Monday, January 16, 2017
Today is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, and as a public school employee, I’m able to enjoy today off.
I can’t recall ever hearing a member of my family disparage another person based solely on the color of their skin. In fact, I remember my mother telling me that her father (who was 100% Irish and was born in 1903) had told her that the Irish we’re once referred to as “white n*ggers” because they were perceived as a threat when they began immigrating en masse during the later part of the nineteenth century. They were though of as unclean, Catholic, “breeding like rabbits”, and taking away jobs from more deserving “Americans”. Funny that we’re going through something similar today, but with Hispanics (and to a lesser degree, Muslims).
Not much to report on the home front; lots of laundry and ironing and I worked a couple of hours on my toiletry tote, but ran afoul when I was piecing the sides to the body. There was too much fabric which was causing an issue with the stitching. I need to go back to the drawing board; I may need to cut my sides a smidge smaller to make everything fit together.
It was a pleasant drive back down to Moses Lake. I’m in Taj Mahtrailer and about to head out for a bond committee meeting up the road. We’ve got a little less than a month to go before the bond vote and we’re having committee meetings every Monday up until the vote. There’s also a bond meeting in the school board room tomorrow at 7:00 PM and I think I’ll go to that as well.