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It's been cloudy all day with a couple of short rain showers and in the mid 70's.

Sorry to hear about your friends family but glad they were all alright. I can't imagine such a thing either. Makes you want to run and make up an emergency kit, along with copies of important papers.

August 1st: Startup Day Across America, National Raspberry Cream Pie Day, National Girlfriends Day, National Minority Donor Awareness Day and Respect for Parents Day.

Around the country, Startup Day Across America creates a platform for entrepreneurs to connect with their lawmakers and expresses their concerns, needs and struggles with making a new business flourish. Startup Day recognizes the ingenuity, creativity and passion small businesses put into their new ventures every day. It was designed with the idea of connecting the idea makers and the job creators with those with the experience to create policy designed to promote small business. Now, every year, representatives from Congress return to their districts to listen and support their small business, startups and new entrepreneurs where the ideas are developed, in their district. In 2013, Representatives Jared Polis and Darrell Issa founded Startup Day Across America to open a channel of discussion between small business owners and their representatives to illustrate the difficulties they face.

Raspberry Cream Pie Day is in theme with other raspberry holidays in this same time period. Raspberries are most plentiful this time of year. Note: see what raspberries are in the above post for July 31st.

Girlfriends Day is a chance for girlfriends to get together and celebrate their special bond of friendship. Girlfriends can often be our sisters or mothers, classmates or co-workers. They enjoy spending time together, laughing and sharing secrets. They seek us out in times of need, and we seek each other out in times of celebrations. Whether we have one or many, girlfriends make life better, fuller and complete. National Girlfriends Day celebrates the unlimited ways life is better with our girlfriends in it. National Girlfriends Day was created by the social networking site, www.sisterwoman.com.

As part of National Minority Donor Awareness Week, National Minority Donor Awareness Day was created to increase awareness of the need, especially among minorities, for more organ, eye and tissue donors. It is also a time to honor minorities who have donated and to encourage others to register as donors. People are also encouraged to practice good health habits in order to take better care of themselves in an attempt to reduce the number needing transplants.

In an effort to “make our families become united and strong by recognizing the leadership roles parents have, and to reinstate the respect for parents that was evident in the past,” Respect for Parents Day was born. These are the words of Marilyn Dalrymple from Lancaster, CA as she created Respect for Parents Day. This day was created as a reminder that parents deserve and require respect and for all to consider the value that parents have in society today.

More raspberries for you! And I love and respect my parents every day.

Sending more raspberry hugs.💦🐶💕🌷💕