HAPPY MAY DAY!

HAPPY PRESIDENTS' DAY

HAPPY PRESIDENTS DAY (white sale)!

According to today’s UNCLE JOHN’S BATHROOM PAGE-A-DAY CALENDAR:
Teddy Roosevelt had the Roosevelt family crest inked on his chest.

Andrew Jackson, who ordered the Trail of Tears, tattooed on his inner thigh.

Children of U.S. Presidents have than average rates of alcoholism and mental illness.

HAPPY SAINT PATRICK'S DAY!

Today is National Serpent Day!*

National Serpent Day

*It is also National Spunky Old Broads Day
and also
National Change Your Password Day

Prayer of Thanks

"Thank you Lord for this fine Thanksgiving Dinner.  And if I find out that  our grandson here put a Whoopee Cushion in Grandpa's seat he is going to get a whopping!"

Post Halloween Thoughts

Our plan worked.  We did not turn on the outside lights and did not have any trick or treaters.  I will have to wait to daylight to see if had any trickers or not.  I noticed yesterday while out and about a few people on their job were moderately dressed up, maybe with a red rubber nose or cat whiskers painted on their cheeks or something like that.

When I carried the sack of candy across the street to the neighbors it took them a long time to come to the door.  I heard the woman I am most sensitive about scream at her kids and they screamed back .  I bammed on the door and they didn't hear me, but still carried on screaming.  I banged on their lopsided carport door and  still the didn't hear me.  Finally I heard them on their balcony and I ran out and hollowed - then she and one of her daughters looked at me, sort of like a deer getting caught in the head-lights kind of look.

I showed them the sack candy and she was very nice and polite and complemented us on our bell.  I told her it was Anna's mother's bell, but she died.  The woman said she was sorry to hear that.  I also told her our news that Anna and had a knee operation and Anna's mother died.  Thinking back, I forgot to tell her Rocky was now a daddy - I was the one caught in the headlights.  Then she sent her daughter downstairs to get my sack of candy.  She wished us a happy Halloween. The 8 or 9 year old daughter was dressed like a cheerleader with a white-ghoul likewhitepaint face with back eyes.  Very effective.  I have to give them credit, they know how to dress up for Halloween.

Seeing the little girl dressed up and seeing the other people (merchants)  mildly dressed up reminded me of a distant cousin-in-law of mine, Mary Beth K., who was a carrier for the same post office I worked at.  One Halloween she came to work dressed like a hooker-carrier.  A split up her postal skirl, loud make up, low-cut postal shirt.  She was sent home.  She never returned to work.     

HAPPY COLUMBUS DAY!

Columbus:  "Godless Heathens!   Make them our slaves!"

Indians:  "Immigrants!"  

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!

HAPPY FATHERS' DAY!!

The late Willie B. and his youngin at the Atlanta Zoo.

Fife in War

The fife is a symbol of one of the musical instruments played in the Revolutionary War. 

It was also played in the War of 1812.  In the War of 1812 my g-g-g- grandfather Greenville Pullen (1788-1860)  was a military musician who tooted a fife.  Here is what I have on him and his fife:

He was in the War of 1812.   Enlisted in Milledgeville, Ga., in 1814 for a term of eighteen months.  He was discharged at Fort Jack, near Savannah, Ga.  He enlisted as a private and later was appointed musician, a fifer for the company.  Records show he was discharged after both arms were broken in an accident while at work on barracks.

-Paul Pullen

Maybe Greenville didn't play very well and some of his barrack friends thought if both arms were broken he would not be able to hold the fife.

HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY!

me on the USS NEWPORT NEWS

HAPPY EASTER!

L to R:  Liz ("Tissie then) Crain, Ksandra Hunter on tricycle, Vickie Crain, Me, and Frances Hunter behind Ksandra* in grandparents' front yard on Manget Street.

*Ksandra's name might be spelled wrong.

HAPPY Good Friday!

Today is Good Friday!  Eat your fish sticks or the Good Policeman Officer Friday will arrest you!

HAPPY FOOL'S DAY!!

HAPPY APRIL FOOL'S DAY, FOOL!!!

SUNDAY FUNNIES!! Saint Patrick's Day Parade, NYC

HUMBUG Magazine.  Saint Patrick's Day, artist Arnold Roth

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HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEARS!!

Today is Chinese New Years.  It is the year of the Goat and Sheep.   Have you ever heard a goat scream?  It sounds like a horrified  elderly lady.

Several years ago we read an ad saying a Chinese Restaurant in Cherokee County at Highway 92 and Bells Ferry Road was having a Chinese New Year Party.  The ad had an artist rendition of people having a good time with a Chinese Dragon, a Champaign bottle spewing over, streamers, noisemakers, and so on.

It looked like the place to be.

Also, they had a coupon by one meal and get one free.

We went, wild-eyed, ready to party down.... maybe they might let us get in the big dragon train.  Man!  Fun City!   And one of the meals will be free, the cheapest one, of course.

I imagined a Chinese band playing Chinese music, people jokingly shootings fire crackers, a lot of corks popping off Champaign bottles, laughter, whoopee!  etc.

We were the only customers there. 

A little Asian toddler kept peeping at us through the door.  I guess we looked kind of unique.

No singing, no fire crackers, no bursts of laughter, no fire crackers.... just a dinner.

A few weeks after that a drug deal went wrong and somebody got shot and killed there, we read in the paper.  If that had happen while we were there expecting fire crackers, after we heard the gunshots we might have got up and danced.

HAPPY PRESIDENTS' DAY!!

One thing I like about Presidents' Day is how non materialistic and non-commercial; not  like Christmas and some other holidays.

HAPPY FRIDAY THE 13TH

Today is WORK NAKED DAY

Today is National WORK NAKED DAY

(true)

Martin Luther King. Jr Day Observed

Peace