Sarah Beth Terry celebrates Labor Day from the porch with a salute to the people who keep showing up—even when nobody is watching or applauding.

Between a history lesson about America’s first Labor Day parade, Sarah Beth revisits the Mary Kay Letourneau case and the way the media disguised child sexual abuse as a forbidden romance. Then it’s on to the financial ambush known as Michaels, her accidental new career painting Bible-inspired watercolors, the latest on King Mittens, and an anthropological examination of 1000-lb Sisters.

It’s history, faith, working-class wisdom, porch wildlife, cat trauma nursing, and approximately 47 shades of green.