Happy St. Patrick’s Day! ☘️ 🍀🌈🍯……..My Actifit Report Card: March 17 2025

2025-03-18T03:29:36

Happy St. Patrick’s Day everybody! ☘️ Did you find your pot o’ gold at the end of the rainbow? ☘️🌈🍯🍀 Cyle did! He’s dreaming of gold pots full of catnip and gold coin to buy more catnip with!

Grok has this to say about the history of St. Patrick’s Day:

St. Patrick’s Day started as a religious feast day in the early 17th century to honor St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland. Born in Britain around the late 4th century, he was kidnapped as a teen by Irish raiders and enslaved for six years. After escaping, he later returned as a missionary, supposedly using the shamrock to explain the Holy Trinity—hence its association with him. His death on March 17, around 461 AD, became the day to commemorate him.
It stayed mostly a quiet, religious thing in Ireland for centuries, with prayers and a modest feast. The shift to a bigger, rowdier celebration kicked off with Irish immigrants in America, especially in the 18th and 19th centuries. The first recorded parade was in 1601 in St. Augustine, Florida, organized by an Irish priest, but it really took off in cities like Boston and New York. By 1762, Irish soldiers in the British army were marching in New York to celebrate their heritage, and it grew from there—green beer, corned beef, and all.
Ireland itself didn’t go big on the public festivities until the 20th century, when it became a national holiday in 1903. The government saw it as a way to boost Irish identity, and by the 1990s, they leaned into the tourism angle with multi-day festivals. Now it’s a global party—parades, music, and a lot of green—way beyond its humble roots as a saint’s memorial day.

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My St. Patrick’s Day has been quiet. Since Monday is an off day for me, I didn’t have to worry about anyone pinching me if I didn’t have green on, lol! I’m not sure exactly why, but here in my neck of the woods, if you don’t wear green, people will pinch you for it! Crazy! I have a permanent source of green that accompanies me everywhere I go-my eyes are the green color of a cat’s eyes, but they wouldn’t count that! Anyway, no one would pinch me around the house-@silvertop knows better! ☘️

We took the Suzuki rims to the local tire store in Everson today. They said they’d be ready after lunch but I told the guy we’d get them tomorrow. They were really nice and actually ordered and mounted them prior to paying for them. I did try to pay today but he said tomorrow. 😎

The balance of my day has been housework, stationary bike and keeping up with the Ladies of Hive contest I’m judging this week

@silvertop has been busy planting some of the 29 trees we picked up Saturday as for the moment, it’s stopped raining. However at one point it was actually sort of snowing while he was getting ready. See his post for planting details!

Enjoy more pics from the My Nursery garden store.