According to reports, Punxsutawney Phil was spotted yesterday riding front and center on a St. Patrick’s Day parade float in Florida, slowly rolling down a palm-lined street while the temperature somehow sits at 88°, 95% humidity, and a thunderstorm forming directly over the parade route.
Witnesses say Phil stood there in a tiny green suit and leprechaun hat, looking deeply confused as sunshine, rain, and lightning all happened at the same time - which locals insist is “perfectly normal Florida weather.”
Officials say this will now be Phil’s new statewide schedule, with mandatory parade appearances across Florida including Tampa, Orlando, Jacksonville, Miami, and anywhere else residents feel personally betrayed by a forecast that said “partly cloudy” but turned into a full tropical monsoon.
Authorities confirm Phil is not permitted to leave the float until the final parade ends. Instead, he’ll remain standing there while thousands of Floridians walk past holding green drinks, staring at him like he personally scheduled the afternoon thunderstorm.
The move comes just days after Florida briefly experienced three hours of beautiful 80° weather, before temperatures dropped back into full winter mode and a thunderstorm rolled in exactly at 3:04 p.m.
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At some point during the course of the day this'll be on somewhere,
and I'll have to watch the whole thing again for the 43rd time...
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The noise that spooked spring breakers at Daytona Beach and caused massive stampede over the weekend was not caused by gunshots, the sheriff revealed Monday. The panic-causing sound had a much safer origin: people crushing water bottles.
“There were zero gunshots on the beach,” Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood said Monday after video showing hundreds of terrified beachgoers fleeing for their lives went viral. Chitwood added that there were 50 deputies in the crowd.
“This incident was, clearly, social media driven. Let’s all go and invade Daytona. And there isn’t a whole lot more we can do other than what we did,” Chitwood said.
More than 80 arrests were made at Daytona Beach over the weekend, including six where weapons were seized. Chitwood said many were for open alcohol container violations.
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They call this church the 'Sacred Heart of Errigal'. The 'Church of the Sacred Heart’ is one of Donegal’s, if not Ireland’s most perfectly situated buildings. It was built in 1877 on top of this small hill on the shore of ‘Dunlewey Lough’. Nestled so close to the foot of 'Mount Errigal' that it could almost hide in its shadow. It commands views over the ‘The Poisoned Glen & Crockfadda mountains’ as seen in the distant right. Because of its name The Sacred Heart & its proximity to Errigal Mountain, people often refer to this stunning church as “Errigal’s Heart”. In my mind this makes perfect sense.
This is the church where my niece was married two years ago. The whole ceremony was performed in Gaelic (or as they call it - in 'The Irish') by a priest who looked like Rasputin. Very cool indeed. What a magical place - I feel so lucky to have beem able to visit there often. I'll be back up there again in August, hopefully...
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Postmaster General David Steiner will tell a House Oversight subcommittee that USPS needs higher stamp prices, the ability to borrow more money, and other reforms.
Steiner laid out potential options to cut costs: ending six-day-a-week deliveries, closing post offices, or raising first-class mail stamp prices to $1 or more, up from the current $0.78.
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Do you listen to music on your computer?
This is the speaker system I got for Christmas.
What an amazing sound. Take a look here.
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St. Patrick's Day in Belfast on March 17, 2026, features a vibrant mix of traditional parades, live music, and community celebrations, anchored by a large-scale parade leaving City Hall at 1:30 PM. The city hosts extensive cultural activities, including the SPAR Craic 10k run, a Festival Village in the Cathedral Quarter, and traditional music sessions throughout the city.
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The rainbow rug leading to the "pot" (potty room)
ReplyDeletePeople bad-mouth the US Postal Service too much. It was never a business. It's a "service", and it literally benefits every man, woman, and child in the U.S.
ReplyDeleteThink of it this way: You can send a birthday card to your grandchild with a $20 bill in it, right to their front door 1500 miles away, for less than a dollar! That's the best deal in America! I order dozens of books every year, so the USPS is near and dear to my heart. And remember this: they are the only entity that delivers to every single address every working day. Fed-Ex and UPS can talk all the smack they want about " efficiency", but they could never do that.
The Unbelievably Slow (or Stupid) Postal Service is more a disservice than a service. They're 34 for 46 in lost, damaged, destroyed or seriously delayed packages to my PO Box alone so far this year and it's not even a third along. Their counter workers are insolent, uninformed and unhelpful. The tracking system is a joke and their station manager here has admitted to me it's useless, means precisely nothing, and I quote, "they don't care." It shouldn't take 12 days to move an envelope 375 miles within the state, yet that's what it took to get a document sent to Anchorage last month. Their motto starts with the words "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds" but every time it snows or is cold, in ALASKA, guess who's not working? And would someone please explain why a PO box here costs me 400 a year when the exact same size box & "services" in my mom's town in NY costs less than half that? Fedex & UPS have to turn a profit, they HAVE to be efficient and I, for one, will pay that ever decreasing difference in price for that efficiency. Tell me, when wastge last time you had a USPS truck pull into your drive to deliver at 7 PM on a Saturday?
DeleteHow many $20 bills are stolen every year? It's a lot.
DeleteHow many ballots are lost or destroyed every year?
After I supported conservative causes my mail was disrupted for a year.
The Irish Dancing cartoon has always been one of my favorites.
ReplyDeleteAnd the 'rainbow' in the cartoon is the rug leading to the toilet, 'the pot'.
The Quiet Man is a gem and always worth watching. The small, embedded humor is the best. My favorite scene is the first trip to the bar for Sean where he initially gets the cold shoulder from the locals until they find out who he is. Squire Danaher's man steals 2 or 3 unattended beers while Danaher is making his speech, and once Danaher is sent home and the rounds are being poured, Michaleen Flynn downs three pints from the bartender before john Wayne can get one for himself. Great stuff.
ReplyDeleteNice blog you have here , my first stop to get the day going .
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