Here's a varieation on the leprechaun soup poem, to be used with Lucky Charms cereal The Leprechaun's famous for his pot of gold, If on St. Paddy's Day you are feeling lucky and bold, Then the pot holds cereal & marshmallows, a generous scoop, Which gets mixed up with milk for Leprechaun Soup

if you do a search of poems on the internet you will get more poems than you know what to do with. start with general poems and then search for poems for children or any subjectyou want. i hope this helps you get started. michele

Jankin, thank you for your kind words! I love reading poetry (although not necessarily interpreting what it means), but I cannot, for the life of me, produce it. My attempts are only exercises in frustration, and the only explanation I can come up with is that I just don't have any talent for it. The only poem I ever wrote that was halfway decent was about a cat. Oh well, I have to find another avenue to express myself. Vee, my experience in West Texas is nearly four decades removed, so I don't know how the situation is now, or has been more recently -- what with illegal 'immigration' and a general increase in crackpots the world over. But, at that time, I probably felt the safest in West Texas that I ever felt in any other place I've ever been. That's why I didn't think twice about ranging around the countryside alone in my car, or stopping and getting out of my car: One time I took a nap on a roadside picnic table and didn't hear a single car pass, but evidently there was at least one. I woke up to a man calling to me, "Ma'am, are you okay?" I said I was, so he went on to explain that he was a rancher, living down and off the road a piece, and had passed earlier and saw me, but he kept going. On his return trip, he saw I was still there, so he thought he should check to see if I was all right. I thanked him for his concern and he, with a wave good-bye, drove off. Thinking about this incident and several others, I wonder if I was tempting fate (some I cringe over now if I had done them in any other place or time). Of course there's no way of knowing if I was foolish, but lucky; so all I can say is that West Texans might seem eccentric to people who are more accustomed to trees and lots of the color green, but actual crackpots were (are) far and few between there.

It's called an automatic transfer switch that automatically changes the power source when the electricity goes off, and back off when the electricity comes back on. Otherwise, you'd have to go outside and turn the generator on manually. We've had Generac whole house natural gas generators in our last three houses (almost 30yrs) with no issues. That said, our generator installer/maintenance guy has changed his preference to Kohler. You will need an electrician to move the power you want to run with the generator over to the transfer switch after the switch box is installed. The newer generators come in housing that is quieter than years past. Just don't put it near your master bedroom. They are set to test once a week, and it's important to have them set the testing day/time to a day/time when you are usually home so you will know it's working properly. Ours have all been installed by the same man. He started his own company about 10 years ago and we went with him. He also does maintenance twice a year under a maintenance contract. These maintenance visits are important to check the equipment and make any repairs/maintenance. I don't know that having a maintenance agreement with him gets him out faster than if we didn't have one... but the times we have needed him, he comes quickly.