When I was a kid, I thought Leonardo Da Vinci was the coolest thing in the world.  Leo and Al.  (Einstein, that is.)  As it turns out, I still think they are.  Wonder Cookies!  They were Incredible Eggs, right out of the ovary…..  some people JUST ARE.

Today is Da Vinci’s Birthday. (1452)  This is also the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. (1912)  (I just recently saw that movie.  SHOCKED by the ending….. you see……. I had a really good feeling about that ship.)

Abraham Lincoln died on today’s date also. (1865)  It was nine hours after John Wilkes Booth shot him at point blank at the Ford Theatre.

On a lighter note… (no pun intended)…. Jackie Robinson became baseball’s first black major league player when he debuted with those Good Ol’ Brooklyn Dodgers.  (1947)

And here’s one for the Burger King in you… McDonald’s restaurant dates its founding to the opening of a franchised restaurant by Ray Kroc, in Des Plaines, Illinois.  McHistory. (1955)

So as you can see, the fifteenth of April is a legendary day.  It is good, and bad, and ugly, at times.

But here is one that I’m not soon to forget… in 1969 on this date, the three astronauts, Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins voted to take Moon Pies on their upcoming flight to the surface of the moon.    They did so…. took the Moon Pies with  them when walking the surface of the moon, and when they returned home, ate the Moon Pies.  It was the first time a human consumed food that had been to the moon.  Cross my heart, and my tide pool…. it’s the truth.

…And THAT is McMoonie.  By the light of the silvery moon, it is a wonderful night for a moondance.  By the Moon River.  ….. where I’m being followed by a moon shadow, moon shadow, moon shadow.  Blue Moon.

To the moon, Alice.  To the moon.