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This morning’
s (May 25) Springfield (Delaware County), Pa. Memorial Day Parade ended with a flag raising, a prayer and a rifle salute at the township building on Powell Road. The Springfield High School Marching Band played the Star Spangled Banner and Taps.
Just remember as you sip your Corona on this Cinco de Mayo that if the Germans celebrated their victories over the French, Mercedes Benz would never get a car built.
In fairness, Cinco de Mayo is more of an American holiday than a Mexican one and we can blame the greedy capitalists at Corona for it.
That, and the fact Americans like beer.
Chef Bill Sr.’ s Easter dinner included ham, kielbasa, bread (by Chef Chris) and delicious hrutka, which some think is an acquired taste. 
Dessert included homemade candy, nut and poppy seed bread, and lemon squares by Mrs. Chef Bill, Anthony and Miranda.
The wine was a homemade Cabernet Sauvingon.
Christos voskrese, which means Christ has Risen, is the Easter greeting in Church Slavonic which brings the response Voistinu voskrese or Indeed, He has risen. 
Easter, of course, celebrates the Resurrection of the Lord Jesus and the salvation of Man. The date for Easter is the Sunday following the first full moon after the spring equinox, which is always reckoned, regardless of astronomical observations, to be March 21 as per the Western churches that use the Gregorian calendar, so Easter always falls between March 22 and April 25.
The dating for Easter correlates with the means the Jews once used to set the date for Passover, which correlates with Scripture since Scripture indicates that the Crucifixion of the Lord occurred as the lambs were being slaughtered for the celebration of that holiday. In fact, in most Western languages the name for the day is a cognate of the Pesach which is the Hebrew name for Passover. In Latin it would be Pascha so Paschal lamb would be Passover lamb.
In English and German, the word comes from Eostre month, which was basically April, and which the pagans who spoke Germanic languages had named for the goddess Eostre much as our own March and April are named for the Greek god and goddess Mars and Aphrodite, respectively. In Slavic, the holiday is called “Great Night” (Velikonoce in Slovak) or “Great Day” (Velikden in Ukrainian). There are some caveats regarding the date. The Eastern churches that use the Julian calendar set the equinox at April 3, and, of course, the spring equinox is based on that of the Northern Hemisphere.
So, Christos Voskrese 2015.
Forget that white stuff this morning that was predicted by Tornado Tom. It is 6:45 p.m.. EDT and that means the vernal equinox has occurred.
That means spring has sprung.
It is porch weather as some might say. Or soon to be anyway.
Regarding the science stuff, the word equinox is Latin words for “equal night.” Days and nights are approximately equal everywhere and the Sun rises and sets due east and west, explains The Old Farmers Almanac. At the equinoxes, the tilt of Earth relative to the Sun is zero, which means that Earth’s axis neither points toward nor away from the Sun.
Barbara Ann Zippi of Artemis Productions has let it be known that veterans are being sought to ride on the Delaware County Veterans Memorial’s float in the Springfield (Pa) Saint Patrick’s Day Parade, which will be held on Saturday, March 14.
To participate show up at Halderman Field, 570 W. Springfield Road, Springfield, Pa. 19064, between 10:30 a.m. and 10:45 a.m. and get on the big green Fizzano flatbed truck that will be decorated with the appropriate signs and banners.
The truck will enter the parade line at 11 a.m. The parade ends at 1 p.m. and Delco Memorial Participants will be returned to Halderman Field.
Email ARTEMISProductions@Juno.com to reserve a space.
Happy Birthday Kristina.
Just something to wake up to this Groundhog Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSHhjUWcEZA
Well, the Christmas season is still with us and will be as far as we’re concerned until Jan. 6 — they don’t call it the 12 days of Christmas for nothing, you know, even we celebrate it for 13 — so we present this heartwarming father-daughter vignette.
The little girl had asked for a Frozen doll but got a valuable life lesson instead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRbTHVQJX54
