It's Flip a Pancake Day

Pancake Day is Shrove Tuesday, the day before Lent. In England, housewives always hurried to the church when the bell rang to be "Shriven" for their sins. But in 1445, a housewife in Olney started her pancakes late. They weren't done when the bell rang, so she ran to church carrying her griddle with her. This started an annual event in England - a pancake race over a 415 yard course from the "town pump" to the church. This tradition moved to Liberal, KS in 1950 to make it an international race between the two towns. (I'm getting the feeling that there's something wrong with celebrating Shrove Tuesday on a Thursday! LOL)

TODAY'S TRIVIA:

1827 - 1st Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans
1908 - Star #46 was added to US flag (for Oklahoma)
1956 - Elvis Presley's releases "Heartbreak Hotel"
1974 - "People" magazine begins sales

TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS:

1622 - Rembrandt, Dutch painter
1807 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet (Hiawatha)
1902 - John Steinbeck, author (Grapes of Wrath)
1932 - Elizabeth Taylor, actress (Cleopatra)
1980 - Chelsea Clinton, daughter of ex-President Clinton

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it. -Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. general and 34th president (1890-1969)

Good morning everyone!

I'm e-mailing you from my training class...will get to pop in from time to time this morning, but will be around this afternoon!

Have a great morning!

Sally

I pretty day in Bonaire but I'm afraid the planet's stock of niceness has taken a major hit today. Mr. Rogers is gone. A truly great man.

Hi ya, Sally! Isn't it kewl when you can pop in from somewhere like that?

Here's someone popping in from another planet, I think:

Cecil - he probably heard you were going to Bonaire. Poor kids - stuck with Barney and the Teletubbies now. The world is going to heck in a handbasket.

Cec,

Too bad about Mr. Rogers. He was certainly a friend to our two kids.

Rusty - Everything else in front of the reef cam - Why not an alien?

Busy day today - gotta scoot.

Have a good one.

Bill

Rio may have its Carnaval and New Orleans its Mardi Gras, but for the best homegrown, international celebration in the United States, Brownsville's own Charro Days stands second to none. For while jazz is king in Louisiana and samba reigns supreme in Brazil, neither can match the sheer diversity and variety of music and bi-cultural ambiente of a Charro Days week, bubbling with the festive sounds of traditional mariachis, modern-day Tejano, and the myriad regional Mexican dances.

Hiya, Bill! I'm out of here soon, too. Gotta take the dawgs to the vet for shots and checkups and then out to lunch with Dadz. Getting up near freezing today - where oh where is Spring?

Visitors to Jake and Linda's hacienda:



Some furry fishies from earlier today:

Golly gee, Sarge, where in tarnation is everybody? I'm out of here in a couple minutes - off to visit the vet. Ya'll behave!

UFO back to pick up the alien diver?

lol rusty, i was thinking that it looked like the mary of guadalupe (i think that it is what it is called, when people are convinced that an object like a bush is the guadalupe) no offense to anyone

cecil, i am crushed! you know that one of his "sweaters" has been at the smithsonian for about 15 years! too bad...

off to get ready for work...long day today. we have our monthly editors meeting, which usually is very very LONG...but we are ending a bit early tonight (6:00) so we can go to dinner at tres vigne (sp) i don't know french, but the food will be good!

Cynde - dinner at *Very Wino*? Oo La La!

Got the dawgs to the vet and back - $265 for two exams, shots and some junk for Princess' ears. Now I'm waiting for Dadz to come and pick me up for lunch. Hope he picks up the check. I'm broke!

Charlotte in silhouette - is a lot like Charlotte in profile!

Caught a diver earlier. What is he holding?

Look out, Cecil!

Potential for significant snow again in the northern Mid-Atlantic
Thu, Feb. 27, 2003 7:13 AM ET
The Weather Channel

Northeast
Later into the late evening hours, look for moderate snowfall to begin to develop especially into the D.C. and Baltimore metro areas. Although track of the storm system is still, even at this point, a bit uncertain, some conformity is developing in the models. This is a conformity that is favoring significant snowfall especially across the Washington, D.C. metro area.

rusty, i got to work and you are right, it is "tres vigne" guess i am gonna have some wogga wogga tonight! "three wines?" we need martine to translate! hope your lunch with dadz was good (and that he picked up the check!) geeze has cost us a fortune with her allergies, and momo had to have 2 absessed teeth pulled a couple of weeks ago...dang dogs!

Rusty looks like my father may get snowed in again. We should be fine, they are only predicting a little up our way.

Cecil - just call me dain bramaged. I remembered you talking about the Beltway a while back and I completely blanked on NH. Ever have one of those days?

Lunch was good stuff. Chinese combos today - #21 Pepper Steak, Egg Roll, Rice for me and #19 Sweet & Sour Chicken, Egg Roll and Fried Rice for Dadz. Ron, our waiter, taught us some Chinese. Phonetically - Sooey is *water*, Hen How Chew is *the food is good* and I've already forgotten how to say *See you soon*.

Oh, and I had to leave my car at the vet's office. It wouldn't turn over when I came out with the two manic dogs. Had to call BB and catch a ride home. Too cold out. Now we need to get AAA down there to jump it or something.

Top Picks - Neighbor Movies in honor of Mr. Rogers...

1) "Rear Window" Jimmy Stewart

2) "The 'Burbs" Tom Hanks

3) "As Good As It Gets" Jack Nicholson

4) "The Neighbors" John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd