There is 1st Halloween, 1st Thanksgiving, 1st Christmas, 1st New Years, 1st birthday...
But nothing beats...
1st SHROVE TUESDAY PANCAKE SUPPER!
Never heard of Shrove Tuesday before...
From a Google search:
"Like many other European holidays, the Pancake Day was originally a pagan holiday. Before the Christian era, the Slavs believed that the change of seasons was a struggle between Jarilo, the god of vegetation, fertility and springtime, and the evil spirits of cold and darkness.
People believed that they had to help Jarilo fight against winter and bring in the spring. The most important part of Shrovetide week (the whole celebration of the arrival of spring lasted one week) was making and eating pancakes. The hot, round pancakes symbolized the sun. The Slavs believed that by eating pancakes, they got the power, light and warmth of the sun.
The first pancake was usually put on a window for the spirits of the ancestors. On the last day of Shrovetide week some pancakes and other food were burnt in a bonfire as a sacrifice to the pagan gods."
It all sounds good to me...except the putting of pancakes on the windowsill for the ancestral spirits..kinda creepy.
Sounds good though. Pass the maple syrple! 😉
Never heard of Shrove Tuesday before...
> Sounds good though. Pass the maple syrple! 😉
I'm with ya; let's give Perry Williams a call:-P
Daddy was a pistol, I'm a son of a gun...B-)
You need to get a second opinion on this from the racing women in Liberal, Kansas and Olney, England who challenge each other to see which city can produce the fastest runner each Shrove Tuesday who carries a skillet with a pancake in it and must flip the pancake safely so many times. They have been doing this for decades. I believe the Kansas contingent produced the fastest/most talented runner this year.
...y'all are nuttier than squirrel...
...you know.
I just report the news, I don't make it
http://ksn.com/2015/02/17/teacher-wins-liberal-leg-of-the-66th-international-pancake-day-race/
Thanks Dave; that was a dang good idea!
😀 :hi5: :good:
> ...y'all are nuttier than squirrel...
They're nutty? The folks on Olney have been racing with pancakes since the 1400's
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olney,_Buckinghamshire#Olney_Pancake_Race
