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Friday, May 12, 2023

May 12 2023 - Mother's Day Weekend

 

We're coming up to Mother's Day weekend.  I think of this as the start of spring ending.  Victoria Day for me is the start of summer.  Somehow milestone days signal the season rather than science. 



There are Mother's Jokes that come out for Mother's Day.

Q: Why is a computer so smart? 
A: It listens to its motherboard.

Q: What did the mother rope say to her child?  
A: “Don’t be knotty.”

Q: What did the digital clock say to its mother? 
A: “Look, Ma! No hands!

Q: What do you call a small mother? /
A: A Minimum


But where are the Mother's Day jokes?  

Q: Why was the house so neat on Mother’s Day?
A: Because Mom spent all day Saturday cleaning it

Q: What did the kittens give their mom for Mother’s Day?
A: A subscription to Good Mousekeeping.

What about the Guinness Book of Records.  What do they consider the record mother?  It is the person who gave birth to the most children.  And who is it?  Barbara Stratzmann (c. 1448 – 1503) of Bönnigheim, Germany, gave birth to 53 children (38 sons and 15 daughters) in a total of 29 births by 1498. She had one set of septuplets, one set of sextuplets, four sets of triplets and five sets of twins.

I wasn't really thinking of that as a Mother's Day record.  Wouldn't we really want records about Mother's Day?  There are just a few retrieved - it is hard to retrieve on one's topic these days.  Here are two that are on topic:

On May 11, 2012, Pete Moyer and 72 members of Zion Lutheran Church became the largest group, according to RecordSetter.com, to sing "Happy Mother's Day," a little known and rarely sung holiday ditty.
 

More than 18-thousand sticky notes were left by students and adults around Jordan on Mother’s Day, breaking a Guinness World Record. Thousands of jordanians came together to celebrate the holiday, which falls on March 21st in the arab world.Participants broke a Guinness World Record of the largest sticky notes poster full of messages of love to mothers.The notes were collected on a large poster, which was put on display for the Guinness World Records judge to assess.  That was in 2019.



 

A Mother's Day Card today.

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Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Spring Awakenings!

I see flowers everywhere I go and thought I'd give you 2 great examples.

On Saturday I was on Bloor Street West shopping.  I caught this Ranunculus out behind a fruit and vegetable store before they took the rack to the front for sales.



Then on Sunday I was in Plantworld.  It is a wonderful garden centre and nursery in my neighbourhood.  It's grown over the 25 years I've lived here in the Kingsway/Sunnylea area.  I  got this beautiful little Grape Hyacinth (Muscari) in the lovely afternoon light.