I'm going to start today to record on a daily basis whatever happens to strike my fancy. So, it is a very cool breezy day. I just posted 5 short book reviews to The Monthly Reading Challenge. I'm suppose to put away some winter wood today from the woodpile outside but I'm playing hookey from work to write so starting this blog will get done.
I'm having a daily fight with a flock of English Sparrows that are trying to take over my barn. They are making a terrible mess so they have to go. I have destroyed several nests so far they don't leave but they get out of the barn when I am around. I'm just starting the fight so I guess I don't know how far I have to go to discourage them.
I'm trying not to spread myself to thin on WDC because I find so many things that are interesting here and I am trying to work on a new story. I really enjoy sitting at my desk with a cup of tea and reading blogs on WDC.
I was surprised how many different things inside the garden there were to see. It reminded me of the Sculpture Gardens in Hamilton, New Jersey. Art and flower gardens make for an enjoyable afternoon.
When I was in Monaco, a lemur reached out and stole my hat. The lemur put it on it's head and leaped around the enclosure bobbing it's head in amusement. It was close to a half hour before it threw my hat back out of the enclosure. They are quite playful and engaging creatures to watch.
Virtual has some advantages when it comes to exploring different locations. I calculated our trip out for the month and it was 109,455.00 a piece with airfare, average cost of meals at 150.00 per day, hotels, transportation, and our different daily adventures.
Today is Memorial Day here in the US, a federal holiday for remembering and honoring persons who have died while serving in the Armed Forces. How do you honor those who have passed (whether they served in the military or not)?
Quote:" Where liberty dwells there is my country" by Benjamin Franklin from A Treasury of Great American Quotations
Today is Memorial Day here in the US, a federal holiday for remembering and honoring persons who have died while serving in the Armed Forces. How do you honor those who have passed (whether they served in the military or not)?
Memorial Day Concert
In the last few years we have watched the Memorial Day Concert in Washington D.C. This year it was 1 1/2 hours long. It honors soldiers and the players sing songs that are spiritual or meaningful to patriotism. Some of the actors tell personal stories of soldier's war activities. Usually they are honoring a specific soldier who is sitting in the audience. The stories are horrendously specific about how a soldier was injured and survived. This year they also honored a wife, whose husband was burned in a bombing of the Humvee, which he was riding in. He died in-spite of many surgeries in a Texas hospital.
You really cannot watch this show I don't think, without remembering family members or acquaintances who have died. The show itself is a very somber affair. Before it was finished this year, I felt it was very depressing to watch To me, I felt it was pushing an agenda that would be better served in some other way. Truly, I don't know what other way would work to serve this particular holiday. Larger cities do have parades.
This year they used the show as an outreach to members of the military who have not received the help they need. A real concern is military people who served, but are now out of the service and not doing well in life, because of their military years. Many of these people are committing suicide and so the outreach to them was pointed.
I always wonder what the deceased would tell us about this holiday? Would they prefer not to enter wars?
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