It might be a bit early for a cartoon about raking leaves, but not if you have pecan trees. They’re the last trees to turn green in the spring and the first to shed their leaves at summer’s end. Plus, they’re very bad about dropping huge living limbs without warning. Normally these characteristics are ameliorated by a crop of delicious and useful pecans at least every other year, but around where I live it has been several years since a good crop of pecans, and this year will be no different. Plus, in a land that at one time was awash in an overflow of tomatoes from Independence Day thorough Labor day, cultivation of the tomato has become very problematic for home gardeners. Those lucky enough to have a crop by early July can almost count on the vines withering away by the end of the month. All I know is, things aren’t what they used to be. Happy Labor Day!
But it’s Labor Day!
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131 responses to “But it’s Labor Day!”
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Gary – Among other things, I collect certain Canadian postmarks. There is a type from Nassagaweya (from the middle 1890s) which is hard to find. In 52 years of seeking, I never even saw one except for a sample from the postal museum, but I just found one. It struck me that many folks had never heard of the place, so I asked out of curiosity.
Thanks for the references to different letters/symbols. I shall try to write them down somewhere.
Just tried out alt+0196, simultaneously as well as consecutively. Nothing happens.
Jimmy:
You’re right: Things aren’t what they used to be.
The thought that occurred to me some years ago is that all things have life cycles – planets included.
Perhaps Mars is a harbinger.
Jerry:
Thought I should answer your post about RRE here in hopes that you will see it.
Thanks for the tip about the video on YouTube; because I have all of their CDs as well as the DVD, I didn’t think of checking there.
When you have time, look for the “Hangtown Ball” video on YouTube. Besides being a great song, one of the horn players is in my son’s group in Denver. RRE needed some horns for the Red Rocks gig.
I also suggest Lonecroft Farewell – we all have that sad experience in our lives. You can’t go back home when it’s no longer there, can you?
I want to keep suggesting songs, but I will stop with two (otherwise, I will go on and on): Warhead Boogie, an anti-war song, and Jupiter & the 119, about the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad.
Old Bear, on Windows 8 it is under settings, keyboard. Tells you for more languages go to languages in control panel.
Under Control Panel there is a setting titled Clock, Language and Region.
Click add a language. And you will see this: Control Panel\Clock, Language, and Region\Language\Add languages
Keyboard settings might be under change input. Why couldn’t it just say change keyboard? too easy, I guess
OB, my 1998, 2005 and 2011 Crown Vics are all basically the same car, except that every few years I’ve managed to jack up my insurance premiums and license tag prices by trading up year-wise.
I view keyboards with askance. Once I managed to get a keyboard to turn my display askance. (Yes, I believe those are two different but correct usages.)
On Windows7 you will find the Character Map app under Start/Programs/Accessories/System Tools.
c-x-p, I am not surprised people haven’t heard about Nassagaweya because it was absorbed quite a while ago. My wife didn’t know about the township. She does remember the name being on lots of stuff in and around Milton. If you really want to pursue this you could try http://www.nasagiweyahistoricalsociety.com/ and see if you can get any leads.
Thanks, Gary. I may just give them a try.
ch-ch-ch-changes! What’s happening in my working world: http://apnews.myway.com/article/20150907/us-med–healthbeat-medical_codes-6ad01b2055.html
I posted (or tried to post) a comment this morning that is still in Moderation Heck because, I suppose, I put two links in it. So, I’ll just litter up the page with separate posts.
Part 1:
Every once in a while I have to sweep leaves off the front porch, but by not having a yard as such I don’t have to rake them any more. Makes life a lot easier. As for gardens, my younger daughter helped me plant tomatoes, okra, and two kinds of cucumbers-regular and lemon. Did you know that lemon cucumbers don’t taste of lemon? I didn’t! They are, however, round and sort of a goldish-yellow. Taste pretty good, too. We also had several types of tomatoes-better boy, an heirloom Cherokee Purple, and two types of cherry tomatoes. They all did nicely until those big cutworms found them. bah! But there has been plenty of okra, so that’s okay. 🙂
Ghost Sweetie, there are several good songs from Singin’ In The Rain:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SND3v0i9uhE
And Part 2:
This is the other video from Singin’ In the Rain:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tciT9bmCMq8
And this is an article from The Daily Dragon, the official news source for Dragon*Con, the largest science fiction/fantasy/steampunk convention in the Southeast. It takes place in Atlanta every Labor Day weekend. John Barrowman (Doctor Who, Torchwood, Arrow) was a guest this year.
