Harry's Hydrangea didn't want to bloom this year but now it keeps producing one or two at a time... |
I'm sure this not the back to school picture Mom was hoping for, but I am what I am! |
No really... I have rhythm - I'll prove it! |
Dad doesn't "stroll" so we rapidly moved from the back of the pack... |
Next year I'm going to be Fezzy instead of standing next to her... |
And this is just a silly picture, but he's over 50,000 miles now... |
I didn't participate in the Chalk Art Festival this year, but there were some impressive pieces (for a whole day before it rained...) |
Mom and Dad saw my old teacher playing in the band, but they couldn't figure out how that gal got here from the 60s... |
This really doesn't have anything to do with the Chalk Art Festival - it is just the painting on the back of the art store... |
Look! Now we have a shed... |
Dad took this one on his phone while I was driving us to Red Robin for dinner... |
Dad wants you to be wowed by how clean the water feature is... it only took 8 hours scrub out all the sludge... |
September seems to have flown by without a lot of fanfare...
Lucie started back to school and we did have the Shriner's Walk & Roll and the Chalk Art Festival (and Corn Roast!) but otherwise it was a pretty quiet month so I had to stretch just to get 12 pictures...
Apparently September is a historically slow month - Wikipedia starts with this exciting tidbit: "September is the ninth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars, the third of four months to have a length of 30 days, and the fourth of five months to have a length of less than 31 days." If that doesn't say "September is boring" I don't know what does.
However, a number of people have tried to make something of it, so September is National Americana, Bake & Decorate, Campus Safety Awareness, Cheese, Chicken, Child Awareness, Childhood Obesity Awareness, Chiari Awareness, Coupon, Disease Literacy, DNA Geonomics & Stem Cell Education, Food Safety Education, Family Meals, Fruit and Veggies, Guide Dog, Head Lice Prevention, Hispanic Heritage, Home Furnishings, Honey, Infant Mortality Awareness, Mulled Cider, Mushroom, Organic Harvest, Osteopathic Medicine, Ovarian Cancer Awareness, Passport Awareness, Pet Memorial, Piano, Preparedness, Prostate Cancer Awareness, Prime Beef, Prosper Where You Are Planted, Pulmonary Fibrosis Awareness, Recovery, Rice, Save A Tiger, Sewing, Service Dog, Shake (Ice Cream), Sickle Cell, Skin Care Awareness, Spinal Cord Injury Awareness, Suicide Prevention, Translators, Wilderness Month.
I bet you stopped before reading the whole list, didn't you?
So you probably didn't notice the one that is not named correctly, did you?
And now you think I'm just going to tell you which one that is, right?
Anyway, as you know, September is also when we observe International Talk Like a Pirate Day (September 19th), but you probably didn't know that this historic holiday was created here in Oregon in 1995 by Ol' Chumbucket and Cap'n Slappy. You also probably didn't know that guacamole was invented by a pirate named William Dampier in 1679 or that it is a federal crime to discuss piracy with a pirate by email, text, posted letter, or note in a bottle. I know that those two random facts aren't related and thus don't actually belong in the same sentence, but who are you - the linguistics police?
And now you're probably thinking to yourself, "Did he just use the term 'linguistics' correctly?" Jeez! When did you get to be so critical? Here I am trying to bring a little joy to your day and all you can do is nit pick...
So in conclusion, if it were up to me I would suggest next September we celebrate National Sickle Cell Awareness Month...