Monday, March 7, 2011

March 7: Casimir Pulaski Day

Corey, I picked this one for you since it's an Illinois holiday.  It's apparently only an Illinois holiday because you have a large Polish population in Chicago, but details, shmetails.  Apparently you all get the day off from school though, so I'm willing to celebrate any holiday that achieves that.  There's apparently also a federal holiday--October 9--that celebrates him, but that's for the day of his death, and this one is for the day of his birth.

Man--not even our presidents get a day for their birth AND their death, so this guy must really be special.  All Wikipedia tells me is that he trained soldiers for the Revolutionary War, though.  And that he had a funny little mustache.

Urban Dictionary doesn't like him very much, but some musician wrote a song called Casimir Pulaski Day (which is actually quite pretty and sad, btw)...other than that, there's not much to make a decent blog post here, so I've decided just to post a couple photos and a video that I've taken in the past couple days.  Enjoy.
Preparing for the Dog Walk / Death March
Sleeping Lady

Driveway Moose


The ferret at the dog pound that really wanted OUT of its cage
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4 comments:

  1. ScottMarch 7, 2011 at 8:27 AM

    Casimir Pulaski Day is a great song

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  2. UnknownMarch 7, 2011 at 9:25 AM

    Yup. That whole album is about Illinois. There's even one about Decatur!!

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  3. RiCapMarch 7, 2011 at 9:59 AM

    Why were you at the dog pound?

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  4. SarahMarch 7, 2011 at 10:40 AM

    It was either drive out to Willow to watch the start of the Iditarod in the freezing cold and crowds or go to the dog pound. You'd be surprised how few fun things there are to do around here.

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