Sorry, while I do like taking the day off to do all those things I didn’t get done over the weekend, I do not like the whole concept of “Presidents Day.” It’s a kind of “Everyone gets a trophy for being POTUS”.
National Holiday to making sure no one’s feelings are hurt.
Gag.
So, here’s some random photography … It’s been in the low 80s for a couple of weeks and my patio azalea has bust out all over …
Then there’s my twin grandsons who keep getting older & bigger everytime I blink. We attended their elementary school band performance. They’ll be in 7th grade in the fall (argh! teens!) and will then get some real band experience. (keep the band jokes to a minimum, m’kay?)
Nik
Sean
I was a band guy. (Alto & Tenor Sax) Had a lot of fun. Definitely worth all the practice.
As for President’s Day, my only consolation is getting to tell people that “Silent Cal” Coolidge is in my top five of Presidents. (Washington is first, of course.) Coolidge espoused and practiced the constitutionally correct role of the chief executive in this country. That’s why no one studies his presidency, preferring the anti-constitutional hacks like Lincoln and F. D. Roosevelt, not to mention the current occupant of the Oval Office.
It’s in the low single digits here, and the things busting include pipes, siding, and flagstones but no azaleas. Sigh
Sherm
My daughters all went through band … I loved it, 13 years as a high school band booster mom! Now I have grandkids to carry on the tradition.
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Darleen,
That’s a good stretch of band-mom-ness. My daughter did four years in high school percussion. The middle son only one on trumpet, because he wanted to take more math and science and couldn’t fit band into his schedule. The youngest is a freshman doing both concert band and jazz band. Their H.S. is touring in Florida in 3 weeks. That kicks my band experience’s ass. The best I got was two day trip to Jefferson City.
Sherm
Yep, that was 4 girls worth – #1 – piano, flute, piccolo #2 alto sax #3 piano, clarinet, drum major in senior year #4 flute, tenor sex, drum major senior year
I just twirled baton in front of my hs marching band (acoustic guitar cuz of scouting)
hubby played in marching bands as kid (Ozzie’s Marching Band, San Diego), in high school marching band trumpet & baritone, and in jazz band, bass guitar and upright bass. Played bass guitar in a few rock bands.
We just need to get a drummer out of one of the grandkids, and we’d have our OWN band. :-)
I won’t make any jokes about kids in band…wish I’d stuck with Bass Fiddle in sixth grade.
But there oughta be a law against folks who show pictures of Azaleas blooming in the middle of winter…and us with an inch of ice and more to come, plus temps in low teens.
By the way, I was raised in San Diego. Left there after junior year of HS in 1975 to move to Western North Carolina.
Why President’s Day?
To give the ski industry one last hurrah.
You think I’m kidding, I’m not.
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then i cooked and cooked
thank you presidents i love you
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I am pleased to inform everyone that, if Georgia has a Jimmy Carter Day, I have never heard of it.
“If you like your birthday, you can keep your birthday…”
Washington’s Birthday is celebrated on the third Monday in February. It can never fall on the 22nd, his actual birthday.
Given that the 4th Monday falls after the 22nd 6 times out of 7, it would have been far more sensible to observe Washington’s Birthday wherever it falls in the week.
Like we do Christmas and Independence Day.
…or how about, “the first Monday after (but not on) the 18th of February”?
Hey, one of youse guys with posting privileges should up this one.
For the resultant nuanced political commentary from a male perspective, you see.
To the Presidents Day topic..
Barack Obama, compared to others?
My, how things changed…
Brookings? Only imagine polling Muslim scholars on the question “which is the bestest Prophet of all the bestest Prophets?” And then come to find out their answer puts Mohammed in the middling down the list. But with Mohammed, they won’t be suggesting to carve his image on any mountain-faces.
School band isn’t a problem, all of my boys have been in band. Two of them in Marching band, which they loooooove, but I haaaaaaaaate. So much time, so much fundraising, so many commitments. Marching band is OK if you have one kid. If you have one kid in and two other kids in something else, then you split up the duties and you see your better half occasionally, on days when your band kid has come down with food poisoning from some truck stop halfway between your house and the band competition on the far side of the moon.
And help me out, if marching band counts as PE in High School, why are so many marching band kids and flag wavers so damn heavy? If you can drink a PolarPop of Mountain Dew Code Red while doing something, it’s not gym. I don’t count slow pitch softball or bowling as exercise, and neither is marching band.
Musicianship must be fattening to the soul.
Let’s be clear: yesterday was NOT President’s Day. It still says George Washington’s birthday in the federal registry. This president’s day nonsense came about -I believe- during the Clinton years. “See? No president is better than any other, so let’s celebrate them all, including the guy who got blown by an intern.”
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Exercise?
LMC
It must depend on the school. All my girls took band as a class (with after school practices during field show season) plus did a sport.