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May 16th Love A Tree Day

May Holidays

You got to love trees. You won’t live long if you don’t since they supply the oxy6gen we need to breath. They also provide shade and hold the ground together with their roots, they serve as landmarks and protect from erosion. Some supply fruit, some nuts and nearly all tree provide homes for animals. They supply wood to build our homes with and to make furniture from, they enable us to have paper to write on, read from and express our own forms of art on… all while being a work of art unto themselves.

How to celebrate – Learn the different types of trees. Plant a tree when you have your first baby and watch them both grow. Help save the forests.

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June 25th National Log Cabin Day

June Holidays

If it was good enough for our forefathers it should be good enough for us! At least Virginia Handy and the Bad Axe Historical Society think so having created today on June 25th, 1986. In the old days living in a log cabin was, well, about the only choice you had if you were traveling west. Wood was plentiful and probably the easiest way to build. But as we progressed and learned to use different materials and to cut the wood into sheets, we began to get further and further away from log cabins. But as with most things, what’s old is new again, and log cabins have started to become popular again. With all the cranes and bulldozers today the process is really easy but think of the effort required by the settlers. It all had to be done by hand, cutting down the tree, shaping it and putting it in place. Now there is something to admire.

How to celebrate – Visit some log cabins. Buy a log cabin. Dress like Abraham Lincoln for the day.