Ready to ‘March’ into a great month
Tuesday will be the first day of March, and I just wonder how many of you overlook its significance, or just take the month for granted.
OK, it蘑菇视频 one of the 31-day months, and that seems like a long time to wait for April Fools鈥� Day. There is no Christmas in March, no Thanksgiving, no Fourth of July, no preseason football games, no World Series, no Valentine蘑菇视频 Day, no Stanley Cup.
Oh, but there is March Madness, when 68 college basketball teams are turned into office pools and become known as 鈥渟eeds鈥� in a 鈥渂racket.鈥� It is when an unheralded team can knock off a king. March is indeed an unpredictable month.
And, of course there is St. Patrick蘑菇视频 Day on March 17, and who really needs those other holidays because aren鈥檛 we all Irish anyway?
I wonder if Tuesday comes in like a lion, will it then leave as a lamb?
With March being such a changeable month, with warm spring-like temperatures or late-season snowstorms, it蘑菇视频 easy to understand how this saying might hold true.
No one speaks too much about the middle of the month, weather-wise, that is. But as I recall back in 1993, on March 13, I believe, this area experienced one helluva snowstorm.
And just in case anyone is interested, the Old Farmer蘑菇视频 Almanac has predicted the March weather for our area: Temperature, 42 degrees (three degrees below average); precipitation, three inches (one inch below average); March 1-8: Snow, then showers, turning warm; March 9-23: Snow showers, cold; and March 24-31: Rain, then sunny, cool. Take what you want from it.
And what about those Ides of March? It sounds like a doomsday warning, but really, March 15 is the first day of the Roman New Year and it also marks the first day of spring in the Roman calendar. But on this day in history, Julius Caesar was warned by soothsayers to 鈥渂eware the Ides of March.鈥�
Apparently, he did not heed the warning strongly enough, as he was stabbed by Marcus Brutus on the Ides of March in 44 B.C.
But March is so much more than college basketball, Irish whiskey and unpredictable weather.
On March 13, we turn our clocks ahead one hour. The first day of spring is March 20, Good Friday is March 25 and Easter is March 27.
And on a more wacky note, Peanut Butter Lovers鈥� Day is March 1; Hug a GI Day is March 4; Panic Day is March 9; Proposal Day is March 20; National Chip and Dip Day is March 23; and National Clam on the Half Shell Day is March 31.
Is this a great month or what? No wonder it蘑菇视频 31 days long.