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Summer 2025 begins today

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June 20, 2025

Ooh la la! Summer is officially here. Hattingdon has the perfect hat — naturally. She has been wearing it all day long. We named the hat Summer. Take a look.

The Summer design features a fashion hat with a tall, rounded dome and wide brim, all in delicious stripes of deep pink, sky blue, lime green and pure white. Vivian made a pinwheel to go with it. How sweet it is.

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Summer Hattingdon & Matching Pinwheel.

Summertime

Summer begins in the Northern Hemisphere on the longest day of the year. Also known as the Summer Solstice, this date officially celebrates a time of year when the sun is warm and the outdoors is the place to be.

Many schools are out of session during the summer, which gives families the opportunity to take vacations — using the time to explore and enjoy the great outdoors camping, hiking, and biking.

Community pools open up. Beaches are open, too. Water adventures in the form of kayaking, canoeing, skiing, and fishing entice us to the rivers and lakes.

Now that it is here, what are you looking forward to most?

• Guest post by Charlene English.

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Updated 7:40 pm / 20 June 25.

National Creativity Day

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Hey there. Today, May 30th, is “National Creativity Day”.

AOL writes:

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“You don’t need to be a painter or a poet to “be creative” — and thank goodness for that. National Creativity Day, celebrated every May 30, was created to invite everyone to tap into their imagination, embrace new ideas, and express themselves… in whatever form feels right.

Whether that’s cooking, songwriting, parenting, reorganizing your bookshelves by color (no notes), or mowing lines in your lawn just so, creativity comes in many shapes and sizes — and all of them are meaningful and worthwhile.

A brief history

This holiday was established in 2018 by Hal Croasmun and ScreenwritingU to highlight the power of imagination and recognize the many different ways people create.

Since then, it’s become a meaningful annual reminder to step outside our routines and make something — anything. It’s also a chance to pause and notice the small ways you’re already being creative in daily life. Your gut instinct might be to say, “Oh, I’m not a creative person.” But we’re willing to bet you are — and you just might not be giving yourself enough credit.

Creativity isn’t just about creating art — it’s part of how we live. Read full article at AOL »

Featured Image: Bonnie Artiste. ©Vivian J Grant. All Rights Reserved.

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Hats for Headway

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20th May 2025

Hats For Headway is being observed on May 20 this year.

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Every year, at the end of Action For Brain Injury Week, participants, volunteers, and the civil society come together and don their silliest hats to promote research on how to improve life after brain injury.

The wacky hats not only help put the issue of brain injuries in the spotlight, but also helps fundraising for those living with the condition’s long-term effects to lead better lives.

Brain injury can alter every aspect of our lives. The losses are severe and can be permanent. Simple tasks such as talking, walking, and even feeling, are affected.

Read more about it here »

Thank you everyone. You are the best.

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Say cheese

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By Catherine and Elizabeth Strong

TODAY Hattingdon is wearing a cheeseburger hat. Yes, you read that right — a cheeseburger hat. Bet you did not expect Vivian to do that!

While ruminating on a name, Vivian decided to take a look into the history of the cheeseburger for inspiration. Wow. It was a lot more than anyone expected. See “So who did it?” at the end of the post.

Vivian decided to use the name of the man for inspiration who many believe made the first ever cheeseburger in 1934 in Louisville, Kentucky — Charles Kaelin. Result? Named her Kaylen.

Lainie Hattingdon.

So who really invented it . . ?

A Quick Bite into the History of the Cheeseburger, by The Dairy Alliance, reports the following:

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We have Lionel Sternberger to thank for his invention, or so the legend goes. Much like the hamburger, it’s impossible to know for sure who created America’s first cheeseburger.

Lionel was 16 years old in 1926, flipping burgers at his dad’s restaurant, the Rite Spot, in Pasadena, California. Out of boredom, the teenager slapped a slice of American cheese onto a hamburger frying on the griddle. His dad approved of the creation, and so the cheeseburger was born—though they called it the “cheese hamburger.”

The first sandwich to actually be called a cheeseburger was created in Louisville, Kentucky. Charles Kaelin invented the cheeseburger in 1934 to bring extra flavor to his hamburger offering. But he didn’t trademark it. Nope, that honor instead went to Louis Ballast of Humpty Dumpty Drive-In in Denver, who trademarked the name “cheeseburger” in 1935.

There is much more to this story with a host of variations over many generations concerning who did what — and what it actually was that they did. Then we have this.

The answer to who invented the hamburger is almost as challenging as the cheeseburger. Think we are kidding? Check out the links below. See you again soon.

Love, Hattingdon

More bites

• A Major Beef! Who Invented the Hamburger?, ABC News »

• The Birth of the Cheeseburger, Los Angeles Explorers Guild »

Updated 15 May 24; 5:30 pm est.

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