Loving it in New York, Molly - can look due west from our back deck and see Canada! It's just lovely here, altho quite humid today. Everything else is terrif! Well, except I DO miss the kidlets and grandkidlets.
I remember having to learn the "new" Pledge in the 50's. It was SOOO hard to learn to insert that two word phrase - the first couple of months our class couldn't get through it without someone messing up, which caused the rest of us to start laughing and giggling. So much for solemnity. But now - especially now - it is ludicrous to contemplate any alteration or not saying it at all.