Ghost Sweetie, if you want to see a really great pair of legs, get a load of these gams!
http://dailydragon.dragoncon.org/2015/john-barrowman-out-and-proud/
My PC is running 98
Will look where you said
cep
If you can put the Character Map in your tray when you click on it all will be revealed.
Hold Alt while sequentially pressing 0196
Late in the day to let you know, but the TIP BlogSpot is different from the current comic.
http://thatispriceless.blogspot.com/
Peace, emb
Marmaduke wasn’t my favorite strip, but my brother loved it.
http://www.ksl.com/?sid=36406912&nid=157&title=marmaduke-cartoonist-brad-anderson-dies-at-91
Haven’t been home long, spent afternoon checking in rafters off the Arkansas River Great Raft Race in Tulsa, giving out raffle tickets for the kayak being given away. There were some fantastic rafts and costumes, I thought of Ghost all afternoon with the bevy of scantily clad rafters, (female) and I am posting photos on our Duckworks Facebook page should anyone else be interested. Had a great time, we had a cover but that was a big festival grounds and I walked it more than once without a hat on.
The Norsemen or Vikings or whatever that boat was were scantily clad male rafters and they offered to go on my raft next year. I am going to try to enter, I suspect they will give first shot at those from this year. There were some fantastic ones, the Flintstones, the Best Little Oar House in Texas, Starship Enterprise, several Dragon boats, like Comicon meets Gilligans Island meets Huck Finn. I loved it, will sponsor a ten man raft and ride and paddle it next year if I can get in. This is right up the river of interest of so many nutty boaters I know.
Love, Jackie
Mark,
Thanks. He was after my time seeing D’Oyly Carte live, but looks to have been a real asset. May be on some of my CDs at home. Will buck the URL to my blind-copy music group.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11842049/Michael-Rayner-singer-obituary.html
Someone asked / did we enjoy our 3-day wkd. Yes, we had a family reunion in the Twin Cities, but it was somewhat dampened by my being bitten by my younger son’s mini dachshund, left index finger, infected, ER, 1-hr. antibiotic infusion at midnight, + 7-day course of a-b pills, finger splint that makes typing and other things difficult. Heartening how all 3 kids worked to make Dad’s time as best as it could be. Am at my older son’s parsonage [half way home] will spend tonight + Tue. night here, drive home Wed.
Peace, emb
Jean dear, I supposed I would have to have been there to appreciate that. 🙂
Jackie, I just looked at some video of the raft “race” on the Channel 6 website, including the Viking boat you mentioned. Also saw the Miniature Golf raft clip a bridge pylon. (Pre-race planning at its finest. 🙂 ) I had an idea for a raft based on a seaplane, but it looks like someone beat me to it, with one based on either a PBY or an SA-16 like Air Force Rescue and the Coasties used to fly.
I did not, however, see any scantily-clad female rafters, although I’d hazard a guess they might have been on the Best Little Oar House in Texas raft, and the TV station got cold feet about showing them. Don’t know about anyone else, but I certainly won’t have been offended. 😉
Debbe 😉 Playlist Two, Song the Tenth – I used to fly a Magic Carpet, but it had control surfaces and engines.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtkP5gTX6Hc
You could go on Facebook Ghost and see what I saw all afternoon, scanty panties, both male and female. Although there was a raft with a fourth grade class on it I was told, I never saw that one. I loved Rift Raft with the outhouse and trashed up yard. Lots of engineers did these floats so not too many sank or capsized. The one who hit the pylon told me their float wasn’t aerodynamic, I suspect they weren’t aircraft engineers but a lot of oil field industries.
First I have to recruit some engineers and builders and come up with a theme. I will begin that as soon as I find out if I get a ticket to enter.
In the meantime, I have engaged a good friend who owns a kayak shop and is the Swamp Angel who rescued my late husband and his partner out of Florida Bay when they were stuck in the mud for a long and expensive sailboat expedition a few years ago. I owe her. She has one month to turn me into a kayaker capable of paddling 20 miles per day in a 17 foot kayak and gear for a five day trip through the Wilderness Waterway in December, my Christmas gift.
I will tow the sailboat behind the mini-van enroute to Florida and see if I can sail some on the Gulf white sands and the Keys. Hopefully in September and October I will get enough sailing in to do that, if not I will recruit more experienced sailors! It’s not just a cute boat but a good one. I plan to enjoy December. Love, Jackie
Old Bear, I can drive all day for 1.60. You aren’t in a hurry are you?
Aha! With the Swedish keyboard, I cannot write a hyhen or an apostrophe…unless they are in unknown places. I managed to get the SWE in the line of bottom icons, and that does not seem to require the alt plus number bit. We shall see, not that I think I will need it much.
Just found that my underlining and my question mark have exchanged places!