's Labor Day motd Monday Sept 6, 2010

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WHAT'S ON THE

GRILL?

Monday, 06 September 2010

In 1884, congress established the

holiday we celebrate today...Labor Day! And

what exactly is Labor Day? Well, it's a day

to honor all of America's workers. And I'm talking

the millions and millions of workers in the good-old

USA. There're so many kinds of workers doing their

jobs to make our country great.

There're the farmers and, my

goodness, we know how hard they work, from morning to

night, making sure those healthy farm-grown foods make

it to our tables. There're the policemen and firemen

who often risk their own lives making sure we're

always safe. In the medical profession, there're

nurses and doctors whose great mission it is to keep

us healthy and to save lives. And in cities across

America, large and small, there're factories filled

with workers turning out everything from furniture to

automobiles. (Maybe you work in one of them.)

All of these millions of people work hard providing

the goods and services we need everyday. From bank

tellers to the salespeople at Walmart, to the

attorneys and yes, to the waiters, (I used to be one),

all of these workers play a role in our day-to-day

lives.

Yep, on this day, we pause to salute those people, you

included, who help keep America humming. Hey, there

would be no America without all of our hard

work!

Now, there is one downside to this holiday. See, many

of those millions of workers, from

coast-to-coast, will be attending cookouts today.

Yep, what better way to celebrate our labors than to

fire up those grills!

There'll be steaks, burgers and

hot dogs. There'll be potato salad, macaroni salad

and cole slaw. And we've gotta include deserts for

the occasion like banana cream pie, chocolate fudge

cake and homemade cookies. There'll be all kinds of

sodas, Diet Cokes, ice-cold cans of beer and pitchers

of margaritas to cool everyone off. Millions of

people will sit around the picnic table today laughing

and talking as they chow down, enjoying what is the

last big cookout of the summer. And many laborers

will go home after those big cookouts to a couple

pounds of...weight-gain. (There's the

downside.) Then they'll have to "labor" by working out

to burn the way-too-many calories they consumed on

Labor Day!

Hey, I want you and your family to

really enjoy this day. You should be proud of

yourself for working hard everyday. But I also want

you to realize that you can celebrate without

suffering a weight gain. Yes, you have to work hard

at it and it's a little challenging. But I believe

you can stay on program, on any holiday and

still have yourself one great time.

Say hello to your family from me and...Happy Labor

Day!

Love,