Charleston’s Mayor is Joseph P. Riley. He has been mayor there since 1975. He’s serving his ninth term.

He has done tons for the city. These guys are painting a building with his name on the front. I told them not to paint over his name. They laughed. I laughed.

Riley made us laugh that day.

What makes Italian Ice, Italian? I mean, was the water frozen in Italy and shipped here?
Or……..Does it eat spaghetti and meatballs? Does it have a cute accent, like “Wasssa matta for you?” Is its real name Luigi or Mario? What?

I gotta’ know.

Italian Ice

Symbol meaning of feathers deal with ascension and spiritual evolution to a higher plane. Feathers were worn by Native American Chiefs to symbolize their communication with Spirit, and to express their celestial wisdom. Also in the Native American Indian culture, feathers represented the power of the thunder gods, along with the power of air and wind.

Spirit in the Sky

Here’s an earful:

An ear of corn averages 800 kernels in 16 rows.

Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska and Minnesota account for over 50 percent of the corn grown in the U.S. Other major corn growing states are Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin, South Dakota, Michigan, Missouri, Kansas and Kentucky.

In the U.S., corn production measures more than 2 times that of any other crop.

The Corn

When I was 11 years old, I knew this kid named Stumpy McPherson. I don’t know why he was called Stumpy, except that he was really short and squatty in stature. Stumpy liked to eat peanut butter and marshmallow sandwiches. Like crazy. He always kind of smelled like peanut butter and marshmallows. Heaven only knows how many of those things his mother let him eat. He also wore bright red Chuck Taylor’s. I had a pair of black Chuck Taylor’s. I was faster than Stumpy when we’d have a leg race. I’m not sure if it was the shoes, or the fact that all those pb&m sandwiches were slowing him down. Run Stumpy Run.

Stumps. Reminded me of Ol' Stumpy.

Almost the May kind.

April showers bring May flowers. And what do May flowers bring?

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Pilgrims.

“I never did a day’s work in my life. It was all fun.” -Thomas A. Edison

All work and no play makes Tommy a dull bulb.

as Tony the Tiger would say....

grate 1 |grāt|
verb
1 [ trans. ] reduce (something, esp. food) to small shreds by rubbing it on a grater : peel and roughly grate the carrots | [as adj. ] ( grated) grated cheese.
2 [ intrans. ] make an unpleasant rasping sound : the hinges of the door grated.
• ( grate against) rub against something with such a sound : his helmet grated against the top of the door.
• have an irritating effect : he had a juvenile streak that grated on her nerves.

Busy day in history. Here are a few.

1607 An expedition of English colonists went ashore at Cape Henry, Va., to establish the first permanent English settlement in the Western Hemisphere. (They later settled at Jamestown.)

1785 Naturalist and artist John James Audubon was born in Haiti.

1865 John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, was surrounded and killed by federal troops near Bowling Green, Va.

1989 Actress-comedian Lucille Ball died at age 77.