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ˆ RECIPE

ˆ MARCH MADNESS

AUNT HAZEL'S PEA SALAD
Ingredients:

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½ c. oil

Titillomaniac - person obsessed with scratching

¾ c. sugar

Klazomaniac - person obsessed with shouting

Oniomaniac - person obsessed with buying things

½ c. vinegar
tsp salt

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½ tsp. pepper
2 16-oz. cans peas, drained
½ c. diced pimiento
½ c. chopped onion
1 stalk celery, chopped

mar MONTH AT A GLANCE
1

61

Su

7

2
3
4
5
6
7

62
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64
65
66
67

M
Tu
W
Th
F
Sa

8
9
10
11
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13

8

68

Su

14

9
10
11
12
13
14
15

69
70
71
72
73
74
75

M
Tu
W
Th
F
Sa
Su

15
16
17
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19
20
21

16

76

M

22

17
18

77
78

Tu
W

23
24

19

79

Th

25

20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31

80
81
82
83
84
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87
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91

F
Sa
Su
M
Tu
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F
Sa
Su
M
Tu

26
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29
0
1
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7

Significa
First Sunday of Lent
Peace Corps est. 1961
31" of snow, Nashville, N.C., 1927
19.3" of snow, Cedartown, Ga., 1942

March's full moon is the worm moon.

Directions:
Combine vegetables. Mix the rest of
the ingredients together and pour
over. Chill and serve.

sunrise sunset

Mar. 8 - sun rises 7:40; sun sets 19:21; length of day 11h 40m
Mar. 15 - sun rises 7:30; sun sets 19:27; length of day 11h 57m
Mar. 22 - sun rises 7:19; sun sets 19:33; length of day 12h 12m
Mar. 29 - sun rises 7:09; sun sets 19:40; length of day 12h 31m

33" of snow, Big Meadows,Va., 1962

EVENTS

Daylight Saving Begins (USA)
1st cigarette machine patented
First Barbie dolls released, 1959
Check Smoke Alarms Day
Bascom Lamar Lunsford b., 1882
Great Blizzard, 1888
Eli Whitney patents cotton gin, 1794
Beware the Ides of March
James Madison born, 1751
First Academy Awards, 1929
St. Patrick's Day
First pro baseball association, 1871
Vernal Equinox
Spring begins

Beatles' first album released, 1963

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, 1911
Tennessee Williams born, 1911

James Bonsack of Lynchburg, Virginia patents first cigarette
rolling machine, March 8, 1881.

6-7, Dahlonega Literary Festival,
Dahlonega, GA, 10times.com/literaryfestival-atlanta
18-22, Virginia Festival of the Book,
Charlottesville, VA, 10times.com/21stannual-virginia-festival-book
20-24, Hopkinsville International Festival,
Hopkinsville, KY, hopkinsvilleky.us/
21, West Virginia Maple Syrup Festival,
Pickens, WV, pickenswv.squarespace.com/
maple-syrup-festival/
21-22, Asheville Marathon and a
Half at Biltmore Estate Expo, Asheville,
NC, runsignup.com/race/nc/asheville/
ashevillefullhalfmarathonexpo
26-29, Big Ears Festival, Knoxville, TN,
visitknoxville.com/event/big-ears-festival/3853
28-29, Greenville Comicon, Greenville, SC,
sccomicon.com

1st map showing USA on sale, 1784

ˆ WEATHER APHORISMS

ˆ REGIONAL NOTES

ˆ KITCHEN HINTS

ˆ GARDENING HINTS

ˆ OLD SAWS

The wind in the west suits
everyone best.

A varied set of petroglyphs
on a boulder called "The
Stone of Witness," is
identified as being carved
with eight different preColumbian languages.
Located in a park near town
hall in Manchester, KY, the
stone continues to puzzle
scholars as to its origin.
37.1585⁰ N, 83.7629⁰ W

You won't need sugar for
your tea if you drink some of
the lighter flavored varieties
such as jasmine, Formosa or
Oolong. They are naturally
sweet.

March is the time to put up
nesting boxes, clean up dead
limbs and sharpen tools.

If you walk through a
graveyard, whistle as you go.

It's bad luck to point at a
rainbow.
If green is the strongest
color in a rainbow, rain will
continue. If red, then there
will be wind and rain. If blue,
the air will be clear.
Have your hair or beard cut
on a new moon and it will
grow out better.

ˆ FACTOIDS
You are more likely to die
from a falling coconut than
from a shark attack.
A housefly hums in the
middle octave key of F.

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●	New moon-24th
❍	Full moon-9th
)	First quarter-2nd
(	Third quarter-16th
Spring begins on the vernal equinox, March 19.

MAR

MARCH ALMANAC

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Fresh lemon juice will remove
onion scent from hands. Or,
cut up celery after cutting up
an onion for the same effect.

Punch a hole in any plant
id tags from plants you
purchase and slide them onto
a key ring. Then you will be
able to find the information
if you have any questions
about what you've planted.
To keep moles out of your
garden, sink empty bottles
into the ground around the
molehills, leaving a couple of
inches of the necks showing.
When the wind blows, it will
make a hollow sound and
annoy the moles.

Take the high road. There's
less traffic.
Why do we drive on
parkways, but park in
driveways?
Why do fat chance and
slim chance mean the same
thing?
When does it stop being
partly sunny and start being
partly cloudy?
Why do people say heads
up when they want you to
duck?
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