Happy Monday to all. It's hard to believe that February only has a short time longer, and then we're into March and the threshold of Spring in the Frozen Northlands. Time continues to march on, and I'm quite grateful for that. I know a lot of my on-line friends have today off to celebrate "President's Day", but I'll be working. We don't close for most of the Monday holidays.
The Monday holiday dates this act established were:
- Washington's Birthday
- Memorial Day
- Columbus Day
- Veterans Day
Also celebrated on Monday:
- Martin Luther King Jr. Day
- Labor Day
When I was young, back in the Stone Age, we had February 12th for Lincoln's birthday, followed by February 14th for Valentine's Day, and February 22nd for Washington's birthday. We all loved February. First, it was a short month of only 28 or 29 days, and second because there were THREE holidays in that month. It was like sweetness overload to a child. Lots of things to celebrate and learn about. But then, the government, deciding that there were other worthy Presidents and that we couldn't have a specific holiday for each of them, merged all of them together into the new category of Monday holiday, and now we have "Presidents Day". Meh. That's not nearly as fun nor as special as individual days.
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I gave DH two Valentines (which he didn't open), and he said he couldn't find where he stashed the Valentines that he bought for me. So that part of the belated holiday was "meh". The meal, however, was really good, and our hockey team won their game, so it wasn't a total loss. |
DH and I celebrated Valentine's Day late, choosing to celebrate yesterday instead of in mid-week. He picked up a lovely seasoned roast from the store and it cooked to perfection. I'm starting to trust my digital thermometer. It went off nine minutes before my timer said the minimum amount of time in the oven should be, but I went ahead, trusted the thermometer, and pulled the roast out of the oven to proof on the breadboard for fifteen minutes while we got the veggies put together. It was absolutely a perfect medium rare - exactly what we had wanted. If I had ignored the thermometer and gone with the timer, we would have had overcooked meat and would not have been happy.
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I have one of these digital thermometers that I bought from Target a year or two ago. It wasn't very expensive, and it's doing a great job. I'm still learning to trust it, though. |
After dinner we settled down to watch two episodes of "Vera". All in all, it was a delightful and relaxed Sunday for both of us, and something we dearly needed.
So today it's back to normal. Back to the cold (although we will get above freezing for a little while today), and back to the routine. DH picked up some pieces of extra-large foam core for me. I've been cutting foam core to mount our artwork onto so that we can put pieces out onto the sales floor and sell more art. We have a LOT of it from the places we rented with lots of different wall space, and I need to get these into our art bins for people to look through, buy, and take home with them. Later this week, when I'm finished with the prints, I'll start matting and shrink-wrapping the original art (mostly watercolors or gouache watercolors). I need to get those displayed in some fashion as well.
Have a wonderful Monday and enjoy your Presidents Day if you get the day off from work. I plan on being back here tomorrow morning, so enjoy your day and I'll see you again tomorrow. Slava Ukraini.
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