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National Themes For July 14th: National Grand Marnier Day, National Tape Measure Day, National Nude Day, and National Mac & Cheese Day.

🍷National Grand Marnier Day! An 1880s French invention by Alexandre Marnier-Lapostolle, Grand Marnier adds a splash of orange liquor to mixed drinks or desserts. Also enjoyed neat, this cognac concoction blended one of the most expensive fruits of the time with a strong spirit. Grand Marnier is used in a long list of desserts including liquor cream buns, Yule log, cranberry sauce, Crepes Suzette and Grand Marnier souffle creme brulee’. Grand Marnier is also used in the sauce of the roasted duck dish, “Canard a l’Orange.” Some examples of the mixed drinks including Grand Marnier are: Cosmopolitan, Margarita, Sidecar, Dirty Harry, Grand Mimosa, B-52, the Grand Marnier Smash, Grand Smash, Smash Marnier, Bloody Smash, Maced Marnier, Ace Marnier Smash, Frosty Smash, Smace, Grand Hound, Blood Pug, Clarke, Nogley and the Grand Marnier Fireball.

📏National Tape Measure Day. Alvin J. Fellows of New Haven, Connecticut made the lives of carpenters, electricians, seamstresses and countless other tradesmen and craftsmen easier when his patent for “Improvements in Tape Measures” was granted. His patent was dated July 14, 1868. The first recorded use of the tape measure goes back to the Romans, utilizing marked strips of leather. Before Fellows’ patent, Englishman James Chesterman designed a steel measuring tape, but it was expensive for its time. At $17 in 1853, it was equivalent to $300 in today’s U.S. dollars. It was also big and bulky and not likely to fit in a pocket or toolbox. Fellows’ patent was an improvement on Chesterman’s design. The tape measure that we know and use now comes in a wide array of sizes, colors, and materials. You can find some smaller than the palm of your hand or bigger in lengths of 300+ feet. They are used for anything from DIY projects at home, by contractors and in construction and at a much lower price. They are a staple in almost every household.

🎗National Nude Day is a way to keep cool on a hot, sticky summer day. Nudist groups around the world celebrate this holiday and take it quite seriously! Nudists are not perverts, even though their desire to go “au natural” might be offensive to the conservative population! Nudists are individuals who believe the human body is most beautiful in its natural state. Whether or not you agree with them, nudists encourage people to shed the restrictions of clothing and be natural. Noted for enjoying the natural state, Benjamin Franklin would reportedly take air baths by the open window of his room allowing the fresh air to drift around his birthday suit. The postmaster didn’t invent the naturalist movement, nor did it take any particular nation by storm. Its observance is firmly planted during the middle of the summer months of the Farmer’s Almanac for a good reason; the Northern Hemisphere doesn’t mess around in January!

🧀National Mac and Cheese Day! Mac and cheese is made with macaroni noodles, cream or milk, and cheese. It can be a side dish or it can stand on it’s own as a main dish. From the classic mac and cheese with cheddar or American cheeses to the spicy cowboy mac with bacon and jalapenos, there’s a combination for everyone. Mix up the cheeses or load up on seasonings, set the broiler for a couple of minutes at the end of the cooking time and let the cheese get a nice toasty crust.

Lidewey, if that waterfall is in Delaware you did better than I did, I couldn't find any waterfalls in Delaware let alone a nice peaceful looking one like Fulmer Falls.

I love my mac & cheese.

Warm hugs!💕🐶🌤

Here's three waterfalls found in Georgia. Stay tuned, taking a waterfall trip across the border into Canada next and are there some tough choices to make in choosing which ones to pick.

🇺🇸Toccoa Falls is a waterfall with a vertical drop of 186 feet (57 m), on the campus of Toccoa Falls College in Stephens County, Georgia. Toccoa comes from the Cherokee word "Tagwâ′hĭ," meaning "Catawba place." Toccoa Falls is one of the many waterfalls of North Georgia.

💦Bad Branch Falls is a waterfall located in Rabun County, in the U.S State of Georgia. It is near Lake Rabun and Lake Seed. A 20’ cascade, it is 3.2 miles from the Lake Seed Dam. Bad Branch Falls is a waterfall in the Rabun County waterfalls system. Directions: Travel along US-441 north of Tallulah Falls, Georgia about 2 miles and turn onto old US-441, heading west for about 2.5 miles. Turn left on Lake Rabun Rd. and go for 6 miles. You will come to a dam with a road that crosses the lake/river right before the dam, turn left and cross the dam. Go a short distance and turn right onto Crow Creek Rd. and travel for 2.8 miles and start looking on the left for a unmarked moderately worn trail. After finding the trailhead, it’s a 0.4 miles round-trip hike to the 30 foot Bad Branch Falls.

💦Cherokee Falls is a 60 feet (18 m) high waterfall located in Cloudland Canyon State Park situated on the western edge of Lookout Mountain near Trenton in northwest Georgia. You need to take the Waterfalls Trail from the East Rim parking area. The trail is well-traveled and maintained, with much of it consisting of wide wooden boardwalks and metal stairs. There is another waterfall in similar looks close by called Hemlock Falls. It is a 90 foot waterfall.