It's Veterans Day, and I have the day off. Thank you to all the men and women who suited up and did the job of protecting our country.
My maternal grandfather was a Veteran. According to family lore, he joined the Navy before he was legally old enough to do so. In 1920, he was a cook on a Navy coal ship. About all he ever told me about his service was that he peeled an awful lot of potatoes. :)
Granddaughter #1 will shortly be suiting up with her high school band to play patriotic music as they march around the town square.
One Veterans Day a few years ago, The Boss and I both forgot that we did not have to go to work. Our office is one block off the square. We were at our desks, doing our jobs, when suddenly we heard a big boom and a big shout. We ran to the front door and opened it to discover this marching band (Granddaughter wasn't in it then) on the street in front of our office. When the band is called to attention, the drummers hit their drums, and the whole band yells "COUGARS!" before they move into action. This was what we had heard. Until that moment we had not realized that it was Veterans Day, and we didn't have to be at work. We laughed, and every Veterans Day Eve since then, we remind one another that we'll have the next day off.
The Husband has gone to work today, despite his office being closed for the holiday. I was hoping that we could spend the day winterizing the porch with the wedding-tent panels we bought for the project, but it's drizzling rain and I don't want to tackle the job by myself. The plan is to use Velcro to attach the tent panels to the outside of the screened porch. There's about a mile of self-adhesive Velcro strips in a box on the porch, ready to be stuck onto the wood and the panels. The panels are in a box in the shed. If I had a little more get-up-and-go, I'd go get them and attach one side of the Velcro to the panels so that we can slap them up once we get the other side of the Velcro attached to the porch.
Maybe another cup of coffee would help.
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