Serious post.

[LeftyFingerPop]

I hope that each of you have a good and relaxing holiday today.

Hopefully, your weather is such that you can enjoy a cookout, or at least soak up some sun.

Cheers!

[Swede]

1. I've got a bad cold and it's pouring rain here.

But,thanks for the well wishes. :hi:

[Ptah]

2. .

[cwydro]

3. Listen jerkface!

It is raining here and I'm at work!

Now I am alerting on your post for being so mean to me!:P ;(

[Tuesday Afternoon]

4. Cheers, Lefty..and I hope the same for you also.

I am taking off today and hanging out by the pool with family. Tonight we plan to to go to the movies. :toast:

[OmahaBlueDog]

5. Miniature Golf

..make of it what you will

[Kali]

6. well, since this is serious, I'll interject a short nag

"Labor Day, the first Monday in September, is a creation of the labor movement and is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers. It constitutes a yearly national tribute to the contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of our country."

http://www.dol.gov/opa/aboutdol/laborday.htm


the holiday was enacted in 1884 in attempts to pacify the labor movement following strikes and the deaths of workers at the hands of the military.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_Day

[cwydro]

7. Well, I am laboring.

In between posting...;-)

[Kali]

8. Sorry about that

I'm being a total slob, but who knows what crisis will arise today around here?!

[cwydro]

9. Well enjoy for me...

and if you drink, have a beer for me!

[Kali]

11. beer?

I have sons in their early 20's around here - there is no beer.

but I might look under my bed and see if I have anything tasty I could mix up hidden away:think: :P

[cwydro]

15. Lol!

Love it! Hey, I'll drink anything...

[MiddleFingerMom]

10. One question...

.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.

.
.
.

[Kali]

12. oh wow

here is something else kind of cool for today - just got this in an e-mail:

On this day

It's the birthday of the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize: public health worker, community organizer, and social activist Jane Addams born to a wealthy Quaker family in Cedarville, Illinois, 150 years ago today (1860).

She suffered from depression and went to Europe, thinking it would help. She visited a settlement house in London, a place that offered social services to the poor. She was deeply impressed by it, and after founding an experimental house like this in England, she returned to the states to establish one on the South Side of Chicago in the 19th Ward, a neighborhood full of poor immigrants from Russia, Greece, Italy, and Germany. It was in an abandoned mansion formerly owned by Charles Hull, and so she called it Hull House. It had a communal kitchen, a day care, a library, and a little bookbinding business.

Women boarded at Hull House, and it was also a neighborhood center, a performing arts center, and a space where book club meetings and classes were held. Two thousand people showed up each week from the area, and Hull House grew to add a dozen more buildings. Addams wrote about it in some of her books, including Twenty Years at Hull House (1910).

Addams was a leader in the women's suffrage movement, fought for immigrants' rights, and lobbied for labor reform. She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931.

She's the author of several books, including The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets (1909) and Peace and Bread in Time of War (1922).

[Tuesday Afternoon]

13. Hey --

[femmocrat]

14. Thanks, Lefty. Same to you!

:hi:

I am enjoying my last day off until Thanksgiving.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

16. My dear LeftyFingerPop!

Thanks, sweetie...

I hope the same for you. Right now, it's cloudy and cool, but the sun should show up in a bit...

There's a local street fair that I'll be getting to in a bit.

I might even spend some money and support a local artisan...

:hug:

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

17. Son of a Bitch!

Another American holiday I've not been able to celebrate here in Deutschland. On the other hand, I'm going to OKTOBERFEST soon. HA HA.