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National Themes For June 13: National Kitchen Klutzes of America Day, Random Acts of Light Day, National Weed Your Garden Day, National Sewing Machine Day, and National Career Nurse Assistants Day.

🚫National Kitchen Klutzes Day honors those who would like to cook and be in the kitchen, but it just doesn’t seem to work well for them. Klutz: most commonly referred to as a clumsy person. These are the people who set out with the intentions of Paula Dean or Julia Child as the open up the cookbook. Setting out the mixing bowl and ingredients, they imagine knife cuts as swift as Wolfgang Puck or Bobby Flay. However, reality quickly dissolves all those dreams as smoke billows from the oven and salt is mistaken for sugar. Those knife cuts become bloody, and cookies and fingers are burnt. The Kitchen Klutz has struck, and visions of spilled milk are pitifully cried over. It may be necessary to keep a first aid kit and fire extinguisher handy when Kitchen Klutzes are around. Be ready to call 911 and your favorite take out if you’re still hungry.

❣️National Random Acts of Light Day encourages us to bring light to the darkness of cancer by surprising someone with an act of kindness. Sometimes it takes just one gentle word or small token to help overcome darkness. Receiving the diagnosis of cancer is one of the darkest moments a person can have. As part of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Light The Night Walks fundraising campaign, National Random Acts of Light brings awareness to the importance of providing cures and access to treatments for blood cancer patients. Take a friend fishing or bring them their favorite cup of coffee. Sometimes a visit, a walk or a fresh bouquet of flowers is what brings the light into the room. Surprise someone you love, by bringing a sparkle to their day. The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society ®(LLS) founded National Random Acts of Light Day to shine a light on the need for research and a cure for blood cancers. In 2017, celebrities and local heroes surprised people affected by blood cancers as part of Random Acts of Light. About The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society: The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society® (LLS) is the world’s largest voluntary health agency dedicated to blood cancer. The LLS mission: Cure leukemia, lymphoma, multiple myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families. LLS funds lifesaving blood cancer research around the world, provides free information and support services, and is the voice for all blood cancer patients seeking access to quality, affordable, coordinated care.

🌾National Weed Your Garden Day is set aside for all gardeners to take an extra 5 or 10 minutes while weeding their gardens. One of the best gardening tips is to stay in control of your garden. Weeds grow fast, very fast, and can soon become overwhelming. If you stay on top of them, it is much easier to maintain your garden. Weeding 5 or 10 minutes each day will make the job seem bearable. It might even be enjoyable. This way you will be in control, and the weeds will not! Excessive and unwanted weeds will crowd out plant roots and steal the nutrients that are needed for the plants to grow nice and healthy. Helpful tips on reducing weeds in your garden: ✨Cover the soil along rows and between plants with mulch. ✨Make sure to keep all weeds away from young plants. ✨It is okay to plant your plants closely together to leave less room for weed growth. ✨Have soil weed-free before planting. ✨Make sure you do not let any of the weeds go to seed. ✨Keep the edges of your yard mowed low to lessen the invasion of weeds onto your property and into your garden.

✂️National Sewing Machine Day honors the invention of the sewing machine. It is hard to imagine having to sew things together by hand, stitch by stitch. Skilled cabinet-maker and English inventor, Thomas Saint, received the first patent for a design of a sewing machine in 1790. It was intended for leather and canvas, was never advertised and no evidence of it, other than his drawings, could be found. In 1874, William Newton Wilson found Saint’s drawings in the London Patent Office, made adjustments and built a working model. The London Science Museum currently owns Wilson’s model. Industrial use of the sewing machine reduced the burden that was placed upon housewives, moving clothing production from them and seamstresses to large-scale factories. This also resulted in a decrease in production time which caused the price of clothing to drop considerably. Today, many people are again becoming interested in the art of sewing and making their own clothing. Crafts fairs and flea markets are filled with booths full of beautiful sewing machine-made clothes and craft items. Quilters across America are known as sewing machine experts!

🎗National Career Nurse Assistants’ Day is set aside to recognize the nursing assistants who dedicate their lives to the well-being of others for 5 to as many as 58 years. Nursing assistants many times work in hospitals and nursing homes performing everyday living tasks for the elderly, chronically ill or rehabilitation patients who cannot care for themselves. A more in-depth training and qualification that covers a wider scope of responsibility is indicated by government certification. The state distributes these certification exams, and the classes to study for them are offered by the American Red Cross as well as other providers.

No food today! Unless you want to eat the weeds out of the garden.😂 I'm not allowed in the kitchen anymore due to sharp pointy objects in clumsy hands.

Tomorrow is a state day. It's a long one folks! So I'm off to finish it up.

Warm hugs! Better get them while their dry, tomorrow's will probably be soggy.💕🐶🐶🌤