Thread:61Storm/@comment-29709319-20181110010804/@comment-29709319-20181201031833

December 1: National Pie Day, National Eat a Red Apple Day, Bifocals at the Monitor Liberation Day, Day With(out) Art Day, and Rosa Parks Day.

🍁National Pie Day! This is the 2nd time in a year this national treasure has a day. The first and more popular designation falls on January 23. Of course, we aren’t limited to dessert. Savory pot pies provide comfort on a cold winters day. Combine bumper crops from our gardens and fruit trees with a booming holiday season full of baked goods, cool weather and rosy-cheeked children; it’s time to tie on those apron strings and get baking.

🍁National Eat a Red Apple Day! An apple is both delicious and nutritious. With over 7,500 varieties of apples and over 7.5% of the world’s production coming from the USA, apples are widely available.

🍁Bifocals at the Monitor Liberation Day! Free yourself from dealing with blurry screen images by getting your eyes examined to see if bifocals can help. Bifocals at the Monitor Liberation Day was created by Thomas & Ruth Roy at Wellcat.com.

🍁Day Without Art! It coincides with National AIDS Day and was started by committee with the Visual AIDS organization in response to the AIDS crisis. Visual AIDS has initiated numerous projects to provide awareness and education regarding prevention of AIDS, care of those who suffer and to celebrate the lives and achievements of those who have been lost to AIDS. Day Without Art began on December 1, 1989, as the national day of action and mourning in response to the AIDS crisis.

🍁Rosa Parks Day is an American holiday celebrated in honor of the civil rights leader Rosa Parks. On December 1, 1955, after a long day of work Rosa Parks boarded a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She took her seat in the ‘colored’ section, but as she rode the Cleveland Avenue bus home, the bus began to fill. The Montgomery city ordinance allowed bus drivers to assign seating. However, it did not permit them to demand a passenger give up their seat. Despite this, bus drivers had customarily required black passengers to give up their seats to white passengers when the public transportation became full. When Rosa Parks was asked to give up her seat, she refused. She was arrested and what followed is Civil Rights history. She was found guilty on December 5, 1955, of violating the city ordinance and fined $10 plus a court fee. African American leaders, including E.D. Nixon and Martin Luther King, Jr., organized the Montgomery Bus Boycott for the day of Rosa Park’s trial. The boycott was a success and lasted several months, devastating the transportation system in Montgomery. Rosa Parks Day was created by the California State Legislature and first celebrated February 4, 2000. California chose to recognize the date of Rosa Park’s birth. Ohio and Oregon celebrate Rosa Parks Day on the day she was arrested, December 1.

Yum, warm apple pie. I had red apples in my thanksgiving apple salad, I need to have my eyes check I'm noticing changes. I'm still not to clear on Day With(out) Art is wanting. Rosa Parks was before my time but good for her not giving up her seat. And if she had given it up where was she suppose to go, if the bus was full. I don't know how public bus transportation works.

I've ate my fair share of home canned foods. My grandmother and great aunt even made home made ketchup. Oh boy was that stuff goooood.

There's Bonnie! She is such a sweetheart.

Sending apple pie hugs and just a red apple for Bixby.🐶💕🍂💕🎄