Cinco de Mayo, the Fifth of May commemorates the victory of Mexican forces over the occupying French in 1862. Is victory over the French really a reason to celebrate? Maybe it should be a world holiday? The day is a party day here in California and across the southwest. And where ever there is a large Mexican-American population. And on college campuses where winning two bucks on the lottery is a reason for the whole dorm to do rapid fire Jello shots and hold spontaneous wet T-shirt competitions. Like all Latin holidays there is a lot of food involved, good food, and brightly colored banners, pinatas and beer. Of course it has been commercialized. Cinco de Mayo sales at all the shops, Cinco de Mayo greetings cards and Cinco de Mayo green mayo.
I will be celebrating by planting peppers. Red, green, yellow, purple. Bell peppers, wax peppers, sweet peppers. Maybe one or two hot peppers. I love peppers. Fresh or pickled. Raw or cooked. I love fried pepper sandwiches. Hot peppers give me the hiccups though. It is really weird. I don't like the burning but the hiccups are painful!
Well the sun is shining, I need to get out to my little plot of land and do some weedin' and plantin' before Misses B. comes back and we head up the mountain for a one night surprise get-away in a cabin by the river at the resort where we used to work.
Running on...
OWL
May 5, 2007
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