Posted on 02/22/2025 9:49:30 AM PST by Chickensoup
Happy Washington's Birthday!
February 22! Cherry pie!
Remember when we made construction paper Hatchets?
Read his stories aloud?
Admired him?
Don't let them take our holidays , stories and culture away!
February 22! Cherry pie!
Remember when we made construction paper Hatchets?
Read his stories aloud?
Admired him?
Don't let them take our holidays , stories and culture away!
February 22d. Washington’s Birthday! From back in the days when FEDERAL HOLIDAYS REALLY MEANT SOMETHING. Not like a lot of the crap we have now. Just another day off.
She’s my cherry pie
Cool drink of water such a sweet surprise
Tastes so good makes a grown man cry
Sweet Cherry Pie
Sorry. Warrant’s song is the first thing i thought of when I saw Cherry Pie.
George Washington, a great man, a great president, a great leader, a great warrior, a man to be admired and emulated.
At first, I put GW, but i want NO ONE mistakenly thinking I meant that moron from 2000.
Enjoy the day!
Yes some holidays had picnicseven parades!
My own birthday is February 21.
When I was young, my mother used to make me a chocolate birthday cake with cherry frosting and cherries on top—in honor both of me and of George Washington!
Happy Washington’s (real) birthday, you all!
When I was a kid the story about George Washington cutting down the cherry tree and when confronted said I can not tell a lie. I did it.
That kept me honest all my life|.
Happy Washington’s birthday!
Now we go buy mattresses and recliners and take the old ones out and throw them along the highways.
Love me some cherrie pie, but usually only once a year (dessert, not metaphor). Same with pecan pie. (Metaphor not dessert).
Didn’t we always do that? There just weren’t so many of us.
The parables of our youth and culture.
A most happy birthday. Hope you’re still enjoying cherries.
There’s Cherry Festivals this weekend in my community as Washington and his men passed thru here on the way to the Erie Fort.
Yes I can remember that.
And I can remember my children, in elementary school, drawing pictures of both Lincoln and Washington, in February, and pictures drawn by children being displayed in their school.
It’s hard to believe now , but these events happened in a public school in California.
Thank you!
Company tomorrow. A belated cherry pie!
How wonderful!
Must be something to see.
On Lincoln’s birthday bakeries sold little log cakes. A lot like yule logs but with a more spring theme.
Then of course Valentine’s Day with candy an at our house.. a large heart shaped strawberry shortcake.
And the months finale! Cherry pie!
It was, and I feel sorry for the kids who have never heard them. Fairy tales where the good always eventually conquered evil. St Peter’s big book that had every good deed and bad deed written in it.
I must have been a very impressionable child because those stories followed me all my life. Actually, I’m grateful for that, it gets you through the tough spots.
Me too.
Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women essentially raised me.
The stories of our lives!
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