Happy Thanksgiving!

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Happy New Year In Palm Springs

Happy New Year!

Find your place in the Sun In beautiful Palm Springs California

Merry Christmas 2015

 

Blessings to all

Have a Happy Holiday Season

Happy Thanksgiving 2015

Big or small we all have blessings in our lives. Hope you are enjoying some of yours today and always!

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter! 

Researching the History of the Holiday you will find many references to springtime, crops being planted, fertility and seasons changing. Whatever your beliefs or traditions we wish you all the best and offer the following as some interesting trivia and facts:

Make  your own natural Easter Egg dyes with this informative site.

Have you ever wondered  why Easter falls on a different date every year?  It is because Easter falls on the first Sunday after the full Moon after the Vernal Equinox.

The tradition of Easter Baskets is said to have started in Germany where the Easter Bunny was called Osterhase and was known to deliver treats to children who would build nests to receive them.

For ancient Egyptians the rabbit was a symbol of the moon so a full moon being used to determine the date of the holiday may have had an influence. A hare was a totemic animal of the goddess Eostre, which symbolized fertility for Spring. Knowing how Rabbits breed it would be easy to see how that legend got started!

Easter Around the world:

Sweden, Easter is celebrated with meals of eggs, herring, and Jansson's Temptation (potato, onion and pickled sardines baked in cream).

Bermuda, people  celebrate Good Friday by flying home-made kites, eating codfish cakes, and eating hot cross buns

and lastly we leave you with some humor!

Chocolate tip:  "If you get melted chocolate all over your hands, you're eating it too slowly."

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Happy Martin Luther King DAY

Celebrating DR King and everyone who makes a difference in OUR world!

HAPPY 2015!

With a wish for all good things in the coming new year!

Christmas Gift Giving

Gift giving can be a challenge here is a simple guide to get you going and keep you on track this holiday!

Gift Giving Tips

Another tip for doing good at the holidays. Find out if the person you want to give a gift to is a support or a Charitable organization or Arts Program. Often these organizations have logo merchandise for sale that supports their mission. By gifting these items you connect with your friend on an even deeper level supporting something that means something to them.

Whatever you choose to do have a safe and happy holiday season.

Happy Thanks Giving

May You have a reason to be grateful everyday but especially today............

Happy Veterans Day

Honoring The Sacrifices of Our Veterans Today and Always.

PARADE INFO FROM THE CITY OF PALM SPRINGS:

The City of Palm Springs proudly presents the 18th Annual Palm Springs Veterans Day Parade on Tuesday, November 11 at 3:30 p.m in downtown Palm Springs. The parade steps off at Ramon Road and Palm Canyon Drive and heads northbound on Palm Canyon Drive to Alejo Road where the parade ends. Immediately following the parade will be a post-parade patriotic concert featuring the Third Marine Aircraft Wing Band at the main stage located at the intersection of Amado Road and Palm Canyon Drive. The concert will conclude with a fireworks finale at approximately 5:00 p.m. The parade and concert are free! For more information on the parade, please contact the parade coordinator at:

 (760) 323-8265.

Happy Canada Day

July 1 2014 - 
HAPPY 147th Birthday CANADA!

Trivia: Oh Canada - is the national anthem of Canada and it was written by: 

Sir Adolphe-Basile Routhier

See our complete page about Canadian Home Ownership in the United States.

Happy New Year

All good wishes for all good things for you and yours in 2014

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Did you know that the traditional "Auld Lang Syne" song you hear every year was actually a Scottish song meaning  Times gone by? But does anyone really know the words?  If you know a Scottsman ask them to sing it with all the traditional Scottish words.

It was brought to popularity in 1929 by Canadian band leader Guy Lombardo and quickly became a US tradition.

If you live in the American South you are probably familiar with the tradition of eating Black eyed peas and Ham Hocks.

Traditions elsewhere in the world include:

Japan: Cleaning house and hosting "forget the year parties" for the year about to end. Children receive small gifts of money.

Netherlands: The Dutch make bonfires and light fireworks

Greece: You eat St. Basils' Cake and look for the lucky coin that was baked inside (hope you don't chip a tooth!)

Spain: At midnight you eat 12 grapes to bring you 12 months of good luck in the new year.

Romania: People wear brightly colored costumes or Bear costumes and perform dances to ward off evil spirits and bad luck.

Whatever your traditions... whatever your resolutions.... we just hope that you have the BEST 2014 !

Michael and Marcia

www.PSagent.com

 

MERRY CHRISTMAS

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Although a snow scene hardly depicts Christmas in Palm Springs I believe that Christmas is about the memories you hold most dear. And the snowy, cold Christmases of my youth are my strongest memories. Although I have spent Christmas in many places with all sorts of weather I will never forget the childhood wish for a white Christmas, and the times that wish came true.

Wherever you may find yourself this year, may your Christmas be everything you want it to be and fill your heart with all the love it can hold.

 

Happy July 4

What to Do In The Palm Springs Area and Where to See Fireworks July 4 2013

Canada Day

Happy Canada DAY!

Learn More About Canada
Learn More About Canada Day

Learn more about

Canadian Ownership of  USA property



Some Fun Canadian Facts In Case you are not Canadian but stumbled on this blog post!

Happy Independence Day!

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Happy New Year!

Wishing you all the best in the New Year

Thoughts for the New Year

If you are very rich but very unhappy does the money really matter?

If you are very beautiful but very unkind does your beauty really matter to anyone?

If you have everything you want but cannot share with others less fortunate, what good are those things?

Life is about sharing our blessings.

Merry Christmas!

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A Simple But Sincere Wish That Your Christmas

Be Filled With JOY!

 

 

Happy Thanksgiving!

          Wishing you the very  best of the Holiday for your family

Happy Fourth of July!

 

 

Watch this video from the History Channel to learn about why we Celebrate 4th of July:

http://www.history.com/flash/VideoPlayer.swf?vid=11469747301