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November 15th: National Rural Health Day, National Bundt (Pan) Day, National Philanthropy Day, National Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day, National Spicy Hermit Cookie Day, National Raisin Bran Cereal Day, America Recycles Day, and Great American Smokeout.

👨‍⚕️👩‍⚕️National Rural Health Day! Around the nation, over 60 million Americans live and work in rural communities. In these thriving centers of industry, health clinics and hospitals provide much-needed care to a varied population. Healthcare improves not only the life of the citizens but the livelihood, too. Emergent care and urgent care increases timely treatment of critical ailments and injuries. When nursing care is available, grandparents remain near their familiar settings. Primary care provides a remedy for chronic and routine conditions. The National Organization of State Offices of Rural set aside the third Thursday of November to observe National Rural Health Day annually.

🍰National Bundt Day, also known as National Bundt Cake Day! A bundt cake can be any cake baked in a Bundt pan, forming it into a distinctive ring shape. The mold of the Bundt pan was originally inspired by the traditional European fruit cake known as Gugelhupf. It was in the 1950s and 1960s that cookware Nordic Ware popularized the style for the mold design and trademarked the name Bundt. Nordic Ware started producing Bundt pans made from cast aluminum. Similar pans are sold as “fluted tube pans” or other similar names. Due to the difficulty frosting a ring-shaped cake, bundt cakes are typically served undecorated, glazed or dusted with powdered sugar. In the beginning, the Bundt pan did not sell well, and Nordic Ware considered discontinuing the product. Then in the 1963 New Good Housekeeping Cookbook, the Bundt pan was mentioned, and sales increased. In 1966, sales increased dramically when a Bundt cake called the “Tunnel of Fudge”, baked by Ella Helfrich, took second place at the annual Pillsbury Bake-Off and winning a $5,000.00 prize. The publicity from the Bake-Off resulted in more than 200,000 Bundt pan requests.

👩‍💼National Philanthropy Day! Philanthropists are honored for their many significant contributions, help and good deeds and for the differences that they have made in our lives and our communities. The word philanthropy comes from Latin and Greek philanthropia which gives us kindliness, humanity and love to mankind. From this, we take the philo (tending to, fond of) and join antropos meaning mankind or human beings. There are instances of philanthropy that can overlap with instances of charity. The difference is that charity relieves the pains of social problems, whereas philanthropy attempts to solve those problems at their root causes. National Philanthropy Day was created by the Association of Fundraising Professionals in 1985.

🚰National Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day! This job may be dreaded by many, but it is an important task none the less. Due to our hectic and busy lifestyles, the cleaning of the refrigerator gets neglected, hence the creation of National Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day. Beware of the surprises at the back of the refrigerator! Those little bowls of food that got forgotten. Some suggestions for your refrigeration cleaning are: Empty each shelf. Completely wipe down the inside of the refrigerator including the shelves.Wash drawers and underneath the drawers. Throw away all expired food. Throw away any moldy food. Get rid of anything that you do not use. Vacuum condenser coils. Vacuum out under the refrigerator. Now you have a nice clean refrigerator ready to be restock. National Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day was created by the home economists at Whirlpool Home Appliances in 1999. They created the holiday to encourage people to clean out their refrigerator in advance of the upcoming holidays.

🍪National Spicy Hermit Cookie Day! Today honors an old-fashioned soft and chewy cookie spiced with cinnamon, cloves, allspice and sometimes nutmeg and filled with raisins, nuts and dates. Hermit cookies originated in the New England area. In 1880 the young ladies of the Trinity Church, Plattsburgh, New York published the cookbook Champlain Valley Book of Recipes with a Hermits recipe. This was a local cookbook in its 3rd edition suggesting it was first printed a year or two earlier.

🥛National Raisin Bran Cereal Day! Since 1926, raisin bran cereal has been manufactured by a number of different companies under a variety of brand names, including Kellogg’s Raisin Bran, General Mills, Total Raisin Bran and Ralcorp’s Post Raisin Bran. U.S. Mills introduced Skinner’s Raisin Bran to the United States in 1926, which was the first brand on the market. A good source of dietary fiber, raisin bran cereal is the star of the day, not just at breakfast but all day, on National Raisin Bran Cereal.

♻️America Recycles Day was started in 1997 by the National Recycling Coalition and is declared each year by Presidential Proclamation, encouraging Americans to commit to recycling. Since 2009, this day has been a program of Keep America Beautiful. There are thousands of events that are held across the United States to raise awareness about the importance of recycling and offering personal pledges that can be signed, committing to recycling and buying products made from recycled materials.

🚭Great American Smokeout is sponsored by the American Cancer Society. The Great American Smokeout challenges smokers to quit cigarettes for 24 hours with the hopes that this decision will continue forever. It includes all tobacco users! Evolving from a series of small-scale initiatives, the first Great American Smokeout was held on November 16, 1977, in San Francisco’s Union Square. On November 18, 1976, The California Division of the American Cancer Society successfully prompted nearly one million smokers to quit for the day.

Healthcare is important no matter where you live. Apple cinnamon strudel is my favorite bundt cake. I already know our Philanthropy. The dreaded clean your refrigerator. Wish this one could be skipped but it has to be done. I don't eat anything with raisins in it. We recycle everyday. My house is smoke free everyday. Otherwise, I can't breathe.

MD your welcome to the guacamole but you may have to share with Monika. My mom wasn't the school secretary, she was friends with the principal. Don't know which one is worse!

Wish I had some of Bixby fur. Were under a server weather warning tonight. That bad word snow is included in it. Heads up! Tomorrow is a state day. And I think I might have gotten a little carried away with it. And no it's not Illinois, yet!LOL!

Sending smoke-free hugs!🐶💕🍂💕🦃