Cookies for Everyone

Do you have a sister? You’re lucky, because it’s Sisters’ Day. It’s also Friendship Day, and hopefully your sister is also your friend. Friends and sisters should all get together and bake cookies, to celebrate Chocolate Chip Cookie Day! Have cookies and tea with your dolls, because it’s also Doll Day!

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Candied Hot Dog Exists

If you see the Oscar Meyer Wienermobile driving around New York next week, follow it. The giant hot dog-shaped vehicle will be distributing free Ice Dog Sandwiches. That’s spicy mustard ice cream with bits of candied hot dog, sandwiched between cookie buns. Is the world ready for hot dog ice cream? We’ll see!

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Bite My Friend Instead

Are you irresistible to mosquitoes? They are attracted to some people’s odors more than others. Researchers found you can train mosquitoes to avoid your odor by swatting at them and waving your arms around. Air vibrations make them uncomfortable, so they will avoid you for the day and bite your friend instead!

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Grand Sandcastle

It’s Sandcastle Day, so get to a beach and start building! It’s going to take you a while if you want to beat the record for the world’s biggest sandcastle. That one is in Germany, and it’s nearly 58 feet tall! They were smart, and built it far away from the high tide line!

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Mustard and Watermelon

Today is Mustard Day. Whether you like bright yellow mustard squeezed from a bottle, or coarse brown mustard full of crunchy mustard seeds, you can put it on anything! It’s Watermelon Day too, so go ahead and squirt mustard on your melon, and gross everybody out! Who knows? It might even taste good!

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Take My Advice

When you go to a farmer’s market, you’ll usually find stalls selling fruits and vegetables, honey, maybe baked goods or crafts. A market in Utah has a stand for “Old Coots Giving Advice!” 6 retired friends who met every Saturday, are telling their same old stories to a new audience, for free!

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I’m Thirsty

Wouldn’t it be nice, if your plants could show emotions? A new flowerpot has a digital face, that tells you how it’s feeling! The Lua Planter’s face pants when the soil is too dry, sweats when it’s too hot, or turns into a vampire when it needs more sun! Be friends with your plant!

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Lost Leg, Again

Ariel Rigney lost her leg in a car accident as a teenager, and continued life with a prosthetic leg. While rafting on the Clackamas River in Oregon, she lost that leg too! She posted about her lost limb on Facebook. Scuba-diver Eric Ganter was looking for its lost owner, and the two were reunited!

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