Daily Holidays - December 19

[Sherman A1]

Look for an Evergreen Day Every year one thing remains the same around the holidays, people everywhere have to decide at what point before the big day they’re going to go out and hunt down a Christmas tree· Look for an Evergreen Day is about the last opportunity you have if you haven’t already gotten yours to ensure you have a tree for the Holidays· Even if you’ve already got your tree for this year, this is a great opportunity to go out and familiarize yourself with the other types of Evergreens in your neighborhood, and discover that these regal giants are around you all year round. https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/look-for-an-evergreen-day/

National Hard
 Candy Day Most hard candies are 100% sugar with flavoring and colors added. To achieve a hard candy, confectioners boil a sugar syrup to 320 degrees Fahrenheit. Once the temperature is reached, the hot pliable sugar is poured into molds or rolled and folded into shapes and left to cool. Once cool, the solid sugar becomes hardened and brittle. http://www.nationaldaycalendar.com/latest-posts/

National Oatmeal Muffin Day Known for it’s healthful benefits, millions of people start each day with an Oatmeal Muffin.
http://www.nationaldaycalendar.com/latest-posts/

http://www.famousbirthdays.com/december19.html

[bigwillq]

1. I love hard candy!

[pinboy3niner]

2. I always keep my card handy

I don't leave home without it!

[bigwillq]

3. Bwah

[femmocrat]

4. Remembering Edith Piaf on her 100th birthday:

http://www.famousbirthdays.com/people/edith-piaf.html

While celebrations for Piaf’s centenary have been low key this December, France – and the Belleville neighbourhood of Paris in particular – honoured her memory following the 50th anniversary of her death in October 2013. If Piaf is a little out of fashion with today’s jeunesse dorée then you suspect that could all change at any moment with, say, a high-profile cover version or a new motion picture. To paraphrase an old footballing cliche, fashion is temporary, class is permanent. Her brand of torch songs and cabaret showtunes might seem antediluvian to some, but a voice with such power to convey emotion never dates. What’s more, she led a life so bohemian and wild that she makes the Jim Morrison – buried, like her, on Père Lachaise cemetery – look like a calculable conformist who got a bit carried away on his gap year. Avert your ears and Piaf’s life was a punk opera decades before the genre exploded.

http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2015/dec/18/edith-piaf-at-100-the-singer-who-defined-parisian-courage

[malthaussen]

5. Last day to look for a tree, forsooth.

In my family, the "tradition" was to go out on Christmas Eve and get the cheapest, scrawniest, marked-down piece of kindling we could find. Largely because my father was a procrastinator of the first water. But also because they were always about 1/10 the price. I still get amazed at people who put theirs up right after Thanksgiving.

-- Mal