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Happy St Patrick's Day 2025. I hope all of you have a very special and enjoyable day today, and have an opportunity to celebrate it with family and friends. St. Patrick's Day is one of the more festive days of the year, and we all can use a little more fun in our lives.Hope everyone keeps safe ...
03/17/2025
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Tomorrow is Daylight Savings Time, so it's time to Spring Forward and lose an hour of sleep! I don't know about everyone else, but as much as I like getting an extra hour of daylight, and moving closer to Spring, I hate losing an hour's sleep. However, losing an hour's sleep in exchange for get...
03/08/2025
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Happy Presidents Day 2025!!! Today is Presidents Day, and for most workers in the U.S. a day off from work. Presidents Day was not always been known as Presidents Day, in fact up until 1968 there was no Presidents Day.Presidents Day was originally known as Washington's Birthday, and established ...
02/17/2025
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Happy Valentine's Day 2025 to All My ActiveRain Friends!!! This is my annual wish to all my friends here on ActiveRain. Wishing you all a very happy and special Valentine's Day. I hope all of you take the time today to tell everyone who is special to you how you feel about them, and spent qua...
02/14/2025
Martin Luther King, Jr. was a man who deserves to be honored and respected. Today is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, is a day very worthy of being celebrated. Martin Luther King, Jr. deserves this honor and much, much more. The opportunities many have today are a result of Martin Luther King, Jr...
01/20/2025
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I just want to take this opportunity to say Happy New Year 2025 to all my friends here on ActiveRain. I have been blessed to know several of you for many years, and have been blessed with new ActiveRain friends this year as well. I am all set to kick off 2025, and leave 2024 behind. I am looki...
12/31/2024
Merry Christmas To All My ActiveRain Friends In 2024 Today is Christmas, and Christmas has always been a day my wife and I have spent with our two sons, but now that my sons no longer live in CT we have had to get a little creative in celebrating Christmas.My youngest son and his wife now live in...
12/25/2024
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Happy Thanksgiving 2024!I hope that everyone has a Happy Thanksgiving today. Do not let the day go by without taking a few minutes to truly give thanks for all you have been blessed with, and if possible take the opportunity to be a blessing to someone else. Today should not only be a day of g...
11/28/2024
Fall Has come and gone in Connecticut, which means it is time for me to conclude my Progression Of Fall Colors series I started twelve years ago. This is a series I hoped to continue for many years, and have been able to do so far, however, this year I started about a week to late. The first tw...
11/12/2024
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Today is Veterans Day 2024, A Day To Honor Our Veterans, and our Men and Women who are serving in our Armed Forces.I hope that everyone takes a moment out of there day to say thank you to either a Veteran they know, or one of the Men and Women presently serving. It only takes a minute to do this...
11/11/2024