Awareness of the outside world. History.com: Labor Day 2024. More below.
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To everyone else, a muck bucket. To Milton, eats!
Milton’s current food plan requires multiple muck buckets.
To keep Milton on his diet, his daily ration is weighed out in the morning and portioned into clean muck buckets, which he then eats out of. Having the hay doled out in advance keeps me from randomly tossing additional hay throughout the day. I’m used to hard keepers. I over feed. [Weighing Meals]
To keep him from rushing through the meal, we split his breakfast and dinner and serve them in a staggered fashion. Slow feeder hay nets just piss him off.
We had been using buckets and food pans. Even with the repurposed one from SSF, we still didn’t have enough. [Reduce-Reuse-Recycle, Repurposing a Muck Bucket]
It’s one of those minor life hacks. You can get by without, but it really is more helpful to have the right equipment.
It is a different brand than the other buckets, so stacking doesn’t quite flow as well. I thought having a fun color was worth a slight size discrepancy.
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Previous Labor Day links
Because I think we forget that it’s more than a three-day holiday.
US News: Have We Forgotten the True Meaning of Labor Day? The first Labor Day was hardly a national holiday. Workers had to strike to celebrate it. By The Conversation, Sept. 1, 2023. [Rodney’s Spot]
U.S. Department of Labor: History of Labor Day. [Distracted Day] 2021
Labor Day parades: When American horseshoers marched down city streets. [How Did He Do That, Shoeing Edition] 2020
“We must learn to honor excellence in every socially accepted human activity, however humble the activity, and to scorn shoddiness, however exalted the activity. An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher. The society that scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.” John Gardner, Excellence, PBS: John Gardner, Writings [Low Key Photo Challenge: Labor] 2018
Onwards!
Katherine
Virtual Brush Box 
More than a three-day holiday, yes.
Yesterday, during the children’s story time in our church service, the reading mentioned that Labor Day was an often a time off from work and families had picnics and ate hot dogs. Our very smart 5 year old said “what’s a hot dog got to do with Labor Day?”
Nothing, we agreed. We should call it National Hot Dog Day.
Thank you for reminding us that it’s more than hotdogs.
Louise
With any holiday, it’s easy to forget the reason behind the party.