Welcome to our Unique Holidays series: March 27th, 2022. I would like to ask you to take a look at the Holidays being celebrated today and let me know which Holiday you most want to celebrate and why?
If I could celebrate “Something on a Stick Day” I would have David stop at Sonic this evening for a Corny Dog. Would you like a Corny Dog?
Something on a Stick Day celebrates things on a stick. Isn’t this just a neat Holiday?
Practically anything can come on a stick and the first thing that comes to mind is Fudgesicles and Coney Dogs. Marshmallows on a stick are popular at Campfires. Shrimp and Chinese treats like Pot Stickers. When you use Chopsticks, at dinner everything is on a stick! Cocktail Wieners and Cheese can be eaten off a toothpick. Wooden Skewers used when cooking on the grill, contain Meats and Vegetables.
You can also get just about anything on a stick when receiving food samples at a store or festival.
Celebrate this Holiday by serving food for meals and snacks on a stick.
Today is Weed Appreciation Day, a Holiday to go out and hug the common Weeds found in your garden. Why appreciate weeds, you ask? What possible good can they be?
A weed is any plant that is not in a place where you want it to be. Even edible, medicinal, herbal plants, and flowers, are considered weeds to those who don’t want them where they pop up. Dandelions are a perfect example and in the lawn garden Dandelions are weeds. Dandelions are edible and they can be used in Salads, or you could make Dandelion Wine.
For example:
- Flowers can make their way into a Vegetable Garden, where you pull Vegetables out, like any other Weed.
- Even a common flower, vegetable or herb can be considered a weed, including the cracks of your driveway or sidewalk.
- No one but a child considers Dandelions in the lawn, to be anything other than a weed.
- I do not know a single person who likes Ragweed in any way.
- Queen Anne’s Lace is a popular flower in English Gardens however in the USA, Queen Anne’s Lace is considered an invasive weed.
- I wonder if anyone has found a use for Tumbleweed?
Consider the reverse:
- Imagine you are lost in the woods for days with no food or Water, but you come upon Purslane, an otherwise common and Weed in the Vegetable Garden. Purslane is a nutritious green, and its edible, and may help to save your life.
- If you love Salad Greens, then the tender inner leaves of Dandelion Plants belong in your fresh Garden Salad, but it does not belong in your lawn.
- Dandelions are certainly not a Weed, if you are a Vintner and want to make Dandelion Wine.
- Weeds offer food and shelter to Birds and Wildlife.
- Many Weeds produce an attractive flower.
- Weeds offer actual or potential medicinal value. Imagine if an obnoxious weed in your flower garden, is someday identified as a cure for Cancer or the common Cold.
Common weeds do offer some benefits and Weeds can provide the very Oxygen that you breathe. Weeds take in the Carbon Dioxide that you exhale. Many weeds offer food and shelter for Birds and Wildlife.
Take some time today, to hug your weeds and don’t forget to water the weeds, then fertilize your weeds, or whatever you prefer to do to enjoy weeds.
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History and Origin of Weed Appreciation Day:
Our research did not find the creator, or the origin of this Holiday but it appears to be very recent, around 2015.
There is so much about this Holiday that we would like to ask the creator. Why is it celebrated in the middle of March, which is before Gardening Season begins in many parts of the Country? Is it because we can better appreciate weeds in the month of March, when they are not choking out our garden plants?
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
