This special day.
International Talk like a Pirate Day! Annual repost.
On Sept 19th it’s International Talk Like a Pirate Day!

International Talk Like a Pirate Day is a parodic holiday created in 1995 by John Baur and Mark Summers, of Albany, Oregon, U.S., who proclaimed September 19 each year as the day when everyone in the world should talk like a pirate.Wikipedia
The iconic word, Arrrr, turns out to be a West Country UK word for yes. It was popularized in the 1934 movie version of Treasure Island. With a parrot upon his shoulder, crying pieces of eight, and a peg leg, Beery brought to life the iconic imagery of Robert Louis Stevenson.
1934 film Treasure Island on Wikipedia


Though I wonder if it would be more popular as “Dress like a Pirate Day!”…



This most years I really think we could all use an excuse to forget this grim modern world for a day and have a little fun.
Arggg!
September 12th, 1683. Annual Repost.
On this day in 1683
From Gates of Vienna:
On this day in 1683 King Jan Sobieski of Poland arrived at Vienna to break the siege of the Turks and rescue the Christian West from the Hosts of Mohammed. The rout of the Ottoman troops before the gates of Vienna by the Polish hussars gave us a little breathing room, a coffee-and-croissants break that lasted for the next three hundred and eighteen years.
The Battle of Vienna in which King Sobieski defeated the 100,000-man army of “Islamic hordes” under Kara Mustafa Pasha was one day after the arrival of the Polish army with their winged hussars – Sept. 12. The western expansion of the Caliphate ended there, but the push back took many years.
“In great deeds, something abides”. Joshua Chamberlain.
911 (repost from 2018)

Our President behaved on 9/11/01 the same way he responds to every tragedy today – with concern, compassion and practical help.
Donald Trump went in person down to ground zero the day it happened.
And he didn’t just go for a photo op – he went to see how he could help.
After finding a suitable site to set up, Trump sent his hotel staff, equipment, food, sodas, water, etc. and he fed the rescue workers day after day!
A lot of people do not know this but he allowed fire fighters to stay in his hotel for free among others who were there to help. There is an old saying. Put your money where your mouth is. President Trump has more skin in the game than all of Washington put together..
2025 In memory of Charlie Kirk.
Reason behind the murder in Charlotte.
2010 to 20125 My forced retirement.
This month it is fifteen years since I was laid off when my job went to India. I looked for work for about six months until my wife passed away suddenly and then I stopped.
I’ve found things to do that were rewarding; such as volunteer driver for the COA medical van and finding another woman to share my life. She’s now also passed away.
So what’s a 75 year old bachelor to do? More photography comes to mind. I’ll try to get out and take more pictures and some of which I’ll post here.
John
Rain.
In forty-three years I’ve never seen it rain harder. The southeast part of Massachusetts is getting hammered.
The roads into Boston from the southeast are flooded.
















