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PROMPT March 1st Yesterday was February 29th - Leap Day! The reason we have this monthly extension of our shortest month is to synchronise the Gregorian calendar with the solar year – without it we would lose six hours every year. In your entry today, write about the phenomenon of leap years and any facts you want to share. Here’s mine: People born on Leap Day are called Leaplings. Do you know any Leaplings? How did you spend the bonus hours of 2020? Did you make the most of them? Ahh...leap year and leap day again. Who would've thought we'd need one extra day every four years to keep us on track with the seasons. A bigger brain than mine of course! Way above my pay grade! To me it's just craziness. In fact, without leap year, today would actually be June 19, 2021. Hard for me to believe. But I guess it makes sense. Without it our year would begin 6 hours before the earth made its full rotation. So in the big scheme of things those hours add up. And this leads me to another question. All the world depends on the calendar to mark days and weeks and seasons and everything else. But is it all necessary? Think about the ancient peoples of the world. They didn't rely on a calendar. They relied on stars. And they were okay. They didn't need one extra day to keep their stars aligned. And yet, in today's modern society we make a big deal out of it. Funny to think of it all... And that brings me to celebrations. Leap Day celebrations! Why not? We celebrate every other day in our calendar. So why not make a cocktail and toast the day? I wondered if there was any kind of libation out there to mark the day. And I found there is, indeed, a cocktail made specially for Leap Day. Of course there is! We make cocktails for everything. Anyway, it's called the Leap Day Cocktail. In my opinion that's a dull boring name so maybe we can start a movement to change that. It was created in 1928 by Harry Craddock of the London Savoy Hotel. It's believed that this little cocktail has been responsible for more marriage proposals than any other cocktail every mixed. Quite logically, it's been referred to as The Soused Spouse. Hey, wait a minute! That's actually a great name for the cocktail. Soused Spouse. It's got a ring to it. So how you make the Soused Spouse? It's pretty simple: 1 dash lemon juice 2/3 gin 1/6 grand marnier 1/6 sweet vermouth Shake, garnish, serve And there you have your Soused Spouse! Even though Leap Day is over I might just try this to see how good it really is. Maybe I'll end up a Soused Spouse! |
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