My calendar says Ash Wednesday isn’t until March 5, so it’s a little early for Mardi Gras cakes.
Congratulations on reaching another month with a payday!
It seems here in Louisiana, (I’m a transplant), that they count “Greek Orthodox/Little Epiphany”, as “Twelfth Night”, and that begins the ‘season’, until the day before Lent begins, which is known as “Fat Tuesday” ... “eat it all, for y’all ain’t gittin’ no mo’ till after Lent!”
(Mini-micro-rant) They shut down, all over the state, all city services, and all business offices in the private sector, too, in observance of an established government/religious day, with no separation of church and state. They still have Napoleonic laws on the books, too.
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