BAD NEWS IS...LATE SEASON SNOW...



GOOD NEWS IS...IT'S MARCH...

The year's at the spring
And day's at the morn; ...
God's in His heaven--
All's right with the world!
Robert Browning

According to the Georgian calendar, March is the third month of the year. According to the early Roman calendar, it was the first month and was called Martius. The ancient Romans later made January 1 the beginning of the year, and March became the third month on the calendar. March has always had 31 days. Its name honors Mars, the Roman God of war. The bloodstone and aquamarine are the birthstones for March. The violet is the flower for the month of March.

There are many superstitions about March. We often hear that "March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb." This means that the first day of March is often stormy, and the last day is mild and warm. Another saying is, "April borrowed from March three days, and they were ill." This refers to the first three days of April, which are generally rough and blustery like March. A third saying calls the first three days of March "blind days" because they are "unlucky." If rain falls on these days, farmers supposedly will have poor harvests.


IF YOU CAN CATCH THIS DOCUMENTARY ...DO SO. AS A LOVER OF HISTORY...ESPECIALLY ROMAN...I FOUND THIS RIVETING.
WHO KILLED CLEOPATRA? aka THE MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF CLEOPATRA

One-Hour Special for five/Discovery Channel
For 2,000 years only one verdict has been recorded - suicide by snakebite. Now FBI Criminal Profiler Pat Brown, and a team of experts from fields as diverse as archaeology and toxicology, are re-examining the circumstances of Cleopatra's alleged suicide. Using techniques that are usually the preserve of 21st Century criminal investigations they reconstruct the death scene, go inside the mind of Cleopatra, and reveal the sinister power-games that led to Cleopatra's untimely death.

THE LAST WORDS OF THIS DOCUMENTARY RANG TRUE...IF CLEOPATRA HAD NOT DIED,HOW MUCH DIFFERENT OUR WORLD MIGHT HAVE BEEN...THERE'S FOOD FOR THOUGHT.