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July 18th national caviar day, yuck! Caviar comes from the sturgeon fish. There are different species resulting in different colored eggs. They are very nutritious for you. Sturgeon almost went extinct in the early 1900s when they were big. They still haven’t reached a healthy number to this day. July 20th marks the 49th anniversary of the 1969 moon landing. It's been almost 50 years since Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. July 20 is also the birthday of explorer Edmund Hillary, who was born in 1919. In 1953, he along with his sherpa, Tenzing Norgay became the first confirmed to ascend Mount Everest July 24th is Amelia Earhart's birthday. Earhart famously went missing July 2, 1937 when she was flying her plane across the Pacific in a record-setting attempt to fly around the world. The US Navy searched 250,000 miles of ocean with no luck, causing conspiracy theories that have persisted over the years.

July 4th sidewalk egg frying day. It’s been so hot here in Colorado we probably could do this! The 5th is Apple turnover day. Yummy! I love me some apple turnover s And fried chicken day!!! 1937 spam is first introduced. According to its label, Spam's basic ingredients are pork, with ham meat added, salt, water, modified potato starch as a binder, sugar, and sodium nitrite as a preservative. Natural. By the 70s “spam” became genericized trademark used to describe any canned meat containing pork. July 5 1994 - Amazon founded by Jeff Bezos. Now the fourth largest company in the world, Amazon was originally going to be called Cadabra until someone misheard it as cadaver. July, 6 1699 - Captain William Kidd, the pirate, who also worked as a pirate hunter, was captured in Boston, MA, and deported back to England. Kidd was executed a few years later. The primary charge was murdering a member of his crew with a bucket. July 6 Louis Pasteur successfully tested an anti-rabies

The 27th is Sunglasses Day. The first sunglasses were invented in 12th century China. They didn't protect against UV rays, and they could still obscure the eyes. Chinese judges would wear smoke colored lenses to help themselves seem emotionally aloof while trying cases. The 28th is Paul Bunyan Day! There are a lot of crazy stories about Paul Bunyan and his big blue ox, Babe mostly dating to the late 1800s to early 1900s. Minnesota’s 10,000 lakes are Babe's footprints, the Grand Canyon was made by Paul dragging his ax behind him. It took five storks to carry Paul to his parents in Maine. He was that big already! They kept him in a bed off the coast of Maine and when he would rock it created such big waves it would flood the coastal towns. The townsfolk were not happy. When Paul was short on help he trained giant ants to help him. They weighted over 2000 pounds and ate nothing but the best Swedish stuff. The ants did the work of 50 ordinary men. In the winter Paul bundl

Last week we talked about Flag Day, this week it’s National Bald Eagle Day (or American Eagle Day). On this day in 1782, the eagle became the national symbol of America. At the time there was heated debate between the bald eagle and the turkey. Personally, I think we should have chosen the turkey, because I’ll bet bald eagles are delicious. National Take Your Dog to work day is also coming up on the 22nd. So take your dog to work! Log Cabin Day (25), Catfish Day (25), and Canoe Day (26) are also coming up, and suspiciously close to each other...

Flag Day June 14th is Flag Day, the day we celebrate the first official use of the American Flag, which happened June 14th, 1777, 241 years ago. A few things I learned about the American flag. We all learned in school that Betsy Ross was the creator of the flag, but there’s actually no solid evidence to prove this was the case, and in fact at the time there was a variety of different versions of the flag, because some of the guidelines were open to interpretation. Some of the earliest flags didn’t even put the stars for the 13 colonies in a circle like we so commonly see. There have been over two dozen variations of the flag. Each time a state is added to the union, a star is added to the flag on the following Independence Day. So if Puerto Rico and Canada play their cards right, they could be next. Kentucky also recently turned 226, having become a state on June 1, 1792. It missed being the first state added after the original 13 by just 1 year.  That honor went to Vermo

Today, June 6 is the anniversary of D-Day, the invasion of Normandy, France by allied forces. It was the turning point of WWII and the largest seaborne invasion in history. 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed, and an estimated 10,000 lost their lives. On a lighter note, today is also National Yo-Yo day. No one actually knows who invented the yo-yo. Evidence of it dates all the way back to China, Egypt and Greece 500 BC Donald F. Duncan Sr popularized it in the early 1900s with the Duncan yo-yo. Also on this day in 1933, the first drive-in theater opened. Richard Hollingshead came up with the idea when he noticed how uncomfortable his mom would get in traditional theater seats, giving him the idea to create a theater where people could sit in their own cars.

This last week was the anniversary of a space mission you don’t hear as much about, Apollo 10. Apollo 10 was a practice run for the moon landing, and paved the way for that historic landing to come to pass. Apollo 10 and 11 were two of the earliest flights with veterans to space flight, with Thomas P. Stafford having flown on Gemini missions previously. Apollo 10 set a speed record for manned flight at 24,791 mile per hour. The command module was named Charlie Brown, and the Lunar Module, which never actually made it to the moon, was named Snoopy. The astronauts circled the Moon 31 times while in orbit, and once while floating over the dark side of the moon reported hearing a strange sound like “outer space type music.”, An odd whistling that lasted nearly an hour.  Many have tried to call it a coverup for UFOs, but NASA says it was just radio interference creating odd sounds.

Les Brown said “Don’t underestimate yourself, you are capable of more than you can ever imagine.” Joan of Arc Peasant girl who lead France to victory as a teenager. At the age of 13, Joan of Arc began to hear voices telling her to lead France to victory against the English and see the crown Prince, Charles, crowned king. Somehow Joan convinced him to allow her to lead his army. She won the battle, but was later captured by English sympathizers, who tried her for witchcraft and burnt her at the stake when she was just 19. Despite her tragic end, there’s no denying Joan of Arc changed the course of history by boldly seizing her destiny. Now, if a teenage peasant girl can lead an army to victory, what can you do? 3 Steps to help you not underestimate yourself 1. Avoid negative self-talk It’s easy to allow negative thoughts into our mind or thoughts that are not true. Thoughts of “there’s no way that I’m going to get this project done in time” or “I’m not smart enough to