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National Themes For July 10th: National Clerihew Day, and National Pina Colada Day.

📝National Clerihew Day! Edmund Clerihew Bentley created the whimsical, four-line biographical poem. An English novelist and humorist, Edmund Clerihew Bentley (July 10, 1875 – March 30, 1956), was a 16-year-old student when he thought up the lines for his first ever clerihew. Sir Humphry Davy Abominated gravy. He lived in the odium Of having discovered sodium. As with most poetry, the Clerihew is defined by a set of rules. It must contain four lines, rhyming couplets of AA/BB, a person’s name in the first line, say something about that person and it should be humorous. It is meant to be a funny poem, of course.

🍹National Pina Colada Day! The Pina Colada is a sweet, rum-based cocktail. Along with rum, a Pina Colada includes cream of coconut and pineapple juice and is usually served blended or shaken with ice. Pina Colada means ‘strained pineapple,’ a reference to the freshly pressed and strained pineapple juice used in the drink. There are different claims to the invention of the Pina Colada beginning in 1952 in San Juan, each sticking to their story. The truth is that pineapple and rum have been together from the beginning of the distillation of rum. The first written reference to a Pina Colada was in 1922. This recipe, however, did not include coconut.

I'm not no poet. I can't seem to make them rhyme or make sense. I would try a Pina Colada but I'm not holding my breath on liking it with coconut in it but then you never know.

We had better enjoy the weather were getting for the next few days because by the weekend it's suppose to be in the 90's.😛😎

Lidewey those sugar cookies sound good.

Warm hugs!💕🐶🐶🌤

🇺🇸Here's a nice waterfall from New Jersey. It sounds like it might be easily reach making it even better. This is not the only waterfall in New Jersey, there are several more, just as easily accessed. I had another waterfall pick out but it wouldn't post.

💦Great Falls of the Passaic is located in Paterson, New Jersey. Here the Passaic River spills into a fissure. Great Falls is a 50 foot high waterfall. This is an urban waterfall. You have to drive through some crowded city streets to get to it. It is also a working waterfall. A small dam is located above the falls, and some of the water is diverted for power generation. Two bridges span the gorge. One carries water pipes, and the other is a pedestrian bridge. The gorge runs perpendicular to the river, and is narrower than the falls are high at its farthest end. This limits the available views of the falls. The best view is from the bridge. You cannot see the full falls from the opposite side due to the gorge's depth and narrowness. The Passaic is a good sized river and the falls are guaranteed to have water. These pictures were taken in a dry August, and the waterfall was broken up into three distinct segments. When the river is very high, the falls becomes a single wall of water. Great Falls is a historic site. Alexander Hamilton selected the site to be a "national manufactory" with the waterfall as the power source. A statue commemorating Hamilton is located by the falls. There are plans to make the area a State Park, and a National Historic Site. The falls are close to I-80 and State Route 19. There is parking at Overlook Park on McBride Avenue. You can see the falls from there, but for a better view you need walk up the street, cross the river, and walk across the pedestrian bridge over the gorge.