Comments on: Happy Labor Day!

By: Bill Wanschura

Bill Wanschura — Thu, 05 Sep 2013 19:01:38 +0000

There’s a word you don’t hear any
more: “bookbag”. The only backpacks that were around 50+ years ago were Boys Scouts and mountain hikers. School children had bookbags.

By: CBI

CBI — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 18:33:34 +0000

The local public schools had their first day of classes on the 12th or 13th of August.

By: John Dough

John Dough — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 15:30:42 +0000

Here in the desert Southwest, summer ends around Dec 15. A mild winter (51 degree days) becomes the norm until Spring starts around Feb 3, to by followed by the onset of Summer on April 19.

By: IGotBupkis, "Faeces Evenio", Mr. Holder?

IGotBupkis, "Faeces Evenio", Mr. Holder? — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 14:01:58 +0000

Happy CAPITAL Day!!

By: Beverly

Beverly — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 08:04:15 +0000

And for those of you who are mourning the summer’s end: remember that it doesn’t Really end until what, September 22nd?

That’s how I see it. As for the kids: wow, going back to school in August is a real drag. We had three whole months off when I was a kid.

I don’t envy the current crop of youngsters anything except their physical glossiness and stamina. Their ‘culture,’ their corporate-produced ‘music,’ the relentless vulgarity and obscenity, the death of romance, and the constantly increasing strangulation of their freedoms — what a nightmare.

By: parker

parker — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 00:56:23 +0000

It was a glorious day in Iowa. The 98 degree heat of last week was gone and the sky was a crisp blue. A grand day for family cookouts and neighborhood parties. Autumn is my favorite season and today it feels like autumn has begun. Enjoy the season everyone.

By: Richard Aubrey

Richard Aubrey — Mon, 02 Sep 2013 23:33:04 +0000

Probably forty years before I stopped getting that ol’ feeling. Things were ramping up.
Did read an interpretation of the issue. Fall is when fruits and veggies ripen and you can eat better, before agriculture and storing stuff, sleep better because it’s cooler and some of the critters that crawl among the bedclothes/piles of leaves are dead, you have to get ready for winter….
Halloween starts the holiday season. Kind of an energy boost.

By: carl in atlanta

carl in atlanta — Mon, 02 Sep 2013 22:48:13 +0000

Decades later I still get the same feeling of generalized dread I first experienced when I became old enough to realize that going back to school is a perennial event. To a kid it’s like death and taxes, and in my case I still get a that end of summer melancholy in sympathy with every 8 or 9 year at bus stops and carpools all over America.

The next real delight isn’t until Halloween, no? Though as one gets old enough the World Series and football certainly help. I was going to add county fairs to that list but I don’t know; in my experience there’s something about a fair that is poignant, bittersweet and disappointing; maybe it’s that they take place ( down here anyway) in September as the days are getting shorter and they usually aren’t as much fun as one hopes/expects…

Psychologically and emotionally, October through early winter is usually my favorite “season”. I don’t know why that should be, other than after 60 + years down here I have concluded that summers in the South are just too long and way too HOT (though 2013 has been surprisingly mild; thank you Al Gore!)

By: M J R

M J R — Mon, 02 Sep 2013 22:06:33 +0000

A diversion for an end-of-summer holiday . . .

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2013/08/george-zimmerman-cures-cancer.html

George Zimmerman Cures Cancer
Posted by Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog
Saturday, August 31, 2013

By: Rich

Rich — Mon, 02 Sep 2013 21:26:22 +0000

http://israelmatzav.blogspot.ca/2013/09/happy-labor-day-barack-obama.html#links