It's Sept. 1, and it feels like the first day of fall. Autumn should be the first three "-ember" months (winter should be December-February; spring, March-May, and summer, June-August), and, next Thursday night, I hope President Obama announces he has enacted a law making this so. This year feels like the perfect year to make the long-needed change, as there's a whole bunch of football being played and www.HeathPost.com's fantasy league drafts tonight.
Fort Thomas Highlands hosts Edgewood Dixie Heights to help kick off the schoolboy-football weekend in Kentucky, in a game that pits future UK and Auburn quarterbacks.
Turning to the collegians, the current generation of Wildcats, of course, opens at WKU-Nashville tonight. The game will be on ESPNU--after Murray State at Louisville. Former Calloway County Laker Casey Brockman and the Racers will be getting a goodly amount of air time this fall.
And among the NFL's preseason activity tonight, former Louisville Trinity Rock Rob Bironas and the Tennessee Titans will be exhibiting their skills against the New Orleans Saints.
Crazy collegians.
Good jobs news from Owensboro.
Kentucky Life will spend at least two days in downtown Elizabethtown and then take KET viewers there for seven to nine minutes, reports Marty Finley in The News-Enterprise.
I had some Strawberry Pop-Tarts from a Madisonville Community College vending machine yesterday, and they were excellent.
A Kentucky journalism veteran takes over in Winchester.
The feds come to Middlesboro.
Legal marijuana in Pumpkin Chapel.
All clear in West Paducah.
There are actually six seasons, and they are as follows:
ReplyDeleteFall runs from Labor Day until Thanksgiving.
Christmas lasts from Thanksgiving until New Year's Day.
Winter lasts from New Year's Day until UK's last regular-season basketball game.
March lasts from UK's last regular-season basketball game until UK's last basketball game of the year.
Spring lasts from UK's last basketball game until Memorial Day.
Summer lasts from Memorial Day to Labor Day.
Since marrying, I've celebrated Christmas right through to Epiphany, and it has totally, totally enhanced my life.
ReplyDeleteSmartGirl's mom always takes down our Christmas tree on the day after Epiphany.
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