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National Themes For May 4th: National Star Wars Day, National Weather Observers Day, National Renewal Day, National Orange Juice Day, National Candied Orange Peel Day, Bird Day, National Fitness Day, National Scrapbook Day, National Homebrew Day, Join Hands Day, National Bombshells’ Day, National Start Seeing Monarchs Day, and Free Comic Book Day.

💫National Star Wars Day is celebrated by thousands of Star Wars enthusiasts, with parties and celebrations around the nation. Star Wars fans didn’t first introduce the often quoted phrase on May 4. It was 1979, and Britain elected the first female Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher. On May 4, the day she took office, the Conservative Party placed an advertisement in The London Evening News, which read, “May the Fourth Be with You, Maggie. Congratulations.” Star Wars creator, George Lucas, was asked during a 2005 interview on a German news TV channel to say the famous sentence “May the Force Be with You.” Upon doing so, the interpreter interpreted the sentence into German as Am4 Mai sind wir bei Ihnen (On May 4 we are with you). TV Total captured this and aired it on May 18, 2005. National Star Wars Day was first organized in Toronto, Ontario, Canada at the Toronto Underground Cinema in 2011. Produced by Sean Ward and Alice Quinn, festivities included an Original Trilogy Trivia Game Show, a costume contest and the web’s best tribute films, mash-ups, parodies, and remixes on the big screen. May 4th was chosen because of the play on words.

🌦National Weather Observers Day is for the people who enjoy watching and observing the weather. Weather observers often assist the National Weather Service as Storm Spotters. These hobbyists are valuable resources for communities. This day is also an opportunity to get out and learn about a variety of weather phenomenon, the history of weather tracking and find about meteorological instruments.

🍃National Renewal Day was created for new beginnings. According to Merriam-Webster dictionary, renewal is defined as “the state of being made new, fresh, or strong again: the state of being renewed.” A day that has been correctly placed in the spring, National Renewal Day is meant to reinvigorate us after a long winter. Whether we choose to refresh our souls or replace our old rugs with new, we are to set to work polishing up our state of being. Where the house might need to be infused with a little fresh air, our friendships might need some reconnection to renew them. Whatever your approach to this day is, keep it confident and National Renewal Day will be a success.

🍊National Orange Juice Day, America’s most popular breakfast drink. People have been waking up to a glass of orange juice for many years and enjoying the health benefits it gives them. One 8 ounce serving of orange juice has 124 mg of vitamin C and also supplies potassium, thiamine and folate. That little bit of sunshine in the morning can add a boost to your day. Another excellent way to add orange juice to your diet if you are watching your sugar intake is to include it as an ingredient in a recipe. Orange juice can add great flavor to smoothies, whole grain waffles or french toast.

🍊National Candied Orange Peel Day! Candied Orange Peels are a boiled, sliced and sugared treat. They are very popular with chefs and bakers as well as often used during the holidays in cookies, fruitcakes and other snacks. They can also be eaten by themselves.

🕊Bird Day! We honor our feathered friends on several holidays called Bird Day in the United States. Oil City, Pennsylvania Superintendent of Schools, Charles Almanzo Babcock, established the first such holiday in 1894. This was the first holiday in the United States dedicated to the celebration of birds. Babcock founded the day to advance bird conservation as a moral value. Other Bird Holidays and known dates of celebration: National Bird Day is celebrated in the United States on January 5 of each year. International Migratory Bird Day is celebrated on the second Saturday in May. World Bird Day is celebrated on the second Saturday in May.

🍁National Fitness Day is an opportunity to inspire and try new ways of becoming fit and healthy. The day is dedicated to everyone – not just health enthusiasts. Step out and try a class that looks interesting. Zumba? Yoga? Yes, try it for a day. Perhaps you only want to get out and stretch. Maybe you already have a nice routine but want to try something new. National Fitness Day is an excellent way to shake up your routine

🍁National Scrapbook Day is also known as National Scrapbooking Day, this day will gather thousands of people all over the country to celebrate with scrapbooking parties and share their talents with others. Scrapbooking dates back to the 15th century. Scrapbooking is a method for preserving family history, personal mementos, photographs, newspaper clippings, artwork, and other memorabilia.vJournaling is often included to describe the journey or to maintain the story for future generations. Scrapbooking has become a popular hobby and those who enjoy it may develop a strong social network, swapping tools, advice, and techniques. They often gather together at each others’ homes and even join each other at conventions or retreats. National Scrapbook Day was started in 1994 by the scrapbook company, Creative Memories.

🍁National Homebrew Day. Every year the American Homebrewers Association holds the Big Brew to celebrate National Homebrew Day by bringing homebrewers together to make the same official recipes for side by side competition. There are different breeds of homebrewers. Those who hold to time-honored traditions and those who push the edge of flavor and experimentation. Both express their personality with barley, hops and yeast and a little something else. Whatever your personal flair, honey and ginger or hoppy and dark, if you are a homebrewer National Homebrew Day is for you. In 1988, the American Homebrewers Association presented before Congress National Homebrew Day to be observed the first Saturday in May.

🍃Join Hands Day is about uniting the older generation with the younger generation in a day of volunteering. Instead of pointing out differences in each other, that often times distance one another, this day is intended to bring to everyone’s awareness, the realization of how beneficial aiding each other can be. Join Hands Day was founded in 2000 by America’s Fraternal Benefit Societies as a way for adults and youth to work together as volunteers toward a greater purpose for their communities. In the last decade and a half, service organizations across the country have developed projects that have beautified parks, organized food drives, provided care packages for those in need and much more, all while fostering relationships across generations.

🍁National Bombshells’ Day is observed each year on the first Saturday in May. Victoria’s Secret created Bombshells’ Day as a day for women to celebrate themselves and their best friends.

🦋National Start Seeing Monarchs Days has been established to keep the Monarch butterfly from being added to the endangered species list. The Monarch butterfly is a milkweed butterfly. It may be the most familiar North American butterfly because its wings feature an easily recognizable orange and black pattern. Monarchs typically reach 3 1/2 to 4″ in size. In the fall, they migrate south to warmer climates. In the spring, they return further north.

🍁Free Comic Book Day! Comic book heroes come in all shapes and sizes. So do their fans. A new fan is born every day and probably more so on Free Comic Book Day when retailers take the opportunity to lure us back into where our heroes began: in the ink, the art, and the stories. In 2001 comic book retailer Joe Field of Flying Colors Comics in Concord, California noticed how the success of movies based on comic books. As a way to expose all those movie goers to the joys of the comic books that inspired the big screen characters, Field created Free Comic Book Day the opening weekend of Spider-Man in 2002. Thanks to Field, there is a whole new generation of comic book fans that might never have existed if it weren’t for him.

I'm not a Star Wars fan. I wish our weather watchers would sing a different tune, we've had enough rain. Although Sunday and Monday sound to be nice days but then were right back to rain. I love my orange juice but I'll pass on the candied peels. I have a scrapbook but its not up to date. Birds and butterflies all in one day. I haven't read a comic book since I was a kid.

Sorry my twin for the confession. I meant that I divide the themes from Montana, although I could have easily double the places to see in Montana. There was so much more. I have a cousin that lives in Montana.

Warm hugs!🐶🐶💕🌦