April 7th 2024 - Holidays and Observances

 

(click on the day for details)

• Christian feast days:
  • Aibert of Crespin
  • Blessed Alexander Rawlins
  • Blessed Edward Oldcorne and Blessed Ralph Ashley
  • Blessed Notker the Stammerer
  • Brynach
  • Hegesippus
  • Henry Walpole
  • Hermann Joseph
  • Jean-Baptiste de La Salle
  • Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow (Eastern Orthodox Church, Episcopal Church (USA))
  • April 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Flag Day (Slovenia)
• Genocide Memorial Day (Rwanda), and its related observance:
  • International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Rwanda Genocide (United Nations)
• Motherhood and Beauty Day (Armenia)
• National Beer Day (United States)
• Sheikh Abeid Amani Karume Day (Tanzania)
• Women's Day (Mozambique)
• Veterans' Day (Belgium)
• World Health Day (International observance)

 

Observances (click on the day, BD, or week for details)

Divine Mercy Sunday

Explore Your Career Options Week

Geologist Day

International Beaver Day

International Snail Papers Day - 1

International Snailpapers Day - 2

Karume Day

Make the First Move Day

Metric System Day

National Coffee Cake Day

National Girl Me Too Day

National Nico Day

National No Housework Day

National Pet Health Insurance Day

Public Television Day

National Schwa Day

 

Anne-Marie’s Birthday

Jackie Chan

Mackenzie Bezos

Francis Ford Coppola

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My wife's car horn began to beep in cold weather and would only stop when she disconnected it. So she disabled the horn and drove to the dealership, whose garage had its door shut to keep out the cold.

Outside was a sign: "Honk horn for service."

 

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Searching in my library for two books by communications expert Deborah Tannen turned into an Abbott and Costello routine. "What's the first book?" the librarian asked.

"That's Not What I Meant," I said.

"Well, what did you mean?"

"That's the title of the book," I explained.

"Okay." She looked at me a little skeptically. "And the other book?"

"You Just Don't Understand."

"Excuse me?"

I got both books. Eventually.

 

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During a recent meeting of our Optimist Club, we challenged one another to come up with an inspirational sentence using the word countenance. This was the winning entry:

"I put a cheerful countenance on people every day." It was submitted by our local funeral director.

 

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Soon after we were married, my husband, Paul, stopped wearing his wedding band.

"Why don't you ever wear your ring?" I asked.

"It cuts off my circulation," Paul replied.

"I know," I said. "It's supposed to."

 

 

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Udder Bliss: One Cow, Three Cats and Some (Very) Fresh Milk

 

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Yes, Yes, Yes, but what the heck was Boone's Farm??

 

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Me

 

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