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Happy Labor Day!
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It has seemed like the days were long, but the summer went fast, and here we are almost into September already ! This weekend , my daughter will be back home for 2 weeks, and once my son and DIL are moved out, she will be getting her stuff back out of storage and putting it in her house again. I am looking forward to seeing her !
This year, we start the month off with a holiday since the first Monday in September is also the 1st day of September.
Aside from the family part, holidays are really no different than any other day for us anymore. Our flag is always out, and we mostly stay home because of the party-people out driving around.
This year, we start the month off with a holiday since the first Monday in September is also the 1st day of September.
Aside from the family part, holidays are really no different than any other day for us anymore. Our flag is always out, and we mostly stay home because of the party-people out driving around.
Don Alaska
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We, too, generally stay home for holidays here, especially in summer. Between the tourists and the refugees from Anchorage going to Alaska things get pretty crowded and the traffic is horrible (for Alaska). Our flag is at the end of the driveway as the front of our house can't be seen from the road. Even our driveway isn't visible from any main roads or streets.
Nancy Hart
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Joe Hill - Paul Robeson
“On the Roof with Death”
by Kate Braid in Rough Ground Revisited"Kate Braid says she began accidentally, writing poetry because there usually weren’t any women to talk to on the job. For 15 years she worked as a carpenter, with a love of concrete buildings. Her poetry is all jobsite, all construction, all power tools and concrete bricks and fitting in."
“Coal Deliveryman”
By Ramón Cote Barabibar in PoetryTranslated by Craig Arnold
"This prose poem translated from Spanish contemplates the sacking-wrapped man with the job of delivering coal. Arnold has done an excellent job of delivering his own load from the original Spanish: the melancholy, the wish for lost time, the green truck, the man, his orange crate."
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"An 1870s ballad from the Pennsylvania coal fields. The Shoo Fly and Furnace mines were near each other; when one was down, the other might be hiring. When both were closed, the community was in deep trouble."
The Shoo Fly
The Shoo Fly
Axel Slingerland
Wordy Blues Rocker
Finally, we're at the end of the "100 Most Dangerous Days in Kern County". Will somebody please tell Mother Nature that? Triple digit heat has been predicted all next week...
Axel Slingerland
Wordy Blues Rocker
It was pretty toasty yesterday at 108°F. 
We didn't go out until 10:00p and by then it had cooled to a much more comfortable 96°F. So we went on a Mocha run.
We didn't go out until 10:00p and by then it had cooled to a much more comfortable 96°F. So we went on a Mocha run.
I am not clued up with the American government what does labor do?