Labor Day!

Surprisingly enough Labor Day falls on the first day of September - which happens to be a Monday! I don't think I ever recall Labor Day coming so early!

If I were a suspicious kind of person I would think President Bush had something to do with it just to get people back to work!

Earth Day

Earth Day is a time to celebrate gains we have made and create new visions to accelerate environmental progress.

Our government has a lot of different websites relating to Earth Day. It is also celebrated on an international scale as well!

One of the most simplest and basic things that you can do to help celebrate Earth Day would be to plant a tree or start a garden. Both of these activities helps to make our environment better!

Here is a link to a site that lists things that people can do to help celebrate Earth Day.

March = Windy Weather!

Well it seems that March 2008 is having some of the weirdest weather!

I live in the northeast portion (LaMott, Pa) and today we are under a wind advisory until 5pm tommorrow afternoon!

The wind has been blowing like crazy all day and the day before we had a lot of rain, heavy at times, all during yesterday.

I think tommorrow is supposed to be the first day of spring and while we have had some spring-like weather during the past weeks or days - that is not what is happening now.

The rest of the week and the upcoming weekend weather forecast looks like we will be having chilly temperatures plus the wind gusts will make the temperature feel colder! There is even a chance of us seeing some snow in the next few days!

GroundHog Day

Groundhog Day or Groundhog's Day is a holiday celebrated in United States and Canada on February 2. In weather lore, if a groundhog, also known as a woodchuck, marmot, or ground squirrel, emerges from its burrow on this day and fails to see its shadow because the weather is cloudy, winter will soon end. If the groundhog sees its shadow, it will return into its burrow, and the winter will continue for 6 more weeks

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Wikipedia

First Day Of Winter

In the northern hemisphere, the Winter solstice is day of the year (near December 22) when the Sun is farthest south. However, in the southern hemisphere, winter and summer solstices are exchanged so that the winter solstice is the day on which the Sun is farthest north. The winter solstice marks the first day of the season of winter. The declination of the Sun on the (northern) winter solstice is known as the tropic of capricorn (-23° 27').

The winter solstice is the shortest day of the year, respectively, in the sense that the length of time elapsed between sunrise and sunset on this day is a minimum for the year. Of course, daylight saving time means that the first Sunday in April has 23 hours and the last Sunday in October has 25 hours, but these human meddlings with the calendar and do not correspond to the actual number of daylight hours. In Chicago, there are 9:20 hours of daylight on the winter solstice of December 22, 1999.

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Holiday Smart.com