Ya Gotta Know This About That: Thinking It's Saturday on Friday

Don't Ya Hate To Be Behind A Day

Today I woke up thinking it was Saturday. I piddled and didn't do my early morning chores. Suddenly I looked at the calendar and saw that yesterday was marked on the calendar but Friday wasn't ...oops yesterday was Thursday..... that meant that today is Friday not Saturday.

But I guess it's better than me thinking it was Thursday and it actually was Wednesday. I would hate to be behind two days instead of one day. And, oh my aching head, when I think it's Tuesday and it's actually Monday.....talk about a horrible thing.

Do you remember when you were a kid and off school on your summer break....who the heck cared if it were a Monday or a
Wednesday or a Friday. We just didn't care. Any day was a good day for kids. I think we judged it by if it were a teeter totter day or a baseball day at the old grade school play yard. Or maybe even a slide down the fire escape day. It didn't matter which day we did any of this. We just did it!

I don't even think we gauged our play by the time either.....we met usually after we ate breakfast or dinner (it was dinner not lunch then). And, we played until it was dark or until someone in the family came looking for us.....but they always knew where to find us. Either in the grade school yard or in the field behind Doc Paulaskis' office. Where else would we go???? We couldn't drive in those days....and no one was gonna steal us in those days....heck you didn't even have to lock your house in those days. And everyone knew everyone in town and even in the country.

I do know that on baseball days, you wanted to get to the baseball diamond early to get on the best team. Some of the girls were better players than the boys (ME!)......team selection was important back then. Even though we didn't have a trophy for the winner...it was the prestige, believe me.

But the golden days of playing all day are gone. It's now chore time or work time for some. Get up, mark the calendar, take the medicine to keep going, eat a healthy breakfast, get on facebook and on this blog and then sit back and watch the boob tube until it's time to get back on facebook or get up off your lazy hind end and do a chore of two before you sit back down. Oh....forgot the part about exercising to make sure you make it to your next birthday.....that's important. I think I would prefer to go to the old school baseball diamond and play a game or two....if there weren't so many houses there now, it might be fun. I think it might be pretty cool seeing all of us hobbling around, doing deep breathing exercises (sure it's exercises??), rubbing our sore elbows from swinging those bats, and the slow run to first, then second, then third and by the run to home, needing an oxygen tank.

Oh well.....Friday is here. And Saturday is tomorrow.  Thank goodness for that. It means sleeping in for most people and doing fun things. Have a great weekend!

The Past

Most people probably have never heard of the Court of Honor which was located in Springfield.  Copying from the records I could find:

It was a considered a fraternal benefit insurance society. It organized in 1895 with what historians called an elaborate ritual. It prospered principally as an insurance company (in 1920 there were over 75,000 benefit members and only 2,300 social members), and then transformed itself into a regular life insurance company. In the early 1920's it changed its name to the Court of Honor Life Association, and in 1924 reincorporated simply as Springfield Life Insurance, after its headquarters city. In 1934 it merged with Abraham Lincoln Life, and in 1934 it was reinsured with Illinois Bankers Life.

The 1915 City Directory lists the location of Court of Honor at East Adams, on the South East corner of Second and Adams. Mr. Charles Reifler, a man known for  contributing to the progress and welfare of Springfield,  was one of the organizers of the Court of Honor....he was the publisher for this organization for their publication "The Court Of Honor". A 1912 historical encyclopedia indicates that the Court of Honor fraternal benefits society was phenomenally successful, doing business in 1912 in eighteen states, with financial resources of over $2,000,000.00.

The following pictures are actually ink blotters given out by Court of Honor.

(note: you can click on most pictures to get an enlarged view)

I know that we had several policies issued by Illinois Bankers Life on our lives in the olden days. I think that the Illinois Bankers Life may have been a prevalent company in this area....must have had an agent living near here.

Thought For The Day

We are each entitled to our own opinion,

but no one is entitled to his own facts.

--Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Feeding the bugs. A past time in the summer and not supposed to be in the spring. Yes, the bugs came out and about one month early. So now we have to contend with flies, bees, hornets, wasps, mosquitoes, ants, and all the rest. Just massive amounts. I guess a no hard freeze winter means we will have to suffer the massive amounts of pests this year.

Better go to your favorite store and stock up on bug spray. We have already went through a half of a can of wasp spray. Those pesky things.

I guess there are some things we will need to suffer through for having a mild winter. But, the grass seems greener and growing like wildfire. I guess that means a lot of exercise on the old arms driving the big rig mower around the yard....up and down the hills and around the trees.

So for now, I'll spray the buggers. And scratch my bites when I miss a few. buzzzzzz...shucks there's one now!!!