to get some exercise. It will be good for them. It will allow you to bond with your plants, helping them to reach their maximum potential. Along the way, you can get your houseplant accustomed to your neighborhood.
If your plant is too big to carry, you can walk them in a stroller. They will love the ride.
Bonding with your plants helps them to be the very best plants that they can be. In addition to taking them for a walk, to can bond with your houseplants by talking to them, or playing encouraging music.
"Health is the greatest gift, contentment is the greatest wealth,
faithfulness is the greatest relationship."—Buddha
Walk On Stilts Day
If ever there was a day to stand tall amidst your peers, today is the day to do so.
With a pair of stilts and a little practice, you can be a full participant in this tall day. Considered a hobby or a sport, stilt walking takes skill and practice. While stilt walking is not for everyone, chances are you've been on them at least once when you were a kid. If that was a long time ago, don't worry. Stilt walking is like riding a bike, once you've learned it, you never forget. If you've never been on a pair of stilts, you had a sheltered childhood.
Stilts have a long and lofty history. Stilts were first used in the sixth century B.C. in ancient Greece. Stilts have been used for a wide variety of applications. In ancient times, shepherds would mount the stilts to get a bird's eye view, as they watched over their sheep. Got a tall fruit tree? Stilts have been used in the harvest. The drywall and construction industry uses them today, to reach high places. Stilts were used in jousting contests, too. We see stilts most often used for entertainment at the circus, in theaters, at parades and at many street events. Circus clowns, jugglers, and entertainers all use stilts. There are many career professional stilt walkers among us.
Stand out in a crowd by hopping onto a pair of stilts. If you are about to mount stilts for the first time, begin with a pair that is short... low to the ground. Once you've mastered your first pair of stilts, you can easily graduate to taller and taller ones. Looking for stilts to get started? You might not find them at a toy or hobby store. But, they are easy to acquire online.
For the Record: According to Guinness World Book of Records, the world's tallest stilt was 53' 10" (16.41 m). The record was set on November 15, 2006, by Saimaiti Yiming of Xinjiang, China. Yiming took ten steps on the stilts without a safety net. In case you didn't know, a stilt is measured from the ground to the ankle.
"You can make more friends in two months by being interested in other people, than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you."—Dale Carnegie
Take Your Pants For A Walk Day
Take Your Pants for a Walk Day is a great day to get some exercise. This day is well noted on the internet for Ecard and calendar websites. So, I'm sure your planning to celebrate this day in a big, big way.
It’s an easy day to celebrate. Simply go for a walk. Unless you are wearing a dress or a skirt, you probably are wearing pants. So, by definition, as you walk, they come along.
Give your pants some exercise. After all, they are looking a little tight around the middle. The walk will do them good.
A guy took his blonde girlfriend to the Super Bowl game.
They had great seats right behind their teams bench.
After the game. the guy asked his girlfriend how she liked the experience.
“Oh, I really liked it!” she replied, “Especially the tight pants and all the big muscles,
but I couldn’t understand why they were killing each other over 25 cents.”
Dumbfounded, her boyfriend asked, “What do you mean?”
She said, “Well, they flipped a coin, one team got it and then for the rest of the game,
all they kept screaming was, ’Get the quarter back! Get the quarter back!”
More Strange Holidays Coming!