Dreary "Patriots' Day"
Apr. 17th, 2006 09:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jhetley(Patriots' Day, for those outside New England, is an institution peculiar to Massachusetts* and Maine**. The legal holiday commemorates the battles of Lexington and Concord, but has fallen victim to the Monday holiday laws and thus does not fall on April 19 this year. I am sure that some readers in the UK and Canada would prefer to dub it "Traitors' Day," but you've already got Guy Fawkes to kick around.)
Scattered showers continue, along with temperatures in the 40s F. Gloom and chill and the return of cabin fever -- couldn't get in my walks or rides, and I've reached the age where if I give those muscles a coffee break, I have to retrain them. The weather prophets offer a chance of warmer for the latter part of the week.
I may have beaten Chapter XXIII into submission. We'll see.
*One oddball side-effect of this state holiday is that the IRS allows an extra filing day for people who send their tax returns to the Massachusetts processing center.
**Maine pays attention to the holiday because we used to be part of Massachusetts.
Scattered showers continue, along with temperatures in the 40s F. Gloom and chill and the return of cabin fever -- couldn't get in my walks or rides, and I've reached the age where if I give those muscles a coffee break, I have to retrain them. The weather prophets offer a chance of warmer for the latter part of the week.
I may have beaten Chapter XXIII into submission. We'll see.
*One oddball side-effect of this state holiday is that the IRS allows an extra filing day for people who send their tax returns to the Massachusetts processing center.
**Maine pays attention to the holiday because we used to be part of Massachusetts.
