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National Toast Day is celebrated on the last Thursday in February:

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A Long Weekend

 Bookended by two holidays:

It is a long weekend here in the USA and it includes two holidays. Last Saturday was Valentine's Day and today is Presidents'  Day, which gives us an extra day off.  I can't recall ever having written about the first. However, what I wrote about the second last year works just as well this year. So, I am going to leave it at that.

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National Pizza Day

 National Pizza Day is held every February 9:

There seems to be no actual recorded history for the birth of National Pizza Day. But, apparently it has been a thing since about the year 2000.

Pizza, itself,  originated in Naples, Italy, some time in the 1700s. It seems to have arrived America in the late 1800s. It, obviously, became very popular;

I can't recall eating one until I was in high school in the early 1960s. While I may have missed out in my preteens I have made up for that lack in the ensuing years.

My favorite pizza is mushroom and green pepper. What is yours?

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Reading Log: January 2026

 The books that I finished reading in the month of January 2026

January 2026 Books: photo by Cliff Hutson

“Red Sky Mourning,” Jack Carr

“Raymond Chandler’s Los Angeles,” Elizabeth Ward and Alain Silver

“Pork Pie Pandemonium,” Steve Higgs

“The Thin Man,” Dashiell Hammett

“Horology: An Illustrated Primer,” Barry B. Kaplan

“Licensed to Kill: Hired Guns in the War on Terror,” Robert Young Pelton 

“The Doomsters,” Ross Macdonald 

National Irish Soda Bread Day

National Irish Soda Bread Day

Some say that January 26th is National Irish Soda Bread Day. But, it seems that most have never heard of it. However, in any event, the bread has an interesting history.  

I really like it. But, I only have it once a year as a part of my small celebration of Saint Patrick’s Day.

By the way, Martha Stewart recommends that it be eaten with butter. I happen to agree.

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