Happy Labor Day to all Chiff & Fipplers!
Especially those who have the day off work.
Wish we had it in the UK too! I feel like a stale muffin this morning.
Thanks Martin!
I’ll add my Labor Day good wishes. Unfortunately, it’s pouring rain here this morning. Let’s hope it stops in time to barbeque this afternoon.
Thanks, Martin! No rain here…the scorching drought continues…but it sure is nice to have my husband home today!
Anyway, you U.K. citizens got LAST Monday off, so it’s only fair!! 
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[ This Message was edited by: Cees on 2002-09-02 10:14 ]
What was last Monday??
Last week was the Summer Bank holiday in the UK.
Aodhan
It’s really nice here (GA). Clouudy skies and high 70’s. Why do I get the feelin that I am posting a weather report? Hey, its all good. Well, I think it is anyway. Anywho. To all out there! MERRY LABOR DAY!!
Wait, was that the wrong holi…?
On 2002-09-02 12:14, Aodhan wrote:
Last week was the Summer Bank holiday in the UK.Aodhan
At last, I’ve been wondering for ages… What IS a bank holiday? As opposed to any other kind of holiday, I mean. Does
“holiday” mean, in this case, “vacation”, or does it mean a nation-wide day off work as it does here frequently?
On 2002-09-03 01:14, Dewhistle wrote:
On 2002-09-02 12:14, Aodhan wrote:
Last week was the Summer Bank holiday in the UK.Aodhan
At last, I’ve been wondering for ages… What IS a bank holiday? As opposed to any other kind of holiday, I mean. Does
“holiday” mean, in this case, “vacation”, or does it mean a nation-wide day off work as it does here frequently?
Traditionally all the Banks are closed, and everybody gets the day off work. Of course some poor souls like bus drivers and air traffic controllers, and pretty much any retail outlet workers have to work, but generally the office workers (me!) don’t.
On August Bank Holiday Londoners get in the car, sit in a queue on the road to the seaside for 4 hours, spend an hour or two on the beach surrounded by other reddening bodies, then get in the car and spend 4 hours driving back, at an average speed of 15mph.
Our next Bank Holiday occurs on Dec 26th, so this is really the end of the Summer Holidays in the UK. But I’m going to Cornwall for 2 weeks on Saturday, so there!
Have fun! It’s been 106 here in
Rosemead CA, and we don’t have AC.
It doesn’t cool off at night, either.
Last night I tried to sleep in
the swimming pool. Jim
Happy Labor Day to all!
On 2002-09-03 04:18, Martin Milner wrote:
Traditionally all the Banks are closed, and everybody gets the day off work. Of course some poor souls like bus drivers and air traffic controllers, and pretty much any retail outlet workers have to work, but generally the office workers (me!) don’t.
On August Bank Holiday Londoners get in the car, sit in a queue on the road to the seaside for 4 hours, spend an hour or two on the beach surrounded by other reddening bodies, then get in the car and spend 4 hours driving back, at an average speed of 15mph.
Ah, that’s essentially Labor Day, one of our beloved 3 day weekends. Around here, the 15 mph caravans travel to and from Las Vegas… there are many routes to the beach.
Traditionally all the Banks are closed, and everybody gets the day off work. Of course some poor souls like bus drivers and air traffic controllers, and pretty much any retail outlet workers have to work, but generally the office workers (me!) don’t.
Yeah, it’s nice. This is my third year where I got Labor Day off. I used to work in ER’s and on ambulances, and I NEVER got holidays off.
Aodhan
Ahhhh, It would have been nice to have even one day off but the cows can’t milk themselves. I hope everyone else enjoyed it though.
I did take time to play my whistle and my hammer dulcimer!
Kathy
edited for spelling oops.
~Live Well, Love Much, Laugh Often~
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On 2002-09-03 17:39, chattiekathy wrote:
Ahhhh, It would have been nice to have even one day off but the cows can’t milk themselves. I hope everyone else enjoyed it though.
I did take time to play my whistle and my hammer dulcimer!Kathy
edited for spelling oops.
~Live Well, Love Much, Laugh Often~
[ This Message was edited by: chattiekathy on 2002-09-03 17:41 ]
Does that make them better milkers?
Do you wear a calico dress and bonnet when you milk 'em? 
On 2002-09-04 01:09, Dewhistle wrote:
Does that make them better milkers?
It makes them give buttermilk. Hmm. I wouldn’t mind to have a glass of buttermilk. Buttermilk pie is good. My great-great aunt used to make a good buttermilk pie. Grandma still does.
Reasonable Person
W a l d e n
He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him.—Prov. 27:14
[ This Message was edited by: Walden on 2002-09-04 03:12 ]
On 2002-09-04 01:09, Dewhistle wrote:
On 2002-09-03 17:39, chattiekathy wrote:
Ahhhh, It would have been nice to have even one day off but the cows can’t milk themselves. I hope everyone else enjoyed it though.
I did take time to play my whistle and my hammer dulcimer!Kathy
edited for spelling oops.
~Live Well, Love Much, Laugh Often~
[ This Message was edited by: chattiekathy on 2002-09-03 17:41 ]
Does that make them better milkers?
Do you wear a calico dress and bonnet when you milk 'em? >
I don’t know if it makes them better milkers or not I’m afraid to take a whistle to the barn. It might make them stampeed! Ha Ha. Also I have enough trouble with excessive wet whistle as it is and I don’t think it would be a good thing with all the “Poo” that flies around in the milking parlor. That stuff is mighty sticky when it lands on something.
As for the dress and bonnet, My mother-in-law might have worn a dress when she milked years ago. I wear jeans, but I do wear a really cool scarf to keep the sticky “Poo” off my hair. I look like a gang member when I go to the barn. A neighbor told me I looked like a Russian woman with a babushka. Ha Ha. But, I really don’t care because the cows will “Poo” on you no matter what you wear.
On 2002-09-04 03:08, Walden wrote:
On 2002-09-04 01:09, Dewhistle wrote:
Does that make them better milkers?
It makes them give buttermilk. Hmm. I wouldn’t mind to have a glass of buttermilk. Buttermilk pie is good. My great-great aunt used to make a good buttermilk pie. Grandma still does.
Reasonable Person
W a l d e n
He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him.—Prov. 27:14[ This Message was edited by: Walden on 2002-09-04 03:12 ]
I’ve never heard of buttermilk pie. I know this is weird but I have never drank? drunk? buttermilk either that I know of. Our milk is from mostly Jerseys and the Butterfat is usually above 4%. Maybe I have been drinking it all along and didn’t know it. What is buttermilk pie?
Oh and by the way, the cows love country music. We have it on the radio the whole time we milk. Unless my son turns it to his heavy metal then the cows get agitated and kick at the milkers and I think they produce less milk too. I get a little nasty and agitated too when he plays it. Ha Ha
Next time I meet a fellow breast-feeding mama who had milk production problems, I’ll have to make use of that…
“I tried, but I had to supplement with formula. Didn’t produce enough.”
Me:“Oh, well, I have the answer to that. Too much heavy metal. Listen to country music, that’ll help.”
“Are you kidding?”
“Well, it works with cows.”
That would go over well…