Author: Lisa Mungovan

Today is Make A Gift Day. Homemade gifts mean so much to people, and sometimes they cost you nothing except time! You could make a craft or knit a scarf, write a story or bake cookies. You could make a coupon book for free hugs, or shoveling the sidewalk. Make a gift of happiness!

Calling all crazy cookie makers. Reynolds Kitchens is looking for a Cookie Connoisseur, to create recipes using wacky ingredients. The winner of the job, will be paid $5000 to produce 5 unusual cookie recipes, for their Facebook Cookie Countdown to 2021. Look for application details at ReynoldsKitchens.com/CookieCountdown. Maybe I’ll submit my chocolate-chip-chipotle-cherry-cheese bombs!

An 8-mile stretch of rock in the Amazon rainforest, is an ancient art gallery. Tens of thousands of paintings cover cliff walls. The 12,500 year-old cave paintings, were recently discovered in Colombia. Some of the artwork depicts Ice Age creatures like the mastodon and giant ground sloths, dancing figures, and the handprints of Paleolithic hunters.

China’s Chang’e-5 space mission, launched last week, and successfully landed a spacecraft on the Moon yesterday. During China’s 6th lunar exploration mission, a robot will collect rock samples, from the Mons Rumker plain. Scientists believe the rocks will be much younger, than lunar samples from other areas of the Moon, indicating more recent volcanoes.

Today is Package Protection Day. As more people order products online, there are reports of deliveries disappearing. Security cameras have caught many porch thieves in action. Sometimes, the thief is an animal, like a bear. Human criminals should beware, because sometimes the package is a decoy, full of glitter and poop!

Today is National Mutt Day. Mixed-breed dogs are available for adoption in shelters everywhere, and they are awesome! When you adopt a mutt puppy, you never know how big they’ll grow; you get to be surprised! It’s also Fritters Day. Bits of dough stuffed with fruit, vegetables, or other fillings, are deep-fried and delicious!

A French chef, made a cheese pizza. That might sound boring, until you realize he used 254 different kinds of cheese! Benoit Bruel made the cheesiest pizza ever, in France, a country known for its cheeses. The personal-size pizza had to hold a gram of each cheese, in order to break the world record.

Fort Chipewyan is a community of 1000 indigenous people in Northern Alberta Canada. They created a huge solar farm, to supply power to 3 First Nations tribes. Instead of depending on diesel fuel, they can work with the sun, wind, water, and mother nature, to provide a cleaner life for the children of the future.

Today is Rosa Parks Day, commemorating the date she became a hero in the civil rights movement. Rosa Parks was arrested in 1955, for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Alabama. A statue in Montgomery Alabama, honors Rosa’s act of courage, and the fight for equality.

Today is Eat A Red Apple Day! Buy a whole bag and make an apple pie, since it’s also National Pie Day! Pie rhymes with tie, and guess what! It’s the beginning of Tie Month. You can wear bow ties, string ties, fat ties, skinny ties, bolo ties, or light-up ties, all month long!