You certainly brighten my day Lucy! Along with your pix of the day, I also try to start my day with a laugh. Here's one from things kids say: POLICE -- While taking a routine vandalism report at an elementary school, I was interrupted by a little girl about 6 years old. Looking up and down at my uniform, she asked, 'Are you a cop? Yes,' I answered and continued writing the report. My mother said if I ever needed help I should ask the police. Is that right?' 'Yes, that's right,' I told her. 'Well, then,' she said as she extended her foot toward me, 'would you please tie my shoe?'

9:30 PM and the little pigs are still here sleeping soundly. They did a bit more wing flapping and some "slight" peeking but nobody made it to actually poke their heads out. Typical "day before fledging" activty. They look really good, well feathered and wow are they ever loud, they pop right up when the food comes so Iknow they are not the least bit weak. They ought to be pretty darn good little flyers by the time they leave...that is unless they are too fat! Im out of worms so they may as well leave now! LOL Can you imagine how big three 20 day old babies are? they better leave while they can still fit out of the hole or before we need the jaws of life to pry them out!

Dana was a fascinating man. If you have time, take a moment to read his WIKI entry. I live just north of Dana Point, a town named in his honor.

A slightly different version: This term originated in French about 1475 and began to be used in English about a century later. Sir Thomas More is credited with saying of a mediocre book that a friend had put into verse, “Now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; whereas before it was neither rhyme nor reason.” More was not a nice guy: he had William Tyndale burned at the stake for translating and having the Bible published in English. A Man for all Seasons is a great, if inaccurate, movie about him.