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Almost time for your Canada🇨🇦 trip. I hope you enjoy your time with your family. Have a fun and good time.

August 8th: National Happiness Happens Day, National Frozen Custard Day, National Sneak Some Zucchini Into Your Neighbor’s Porch Day, and National Dollar Day.

It’s National Happiness Happens Day! Happiness is encouraged all day. Recognize every moment of glee, joy, delight, and pleasure. Don’t let it pass. A flicker of a giggle should be given its due and should it blossom into full blown happiness, don’t be surprised. It happens! The Secret Society of Happy People is an organization that was founded in August of 1998 and formed to celebrate the expression of happiness. The society encourages members to recognize their happy moments and think about happiness in their daily life. They have two motto’s which include “Happiness Happens” and “Don’t Even Think of Raining on My Parade.” Their purpose is to stimulate people’s right to express their happiness. Founded in 1999 by the Secret Society of Happy People as “Admit You’re Happy Day,” Happiness Happens Day was created to recognize and express happiness. August 8 was chosen as it is the anniversary of the first membership in 1998.

Similar to ice cream, frozen custard is made with eggs in addition to cream and sugar. Ice cream vendors, Archie and Elton Kohr, invented frozen custard on Coney Island, New York in 1919 when they found that adding egg yolks to ice cream created a smoother texture and helped the ice cream stay cold longer. The Kohr brothers sold 18,640 cones on their first weekend on the boardwalk. A 1933 World’s Fair frozen custard stand, in Chicago, IL helped introduce it to a wider audience. Milwaukee, Wisconsin became known as the “unofficial frozen custard capital of the world.” The United States Food and Drug Administration requires frozen custard products to contain at least 10 percent milk fat and 1.4 percent egg yolk solids. Frozen custard is commonly prepared fresh at the place of sale.

It's National Sneak Some Zucchini Into Your Neighbor’s Porch Day. Zucchini is a fruit that grows in abundance and is ready for harvest in August. Zucchini growers also know that one plant of zucchini allows you to share this wonderful treat! Tom Roy at wellcat.com created this zucchini holiday while doing years of news & talk radio.

National Dollar Day commemorates the day Congress established the U.S. monetary system in 1786. The first U.S. dollar bill wasn’t printed until 1862, and it didn’t bear the image of George Washington, either. Salmon P. Chase, President Lincoln’s Secretary of Treasury, was featured on the first greenback.

I'm happy most days! I don't care for custard. I wouldn't have to sneak zucchini to my neighbor, more like they would put one on mine. Interesting history of the dollar bill. I didn't know Washington wasn't on the first dollar bills when they were first printed.

Sending big happy hugs.