When Pigs Fly Day

A Weathervane I spotted in Maine on one of our trips back East. “But the world is full of zanies and fools Who don’t believe in sensible rules And won’t believe what sensible people say And because these daft and dewy-eyed dopes Keep building up impossible hopes Impossible things are happening every day!” From ‘Cinderella’ - Rodgers & Hammerstein (1956-57)September 9th holidays include National Teddy Bear Day, International Sudoku Day, International Buy a Priest a Beer Day, and Weinerschnitzel Day. It’s also historically commemorated as the day Mary Stuart was crowned as Queen of Scots in 1543. All of those are probably equally worthy of celebration, but I found an even more obscure and weirder holiday to celebrate… When Pigs Fly Day. Aren’t the skies already pretty full of flying objects? It might seem a weird thing to celebrate, but I love the concept… embracing the impossible. Breaking the sound barrier, splitting the atom, atomic energy, the light bulb, the radio, the television,…