Happy Saint Patrick's Day!

I hope you enjoy "The Leprechaun Brothers".

**I created this post on May 29, 2010 when I found the above clip. I wonder if it is still avaialbe to be viewed....

It's Christmas Eve!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Halloween!

Happy Labor Day!

Festival of Sol

Trying to publish one of these covers each month led to a dilemma, as this issue revolves around Carmine "The Roman" Falcone's birthday.

However, according to Wikipedia, August 28 was the Roman Festival of Sol, celebrating the sun goddess!

Happy Independence Day!

Happy Mother's Day?

I was torn about continuing these holiday posts with this series when I saw this one....especially knowing what the Father's Day one will be....

"Your shoe is untied!"

My Thoughts Exactly!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Here are some old Valentine Day cards from the late 80's*.

*Not really. I found them on tumblr a while ago.

Happy Birthday, President Lincoln!

Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led his country through its greatest internal crisis, the American Civil War, preserving the Union and ending slavery.

That's right, woodchuck-chuckers...it's GROUNDHOG DAY!

"It's still just once a year, right?"

Merry Christmas

One more day!

Happy Thanksgiving!

There are so many things for me to be thankful for today, that if I attempted to list them I would invariably forget something important or embarrass myself.

Suffice it to say, I am a very happy, lucky and blessed man.

Happy Halloween

"Gozer the Traveler. He will come in one of the pre-chosen forms. During the rectification of the Vuldrini, the traveler came as a large and moving Torg! Then, during the third reconciliation of the last of the McKetrick supplicants, they chose a new form for him: that of a giant Slor! Many Shuvs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Slor that day, I can tell you!"

Farmer grows pumpkins with human faces

This article about a farmer in Ohio who grew creepy pumpkins with human faces on them was apparently in the January 1938 issue of Popular Science.

Happy Memorial Day

While he didn't die in service to this country, he was willing to do so. He was the bravest man I will ever meet and not a day goes by that I don't think about him.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Right now we are obsessed with "The Price Is Right." Family friendly, so we get a couple built up in the DVR and we just want to vegetate some night or if it is pizza night, we have something to watch.

Valentine's Day is special for Nancy and me for many reasons and money is tight right now....but I just had to get her this....

And a BIG thank you to Haley for getting home quick on Friday to snag it off of the porch and hiding it for me!

PS Clicking on the title of this post takes you to a Burlington Free Press Valentine's Day article that quotes Lee!

Veterans Day*

In Flanders Fields

By: Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918) Canadian Army

IN FLANDERS FIELDS the poppies blow

Between the crosses row on row,

That mark our place; and in the sky

The larks, still bravely singing, fly

Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago

We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,

Loved and were loved, and now we lie

In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:

To you from failing hands we throw

The torch; be yours to hold it high.

If ye break faith with us who die

We shall not sleep, though poppies grow

In Flanders fields.

*The holiday is commonly printed as Veteran's Day or Veterans' Day on calendars. While these spellings are grammatically acceptable, the United States government has declared that no apostrophe rather than the possessive case is the official spelling.