Do You Know What Day It Is?

Written by Mary Stephenson

Today is December 15th, 2016 and you probably didn’t know what day it is.  Looking up on the trusty  National Calendar Days I found out. 

Drum roll please…. Cat Herders Day.

If you have ever tried to herd cats you will soon find out it is pretty much impossible.  The close proximity I came to that was having a number of cats that were motivated by food.  I was able to play the Pied Piper and for the most part they followed.  There was a few times that no matter what I tried there was one hold out that would just not follow.  Probably wasn’t hungry at the time.

So I kind of thought after hanging out at the schools for vision screening, it was pretty much like herding cats.  Sometimes it was chaos and yet other times it was a well orchestrated event.  Maybe as we get better at organizing the screening the less it seemed out of control.  But there are always deviations from the norm.

Cat Herders Day is not about herding cats, like you would herd sheep, although it might resemble of what you want to accomplish.  So here is the explanation as from the source.

History of Cat Herders’ Day

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While the idiom that something impossible is “like herding cats” is a popular saying now, the phrase has relatively recent origins – one story has it that IT expert Dave Platt popularized the phrase when he said that “managing senior programmers is like herding cats”. What we can say is that the phrase is pretty suitable for what it describes. And while cats are independent, solitary, and easily distracted, many humans also share this characteristic. So you may well have to complete tasks that are in fact as difficult as herding cats, even if you’ve never seen or heard of a cat until now. Anyway, we know that Cat Herders’ Day was invented sometime in the last decade, and is basically one of those cheeky holidays that you can celebrate however you want.   From:  Days of the Year

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