Volume 7 , Issue 13

Duchess Windy Corner

Looks like March went out like a "lion." Bellowing it's last few breathes of Winter Wednesday and Thursday with April on the horizon -- making it's debut on a sunny, calm Friday morning here in the valley of SW Colorado.

Thursday the news/weathermen were talking about northeastern New Mexico from Las Vegas to Trinidad along I25 being closed for awhile with blowing drifting snow that accumulated in drifts of 6 to 8 ft. They even had some blowing snow down around the Ruidosa in the southeast corner of New Mexico. Wednesday, March 30 we wokeup to about a 1/2 inch of snow here in the valley while the higher mountains received considerable more inches of new snowfall -- making the total snowfall for March, 34 inches. Our valley snow didn't last very long when the afternoon sunshine came out Wednesday.

April Fools Day... Did you trick anyone into believing that it was New Year under the Julian calendar? There weren't any April Fools around here! Back when the western world employed the Julian calendar, years began on March 25. Festivals marking the start of the New Year were celebrated on the first day of April because March 25 fell during Holy Week. The adoption of the Gregorian calendar during the 1500s moved the New Year to January 1. According to the most widely-believed origin for April Fools' Day, those who could be tricked into believing April 1 was still the proper day to celebrate the New Year earned the sobriquet (nickname) of April fools.

We would like to wish a HAPPY BIRTHDAY to our friend J. L. "BUD" CLARK this weekend! We hear he is spending his birthday down at the Horse Expo Center in Shawnee, Oklahoma! If you see "BUD" this weekend, spring into a verse or two of Happy Birthday!   |  View or Add Comments (1 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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