Holidays Category Page

Thanksgiving Break

I’m about ready for the annual Thanksgiving break, aren’t you?  My sister already has a twenty pound turkey in the freezer. Now she’s collecting holiday recipes and planning a big dinner with all the trimmings.
Ok time for some quick figures…Thanksgiving is on a Thursday. A twenty pound turkey divided among the family, combined with dressing, veggies, sweet potatoes, cornbread, cranberries, pumpkin pie, and various desserts; a sudden weight gain and inertia, allow 24 hours to regain mobility. That puts us into Friday. Black Friday, the biggest retail day of the year.  The day [...]


keepcash.com

I found this great site dedicated to “keeping your cash,” something we’re all trying to do more of!
keepcash.com has collected the best holiday deals across the internet from all the country’s biggest retailers.  You can also find coupons and use their shopping tools to feed specials to your iPhone or web browser.  keepcash.com is also monitoring all the Black Friday sales, promising big savings on the latest gadgets, so stay tuned!
I found these deals online today:
8GB Kingston DataTraveler USB2.0 Flash Drive on Newegg.com for $18.99 after a $21 instant rebate
Corsair Flash Voyager 16GB USB2.0 Flash Drive on Newegg.com for [...]


The Great Pumpkin

One of my favorite memories of Halloween is the Peanuts special where Linus waits all night for the Great Pumpkin. He misses tricks-or-treats and the Halloween party, but oh the sincerity! And what a great soundtrack too!
www.peanuts.com


Easter Sunday

An Easter message of Faith, Hope and Love
from Pope Benedict XVI…
Source: EWTN, the Eternal Word Television Network’s news page www.ewtn.com
Easter should remind us that love has triumphed, and that we can “start again from Christ” to build a society of peace and love. “These holy days reawaken a great hope in us,” he added. “Christ was crucified, yet he rose again and conquered the world.
“Love is stronger than hate, it has triumphed and we should affiliate ourselves with this victory of love. We should therefore start again from Christ and work together with him for a world [...]


Saint Patrick’s Day

Saint Patrick’s Day is usually celebrated on March 17th, but this year it was moved to March 15th by the Catholic Church to avoid conflict with Holy Week, which started yesterday with Palm Sunday.
I pulled this quote from Wikipedia about the event:
St. Paddy’s Day or Paddy’s Day, is an annual feast day in the Roman Catholic Church, which celebrates Saint Patrick (circa 385–461 AD,) one of the patron saints of Ireland, and is generally celebrated on March 17th.
The date of the feast is occasionally moved by church authorities when March 17 falls during Holy Week; this happened in 1940 when [...]


Palm Sunday

Today is Palm Sunday, which begins Holy Week for the Catholic Church, and signals the end of the season of Lent. It’s the most solemn time of the year for us Christians, as we contemplate Jesus Christ’s triumphant entry into Jerusalem, the Last Supper, His crucifixion and death, and His resurrection on Easter Sunday.
I Googled for a few sources to see what’s going on around the world:
Pope Celebrates Palm Sunday Mass by Nicole Winfield via Associated Press
EWTN Global Catholic Network News
Michael Tetlow reports about Easter season via Reuters Video:


Happy Valentine’s Day!

Happy Valentine’s Day!
This is the McCartney Rose, made in honor of Paul McCartney’s 50th birthday.
Dedicated to the one I Love,
To NellieO, from Mike


Mardi Gras

I was thinking about Mardi Gras and realized it was Fat Tuesday this week. So let’s all be Thankful for our Blessings, and have another piece of that King Cake.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mardi_Gras
Mardi Gras (French for “Fat Tuesday”) is the day before Ash Wednesday, and is also called “Shrove Tuesday” or “Pancake Day”. Mardi Gras is the final day of Carnival the three day period preceding the beginning of Lent, the Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday immediately before Ash Wednesday (some traditions count Carnival as the entire period of time between Epiphany or Twelfth Night and Ash Wednesday. The entire three day [...]