03/16/19,. Saturday

I'm back from a very nice afternoon with a handsome and charming 23 year old. Completely and totally biased, but I can live in peace, knowing somehow I did something right somewhere along the way to raise such a good hearted man. We worked together on his resume and some networking emails. Graduation in May, then onto the first professional job.

Oh, and how could I forget to wish everyone a Happy St. Urho's Day. He is the patron saint of Finland, who chased the grasshoppers away by shaking a stick at them and saying, grasshoppers, grasshoppers, grasshoppers be gone! (In Finnish of course!) and saved the grape crop. Or so we FinnishAmericans like to say. It's possible this legend originated in Northern Minnesota or Michigan, and then migrated back to Finland. But the important part is that every word is true and St. Urho is a hero.

My Hero!
This could well be a relative of mine- from, well, somewhere or another--and, NO- I'm sure these have not been photo shopped!

Hahaha! Definitely not photo shopped, clearly a documentary about what St. Urho and the brave Finns were up against.

Now, these are Kansas - HoppersAnd just because I?m interested in the stuff (history , that is). There was a bad plague of them showed up during the Great Depression - 23,000 to the acre, and they ate everything in sight- curtains, straw brooms, wooden buckets. Chickens loved the hoppers and ate and ate them. Unfortunately, the chickens, in turn, tasted distinctively of locust when eaten. Yewwwww

Good heavens, you would need a really big stick to shake at these marauders!

I see many posts that I need to read!

But, first of all, Happy Birthday, Liz!!!!!

I do have a news flash that only this group would truly appreciate: #1 on a list of appropriate Rainier snacks (and one MUST snack every hour) is PEANUT BUTTER PRETZELS!

Hey Happy Birthday Marvelous Liz!!!.ds