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🇺🇸National Theme For July 19th: National Daiquiri Day.

🍹National Daiquiri Day! Daiquiri is a family of cocktails whose main ingredients are rum, citrus juice (typically lime) and sugar. Tasting of sunshine and beaches, it might be hard to believe the daiquiri was likely invented by men blasting away in the mines of a small community off the coast of Cuba. Jennings Cox, an American engineer, supervised a mining operation located in a village named Daiquiri in 1898 during the Spanish-American War. Every day after work Cox and his employees would gather at the Venus bar. Then one day Cox mixed up Bacardi, lime, sugar in a tall glass of ice. Naming the new beverage after the Daiquiri mines, the drink soon became a staple in Havana. Eventually, shaved ice was used and sometimes lemons or both lemons and limes. In 1909, Admiral Lucius W. Johnson, a U.S. Navy medical officer, tried Cox’s drink and subsequently introduced it to the Army and Navy Club in Washington, D.C. The popularity of the Daiquiri then increased over the next few decades. This drink is sometimes served frozen, combined and poured from a blender eliminating the need for manual pulverization. Drinks such as the frozen Daiquiri are often commercially made in machines which produce a texture similar to a smoothie and come in a wide variety of flavors. Another way to create a frozen Daiquiri is by using frozen limeade, which provides the required texture, sweetness and sourness all at one time. The Daiquiri was one of the favorite drinks of writer Ernest Hemingway and President John F. Kennedy. (Remember always to drink responsibly and never to drink and drive).

A Daiquiri sounds good but with this heat it better wait until later.

The temperature here hit 92°+ but the heat index said it felt like 104°+.

Warm hugs!💕🐶🐶🌞

We're back in the U.S. state of Connecticut for waterfalls this time.

🇺🇸💦Chapman Falls (East Haddam) is located in Devils Hopyard State Park on Eight Mile Creek in Connecticut. A short pathway from the parking lot leads to the 60 foot waterfall. There a covered bridge to check out as well.

💦Blackledge Falls is located in Blackledge Falls Park in Glastonbury, Connecticut. This 25 foot waterfall water flow varies depending on the volume of precipitation, from a trickle in the dry months to a three-pronged vertical drop after some consistent snow melt or rain fall.

💦Spruce Glen Falls is on Spruce Glen Brook in Spruce & Orchard Glen Preserve, Wallingford, Connecticut. The falls are in a deep woodland ravine in the Quinnipiac Valley, dropping some fifteen feet over a sharp ledge skirted with cascades.

💦Kent Falls (one section of it) is located in Kent Falls State Park a public recreation area located in the town of Kent, Connecticut, within the Litchfield Hills region of the southern Berkshires. The state park is home to Kent Falls, a series of waterfalls on Falls Brook, a tributary of the Housatonic River. The falls drop 250 feet (76 m) in under a quarter mile. The largest cascade drops more than 70 feet (21 m) into a reflecting pool, before traveling over the lesser falls.