ON A HOLIDAY: WILLIAM ON 'LOVE YOUR PET DAY;' WE LOOK AT PREZes/VEEPs & A UFO?

EDITION OF MONDAY, FEB. 20, 2023 [PetPowellPress] Welcome to a day off at readlarrypowell.com. It’s a Federal Holiday. We should all enjoy it. 
That is me listening to my office cat, William Powell, who encouraged me to be idle this holiday while trying to find the balance between waking too early and going to bed too late. “More cat naps,” he mewed politely but firmly.
William is a cat with good sense. I’ve know him a while. We once painted a house together — that’s how we met.
We’ll be taking Presidents Day off at readlarrypowell.com and if Feb. 22 is Vice Presidents Day, we’ll take that off, too. 
Our research finds, however, we must wait until August 9 to celebrate the actual “National Veep Day”
Holiday Insights, the online calendar, says Feb. 20 is not only Presidents Day (third Monday of the month), it is also “Love Your Pet Day.” 
I love that cat William — every day. He’s much, much, more than a “pet.” Advisor, confident, mood-booster, conversationalist, family member, inspiration, keen investor on Wall Street, window-based observer, etc. We endorse “Love Your Pet Day” as an everyday practice.
Holiday Insights notes that Feb. 23 is “Card Reading Day” and Fat Tuesday. My cards tell me to lay off anything that’ll make me be mistaken for anybody named Fat Tuesday.
FYI, Feb. 22 is also Cherry Pie Day, the Holiday Insights people say — of all the pies, we’re iffy on cherry pie. Apologies to President George Washington.
Holiday Insights says Feb. 20 is, also, Hoodie Hoo Day in the Northern Hemisphere — it’s a day designed to get rid of the winter blues. You call up friends and shout “Hoodie Hoo” into the phone to help them in this mood elevation experience.
 In the Southern Hemisphere, the Holiday Insights people say, Hoodie Hoo Day is Aug. 22. Here’s the link to the 2 Insights explanations of those special days.  Read about  National VEEP Day HERE.
And, FYI, on Feb. 20, 1869, the website reports, “Congress bans dueling in the District of Columbia.” That explains why the movie Deliverance was never shown in Washington, D.C. Relax, that’s a Dueling Banjos joke.
That second photo? Snapped it over the weekend in Fort Worth. The big bright thing is either a Martian balloon filming street traffic and scouting for landing zones or it’s the sun. 
That saucer-shaped bright spot in the clouds just over the horizon? Well, I just don’t know — didn’t see any antennae before I lost sight of it. 
Thought I heard an unpleasant hum but quickly I realized I was trying to hum along with Tom Jones’ What’s New Pussycat?.
I’m kidding. See. I think I've convinced you that, as William suggests,  I need some time off. You can tell by my punctuation errors, comma blunders and failure to end this writing with the sign-off line for Blue Emu pain relief cream: "It works fast and you won't stink." Of course, it's not all that helpful to any emu, is it. See you when I get back from calming contemplation in the Winter of '23.
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