Ap;ril 19, 2014 Saturday

Disco with Richard Simmons, oh, and the cat.  The cat has much shorter hair on his tail today.  Hey!  I told him to get off the dance floor!


Romans chapter 5 - Peace and Hope, from St Paul on this Easter Weekend, waiting for the resurrection.  "You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly."  We are saved!


On this day:
1995 - On this day, Timothy McVeigh blew up the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma city.  He was eventually convicted and executed for this crime that killed 168 and injured 500 more.  What a different story then the Easter story.
1999 - Just a run of the mill day, a Monday, worked and school.  The thing that stands out is when I got home from work I cut the lawn.   What happened to global warming?  more like global colding this year. (JK  I know the earth is warming up)


Parenting - I love a house full of kids and animals, what noise!  what commotion! what joy!  what a mess!  But its the best part of life I think!  Having the family over for Easter tomorrow?


Book Club - Isadore's Secret by Mardi Link,  the plot thickens!


Yo Chen Belize -
As a colony, Belize began to attract British investors. Among the British firms that dominated the colony in the late 19th century was the Belize Estate and Produce Company, which eventually acquired half of all the privately held land in the colony. Belize Estate's influence accounts in part for the colony's reliance on the mahogany trade throughout the rest of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century.

Panoramic view of Belize City, c. 1914

The Great Depression of the 1930s caused a near-collapse of the colonial economy as British demand for timber plummeted. The effects of widespread unemployment were worsened by a devastating hurricane that struck the colony in 1931. Perceptions of the government's relief effort as inadequate were aggravated by its refusal to legalize labour unions or introduce a minimum wage. Economic conditions improved during World War II (1939–1945) when many Belizean men entered the armed forces or otherwise contributed labour to the war effort.
Following the war, the colony's economy again stagnated because of the pressures caused by its damaging effect. Britain's decision to devalue the British Honduras dollar in 1949 worsened economic conditions and led to the creation of the People's Committee, which demanded independence. The People's Committee's successor, the People's United Party (PUP), sought constitutional reforms that expanded voting rights to all adults. 


Enjoy the day!  Make it memorable!