Shiver me timbers, all you landlubbers, out there! Today is International Talk Like A Pirate Day! Blow me down! Of course, it sneeked (snuck?--I never know) up on me, again, as holidays (and pirates) are wont to do (I first heard about it on the radio about 5 years ago). With all the bluster around our move, I blanked on it.
For more information (as if you had no idea!) go to: http://www.talklikeapirate.com/tlapd07.html
Dave Barry helped the originators of the "holiday" get it going (those guys, by the by, take great pains to disavow everything pirates were/are about--except the language passed down to us through literature, which they think sounds so silly). Read about how it all got rolling--so fun! It's kind of crazy! This thing is all over the place, now! NPR hosts and national weatherpeople were TLAP this morning. And the website offers pirate lingo in German, Swedish and Mandarin! I'm going into town, today, and I will see if anyone at Hills Flat Lumber, or the post office is observing. I know that the Stonehouse restaurant in Nevada City is celebrating all day, doing "pirate stuff".
I had to "batten down the hatches" today, since a big storm is blowing in. Blowing, big time, at the moment! And getting darker by the minute. I still have all my studio supplies outside under the eaves, most of which is covered by tarps, but I need more tarps, I think. I had hoped to have the floor in the studio laid, and the room put together, by now, but, today, I was informed that the flooring won't be in until next Tuesday, now--2 1/2 weeks later than we had been told, originally. Ah, well. So, off to the home-improvement store, I go! I hope we get some rain, at least!
So, I've gotta push off, now, ye scalawags! Party hearty! Aar-r-r-r! --Sandy (btw, it's not "aargh")
