Dear Miss Blue:  Oh, it is a Daring idea, switching the two holidays! I will confess, Miss Blue, Labor Day in my lifetime has nothing but very bad memories. We children were put to work preparing tomatoes for canning. We sat on the Front Porch, along with baskets of tomatoes and pots of hot water and instructions on how to dunk the tomatoes in the hot water (our mother brought it to us in her aluminium tea kettle) for just One minute and then carefully slip off the skins. We did have a little lunch out there on the porch - tomatoes and lemonade. So pitiful. Labor Day. We hated the word. . . .

Over coffee this morning at Starbucks my thoughts went even further, Miss Blue - perhaps eliminating the two holidays altogether by popular vote. I hastily drew up the following ballot:  1)To Switch  2)To Not Switch  3)To Eliminate Altogether.  Comments? My work with the City Council is going well.

Pearl in Motion