SEPTEMBER - 2009

By all these lovely tokens

September days are here,

With summer's best of weather

And autumn's best of cheer.
Helen Hunt Jackson

SEPTEMBER

4 FULL HARVEST MOON
7 LABOR DAY
11 Ma’s vacation day
11 DS#1 and DDIL#1 Anniversary
11 PATRIOTS DAY
Remembering 9-11-01
13 GRAND PARENTS DAY
16 DDIL#4 Birthday
17 ‘ Little Ray’s’ Birthday
18 Rosh Hashanah
19 National Talk Like a Pirate Day
21 FEAST OF ST. MATHEW
Apostle and Evangelist
22 Fall Equinox begins at 5:19 pm
25 Ma’s vacation day
27 Yom Kippur
29 FEAST OF ST. MICHAEL
GABRIEL, AND RAPHAEL Archangels

Abundant crop of acorns today (St. Michaels Day) forecast a hard winter


September symbols - September's flower is the morning-glory. Sapphire is the gem.

The breezes taste

Of apple peel.

The air is full

Of smells to feel-

Ripe fruit, old footballs,

Burning brush,

New books, erasers,

Chalk, and such.

The bee, his hive,

Well-honeyed hum,

And Mother cuts

Chrysanthemums.

Like plates washed clean

With suds, the days

Are polished with

A morning haze

John Updike, September

AUGUST - 2009

Whilst August yet wears her golden crown,

Ripening fields lush- bright with promise;

Summer waxes long, then wanes, quietly passing

Her fading green glory on to riotous Autumn

Michelle L. Thieme, August's Crown

AUGUST 2009
5 THE FULL MAISE (CORN) MOON
7 MA’S VACATION DAY
9 DS # 5’S BIRTHDAY
11 LEDGENDARY ‘DOG DAYS’ END
13 THE NEWLY WEDS ANNIVERSARY
16 DDIL#3’S BIRTHDAY
21 MA’S VACATION DAY
24 CICADES ARE SINGING
29 DS#1’S BD
29 MA’S LONG HOLIDAY WEEKEND BEGINS

FROM MY MAXINE CALENDAR FOR AUGUST

IF EACH DAY IS A GIFT,

I’D LIKE TO KNOW WHERE TO RETURN MONDAY’S