Goodbye Winter... Hello Spring! Caution: Don't catch the fuBar Flu. Stop by Grandpa Dave's page to collect your Emergency Kit bling...Have a Sunny Day..."Blossom by blossom the spring begins." --- Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet

Grandpa Dave wishes you a Happy Saint Patrick's Day! The fuBar's social distancing is a safe place to celebrate the day during the global COVID-19 pandemic...Irish Eyes are Smiling..."Saint Patrick was a gentleman who through strategy and stealth drove all the snakes from Ireland here's a drinkee to his health! But not too many drinkees lest we lose ourselves and then... Forget the good Saint Patrick and see them snakes again!" --- An olde Irish Ditty

It is also Remeberance Day, aka Poppy Day, Weekend which is observed in Commonwealth member states and other countries outside the Commonwealth since the end of WWI... It was the war to end all wars!"In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields...