Satur-deja Vu

Cinco de Mayo – Pictured above are cakes at our local Walmart that look like tacos. Last year we had been locked down for several weeks and restaurants in Georgia were just beginning to open back up at diminished capacity with lots of restrictions. We drove past a couple of Mexican restaurants with people lined up in the parking lot and ended up at Chili’s, where I did at least order tacos. Fast food places remain drive through only but that may have more to do with the lack of workers than Covid 19 protocols. Mexican, barbecue and even Chinese buffets are open with few if any distancing restrictions in their dining rooms. I made turkey tacos at home this year, not because we can’t go out but because we go out too much.

May the 4th Be With You. Star Wars Day, on May 4th for obvious reasons, has become pretty mainstream. 10 or 11 years ago it was little more than an inside joke based on a bad pun. I don’t want to be that guy but I was in fact wishing people a Happy Star Wars Day back when you had to say “May the 4th be with you” and then wait for it to click.

“This will be a day long remembered.” I mean, if you didn’t draw a lightsaber at your best friend’s wedding are you even a Star Wars fan? For the record the bride and groom knew about it ahead of time. The timing of this picture is epic; look at the bride’s maids faces.

On this day in 1945 World War II ended, since we’re doing days in the month of May. Some weeks ago I posted about a local friend that completed his WWII era Jeep project. There are very few veterans of this war alive today but a few survive, well up into their 90’s. My grandfather, Howard Clark Wyatt, saw his first combat at the Battle of the Bulge. He spent the first part of the war working at Lockheed in Marietta. (That is technically incorrect; the Bell Bomber Plant was constructed after the bombing of Pearl Harbor to build the B-29 Superfortress next to the Marietta Army Airfield, previously Rickenbacker Fieldfield and later Dobbins Air Force Base. It closed after the war and was re-opened in 1951 as Lockheed Georgia, later Lockheed Martin and is operated today by the US Air Force.) My dad worked at Lockheed in the mid 80’s when they were building the C5-B. They still entered the buildings through underground tunnels but during WWII they would practice drills evacuating into the tunnels in the event the plant was bombed. By the time my grandfather joined the army he was 26 years old. He was older than his sergeant and the other men in his unit called him Pops. They sailed into the English channel as reinforcements after D-Day and saw their first combat at what is now known as the Battle of the Bulge. When news came the war ended he was a few miles out of Budějovice, Czechoslovakia. They continued their march across Europe and sailed out from the Mediterranean. My grandfather passed in 1997 at the age of 77. We later learned he received two Bronze Stars. He was one individual among many that we know in America as The Greatest Generation.

A bridging ceremony is sort of like graduation when Girl Scouts level up. On Sunday our daughter Johannah bridged from Girl Scout Junior to Cadet.

Honor and Service – On Thursday two young men from Civil Air Patrol came over from Piedmont, Alabama, to teach a lesson in flag etiquette and retire a few flags. Junior, Cadets and Seniors from Girl Scout Troop 10709 participated.

Then on Friday Johannah played her last soccer game for this season. It was a very busy week but everything is about to gear down for summer break.