As Diane and I took off in opposite directions to celebrate Labor Day, it prompted me to think - - why the heck do we have a holiday to celebrate the end of the beautiful summer season anyway? Does that mean that we’re eager for winter? Not me! After a bit of reading, come to find out, the first Labor Day holiday was signed into law by Congress in 1894 after the deaths of several workers during a labor strike in Chicago. President Cleveland was looking for a way to get workers and labor unions to reconcile their differences, so the holiday was created as a sign of unity, at first in the form of a parade followed by a festival for workers and their families. Well, we didn’t have a parade or a festival, but we did get a little R&R.