A little trivia about St Patrick:
He didn't drive snakes out of Ireland and he (most likely) didn't teach Christianity to the pagan Irish with the clover as a visual aid.
He did, however, return to Ireland to convert the masses after being kidnapped in 530AD Briton.
He was from a wealthy family and the captors sold him to a warlord. Inexplicably, he tended the warlord's sheep. I guess they couldn't get decent shepherds back in the day.
Meanwhile.......
he escaped back to his family, converted his atheistic ways, enrolled in the priesthood and went back to convert the Celts.
And now,
somehow,
we celebrate by getting drunk on green beer and getting pinched if not Irish?
Ok. Seems legit.
This morning it'll be scrambled eggs, courtesy of the girls, with bacon and green pancakes.
I was going to make something for lunch with cabbage, but that particular veggie, isn't well received in this house.
The CEO and myself like it, but the others, not so much.
Since March 14th, so much has happened......
March 14 - Pi Day.
I was gonna expound on the number, but something far more serious happened.
Sadly, one of the greatest minds of my time has passed.
Stephen Hawking, the theoretical physicist and cosmologist succumbed to ALS.
He did beat the odds though. He was diagnosed at 21 and made it to 76.
He was quite the wit. I remember him on an old Star Trek playing poker on the holodeck
with Data, Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton. It was a funny little skit.
Sad day for mankind.
March 15th - The Ideas of March. I'll bet Shakespeare would have never guessed that in the 21st century people would go to such lengths the work out silly memes for this date.
they even got Brut(us) in there!
Funny!
And sadly, for us, Tom Benson passed away.
Our savior in many ways. A man who truly loved this old town.
You will be missed. I like to think he'll be watching the games and cheering from a box seat neat to St Patrick.
(although, St Patrick has the green beer rights, but Tom brought the Dixie!)
March 16 - Everything You Do Is Right Day.
Its not literal.
It seems that whatever reason someone thought this would make a good day to celebrate, meant that "you can't do anything wrong".
So in the sense of "safe, legal and fun", anything is game.
One word.
'Merica.
Then, on March 19th, we celebrate St Joseph's Day. Well, it actually is an ecclesiastical holiday but mostly Italians celebrate. Then there are the altars!
We all know that St Joseph is the "stepfather" of Jesus, but he is also the patron saint of Italy. In this tradition, it is more aligned with Sicilians. The celebration was brought to New Orleans with the arrival of immigrants. The feast day was celebrated with altars to commemorate a thanksgiving for relief from famine.
So....
Back in the 1700's in Sicily, a long drought occurred. The people had to live off of their livestock feed (the livestock died). They typically grew and dried fava beans to feed the livestock. The were considered "lucky" because the beans survived with little water.
Anyway......
the farmers prayed for the intercession of St Joseph to bring rain. It did, the crops grew and they vowed to give thanks with the altars and to feed the hungry.
These days people pray for St Joseph's help for a number of reasons.
FYI, it is usually a meatless bounty because of Lent.
There's been no more sightings of hawks or owls. Whew!
Thank goodness for that.
The girls are happily going about their daily duties.
They produce about 5 eggs a day. That's perfect for us.
An observation......
The word "phonetically" doesn't even start with an "f"!!!
This is the kinda crap that makes any intelligent aliens keep on flying
straight past this blue marble.
But that's just me.
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The autocorrect was in rare form on this post. The Ides of March turned into Ideas of March. Maybe that was a Freudian slip? Maybe it was trying to tell me to up my game with writing...... Who knows??
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