Cartoon Horses with Hat-titude
TODAY is our 15th anniversary blogging with WordPress.com.
An amazing 43% of the web is now built on WordPress. More bloggers, small businesses, and Fortune 500 companies use WordPress than all of the other options combined. Join the millions of people like us who call WordPress home. You will be delighted you did.
Thank you WordPress for all the fun and fabulous times we have had with you, with more to come.
Vivian J Grant, Creator
HATTINGDON HORSES
August 9th
Celebrate the love of books on August 9 with National Book Lovers Day. Learn about the history of literature, the traditions of reading, and activities to enjoy on this day.
Books are the purest form of escapism. They can take you to any time, place, or culture. In honor of National Book Lovers Day on August 9, we put away our smartphones, pull out a good book and simply read. (Um, an audiobook is okay too.)
From clay tablets to today’s eBooks, literature has played a crucial role in preserving cultures, educating the masses, and storytelling.
Thanks to Johannes Gutenberg’s 15th-century printing press, anyone — not just royalty, monks or landed gentry — could read and own books.
Creator of the Dewey Decimal System, Melvil Dewey was foundational in shaping modern American libraries. In addition to devising and copyrighting the Dewey Decimal System by the age of 25, he helped found both the American Library Association and the first library school at Columbia University in 1884, and was the New York State Librarian from 1888-1906.
Raise your hand if you love books. Yes!
Blogger Day is celebrated on August 5 every year.
This day celebrates one of the most popular platforms in the world, Blogger. Anyone who has ever created a blog before has most likely used Blogger. This platform allows people to express themselves for either personal or commercial reasons.
Some bloggers use blogs to disseminate information and it has been a very good way to consume news ranging from politics to sports, technology, lifestyle, and a host of other topics.
This day should be well celebrated, especially by the blogging community, as it celebrates one of the platforms that contribute to our freedom of speech.
Thank you for joining us on this very special day.
Today, August 3rd, is National Watermelon Day.
The history of watermelons is a long one. There is a Sanskrit word for watermelon, and fruits are depicted in early Egyptian art, indicating an antiquity in agriculture of more than 4,000 years. Domestication and selective breeding have resulted in intensely sweet large fruits with tender flesh and fewer seeds. Some modern “seedless” cultivars have almost no viable seeds.
Here is our Hattingdon, acknowledging the day of this juicy wonderful fruit in a special hat for the occasion. How cool she looks. Wink!
On a summer’s day
A slice of watermelon
Under the hot sun.
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National Watermelon Day | August 3rd
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