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"I got the horse right here, his name is Paul Revere" http://www.derbypost.com/
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Today is Derby Day, all right--the first Saturday in May, as always. Lots of festivities have preceded this day. We've had fireworks and an air show, a steamboat race, a rat race, a hot-air balloon race, bed racing, wine racing (this is called the Run for the Rosé, a cute play on the Run for the Roses: the Kentucky Derby), and the Pegasus Parade. Plus assorted public and private dinners, breakfasts, and parties. Yesterday was the Kentucky Oaks, sort of the Derby for fillies--3-year-olds, just like the Derby. Fillies can enter the Derby, but few do. Oaks Day has become known as Louisville's Day at the Races; I guess because so many out-of-towners come in just for the Derby, we consider this a day "just for us".
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Strange, but as i read your post, Jackie, i realized, i associate the Derby with Kentucky, but Louisville with baseball bats!
and this is at least the second year its come up, i remember last year we discussed the derby, (and Jackie), the Preakness (and Bob Y) and the Belmont stakes (and me). while Belmont park is fairly close to me, i have no interest in horses or horse racing. i know there are many activities here too, before the race, but i never particapate in any of them.. NY has enough going on, that its easy for something like a big race to get lost in the shuffle.
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The first Sunday in May is not a big day for horse racing fans in the Greater Seattle Area, but rather is the "opening day" of yachting season. On this festive day, thousands of pleasure boats pass through the Hiram Chittendon Locks and then through the University Cut between Lake Union and Lake Washington (to get from salt water to fresh water). The boats are decorated. The boaters are decorated. At night, many of the boats are lit. Well before night, many of the boaters are lit. A most festive occasion!
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Thank you, Father Steve!  And a huge WELCOME BACK!
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You have been missed! Good to see you back!
Rumor has it that it was a 6 month honeymoon.... say no more!
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Honeymoon. "The month after marriage, or so much of it as is spent away from home; so called from the practice of the ancient Teutons of drinking honey-wine (hydromel) for thirty days after marriage." (E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.)
“It was the custom of the higher order of the Teutons … to drink mead or metheglin (a beverage made from honey) for thirty days after every wedding. From this comes the expression ‘to spend the honeymoon.’” (W. Pulleyn: Etymological Compendium, § 9, p. 142.)
"Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight."
(Samuel Richardson (1689–1761), British novelist. Third edition, London (1751). Antony Harlowe, in Clarissa, vol. 1, p. 222, AMS Press (1990).)
honeymoon (HOLIDAY) noun "a short holiday taken by a man and a woman immediately after their marriage." (Cambridge International Dictionary of English)
Note the diminishing progression over history. We are intent on re-establishing a much longer period within which to celebrate and enjoy the newness of our relationship!
Blessings all around.
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A huge welcome back, Padre.
Do you have a blessing of the boats, as we have in MD and, I believe, some places in New England? Usually, it's for workboats, not pleasure yachts.
Also around this season, there used to be the annual blessing of the hounds, which took place at a very picturesque Episcopal church in the horse-farm country just north of Baltimore, the members of the [fox] hunt dressed in their pinks, mounted on their horses, the rector in cassock & surplice with vested acolytes. A very tony affair. (Not inside the church, I should add for the benefit of anyone who might wonder -- it took place on the lawn in front of the church, beside the churchyard.) However, I believe the current rector put a halt to it. Probably too much flak from PETA and the SPCA, notwithstanding the fact that there is an abundance of foxes -- we even see them occasionally in my neighborhood just outside the city limits and my son has seen them in his neighborhood, which is well within the city.
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Welcome back, Father Steve. You were just leaving as I was starting to get my feet wet here. I look forward to many lovely argum..., um discussions, concerning the relative merits of making the language fit the rules as opposed to making the rules fit the language.
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It's very good to see you back with us Father S. the practice of the ancient Teutons of drinking honey-wine (hydromel) for thirty days after marriage." And I'm not sure whether your evidence really shows that the honmeymoon has diminished - on my understanding, the "ancient Teutons" would drink just about anything for a monthn on end at the slightest excuse. I think they must be ancestors of mine ..... 
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