Good 41º (wow) drizzly morning. Was raining last night at midnight. More
expected today (40%) and tonight (60%) and tomorrow (70%).
It's a full moon. Be careful. Yesterday out and about (Post Office, market)
I thought this is the kind of day Arnold Schwarzenegger should announce in his
thickest and best accent "Stooooopid Driver's Day" !!! What a bunch of idiots
out there, from the highway to the parking lots! A time when you wish you had a
blinky blinky and a whoo whoo on your car and a BIG FAT TICKET BOOK!!!
My friend Dee gave Bruiser a cat scratch pad.... he likes it all right.... to nap on!
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Today is Passover. The Jewish people celebrate Passover as a commemoration
of their liberation over 3,300 years ago by God from slavery in ancient Egypt
that was ruled by the Pharaohs, and their birth as a nation under the leadership
of Moses. It commemorates the story
of the Exodus as described in the Hebrew Bible especially in the Book of Exodus, in which
the Israelites were freed from
slavery in Egypt.
In Israel, Passover is the
seven-day holiday of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, with the first and last days
observed as legal holidays and as holy days involving abstention from work,
special prayer services, and holiday meals; the intervening days are known as
Chol HaMoed ("Weekdays of the Festival"). Diaspora Jews historically observed
the festival for eight days, and most still do. Reform and Reconstructionist
Jews and Israeli Jews, wherever they are, usually observe the holiday over
seven days. The reason for this extra day is due to enactment of the Sages. It is thought by
many scholars that Jews outside of Israel could not be certain if their local
calendars fully conformed to practice of the Temple at Jerusalem, so they added
an extra day. But as this practice only attaches to certain (major) sacred days,
others posit the extra day may have been added to accommodate people who had to
travel long distances to participate in communal worship and ritual practices;
or the practice may have evolved as a compromise between conflicting
interpretations of Jewish Law regarding the calendar; or it may have evolved as
a safety measure in areas where Jews were commonly in danger, so that their
enemies would not be certain on which day to attack.
A symbol of the Passover holiday is matzo, an unleavened flatbread made
solely from flour and water which is continually worked from mixing through
baking, so that it is not allowed to rise. Matzo may be made by machine or by
hand; the latter type of matzo, called shmura matzo ("watched" or
"guarded" matzo), is the bread of preference for the Passover Seder in Orthodox
Jewish communities. The Torah contains a Divine commandment to eat matzo,
specifically, on the first night of Passover and to eat only unleavened bread
(in practice, matzo) during the entire week of Passover. Consequently
the eating of matzo figures prominently in the Passover Seder.
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My pal PatT sent this....you HAVE to watch. Hilarious. You really wonder
how people can be so blank and/or DUMB!!
Click here:
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This came from Derry Benedict (LASD ret) and it made me laugh
literally out loud!
A
six-year-old goes to the hospital with her mother to visit her Grandpa. When
they get to the hospital, she runs ahead of her mother and bursts into her
Grandpa's room. "Grandpa, Grandpa," she says excitedly, "as soon as my mother
comes into the room, make a noise like a frog!"
"What?" said her Grandpa.
"Make a noise like a frog because my mom said that as soon as you croak, we're all going to Disney World!”
"What?" said her Grandpa.
"Make a noise like a frog because my mom said that as soon as you croak, we're all going to Disney World!”
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Historically this date....
1942 – World War
II: The first female prisoners arrive at Auschwitz concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.
1978 – Four days before the scheduled opening of Japan's Narita International Airport, a group of
protestors destroys much of the equipment in the control
tower with Molotov
cocktails.
1999 – A jury in Michigan finds Dr. Jack
Kevorkian guilty of second-degree murder for administering a lethal injection to a terminally ill
man.
And births this date include....
.....She really needs that big hair! Not.
.... Still cute! Nice smile.
.....He makes my skin crawl! Creepy! Weirdo. Strange.
.......She always seems like the happiest
person~ I'd like to meet her.
.... Very funny guy!
...............She was always cute, but now with that little
cosmetic surgery she is a beauty!
I picked up some more of those Progresso Starters yesterday,
along with replenishments for my fresh produce, some vino, cat treats for the
Bruise, over the top exciting stuff like hair spray and bleach for the laundry
and canned artichoke hearts that came from Ecuador! Sigh....... Interesting the
lady who checked me out the day she shorted me $20 was there, but in the produce
department filling bins. ??? Maybe she's off the cash register for some unk (?)
reason. I might not have been the only complaint!
We will see what today brings.... hope your Tuesday is a good
one and the full moon doesn't affect you or those around you! Nuff said.
Ciao.
xo Sue Mom
Bobo
March 26th
National Spinach Day (good thing I got some
yesterday!)
For a great lasagna dish... filled with yummy ricotta cheese
and spinach..... and less calories!
1 comment:
Thank you for the reminder of Passover. Our church youthgroup serving at the local Temple remains one of my favorite Christian memories. Except the gefilte fish part- its the Jewish equivalent of our Lutheran lutefisk- the reason so many of my faith left northern Europe, I am convinced was to escape this delicacy.
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