Today is National Paint Pottery In Your Own Front Yard Day

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1. vian says:
   August 2, 2009 at 7:31 pm

   Ah, how I envy your quaint Northern Hemisphere customs. Down here, it’s National Huddle By The Fire and Listen to the Wind Howl Like a Banshee Day.
2. Thomas M. Wagner says:
   August 2, 2009 at 7:35 pm

   While down here in Tejas, this is Step Into Your Backyard And Dissolve Into A Viscous Puddle Of Melted Flesh Day.
3. kcarlile says:
   August 2, 2009 at 7:38 pm

   Here in Oakland, CA, it’s “What’s a Yard?” Day.
4. Jasper says:
   August 2, 2009 at 7:50 pm

   I’m with #3. Yard? I live in Manhattan, man.
5. John Scalzi says:
   August 2, 2009 at 7:53 pm

   NO POTTERY FOR YOU
6. kcarlile says:
   August 2, 2009 at 7:56 pm

   Curses! Foiled on my aspirations for pottery ownership.

   Wait, I’ve got pottery, it’s sitting on the concrete. Liar!
7. Pam Adams says:
   August 2, 2009 at 7:57 pm

   In my family, we celebrated ‘National Sit On the Patio and Look at Old Yearbooks Day.’ Thirtieth-year reunion coming up- we figured we’d better brush up on these people.
8. Adam Lipkin says:
   August 2, 2009 at 8:07 pm

   Dammit! I thought it was Finally Play That Copy of Crackdown You Bought Months Ago Day.

   I hate it when I celebrate the wrong holiday.
9. Rodney G. Graves says:
   August 2, 2009 at 8:12 pm

   Here in San Jose it’s home made pulled pork and adult beverages on the patio in the backyard day.
10. Sandi Hj says:
    August 2, 2009 at 8:28 pm

    Rodney, I like your holiday best. We’re celebrating Ordering Out Chinese to Celebrate My New Job Day.
11. Jason says:
    August 2, 2009 at 8:30 pm

    I thought today was “Going on a picnic with my family Day” but ended up being “Rolled my wheelchair out onto the soft grass and got stuck until my brother showed up 30 minutes later and pulled my dumbass back onto the path Day”. These holidays can really sneak up on you.
12. Deborah says:
    August 2, 2009 at 8:40 pm

    Down here’n Greene County it was “Annual Clean The Dang House and Find the Floor” day.

    I think yours was more entertaining.
13. JimF says:
    August 2, 2009 at 9:27 pm

    I celebrated; Cave in and buy Warhammer II, 50% off on Steam, day.
14. Brett says:
    August 2, 2009 at 9:29 pm

    The terra cotta lobby has grown powerful indeed…
15. Zora says:
    August 2, 2009 at 9:45 pm

    I like the look of terracotta pots, but recently learned that they lose so much water through their porous walls that daily watering is indicated in hot weather.

    Are the pots being painted to reduce transpiration? Does it work? What kind of paint?

    What, you mean this isn’t the gardening forum?
16. Miyasaki says:
    August 2, 2009 at 10:00 pm

    I thought it was Zombie Day!? Oops, I’m not in America . . .
17. adelheid says:
    August 2, 2009 at 10:01 pm

    I spent the day with friends. Bought California rolls (fake sushi) for one friend who was at work and had a birthday on Friday and then went to see “Up” with a former co-worker who is now a friend.
18. Tom says:
    August 2, 2009 at 10:13 pm

    I am grateful my wife doesn’t follow this Blog. Would be dragging me to Color Me Blind to make a plate or something there.

    But in any event. Today is : Sit on your ass, read books, veg, and enjoy life day. No pottery. To freaking hot outside.
19. Christopher says:
    August 2, 2009 at 10:39 pm

    I knew I was forgetting something.
20. MikeB says:
    August 2, 2009 at 11:15 pm

    For me it was “there’s a black bear in the yard so let’s play something indoors instead” day. Mind you, we get a lot of those round here so it only counts as a real holiday when it’s a grizzly.
21. eviljwinter says:
    August 2, 2009 at 11:40 pm

    Hey, I’m just lucky the grass-burn is growing back.
22. Jim Wright says:
    August 3, 2009 at 2:55 am

    Wait. Today wasn’t National Change the Shocks On Your Wife’s Car Day?

    I could have been “painting pottery” or whatever the kids are calling it nowadays?

    Damn it.
23. Jem says:
    August 3, 2009 at 4:58 am

    Saturday was ‘sample vegan cake day’; Sunday: ‘poke a stick at the spare room in the vain hope it’ll tidy itself day’.
    Today it is mostly, ‘staring at a computer screen and wishing your boss would have an original thought day’. This one comes around more often than you’d think.
24. Brett L says:
    August 3, 2009 at 6:35 am

    I just cut a deal with my neighbor. She’s going to take over the light gardening of my flowerbeds, I’m going to carry all the pottery I inherited with this house to her house… and she considers this a win-win. I consider it a loss that it took me 3 years of living here to strike this deal. So technically, I’m no longer the owner of any pottery to paint.
25. ben says:
    August 3, 2009 at 9:09 am

    That image is suspiciously picturesque. Are you taking pictures of strangers in the park again, Mr. Scalzi?
26. Nekussa says:
    August 3, 2009 at 9:34 am

    What, not everyone celebrates “Last Weekend Before WorldCon So Finish Those Costumes” day?
27. Lizzie Longenecker says:
    August 3, 2009 at 9:47 am

    National Paint Pottery In Your Own Front Yard Day ALREADY??? Where has the time gone?

    I am caught with my pants down (no supplies!)
28. Nick says:
    August 3, 2009 at 10:10 am

    No, no, no. It is National Paint Pottery In Your Screen Porch Because If You Do It In The Front Yard, Mosquitoes The Size of Hummingbirds Will Suck You Dry and Leave A Bag Of Skin And Bones Day.

    Jeez, get it right.
29. Mark Horning says:
    August 3, 2009 at 12:31 pm

    Here in Arizona it is hide inside and hope the air conditioner can keep up day. It’s over 114 Farenheit out there. Go OUTSIDE?!?!?
30. ryber says:
    August 3, 2009 at 1:13 pm

    OK, is that a straight picture, or is it Photoshopped? Almost looks like it’s passed through a photoshop filter, but I honestly can’t tell.

    And any day involving painting pottery in the yard must be a good day.
31. WendyB_09 says:
    August 3, 2009 at 1:58 pm

    Deborah @ 12:
    On “Annual Clean The Dang House and Find the Floor” day.

    I’m right there with you…had a clean the house and find the dining room table AND the couch day! Found both, they were still there! It’s a miracle!!!
32. JJS says:
    August 3, 2009 at 2:38 pm

    Why not just put down a drop cloth and paint your potty in the bathroom? Seems a lot simpler.

    Oh! pottERy. I gotta get new glasses or something.
33. Lou says:
    August 3, 2009 at 7:27 pm

    Dang. I always get that confused with “Smash Pottery in the Backyard Day.” I was never good in Catechism.
34. Don Fitch says:
    August 4, 2009 at 12:17 am

    Good luck. My experience and observation have been that painted terra-cotta flowerpots start looking increasingly dismal after a few weeks — but that’s always involved growing plants in the pots.
35. eviljwinter says:
    August 4, 2009 at 9:41 am

    Mark @ 39

    But it’s a dry heat.
36. Ch-Chang says:
    August 4, 2009 at 1:40 pm

    I had a hard time telling which one was Athena and which was Krissy, Destroyer of Worlds. Looks like a fine time.

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